| Swimming at the 1964 Summer Olympics |
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| Freestyle | ||
| 100 m | men | women |
| 400 m | men | women |
| 1500 m | men | |
| Backstroke | ||
| 100 m | women | |
| 200 m | men | |
| Breaststroke | ||
| 200 m | men | women |
| Butterfly | ||
| 100 m | women | |
| 200 m | men | |
| Individual medley | ||
| 400 m | men | women |
| Freestyle relay | ||
| 4×100 m | men | women |
| 4×200 m | men | |
| Medley relay | ||
| 4×100 m | men | women |
The men's 400 metre individual medley event at the 1964 Summer Olympics took place on 12–14 October. This swimming event used medley swimming. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of eight lengths of the pool. The first two lengths were swum using the butterfly stroke, the second pair with the backstroke, the third pair of lengths in breaststroke, and the final two were freestyle. Unlike other events using freestyle, swimmers could not use butterfly, backstroke, or breaststroke for the freestyle leg; most swimmers use the front crawl in freestyle events.
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| Gold | Dick Roth United States (USA) |
| Silver | Roy Saari United States (USA) |
| Bronze | Gerhard Hetz Germany (GER) |
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
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| Dick Roth | United States | 4:45.4 | WR | |
| Roy Saari | United States | 4:47.1 | ||
| Gerhard Hetz | Germany | 4:51.0 | ||
| 4 | Carl Robie | United States | 4:51.4 | |
| 5 | Sandy Gilchrist | Canada | 4:57.6 | |
| 6 | Jan Jiskoot | Netherlands | 5:01.9 | |
| 7 | György Kosztolánczy | Hungary | 5:01.9 | |
| 8 | Terry Buck | Australia | 5:03.0 |
Key: WR = World record
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