Netherlands competed at the 1964 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan. The team included 8 athletes, 5 men and 3 women. Competitors from Netherlands won 14 medals, including 4 gold, 6 silver and 4 bronze to finish 10th in the medal table.
Medalists Medal Name Sport Event Swimming Women's 50 m Breaststroke complete class 3 Swimming Men's 50 m Freestyle Prone special class Swimming Men's 50 m Freestyle Supine special class Table tennis Men's Doubles A1 Archery Men's Albion Round open Archery Men's FITA Round open Athletics Women's Slalom open Swimming Women's 25 m Freestyle Supine complete class 1 Swimming Men's 50 m Freestyle Prone cauda equina Table tennis Men's Singles A1 Athletics Women's Slalom open Swimming Women's 25 m Freestyle Supine incomplete class 1 Swimming Men's 50 m Breaststroke complete class 5 Table tennis Men's Singles A1 Source: www.paralympic.org & www.olympischstadion.nl
Competitors A team of 7 men and 3 women were announced in the newspaper on 23 October 1964. In the newspaper of 20 November (after the Paralympics) was written "ten became eleven".
The name of the 11th person was not named.
Men Popke Popkema Peter Blanker Gerard Jacobs Piet Imming Dik Kruidenier Cor Prins Yap Soem Lie
Women Marion de Groot Elka Gaarlandt Cissy Morel
Archery The Dutch team consisted of three archers. 2x Peter Blanker Popke Popkema 7th - Geert Imming
Athletics
Swimming
Table tennis
See also Netherlands at the Paralympics Netherlands at the 1964 Summer Olympics
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