Japan at the 1964 Summer Olympics

Japan at the 1964 Summer Olympics

Noc	JPN
Nocname	Japanese Olympic Committee
Games	Summer Olympics
Year	1964
Location	Tokyo
Competitors	328 (270 men and 58 women)
Sports	21
Rank	3
Gold	16
Silver	5
Bronze	8
App begin year	1912

Japan was the host nation for the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. 328 competitors, 270 men and 58 women, took part in 155 events in 21 sports.^[1]

Medalists

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Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
	Yoshinobu Miyake	Weightlifting	Men's featherweight	October 12
	Yoshikatsu Yoshida	Wrestling	Men's freestyle flyweight	October 14
	Yojiro Uetake	Wrestling	Men's freestyle bantamweight	October 14
	Osamu Watanabe	Wrestling	Men's freestyle featherweight	October 14
	Tsutomu Hanahara	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman flyweight	October 19
	Masamitsu Ichiguchi	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman bantamweight	October 19
	Takashi Ono Shuji Tsurumi Haruhiro Yamashita Yukio Endo Takuji Hayata Takashi Mitsukuri	Gymnastics	Men's team all-around	October 20
	Yukio Endo	Gymnastics	Men's individual all-around	October 20
	Takehide Nakatani	Judo	Men's lightweight	October 20
	Isao Okano	Judo	Men's middleweight	October 21
	Isao Inokuma	Judo	Men's heavyweight	October 22
	Takuji Hayata	Gymnastics	Men's rings	October 22
	Yukio Endo	Gymnastics	Men's parallel bars	October 23
	Haruhiro Yamashita	Gymnastics	Men's vault	October 23
	Takao Sakurai	Boxing	Men's bantamweight	October 23
	Masae Kasai Emiko Miyamoto Kinuko Tanida Yuriko Handa Yoshiko Matsumura Sata Isobe Katsumi Matsumura Yoko Shinozaki Setsuko Sasaki Yuko Fujimoto Masako Kondo Ayano Shibuki	Volleyball	Women's tournament	October 23
	Shuji Tsurumi	Gymnastics	Men's individual all-around	October 20
	Yukio Endo	Gymnastics	Men's floor	October 22
	Shuji Tsurumi	Gymnastics	Men's pommel horse	October 22
	Shuji Tsurumi	Gymnastics	Men's parallel bars	October 23
	Akio Kaminaga	Judo	Men's open category	October 23
	Shiro Ichinoseki	Weightlifting	Men's bantamweight	October 11
	Masashi Ohuchi	Weightlifting	Men's middleweight	October 14
	Iwao Horiuchi	Wrestling	Men's freestyle lightweight	October 14
	Yoshihisa Yoshikawa	Shooting	Men's 50 metre free pistol	October 18
	Yukiaki Okabe Toshio Shoji Makoto Fukui Kunihiro Iwasaki	Swimming	Men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay	October 18
	Kokichi Tsuburaya	Athletics	Men's marathon	October 21
	Taniko Nakamura Kiyoko Ono Hiroko Tsuji Toshiko Shirasu Ginko Chiba Keiko Ikeda	Gymnastics	Women's artistic team all-around	October 21
	Yutaka Demachi Tsutomu Koyama Sadatoshi Sugawara Naohiro Ikeda Yasutaka Sato Toshiaki Kosedo Tokihiko Higuchi Masayuki Minami Takeshi Tokutomi Teruhisa Moriyama Yūzo Nakamura Katsutoshi Nekoda	Volleyball	Men's tournament	October 23

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Medals by sport
Sport				Total
Gymnastics	5	4	1	10
Wrestling	5	0	1	6
Judo	3	1	0	4
Weightlifting	1	0	2	3
Volleyball	1	0	1	2
Boxing	1	0	0	1
Athletics	0	0	1	1
Shooting	0	0	1	1
Swimming	0	0	1	1
Total	16	5	8	29

Athletics

Basketball

Group A

October 11

12 October

October 13

October 14

October 16

October 17

October 18

Classification brackets

9th–12th Place 21 October

9th Place 23 October

Boxing

Men

Athlete	Event	First round	Second round	Third round	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Shuta Yoshino	Flyweight	colspan=1	colspan=1	Otto Babiasch (EUA) L 2-3	Did not advance
Takao Sakurai	Bantamweight	colspan=1	Brian Packer (United Kingdom) W 4-1	Isaac Aryee (Ghana) W 5–0	Nicolae Puiu (Romania) W 5–0	Washington Rodríguez (Uruguay) W 5-0	Chung Shin-cho (South Korea) W RSC
Masataka Takayama	Featherweight	colspan=1	Ian McLoughlin (NRH) W 5–0	Piotr Gutman (Poland) L RSC	Did not advance
Kanemaru Shiratori	Lightweight	colspan=1	Sammy Amekudji (Ghana) W KO	Ronald Allen Harris (United States) L 0-5	Did not advance
Hoji Yonekura	Light welterweight	colspan=1	Miguel Velázquez (Spain) W 3-2	Félix Betancourt (Cuba) L 2-3	Did not advance
Kichijiro Hamada	Welterweight	colspan=1	Sayed Mahmoudpour Roudsari (Iran) W 5-0	Manfredo Alipala (Philippines) W 5–0	Marian Kasprzyk (Poland) L 0-5	Did not advance
Koji Masuda	Light middleweight	colspan=1	Jannie Gibson (RHO) W RSC	Joseph Gonzales (Soviet Union) L 2-3	Did not advance
Hitoshi Tenma	Middleweight	colspan=1	Juan Aguilar (Argentina) L 0-5	Did not advance
Tadayuki Maruyama	Heavyweight	colspan=2	Athol McQueen (Australia) L 0-5	Did not advance

Canoeing

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechages		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Shoji Yoshio	C-1 1000 m	5:05.11	4 QS	colspan=2	5:00.88	4	Did not advance
Shunichi Iwamura Daisaburo Honda	C-2 1000 m	4:25.86	5 QR	colspan=2	4:40.54	4	Did not advance
Hideo Higashiyama	K-1 1000 m	4:17.47	6 QR	4:42.93	1 QS	4:17.44	4	Did not advance
Hideo Kobayashi Katsufusa Kashimura	K-2 1000 m	4:00.94	8 QR	4:03.67	4	Did not advance
Izumi Eto Tomio Sumimoto Tadamasa Sato Yuji Umezawa	K-4 1000 m	3:33.25	8 QR	3:34.68	4	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Heats		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Hiroko Oshima Keiko Okamoto	K-2 500 m	2:14.53	5 QS	2:18.39	4	2:18.39	10

Cycling

15 cyclists represented Japan in 1964.

Road

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Toshiro Akamatsu	Men's road race	4:39:51.83	106
Masashi Omiya		4:39:51.76	37
Masanori Tsuji		DNF
Hiroshi Yamao		4:39:51.83	105
Takehisa Kato Masashi Omiya Yoshio Shimura Hirotsugu Fukuhara	Team time trial	2:40:13.27	19

Track

1000m time trial

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Katsuhiko Sato	Men's 1000m time trial	1:11.68	10

Men's tandem

Athlete	Event	Heats	Repechage	Repechage Finals	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Rank
Hideo Madarame Toshimitsu Teshima	Tandem	Bicskey Habony (Hungary) L	Morelon Trentin (France) Mercado Tellez (Mexico) L	Did not advance

Men's Sprint

Athlete	Event	Heats	Repechage 1	Repechage Finals	Round 2	Repechage 2	Repechage Finals	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Time Speed (km/h)	Rank	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Rank
Tsuyoshi Kawachi	Men's sprint	Schillinger (EUA) Fredborg (Denmark) L	Gibbon (Trinidad and Tobago) Phivana (Cambodia) L	Did not advance
Katsuhiko Sato	Men's sprint	Mercado (Mexico) Simes (United States) W 11.92	colspan=2	Fuggerer (EUA) Kučírek (India) L	Pkhak'adze (Soviet Union) Harrison (Italy) L	Did not advance

Pursuit

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Time	Rank	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Opposition Time
Hiromi Yamafuji	Men's individual pursuit	Martín Rodríguez (Colombia) W 5:17.57	Did not advance
Norio Hotogi Fujio Ito Kosaku Takahashi Hiromi Yamafuji	Team pursuit	India (India) W 4:55.04	Did not advance

Diving

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Total	Rank
Yosuke Arimitsu	10 m platform	90.56	14	Did not advance
Shunsuke Kaneto	3 m springboard	71.59	24	Did not advance
	10 m platform	91.31	11	Did not advance
Toshio Otsubo	10 m platform	94.32	3 Q	47.73	8	142.05	8
Tadao Tosa	3 m springboard	89.10	11	Did not advance
Toshio Yamano	3 m springboard	81.74	21	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Total	Rank
Hatsuko Kawai-Hirose	10 m platform	45.00	16	Did not advance
Keiko Osaki		45.20	15	Did not advance
Kanoko Tsutani-Mabuchi	3 m springboard	85.27	7 Q	40.01	7	125.28	7
Kumiko Watanabe		84.40	9 Q	35.94	9	120.34	9
	10 m platform	43.50	18	Did not advance

Equestrian

Dressage

Athlete	Horse	Event	Qualification		Final
			Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Rank
Kikuko Inoue	Katsunobori	Individual	648.0	16	Did not advance
Okabe Nagahira	Seiha		589.5	19	Did not advance
Matsudaira Yorisuke	Hamachidori		542.0	21	Did not advance
Inoue Kikuko Okabe Nagahira Matsudaira Yorisuke	See above	Team	colspan=2	1779.5	6

Eventing

Athlete	Horse	Event	Qualification			Final
			Dressage	Cross country	Show jumping	Penalties	Rank
Matsudaira Masaki	Nippo	Individual	73.33	EL	Did not advance
Katsumoto Masanori	Eiten		72.00	EL	Did not advance
Chiba Mikio	Mauta		63.67	174.8	30.00	268.47	34
Maeda Rikutoshi	Hogetsu		76.00	EL	Did not advance
Chiba Mikio Matsudaira Masaki Maeda Rikutoshi	See above	Team	268.47	EL	Did not advance

Show jumping

Athlete	Horse	Event	Qualification		Final
			Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Rank	Total	Rank
Hiroshi Hoketsu	Raro	Individual	63.75	41	48.00	39	111.75	40
Sasa Shinzo	Snaefell		46.75	40	24.00	32	70.75	38
Kageyama Yuzo	Tokinoarashi		EL	Did not advance
Hiroshi Hoketsu Sasa Shinzo Kageyama Yuzo	See above	Team	colspan=4	340.00	12

Fencing

15 fencers, 11 men and 4 women, represented Japan in 1964.

Men's foil

• Kazuo Mano
• Heizaburo Okawa
• Kazuhiko Tabuchi

Men's team foil

• Kazuhiko Tabuchi, Fujio Shimizu, Kazuo Mano, Heizaburo Okawa, Sosuke Toda

Men's épée

• Heizaburo Okawa
• Kazuhiko Tabuchi
• Toshiaki Araki

Men's team épée

• Toshiaki Araki, Katsutada Minatoi, Kazuhiko Tabuchi, Heizaburo Okawa, Takeshi Teshima

Men's sabre

• Mitsuyuki Funamizu
• Seiji Shibata
• Teruhiro Kitao

Men's team sabre

• Fujio Shimizu, Teruhiro Kitao, Seiji Shibata, Mitsuyuki Funamizu

Women's foil

• Tomoko Owada
• Tamiko Yasui
• Yoshie Takeuchi

Women's team foil

• Yoshie Komori, Tamiko Yasui, Tomoko Owada, Yoshie Takeuchi

Football

Group D

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First consolation round

Played by losing quarter-finalists.

Gymnastics

Hockey

Squad

Japan's field hockey team was represented by the following players:

• Hiroshi Miwa
• Tsuneya Yuzaki
• Akio Takashima
• Shigeo Kaoku
• Kunio Iwahashi
• Toshihiko Yamaoka
• Kenji Takizawa
• Junichi Yamaguchi
• Hiroshi Tanaka
• Michio Okabe
• Seiji Kihara
• Katsuhiro Yuzaki
• Tetsuya Wakabayashi

Preliminary round

The preliminary round was conducted by breaking the 15 teams into two groups of 7 and 8 teams. The groups then played a round-robin tournament with each team playing the other teams in the group once. 2 points were awarded for a win, 1 point for a tie, and 0 for a loss. The top two teams from each group advanced to the semifinals while the third and fourth played in consolation semifinals.

Group A

Place	Team	Wins	Ties	Losses	Points
1.	Pakistan	6	0	0	12 QS
2.	Australia	4	0	2	8 QS
3.	Kenya	3	1	2	7 QC
4.	Japan	3	0	3	6 QC
5.	United Kingdom	2	0	4	4
6.	RHO	1	1	4	3
7.	New Zealand	1	0	5	2

• Pakistan def. Japan 1-0
• Australia def. Japan 3-1
• Japan def. Kenya 2-0
• Great Britain def. Japan 1-0
• Japan def. Rhodesia 2-1
• Japan def. New Zealand 1-0

Semifinals

The top two teams in each of the groups played in the 1st-4th semifinals, with the winner of each group playing the second-place team in the other group. The third and fourth team in each group played in the consolation semifinals

Round	Winner	Score	Loser
Consolation	EUA	5-1	Japan

Judo

Four judoka, all male, represented Japan in 1964.

Men's lightweight

• Takehide Nakatani

Men's mightweight

• Isao Okano

Men's heavyweight

• Isao Inokuma

Men's open class

• Akio Kaminaga

Modern pentathlon

Three male pentathletes represented Japan in 1964.

Individual

• Shigeaki Uchino
• Yoshihide Fukutome
• Shigeki Mino

Team

• Shigeaki Uchino
• Yoshihide Fukutome
• Shigeki Mino

Rowing

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Satoomi Kasagi	Single sculls	8:16.96	4 R	8:13.44	3 FB	7:37.90	11
Susumi Hosoya Yasushi Murase	Double sculls	7:25.64	3 R	7:18.98	3 FB	7:15.22	10
Takao Kogo Norimasa Kurosaki	Coxless pair	7:48.15	5 R	7:54.43	4	7:54.43	14
Toshihiro Hamada Katsuhiko Ihara Masahiro Takatsuki	Coxed pair	8:32.51	5 R	8:05.30	4	8:05.30	15
Shunsuke Miki Koju Tsukamoto Yasuji Honma Bunzo Kimura	Coxless four	7:24.35	5 R	7:00.29	3 FB	6:51.60	12
Hideo Oe Yukio Matsuda Hideaki Aida Masakatsu Yamanouchi Noriichi Yoshino	Coxed four	7:10.77	5 R	7:31.60	4	7:31.60	14
Naoji Sato Koichi Miyano Tsugio Ito Tsuneo Ogasawara Yoshihiro Onishi Shin Hasegawa Hajime Ishikawa Ryuzo Kikuchi Osamu Mandai	Eight	6:16.67	3 R	6:10.15	2 FB	6:05.14	10

Sailing

Open

Athlete	Event	Race							Net points	Final rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Takashi Yamada	Finn	18	21	17	18	14	20	11	2486	21
Yasutoshi Tagami Kendjiro Matsuda	Flying Dutchman	9	6	13	DNF	15	16	14	2166	15
Masayuki Ishii Takafumi Okubo	Star	15	11	7	13	13	16	DSQ	1494	13
Saburo Tanamachi Tadashi Funaoka Teruyuki Hiiro	Dragon	17	18	17	14	16	16	10	1762	17
Fujiya Matsumoto Masao Yoshida Takeshi Hagiwara	5.5 Metre	12	11	14	12	13	14	13	1070	14

Shooting

Ten shooters represented Japan in 1964. Yoshihisa Yoshikawa won the bronze medal in the 50 m pistol event.

Men

Athlete	Event	Final
		Score	Rank
Toshiyasu Ishige	Trap	184	30
Takao Ishii	Men's 50 metre rifle three positions	1128	25
	Men's 50 metre rifle prone	584	48
Kanji Kubo	25 m rapid fire pistol	587	8
Osamu Ochiai		579	24
Akihiro Rinzaki	Men's 50 metre rifle prone	594	6
Shigemi Saito	Men's 300 metre rifle three positions	1096	20
	Men's 50 metre rifle three positions	1106	34
Mitsuo Sanami	Trap	189	15
Shinji Takahashi	50 m pistol	536	26
Yoshihisa Yoshikawa		554
Hajime Watanuki	Men's 300 metre rifle three positions	1028	28

Swimming

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Tatsuo Fujimoto	100 metre freestyle	55.8	1 Q	55.8	6	Did not advance
Shigeo Fukushima	200 metre backststroke	2:14.7	1 Q	2:14.1	2 Q	2:13.2	4
Tadaharu Goto	100 metre freestyle	55.8	2 Q	55.6	5	Did not advance
Keisuke Ito	200 metre backststroke	2:16.7	2 Q	2:17.6	7	Did not advance
Kazuyuki Iwamoto	1500 metre freestyle	17:52.7	3	Did not advance
Yoshinori Kadonaga	200 metre butterfly	2:14.5	3 Q	2:12.3	3 Q	2:12.6	6
Kenjiro Matsumoto	200 metre breaststroke	2:33.8	1 Q	2:34.3	5	Did not advance
Satoru Nakano	1500 metre freestyle	17:40.4	2	Did not advance
Atsushi Obayashi	200 metre butterfly	2:15.1	2 Q	2:14.1	5	Did not advance
Yukiaki Okabe	100 metre freestyle	54.4	2 Q	55.2	3	Did not advance
Isagi Osumi	200 metre backststroke	2:17.3	2 Q	2:17.0	5	Did not advance
Sueaki Sasaki	1500 metre freestyle	17:28.8	2 Q	colspan=2 align=center	17:25.3	6
Kosuke Sato	200 metre butterfly	2:12.4	2 Q	2:13.4	5	Did not advance
Yoshiaki Shikiishi	200 metre breaststroke	2:32.3	2 Q	2:34.5	6	Did not advance
Osamu Tsurumine		2:34.1	2 Q	2:33.3	4 Q	2:33.6	6
Takeshi Yamakage	400 metre freestyle	4:27.8	3	Did not advance
Tsuyoshi Yamanaka		4:21.1	1 Q	colspan=2 align=center	4:19.1	6
Haruo Yoshimuta		4:28.8	2	Did not advance
Kunihiro Iwasaki Tadaharu Goto Tatsuo Fujimoto Yukiaki Okabe Katsuki Ishihara	4 × 100 metre freestyle relay	3:42.3	3 Q	colspan=2 align=center	3:40.5	4
Makoto Fukui Kunihiro Iwasaki Toshio Shoji Yukiaki Okabe	4 × 200 metre freestyle relay	8:10.4	2 Q	colspan=2 align=center	8:03.8
Shigeo Fukushima Kenji Ishikawa Isao Nakajima Yukiaki Okabe	4 × 100 metre medley relay	4:07.3	2 Q	colspan=2 align=center	4:06,6	5

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Miyoko Azuma	100 metre freestyle	1:06.4	6	Did not advance
Kimiko Ezaka	400 metre individual medley	5:42.1	4	Did not advance
Kazue Hayakawa	400 metre freestyle	4:56.5	3	Did not advance
Michiko Kihara	100 metre backststroke	1:11.1	3	Did not advance
Tazuko Kikutani	400 metre freestyle	5:06.3	5	Did not advance
Toyoko Kimura	100 metre freestyle	1:04.8	4	Did not advance
Natsuko Matsuda	400 metre individual medley	5:51.5	4	Did not advance
Yoshiko Morizane	200 metre breaststroke	2:59.9	6	Did not advance
Hiroko Saito	100 metre butterfly	1:13.1	5	Did not advance
Kimiko Sato		1:10.6	4 Q	1:11.2	8	Did not advance
Eiko Takahashi		1:08.4	2 Q	1:07.8	3 Q	1:09.1	7
Satoko Tanaka	100 metre backststroke	1:10.0	2 Q	colspan=2 align=center	1:08.6	4
Ryoko Urakami	100 metre freestyle	1:04.5	5	Did not advance
Noriko Yamamoto	200 metre breaststroke	2:57.0	5	Did not advance
Ryoko Urakami Michiko Kihara Toyoko Kimura Miyoko Azuma	4 × 400 metre freestyle relay	4:19.2	5	Did not advance
Satoko Tanaka Noriko Yamamoto Eiko Takahashi Michiko Kihara	4 × 100 metre medley relay	4:40.6	2 Q	colspan=2 align=center	4:42.0	4

Volleyball

Men's team competition

Team roster

• Yutaka Demachi
• Tsutomu Koyama
• Sadatoshi Sugahara
• Naohiro Ikeda
• Yassu Saito
• Toshiaki Kosedo
• Tokihiko Higuchi
• Masayuki Minami
• Takeshi Tokutomi
• Teruhisa Moriyama
• Yūzo Nakamura
• Katsutoshi Nekoda

Women's team competition

Final standings

Place	Team	Pts	W	L	SF	SA	PF	PA
	Japan	10	5	0	15	1	238	93
	Soviet Union	8	4	1	12	3	212	97
	Poland	6	3	2	10	6	180	162
4	Romania	4	2	3	6	9	140	172
5	United States	2	1	4	3	12	98	213
6	South Korea	0	0	5	0	15	94	225

Team roster

• Masae Kasai (c)
• Emiko Miyamoto
• Kinuko Tanida
• Yuriko Handa
• Yoshiko Matsumura
• Sata Isobe
• Katsumi Matsumura
• Yoko Shinozaki
• Setsuko Sasaki
• Yuko Fujimoto
• Masako Kondo
• Ayano Shibuki

Head coach: Hirofumi Daimatsu

Water polo

Group A

• October 11, 1964

'	4 – 3

• October 12, 1964

'	5 – 3

• October 13, 1964

'	9 – 4

Weightlifting

Men

Athlete	Event	Military Press		Snatch		Clean & Jerk		Total	Rank
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Yukio Furuyama	56 kg	105.0	6	100.0	8	130.0	9	335.0	6
Shiro Ishinoseki		100.0	9	110.0	1	137.5	3	347.5
Hiroshi Fukuda	60 kg	120.0	3	115.0	2	140.0	5	375.0	4
Yoshinobu Miyake		122.5	1	122.5	1	152.5	1	397.5
Hiroshi Yamazaki	67.5 kg	120.0	9	120.0	5	157.5	5	397.5	6
Sadahiro Miwa	75 kg	120.0	10	132.5	3	170.0	4	422.5	5
Masashi Ohuchi		140.0	1	135.0	2	162.5	6	437.5

Wrestling

References

1. ^ "Japan at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 8 August 2014. Retrieved 10 August 2014.

External links

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database