Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's decathlon

The decathlon was a men's event and part of the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo. It was held on 19 October and 20 October 1964. 23 athletes from 15 nations entered and 22 started the first event.

Results

First day

100 metres

Place Athlete Nation Time Points Event Total Rank 1 Willi Holdorf 10.7 seconds 879 879 1 Hector Thomas 10.7 seconds 879 879 1 3 Rein Aun 10.9 seconds 828 828 3 Vasili Kuznetsov 10.9 seconds 828 828 3 5 Russ Hodge 11.0 seconds 804 804 5 Mykhaylo Storozhenko 11.0 seconds 804 804 5 Hans-Joachim Walde 11.0 seconds 804 804 5 Yang Chuan-kwang 11.0 seconds 804 804 5 9 Dramane Sereme 11.1 seconds 780 780 9 Shosuke Suzuki 11.1 seconds 780 780 9 Valbjørn Thorlaksson 11.1 seconds 780 780 9 12 Horst Beyer 11.2 seconds 756 756 12 Richard John Emberger 11.2 seconds 756 756 12 Bill Gairdner 11.2 seconds 756 756 12 Paul Irvin Herman 11.2 seconds 756 756 12 16 Alois Buchel 11.3 seconds 733 733 16 Werner Duttweiler 11.3 seconds 733 733 16 Eef Kamerbeek 11.3 seconds 733 733 16 Franco Sar 11.3 seconds 733 733 16 20 Gerry Moro 11.6 seconds 665 665 20 21 Koech Kiprop 11.7 seconds 643 643 21 Wu Ar Min 11.7 seconds 643 643 21 — Samir Ambrose Vincent Did not start Did not start —

Long jump

Place Athlete Nation Distance Points Event Total Rank 1 Rein Aun 7.22 metres 865 1693 3 Mykhaylo Storozhenko 7.22 metres 865 1669 4 3 Hans-Joachim Walde 7.21 metres 863 1667 5 4 Horst Beyer 7.02 metres 824 1580 8 5 Willi Holdorf 7.00 metres 820 1699 1 Hector Thomas 7.00 metres 820 1699 1 7 Vasili Kuznetsov 6.98 metres 816 1644 6 8 Paul Irvin Herman 6.97 metres 814 1570 10 9 Werner Duttweiler 6.94 metres 808 1541 11 10 Alois Buchel 6.81 metres 780 1513 13 11 Yang Chuan-kwang 6.80 metres 778 1582 7 12 Russ Hodge 6.75 metres 767 1571 9 13 Richard John Emberger 6.72 metres 761 1517 12 14 Eef Kamerbeek 6.56 metres 728 1461 17 15 Suzuki Shosuke 6.53 metres 721 1501 14 16 Dramane Sereme 6.51 metres 717 1497 15 17 Koech Kiprop 6.50 metres 715 1358 20 18 Valbjoern Thorlaksson 6.43 metres 699 1479 16 19 Bill Gairdner 6.40 metres 693 1449 18 20 Franco Sar 6.31 metres 673 1406 19 21 Gerry Moro 6.20 metres 648 1313 21 22 Wu Ar Min 5.90 metres 582 1225 22 — Samir Ambrose Vincent — Did not start —

Shot put

Storozhenko moved from fourth place to first with his performance in the shot put, as Thomas dropped from the lead to eighth.

Place Athlete Nation Distance Points Event Total Rank 1 Mykhaylo Storozhenko 16.37 metres 868 2537 1 2 Willi Holdorf 14.95 metres 786 2485 2 3 Russ Hodge 14.93 metres 784 2355 6 4 Hans-Joachim Walde 14.45 metres 756 2423 3 5 Eef Kamerbeek 14.40 metres 753 2214 12 6 Horst Beyer 14.32 metres 747 2327 7 7 Vasili Kuznetsov 14.06 metres 732 2376 5 8 Paul Irvin Herman 13.89 metres 721 2291 9 9 Rein Aun 13.82 metres 717 2410 4 10 Werner Duttweiler 13.80 metres 716 2257 11 11 Franco Sar 13.60 metres 702 2108 16 12 Bill Gairdner 13.38 metres 689 2138 14 13 Yang Chuan-kwang 13.23 metres 680 2262 10 14 Valbjoern Thorlaksson 13.10 metres 671 2150 13 15 Gerry Moro 12.62 metres 640 1953 20 16 Hector Thomas 12.42 metres 627 2326 8 17 Alois Buchel 12.16 metres 610 2123 15 18 Richard John Emberger 11.80 metres 586 2103 17 19 Suzuki Shosuke 11.35 metres 556 2057 18 20 Dramane Sereme 11.03 metres 504 2031 19 21 Wu Ar Min 10.67 metres 509 1734 22 22 Koech Kiprop 10.55 metres 500 1758 21 — Samir Ambrose Vincent — Did not start —

High jump

Wu dropped out of contention after three events, not competing in the high jump.

Place Athlete Nation Height Points Event Total Rank 1 Hans-Joachim Walde 1.96 metres 822 3245 2 2 Rein Aun 1.93 metres 796 3206 3 Werner Duttweiler 1.93 metres 796 3053 6 4 Horst Beyer 1.90 metres 769 3096 5 Richard John Emberger 1.90 metres 769 2872 12 6 Paul Irvin Herman 1.87 metres 743 3034 7 Koech Kiprop 1.87 metres 743 2601 19 8 Mykhaylo Storozhenko 1.84 metres 716 3253 1 Willi Holdorf 1.84 metres 716 3201 4 10 Yang Chuan-kwang 1.81 metres 689 2951 11 Valbjoern Thorlaksson 1.81 metres 689 2839 13 Alois Buchel 1.81 metres 689 2812 14 13 Russ Hodge 1.75 metres 634 2989 8 Hector Thomas 1.75 metres 634 2960 10 Franco Sar 1.75 metres 634 2742 16 16 Vasili Kuznetsov 1.70 metres 588 2964 9 Eef Kamerbeek 1.70 metres 588 2802 15 Bill Gairdner 1.70 metres 588 2726 17 Suzuki Shosuke 1.70 metres 588 2645 18 Gerry Moro 1.70 metres 588 2541 20 21 Dramane Sereme 1.60 metres 493 2524 21 — Wu Ar Min Withdrew — 1734 — — Samir Ambrose Vincent — Did not start —

400 metres

Storozhenko, leading after four, finished last in the 400 metres, falling to fifth place.

Place Athlete Nation Time Points Event Total Rank 1 Willi Holdorf 48.2 seconds 889 4090 1 2 Rein Aun 48.8 seconds 861 4067 3 3 Yang Chuan-kwang 49.0 seconds 852 3803 9 4 Richard John Emberger 49.1 seconds 847 3719 11 5 Paul Irvin Herman 49.2 seconds 842 3876 6 Bill Gairdner 49.2 seconds 842 3568 15 7 Hans-Joachim Walde 49.5 seconds 829 4074 2 Vasili Kuznetsov 49.2 seconds 842 3793 10 9 Russ Hodge 49.6 seconds 824 3813 8 10 Alois Buchel 49.7 seconds 819 3631 14 11 Horst Beyer 49.8 seconds 814 3910 4 12 Valbjoern Thorlaksson 50.1 seconds 801 3640 13 13 Werner Duttweiler 50.5 seconds 784 3837 7 14 Suzuki Shosuke 50.8 seconds 770 3415 18 15 Dramane Sereme 51.2 seconds 753 3277 20 16 Hector Thomas 51.4 seconds 744 3704 12 17 Eef Kamerbeek 52.0 seconds 720 3522 16 Gerry Moro 52.0 seconds 720 3261 21 19 Franco Sar 52.2 seconds 712 3454 17 20 Koech Kiprop 52.8 seconds 687 3288 19 21 Mykhaylo Storozhenko 53.6 seconds 655 3908 5 — Wu Ar Min Withdrew — 1734 — — Samir Ambrose Vincent — Did not start —

First day rankings Willi Holdorf, 4090 points Hans-Joachim Walde, 4074 points Rein Aun, 4067 points Horst Beyer, 3910 points Mykhaylo Storozhenko, 3908 points Paul Irvin Herman, 3876 points Werner Duttweiler, 3837 points Russ Hodge, 3813 points Yang Chuan Kwang, 3803 points Vasili Kuznetsov, 3793 points Richard John Emberger, 3719 points Hector Thomas, 3704 points Valbjoern Thorlaksson, 3640 points Alois Buchel, 3631 points Bill Gairdner, 3568 points Eef Kamerbeek, 3522 points Franco Sar, 3454 points Suzuki Shosuke, 3415 points Koech Kiprop, 3288 points Dramane Sereme, 3277 points Gerry Moro, 3261 points Wu Ar Min, 1734 points (withdrew) Samir Ambrose Vincent, 0 points (withdrew)

Second day

110 metre hurdles

Kamerbeek became the second decathlete to drop out.

Place Athlete Nation Time Points Event Total Rank 1 Yang Chuan-kwang 14.7 seconds 881 4684 7 2 Franco Sar 14.8 seconds 870 4324 15 3 Vasili Kuznetsov 14.9 seconds 859 4652 8 Richard John Emberger 14.9 seconds 859 4578 10 5 Willi Holdorf 15.0 seconds 848 4938 1 Mykhaylo Storozhenko 15.0 seconds 848 4756 4 7 Koech Kiprop 15.1 seconds 837 4125 17 8 Horst Beyer 15.2 seconds 827 4737 5 Paul Irvin Herman 15.2 seconds 827 4703 6 10 Hans-Joachim Walde 15.3 seconds 817 4891 2 11 Bill Gairdner 15.4 seconds 807 4375 14 12 Valbjoern Thorlaksson 15.6 seconds 787 4427 12 13 Rein Aun 15.9 seconds 757 4824 3 Werner Duttweiler 15.9 seconds 757 4594 9 15 Russ Hodge 16.0 seconds 748 4561 11 16 Dramane Sereme 16.4 seconds 712 3989 19 17 Suzuki Shosuke 16.5 seconds 703 4118 18 18 Hector Thomas 16.7 seconds 685 4389 13 19 Gerry Moro 16.8 seconds 676 3937 20 20 Alois Buchel 17.5 seconds 621 4252 16 — Eef Kamerbeek Withdrew — 3522 — — Wu Ar Min Withdrew — 1734 — — Samir Ambrose Vincent — Did not start —

Discus throw

Place Athlete Nation Distance Points Event Total Rank 1 Franco Sar 47.46 metres 827 5151 11 2 Willi Holdorf 46.05 metres 801 5739 1 3 Horst Beyer 45.17 metres 784 5521 4 4 Russ Hodge 44.64 metres 775 5336 9 5 Rein Aun 44.19 metres 766 5590 3 6 Paul Irvin Herman 44.15 metres 765 5468 6 7 Vasili Kuznetsov 43.81 metres 759 5411 7 8 Hans-Joachim Walde 43.15 metres 747 5638 2 Mykhaylo Storozhenko 43.15 metres 747 5503 5 10 Bill Gairdner 42.91 metres 742 5117 13 11 Gerry Moro 40.90 metres 703 4640 19 12 Valbjoern Thorlaksson 39.70 metres 680 5107 14 13 Yang Chuan-kwang 39.59 metres 677 5361 8 14 Hector Thomas 38.43 metres 654 5043 15 15 Alois Buchel 37.19 metres 629 4881 16 16 Richard John Emberger 35.32 metres 590 5168 10 17 Suzuki Shosuke 35.24 metres 589 4707 17 18 Koech Kiprop 33.07 metres 542 4667 18 19 Werner Duttweiler 32.66 metres 533 5127 12 20 Dramane Sereme 29.24 metres 457 4446 20 — Eef Kamerbeek Withdrew — 3522 — — Wu Ar Min Withdrew — 1734 — — Samir Ambrose Vincent — Did not start —

Pole vault

Duttweiler and Thomas both dropped out before the pole vault. Yang continued to advance, and Herman and Kuznetsov also moved into position to challenge for medals, while Beyer dropped out of contention into 8th place. Holdorf's lead grew to almost 130 points, almost unassailable, and nearly as many as the 150 that separated 2nd from 5th places.

Place Athlete Nation Height Points Event Total Rank 1 Yang Chuan-kwang 4.60 metres 957 6318 6 Gerry Moro 4.60 metres 957 5597 15 3 Vasili Kuznetsov 4.40 metres 909 6320 5 Valbjoern Thorlaksson 4.40 metres 909 6016 10 5 Paul Irvin Herman 4.35 metres 896 6364 4 6 Suzuki Shosuke 4.25 metres 871 5578 16 7 Willi Holdorf 4.20 metres 859 6598 1 Rein Aun 4.20 metres 859 6449 3 Franco Sar 4.20 metres 859 6010 11 10 Hans-Joachim Walde 4.10 metres 832 6470 2 11 Koech Kiprop 4.05 metres 820 5487 17 12 Mykhaylo Storozhenko 4.00 metres 807 6310 7 Alois Buchel 4.00 metres 807 5688 14 14 Horst Beyer 3.80 metres 754 6275 8 15 Russ Hodge 3.70 metres 728 6064 9 Richard John Emberger 3.70 metres 728 5896 12 17 Bill Gairdner 3.40 metres 644 5761 13 18 Dramane Sereme 2.60 metres 403 4849 18 — Werner Duttweiler Withdrew — 5127 — — Hector Thomas Withdrew — 5043 — — Eef Kamerbeek Withdrew — 3522 — — Wu Ar Min Withdrew — 1734 — — Samir Ambrose Vincent — Did not start —

Javelin throw

In the javelin throw, Yang won another event, moving up to fourth place. Holdorf fared poorly, his lead shrinking to 60 points, but with Walde increasing to 67 points ahead of Aun in third place, a German gold medal was nearly assured and the top pair was looking quite likely. In contrast, Yang was only 23 points behind Aun in an effort to knock the Soviet off the medal platform. Kuznetsov was still only a point behind Yang and Herman was not far from them either.

Place Athlete Nation Height Points Event Total Rank 1 Yang Chuan-kwang 68.15 metres 858 7176 4 2 Vasili Kuznetsov 67.87 metres 855 7175 5 3 Paul Irvin Herman 63.35 metres 802 7166 6 4 Hans-Joachim Walde 62.90 metres 796 7266 2 5 Bill Gairdner 59.72 metres 758 6519 13 6 Rein Aun 59.06 metres 750 7199 3 Mykhaylo Storozhenko 59.06 metres 750 7060 7 8 Horst Beyer 58.17 metres 738 7013 8 9 Richard John Emberger 57.54 metres 731 6627 12 10 Willi Holdorf 57.37 metres 728 7326 1 11 Valbjoern Thorlaksson 56.19 metres 714 6730 9 12 Koech Kiprop 55.54 metres 705 6192 16 13 Franco Sar 53.59 metres 680 6690 11 14 Suzuki Shosuke 51.88 metres 658 6236 15 15 Russ Hodge 50.21 metres 636 6700 10 16 Dramane Sereme 48.46 metres 612 5461 18 17 Gerry Moro 46.63 metres 587 6184 17 18 Alois Buchel 44.90 metres 562 6250 14 — Werner Duttweiler Withdrew — 5127 — — Hector Thomas Withdrew — 5043 — — Eef Kamerbeek Withdrew — 3522 — — Wu Ar Min Withdrew — 1734 — — Samir Ambrose Vincent — Did not start —

1500 metres

The final event was the 1500 metres. Emberger was the fastest in the event, but still finished in 10th place overall. Aun, with a 67-point deficit to catch Walde for the silver medal, needed to run approximately 10 seconds faster than the German. His 4:22.3 was more than enough to beat Walde's 4:37.5, giving Aun 100 more points than Walde and the silver medal. Yang and Kuznetsov, who had been threatening to join the medalists, each dropped in the rankings after the 1500.