1964 Summer Olympics

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Summer Olympic Games multi-sport event

The 1964 Summer Olympics were an international multi-sport event held in Tokyo that marked Japan’s postwar reemergence on the global stage and featured the first Olympic Games broadcast live via satellite.

Aliases (1)

1964 Tokyo Olympics ×1

Statements (55)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Summer Olympic Games → multi-sport event →
cauldronLighter	Yoshinori Sakai →
ceremoniesVenue	National Stadium (Tokyo) →
closingDate	1964-10-24 →
continent	Asia →
emblemDesigner	Yūsaku Kamekura →
emblemShape	red sun disc above Olympic rings →
featuredInfrastructureProject	Metropolitan Expressway (Tokyo) → Tōkaidō Shinkansen high-speed rail line → modernization of Haneda Airport →
firstOlympicGamesBroadcastLiveViaSatellite	true →
firstOlympicGamesHeldInAsia	true →
followedBy	1968 Summer Olympics →
goldMedalLeader	United States →
governingBody	International Olympic Committee →
hostCity	Tokyo →
hostCountry	Japan →
introducedPictogramsForSports	true →
introducedSport	judo → volleyball →
iocPresidentAtGames	Avery Brundage →
mainStadium	National Stadium (Tokyo) →
medalTableLeader	United States →
motto	The World United in Peace →
notableAthlete	Abebe Bikila → Don Schollander → Joe Frazier → Larisa Latynina → Vyacheslav Ivanov →
numberOfAthletes	5151 →
numberOfEvents	163 →
numberOfFemaleAthletes	678 →
numberOfMaleAthletes	4473 →
numberOfParticipatingNations	93 →
numberOfSports	19 →
officialLanguage	English → French → Japanese →
officialName	Games of the XVIII Olympiad →
olympiadNumber	18 →
openedBy	Emperor Hirohito →
openingDate	1964-10-10 →
organisingCommittee	Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic Games →
precededBy	1960 Summer Olympics →
secondInMedalTable	Soviet Union →
symbolized	Japan’s postwar reemergence on the global stage →
televisionTechnologyUsed	color television (limited domestic coverage) → satellite broadcasting →
thirdInMedalTable	Japan →
torchLighter	Yoshinori Sakai →
torchLightingLocation	National Stadium (Tokyo) →
torchRelayEndLocation	Tokyo →
torchRelayStartLocation	Olympia, Greece →
year	1964 →

Referenced by (9)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Betty Cuthbert → Bill Bradley → Boris Shakhlin → Dawn Fraser →	competedIn
2020 Summer Olympics →	hostCityPreviousSummerOlympics
Tokyo →	hosted
Shōwa era ("1964 Tokyo Olympics") →	majorEvent
1960 Summer Olympics →	nextGames
1968 Summer Olympics →	previousGames