The 1964 Winter Olympics, officially known as the IX Olympic Winter Games, was a multi-sport event held in Innsbruck, Austria, from 29 January to 9 February.[1] A total of 1,091 athletes from 36 nations participated in 34 events in 6 sports over 10 disciplines.[2][3] India, Mongolia, and North Korea made their first Winter Olympics appearances;[1] the latter achieved a 3,000 metres speed skating medal through Han Pil-hwa's silver medal tie with Valentina Stenina.[4][5]
| 1964 Winter Olympics medals | |
|---|---|
| Location | Innsbruck,  Austria |
| Highlights | |
| Most gold medals |  Soviet Union (11) |
| Most total medals | Soviet Union (25) |
| Medalling NOCs | 14 |
The Soviet Union broke the record for the most gold and total medals achieved at a single Winter Olympics, with 11 and 25 respectively. Russian athlete Lidiya Skoblikova won four gold medals, more medals than any other athlete.[6][7]
Medal table
editThe medal table is based on information provided by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and is consistent with IOC conventional sorting in its published medal tables. The table uses the Olympic medal table sorting method. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won, where a nation is an entity represented by a NOC. The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals.[8][9] If teams are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically by their IOC country code.[10]
* Host nation (Austria)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soviet Union | 11 | 8 | 6 | 25 |
| 2 | Austria* | 4 | 5 | 3 | 12 |
| 3 |  Norway | 3 | 6 | 6 | 15 |
| 4 |  Finland | 3 | 4 | 3 | 10 |
| 5 |  France | 3 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| 6 |  United Team of Germany | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| 7 |  Sweden | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| 8 |  United States | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 |
| 9 |  Canada | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 10 |  Netherlands | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 11 |  Great Britain | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 |  Italy | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 13 |  North Korea | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 |  Czechoslovakia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (14 entries) | 34 | 39 | 31 | 104 | |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Innsbruck 1964 Winter Olympics". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2 October 2015.
- ^ "Factsheet: The Winter Olympic Games" (PDF). International Olympic Committee. September 2014. Retrieved 2 October 2015.
- ^ "1964 Innsbruck Winter Games". Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 2 October 2015.
- ^ Kietlinski, Robin (1 December 2011). Japanese Women and Sport: Beyond Baseball and Sumo. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 31. ISBN 978-1-84966-669-5.
- ^ "Official Report of the IX Olympic Winter Games, Innsbruck" (PDF). Austrian Federal Publishing House for Instruction, Science and Art, Vienna and Munich. Innsbruck Organising Committee. 1964. p. 150. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
- ^ "1964 Innsbruck Winter Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 6 October 2015.
- ^ Инсбрук-1964: Скобликова - шестикратная, скандальное фиаско канадцев, первые человеческие жертвы
- ^ Ostlere, Lawrence (24 July 2024). "Olympics 2024 medal table: How every nation stands in Paris". The Independent. Archived from the original on 25 July 2024. Retrieved 25 July 2024.
- ^ Araton, Harvey (18 August 2008). "A Medal Count That Adds Up To Little". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 21 March 2023. Retrieved 25 July 2024.
- ^ Cons, Roddy (10 August 2024). "What happens if two countries are tied in the Olympic medal table? Tiebreaker rules explained". Diario AS. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
External links
edit- "Innsbruck 1964". Olympics.com. International Olympic Committee.
- "1964 Winter Olympics". Olympedia.com. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
- "Olympic Analytics/1964_2". olympanalyt.com. Archived from the original on 12 January 2021. Retrieved 21 August 2020.