Atletiek is een van de sporten die beoefend werden tijdens de Olympische Zomerspelen 1964 in Tokio.
Heren 100 m rangsporter(s)landtijd Bob Hayes WR 10.0 Enrique Figuerola 10.2 Harry Jerome 10.2 4 Wiesław Maniak 10.4 5 Heinz Schumann 10.4 6 Gaoussou Koné 10.4 7 Mel Pender 10.4 8 Tom Robinson 10.5
200 m rangsporter(s)landtijd Henry Carr OR 20.3 Paul Drayton 20.5 Edwin Roberts 20.6 4 Harry Jerome 20.7 5 Livio Berruti 20.8 6 Marian Foik 20.8 7 Richard Stebbins 20.8 8 Sergio Ottolina 20.9
400 m rangsporter(s)landtijd Mike Larrabee 45.1 Wendell Mottley 45.2 Andrzej Badeński 45.6 4 Robbie Brightwell 45.7 5 Ulis Williams 46.0 6 Timothy Graham 46.0 7 Peter Francis Vassella 46.3 8 Edwin Skinner 46.8
800 m rangsporter(s)landtijd Peter Snell OR 1:45.1 Bill Crothers 1:45.6 Wilson Kiprugut 1:45.9 4 George Kerr 1:45.9 5 Thomas Francis Farrell 1:46.6 6 Jerome Francis Siebert 1:47.0 7 Dieter Bogatzki 1:47.2 8 Jacques Pennewaert 1:50.5
1500 m rangsporter(s)landtijd Peter Snell 3:38.1 Josef Odložil 3:39.6 John Davies 3:39.6 4 Alan Simpson 3:39.7 5 Dyrol Burleson 3:40.0 6 Witold Baran 3:40.3 7 Michel Bernard 3:41.2 8 John Whetton 3:42.4
5000 m rangsporter(s)landtijd Bob Schul 13:48.8 Harald Norpoth 13:49.6 William Dellinger 13:49.8 4 Michel Jazy 13:49.8 5 Kipchoge Keino 13:50.4 6 Bill Baillie 13:51.0 7 Nikolai Doetov 13:53.8 8 Thor Helland 13:57.0
10000 m rangsporter(s)landtijd Billy Mills OR 28:24.4 Mohammed Gammoudi 28:24.8 Ron Clarke 28:25.8 4 Mamo Wolde 28:31.8 5 Leonid Ivanov 28:53.2 6 Kokichi Tsuburaya 28:59.3 7 Murray Gordon Halberg 29:10.8 8 Anthony Cook 29:15.8
marathon rangsporter(s)landtijd Abebe Bikila WR 2:12:11.2 Basil Heatley 2:16:19.2 Kokichi Tsuburaya 2:16:22.8 4 Brian Kilby 2:17:02.4 5 József Sütö 2:17:55.8 6 Leonard Edelen 2:18:12.4 7 Aureel Vandendriessche 2:18:42.6 8 Kenji Kimihara 2:19:49.0
110 m horden rangsporter(s)landtijd Hayes Jones 13.6 Blaine Lindgren 13.7 Anatoli Mikhailov 13.7 4 Eddy Ottoz 13.8 5 Gurbachan Singh Randhawa 14.0 6 Marcel Duriez 14.0 7 Giovanni Cornacchia 14.1 8 Giorgio Mazza 14.1
400 m horden rangsporter(s)landtijd Rex Cawley 49.6 John Cooper 50.1 Salvatore Morale 50.1 4 Gary James Knoke 50.4 5 James Edmund Luck 50.5 6 Roberto Frinolli 50.7 7 Vasili Anisimov 51.1 8 Wilfried Geeroms 51.4
3000 m steeple chase rangsporter(s)landtijd Gaston Roelants OR 8:30.8 Maurice Herriott 8:32.4 Ivan Beljajev 8:33.8 4 Manuel de Oliveira 8:36.2 5 George L. Young 8:38.2 6 Guy Texereau 8:38.6 7 Adolfas Alexejoenas 8:39.0 8 Lars-Erik Gustafsson 8:41.8
4x100 m estafette rangsporter(s)landtijd Paul DraytonGerald AshworthRichard StebbinsBob Hayes WR 39.0 Andrzej ZielińskiWiesław ManiakMarian FoikMarian Dudziak 39.3 Paul GenevayBernard LaidebeurClaude PiquemalJocelyn Delecour 39.3 4 Pablo McNeilPatrick RobinsonLynsworth HeadleyDennis Johnson 39.4 5 Edvins OzolinBoris ZoebovGoesman KossanovBoris Savtsjuk 39.4 6 Arquímedes HerreraLloyd MuradRafael RomeroHortensio Herrera Fucil 39.5 7 Livio BerrutiEnnio PreatoniSergio OttolinaPasquale Giannattasio 39.5 8 Peter RadfordRonald JonesMenzies CampbellLynn Davies 39.6
4x400 m estafette rangsporter(s)landtijd Ollan CassellMike LarrabeeUlis WilliamsHenry Carr WR 3:00.7 Timothy GrahamAdrian MetcalfeJohn CooperRobbie Brightwell 3:01.6 Edwin SkinnerKenneth BernardEdwin RobertsWendell Mottley 3:01.7 4 Lawrence KahnMalcolm A. E. SpenceMelville SpenceGeorge Kerr 3:02.3 5 Jorg JuttnerHans-Ulrich SchulzJohannes SchmittManfred Kinder 3:04.3 6 Marian FilipiukIreneusz KluczekStanislaw SwatowskiAndrzej Badeński 3:05.3 7 Grigori SverbetovVictor BytsjkovVasili AnisimovVadim Arkhiptsjuk 3:05.9 8 Michel HiblotBernard MartinGermain NelzyJean-Pierre Boccardo 3:07.4
20 km snelwandelen rangsporter(s)landtijd Ken Matthews OR 1:29:34.0 Dieter Lindner 1:31:13.2 Volodymyr Holoebnytsjy 1:31:59.4 4 Noel Freeman 1:32:06.8 5 Gennadi Solodov 1:32:33.0 6 Ronald Lloyd Zinn 1:32:43.0 7 Boris Khrolovitsj 1:32:45.4 8 John William Edgington 1:32:46.0
50 km snelwandelen rangsporter(s)landtijd Abdon Pamich OR 4:11:12.4 Paul Nihill 4:11:31.2 Ingvar Pettersson 4:14:17.4 4 Burkhard Leuschke 4:15:26.8 5 Robert Charles Gardiner 4:17:06.8 6 Christoph Höhne 4:17:41.6 7 Anatoli Vedjakov 4:19:55.8 8 Kurt Sakowski 4:20:31.0
hoogspringen rangsporter(s)landhoogte Valeri Broemel OR 2.18 m John Thomas OR 2.18 m John Rambo 2.16 m 4 Stig Pettersson 2.16 m 5 Robert Sjavlakadze 2.14 m 6 Kjell-Åke Nilsson 2.09 m Ralf Drecoll 2.09 m 8 Edward Caruthers 2.09 m
polsstokhoogspringen rangsporter(s)landhoogte Fred Hansen OR 5.10 m Wolfgang Reinhardt 5.05 m Klaus Lehnertz 5.00 m 4 Manfred Preußger 5.00 m 5 Gennadi Blisnetzov 4.95 m 6 Rudolf Tomášek 4.90 m 7 Pentti Nikula 4.90 m 8 Billy Gene Pemelton 4.80 m
verspringen rangsporter(s)landafstand Lynn Davies 8.07 m Ralph Boston 8.03 m Igor Ter-Ovanesjan 7.99 m 4 Wariboko West 7.60 m 5 Jean Cochard 7.44 m 6 Luis Felipe Areta 7.34 m 7 Michael Kofi Ahey 7.30 m 8 Andrzej Stalmach 7.26 m
hink-stap-springen rangsporter(s)landafstand Józef Szmidt OR 16.85 m Oleg Fedosejev 16.58 m Viktor Kravtsjenko 16.57 m 4 Frederick John Alsop 16.46 m 5 Serban Ciochina 16.23 m 6 Manfred Hinze 16.15 m 7 Georgi Stojkovski 16.10 m 8 Hans-Joachim Rückborn 16.09 m
kogelstoten rangsporter(s)landafstand Dallas Long OR 20.33 m Randy Matson 20.20 m Vilmos Varjú 19.39 m 4 Parry O'Brien 19.20 m 5 Zsigmond Nagy 18.88 m 6 Nikolai Karasjov 18.86 m 7 Leslie Mills 18.52 m 8 Adolf Varanauskas 18.41 m
discuswerpen rangsporter(s)landafstand Al Oerter OR 61.00 m Ludvík Daněk 60.52 m Dave Weill 59.49 m 4 Jay Silvester 59.09 m 5 József Szécsényi 57.23 m 6 Zenon Begier 57.06 m 7 Edmund Piatkowski 55.81 m 8 Vladimir Troesenjev 54.78 m
kogelslingeren rangsporter(s)landafstand Romuald Klim OR 69.74 m Gyula Zsivótzky 69.09 m Uwe Beyer 68.09 m 4 Joeri Nikoelin 67.69 m 5 Joeri Bakarinov 66.72 m 6 Harold Connolly 66.65 m 7 Edward Burke 65.55 m 8 Olgierd Cieply 64.83 m
speerwerpen rangsporter(s)landafstand Pauli Nevala 82.66 m Gergely Kulcsár 82.32 m Jānis Lūsis 80.57 m 4 Janusz Sidło 80.17 m 5 Urs von Wartburg 78.72 m 6 Jorma Kinnunen 76.94 m 7 Rolf Herings 74.72 m 8 Vladimir Koeznetsov 74.26 m
tienkamp rangsporter(s)landpunten Willi Holdorf 7887 Rein Aun 7842 Hans-Joachim Walde 7809 4 Paul Irvin Herman 7787 5 Yang Chuan-Kwang 7650 6 Horst Beyer 7647 7 Vasili Koeznetsov 7569 8 Mikhail Storoshenko 7464
Dames 100 m rangsporter(s)landtijd Wyomia Tyus 11.4 Edith McGuire 11.6 Ewa Kłobukowska 11.6 4 Marilyn White 11.6 5 Miguelina Cobián 11.7 6 Marilyn Black 11.7 7 Halina Górecka 11.8 8 Dorothy Hyman 11.9 Wyomia Tyus evenaarde het WR in de series, tijd 11.2 s.
200 m rangsporter(s)landtijd Edith McGuire OR 23.0 Irena Kirszenstein 23.1 Marilyn Black 23.1 4 Una Morris 23.5 5 Ljoedmila Samotesova 23.5 6 Barbara Sobotta 23.9 7 Janet Simpson 23.9 8 Daphne Arden 24.0
400 m rangsporter(s)landtijd Betty Cuthbert WR 52.0 Ann Packer 52.2 Judy Amoore 53.4 4 Antonia Munkácsi 54.4 5 Maria Itkina 54.6 6 Tilly van der Zwaard 55.2 7 Gertrud Schmidt 55.4 8 Evelyne Lebret 55.5
800 m rangsporter(s)landtijd Ann Packer WR 2:01.1 Maryvonne Dupureur 2:01.9 Marise Chamberlain 2:02.8 4 Zsuzsa Szabó-Nagy 2:03.5 5 Antje Gleichfeld 2:03.9 6 Laine Erik 2:05.1 7 Gerda Kraan 2:05.8 8 Anne Rosemary Smith 2:05.8
80 m horden rangsporter(s)landtijd Karin Balzer 10.5 Teresa Ciepły 10.5 Pam Kilborn 10.8 4 Irina Press 10.6 5 Ikuko Yoda 10.7 6 Maria Piątkowska 10.7 7 Draga Stamejčič 10.8 8 Rosie Bonds 10.8
4x100 m estafette rangsporter(s)landtijd Teresa CiepłyIrena KirszensteinHalina GóreckaEwa Kłobukowska WR 43.6 Willye WhiteWyomia TyusMarilyn WhiteEdith McGuire 43.9 Janet SimpsonMary RandDaphne ArdenDorothy Hyman 44.0 4 Galina GaidaRenata LatseLjoedmila SamotesovaGalina Popova 44.4 5 Karin FrischErika PollmannMartha PensbergerJutta Heine 44.7 6 Dianne BoweringMarilyn BlackMargaret BurvillJoyce Elaine Bennett 45.0 7 Erzsébet Bartoss-HeldtMargit Nemesházi-MarkóAntónia MunkácsiIda Such 45.2 8 Marlène CanguioDaniele GueneauMichele LurotDenise Guenard 46.1
hoogspringen rangsporter(s)landhoogte Iolanda Balaş OR 1.90 m Michele Brown 1.80 m Taisija Tsjentsjik 1.78 m 4 Aida dos Santos 1.74 m 5 Dianne Gerace 1.71 m 6 Frances Slaap 1.71 m 7 Olga Pulić 1.71 m 8 Eleanor Montgomery 1.71 m
verspringen rangsporter(s)landhoogte Mary Rand WR 6.76 m Irena Kirszenstein 6.60 m Tatjana Sjtsjelkanova 6.42 m 4 Ingrid Becker 6.40 m 5 Viorica Viscopoleanu 6.35 m 6 Diana Jorgova 6.24 m 7 Hildrun Laufer 6.24 m 8 Helga Hoffmann 6.23 m
kogelstoten rangsporter(s)landafstand Tamara Press OR 18.14 m Renate Garisch-Culmberger 17.61 m Galina Zybina 16.45 m 4 Valerie Young 17.26 m 5 Margitta Helmbold 16.91 m 6 Irina Press 16.71 m 7 Nancy McCredie 15.89 m 8 Ana Salagean 15.83 m
discuswerpen rangsporter(s)landafstand Tamara Press OR 57.27 m Ingrid Lotz 57.21 m Lia Manoliu 56.97 m 4 Virginia Angelova 56.70 m 5 Jevgenia Koeznetsova 55.17 m 6 Jolán Kleiber-Kontsek 54.87 m 7 Kriemhild Limberg 53.81 m 8 Olimpia Catarama 53.08 m
speerwerpen rangsporter(s)landafstand Mihaela Peneş 60.54 m Márta Rudas-Antal 58.27 m Jelena Gortsjakova 57.06 m 4 Birutė Kaledienė 56.31 m 5 Elvīra Ozoliņa 54.81 m 6 Maria Diaconescu 53.71 m 7 Hiroko Sato 52.48 m 8 Anneliese Gerhards 52.37 m Jelena Gortsjakova wierp een WR tijdens de kwalificaties, 62.40 m.
vijfkamp rangsporter(s)landpunten Irina Press WR 5246 Mary Rand 5035 Galina Bystrova 4956 4 Mary Peters 4797 5 Draga Stamejčić 4790 6 Helga Hoffmann 4737 7 Billee Winslow 4724 8 Ingrid Becker 4717
Medaillespiegel rangland goud zilver bronstotaal 1 14 7 3 24 2 5 2 11 18 3 4 7 1 12 4 2 5 3 10 5 2 4 2 8 6 2 0 2 4 7 2 0 1 3 8 1 1 4 6 9 1 0 1 2 10 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 13 0 3 1 4 14 0 2 0 2 15 0 1 2 3 16 0 1 1 2 0 1 1 2 18 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 20 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 totaal 36 36 36 108