Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics - Men's marathon

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Athletics at the
1964 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m   men   women
200 m men women
400 m men women
800 m men women
1500 m men
5000 m men
10000 m men
80 m hurdles women
110 m hurdles men
400 m hurdles men
3000 m
steeplechase
men
4×100 m relay men women
4×400 m relay men
Road events
Marathon men
20 km walk men
50 km walk men
Field events
Long jump men women
Triple jump men
High jump men women
Pole vault men
Shot put men women
Discus throw men women
Javelin throw men women
Hammer throw men
Combined events
Pentathlon women
Decathlon men

The men's marathon was part of the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo. It was held on 21 October 1964. 79 athletes from 41 nations entered, with 68 starting and 58 finishing.

[edit] Medallists

Gold Silver Bronze
Ethiopia Abebe Bikila
Ethiopia
Great Britain and Northern Ireland Basil Heatley
Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Japan Kokichi Tsuburaya
Japan

[edit] Results

Bikila broke the world's best time for the marathon to defend his Olympic gold medal.

Place Athlete Nation Time
1 Abebe Bikila Ethiopia Ethiopia 2:12:11.2 WB
2 Basil Heatley Great Britain and Northern Ireland Great Britain and Northern Ireland 2:16:19.2
3 Kokichi Tsuburaya Japan Japan 2:16:22.8
4 Brian Kilby Great Britain and Northern Ireland Great Britain and Northern Ireland 2:17:02.4
5 József Sütö Hungary Hungary 2:17:55.8
6 Leonard Edelen United States United States 2:18:12.4
7 Aurèle Vandendriessche Belgium Belgium 2:18:42.6
8 Kimihara Kenji Japan Japan 2:19:49.0
9 Ron Clarke Australia Australia 2:20:26.8
10 Demissie Wolde Ethiopia Ethiopia 2:21:25.2
11 Lee Sang-Hoon Korea Korea 2:22:02.8
12 Bakir Benaissa Morocco Morocco 2:22:27.0
13 Eino Oksanen Finland Finland 2:22:36.0
14 Billy Mills United States United States 2:22:55.4
15 Terasawa Toru Japan Japan 2:23:09.0
16 Kim Yun-Bum Korea Korea 2:24:40.6
17 Giorgio Jegher Italy Italy 2:24:45.2
18 Vaclav Chudomel Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 2:24:46.8
19 Ron Hill Great Britain and Northern Ireland Great Britain and Northern Ireland 2:25:34.4
20 Paavo Pystynen Finland Finland 2:26:00.6
21 Fidel Negrete Mexico Mexico 2:26:07.0
22 Nikolay Tikhomirov Soviet Union Soviet Union 2:26:07.4
23 Pete McArdle United States United States 2:26:24.4
24 Heinrich Hagen Unified Team of Germany Unified Team of Germany 2:26:39.8
25 Pavel Kantorek Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 2:26:47.2
26 Nikolay Abramov Soviet Union Soviet Union 2:27:09.4
27 Raymond Puckett New Zealand New Zealand 2:27:34.0
28 Eino Valle Finland Finland 2:27:34.8
29 Jeffrey Lynn Julian New Zealand New Zealand 2:27:57.6
30 Ricardo Vidal (athlete) Chile Chile 2:28:01.6
31 Robert Vagg Australia Australia 2:28:41.0
32 Guido Voegele Switzerland Switzerland 2:29:17.8
33 Balkrishan Akotkar India India 2:29:27.4
34 Jean Aniset Luxembourg Luxembourg 2:29:52.6
35 Thin Sumbwegan Burma Burma 2:30:35.8
36 Constantin Grecescu Romania Romania 2:30:42.6
37 Janos Pinter Hungary Hungary 2:30:50.2
38 Gerhard Honicke Unified Team of Germany Unified Team of Germany 2:33:23.0
39 Manfred Naumann Unified Team of Germany Unified Team of Germany 2:33:42.0
40 Antonio Ambu Italy Italy 2:34:37.6
41 Oskar Leupi Switzerland Switzerland 2:35:05.4
42 Ivan Keats New Zealand New Zealand 2:36:16.8
43 Harbanslal Harbanslal India India 2:37:05.8
44 Armando Aldegalega Portugal Portugal 2:38:02.2
45 Chrisantus Nyakwayo Kenya Kenya 2:38:38.6
46 Constantino Kapambwe Netherlands Antilles Netherlands Antilles 2:39:28.4
47 Omari Abdallah Tanganyika Tanganyika 2:40:06.0
48 Muhammad Yusaf Pakistan Pakistan 2:40:46.0
49 Naftali Temu Kenya Kenya 2:40:46.6
50 Joo Hyung Kail Korea Korea 2:41:08.2
51 Mathias Kanda Rhodesia Rhodesia 2:41:09.0
52 Anthony Cook Australia Australia 2:42:03.6
53 Victor Peralta Jimenez Mexico Mexico 2:44:23.6
54 Trevor Haynes Netherlands Antilles Netherlands Antilles 2:45:08.6
55 Abraham Fornes Puerto Rico Puerto Rico 2:46:22.6
56 Robson Mrombe Rhodesia Rhodesia 2:49:30.8
57 Laurent Daniel Chifita Netherlands Antilles Netherlands Antilles 2:51:52.2
58 Chanom Sirirangsi Thailand Thailand 2:59:25.6
Bahadur Thada Ganga Nepal Nepal Did not finish
2:23:41 at 40km
Bahacur Bhupendra Nepal Nepal Did not finish
2:34:12 at 40km
James Hogan Ireland Ireland Did not finish
1:51:27 at 35km
Viktor Baykov Soviet Union Soviet Union Did not finish
1:39:13 at 30 km
M. Haddeb Hannachi Tunisia Tunisia Did not finish
1:46:18 at 30 km
Andrew Soi Kenya Kenya Did not finish
1:23:37 at 25 km
Osvaldo Roberto Suarez Argentina Argentina Did not finish
1:09:00 at 20 km
Mamo Wolde Ethiopia Ethiopia Did not finish
0:47:14 at 15 km
Hedhili Ben Boubaker Tunisia Tunisia Did not finish
0:47:51 at 15 km
Ly Nguyen Van Vietnam Vietnam Did not finish
1:02:51 at 15 km
Jean Louis Brougier France France Did not start
Dumitru Chitoban Romania Romania Did not start
Suliman Fighi Hassan Libya Libya Did not start
Mohammed Gammoudi Tunisia Tunisia Did not start
Alberto Garabito Bolivia Bolivia Did not start
Ranatunge Karunananda Ceylon Ceylon Did not start
Bruce Kidd Canada Canada Did not start
Lajos Mecser Hungary Hungary Did not start
Alejo Montano Bolivia Bolivia Did not start
Jean Randrianjatovo Madagascar Madagascar Did not start
Ryoo Man-Hyung Democratic People's Republic of Korea DPR Korea Did not start

[edit] References

OLYMPIC MARATHON RACES
Men's Competition

Athens 1896 | Paris 1900 | St. Louis 1904 | Athens 1906 | London 1908 | Stockholm 1912 | Antwerp 1920 | Paris 1924 | Amsterdam 1928 | Los Angeles 1932 | Berlin 1936 | London 1948 | Helsinki 1952 | Melbourne 1956 | Rome 1960 | Tokyo 1964 | Mexico City 1968 | Munich 1972 | Montreal 1976 | Moscow 1980 | Los Angeles 1984 | Seoul 1988 | Barcelona 1992 | Atlanta 1996 | Sydney 2000 | Athens 2004 |

Women's Competition

Los Angeles 1984 | Seoul 1988 | Barcelona 1992 | Atlanta 1996 | Sydney 2000 | Athens 2004 |