Malaysia at the 1964 Summer Olympics explained

Noc:	MAS
Nocname:	Olympic Council of Malaysia
Games:	Summer Olympics
Year:	1964
Oldcode:	MAL
Website:
Location:	Tokyo
Competitors:	62
Sports:	10
Flagbearer:	Kuda Ditta^[1]
Gold:	0
Silver:	0
Bronze:	0
Appearances:	auto
See also:	(1956)

Malaysia competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. It was the first time that the Federation had competed under that name, as it was previously named Malaya, while North Borneo and Singapore had sent separate teams to the Games (Singapore became separate again later). 62 competitors, 58 men and 4 women, took part in 49 events in 10 sports.^[2]

Athletics

See main article: Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Men

Track events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Mani Jegathesan	100 m	10.60	3 Q	10.62	5	did not advance
Mani Jegathesan	200 m	20.99	2 Q	21.40	3 Q	21.26	8	did not advance
Ramasamy Subramaniam	800 m	1:58.5	8	did not advance
Ramasamy Subramaniam	1500 m	3:59.4	10	did not advance
Kuda Ditta	110 m hurdles	15.17	6	did not advance
Karu Selvaratnam	400 m hurdles	53.8	7	did not advance
Dilbagh Singh Kler	3000 m steeplechase	9:18.8	10	did not advance
Canagasabai Kunalan John Daukom Mani Jegathesan Mazlan Hamzah	4 × 100 m relay	41.4	6	did not advance
Karu Selvaratnam Kuda Ditta Mohamed Abdul Rahman Victor Asirvatham	4 × 400 m relay	3:17.6	6	did not advance

Field event

Women

Track event

Boxing

See main article: Boxing at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Jumaat Ibrahim	Flyweight		L	did not advance
Gopalan Ramakrishnan	Light welterweight		L	did not advance

Cycling

See main article: Cycling at the 1964 Summer Olympics. Nine cyclists represented Malaysia in 1964.

Road

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Hamid Supaat	align=left rowspan=4	Men's individual road race
Michael Andrew
Stephen Lim	4:39:51.83	72
Zain Safaruddin
Arulraj Rosli Choy Mow Thim Ng Joo Pong Tjow Choon Boon	Men's team time trial	3:11:47.02	32

Track

Time trial

Pursuit

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Final
		Opponent Result	Rank	Opponent Result	Rank	Opponent Result	Rank	Opponent Result	Rank
Tjow Choon Boon	Men's individual pursuit	L	–	did not advance
Arulraj Rosli Choy Mow Thim Kamsari Salam Ng Joo Pong	Men's team pursuit	L	–	did not advance

Fencing

See main article: Fencing at the 1964 Summer Olympics. One male fencer, represented Malaysia in 1964.

Men

Athlete	Event	Round 1	Round 2	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Ronnie Theseira	Foil	L 0–5 L 1–5 L 0–5 L 0–5 L 1–5 L 2–5 7th in group	did not advance
Ronnie Theseira	Épée	L 2–5 L 3–5 L 0–5 L 1–5 L 2–5 L 1–5 L 3–5 8th in group	did not advance
Ronnie Theseira	Sabre	L 0–5 L 0–5 L 0–5 L 0–5 L 1–5 L 4–5 8th in group	did not advance

Hockey

See main article: Field hockey at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Men's tournament

Team roster

• Ho Koh Chye
• Kandiah Anandarajah
• Manikam Shanmuganathan
• Michael Arulraj
• Doraisamy Munusamy
• Lawrence van Huizen
• Douglas Nonis
• Chelliah Paramalingam
• Tara Singh Sindhu
• Koh Hock Seng
• Rajaratnam Yogeswaran
• Arumugam Sabapathy
• Ranjit Singh Gurdit
• Kunaratnam Alagaratnam

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
	7	5	2	0	18	4	12
	7	4	3	0	16	3	11
	7	2	5	0	9	4	9
	7	4	1	2	20	4	9
	7	2	2	3	11	13	6
	7	2	2	3	10	13	6
	7	1	0	6	5	25	2
	7	0	1	6	3	26	1

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Qualified for the semifinals

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Qualified for the consolation round

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Ranked 9th in final standings

Judo

See main article: Judo at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Men

Athletes	Event	Preliminary round			Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Kanapathy Moorthy	Middleweight	L	W	2	did not advance
Ang Teck Bee	Heavyweight	L	L	3	did not advance

Shooting

See main article: Shooting at the 1964 Summer Olympics. Seven shooters represented Malaysia in 1964.

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Loh Ah Chee	25 m rapid fire pistol	495	52
Kok Kum Woh	50 m pistol	498	49
Wong Foo Wah	50 m rifle three positions	1019	52
Dennis Filmer	align=left rowspan=2	50 m rifle prone	574	66
Tang Peng Choi	582	53
Goh Tai Yong	align=left rowspan=2	Trap	178	36
Yap Pow Thong	140	50

Swimming

See main article: Swimming at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Tan Thuan Heng	100 m freestyle	58.7	7	did not advance
Tan Thuan Heng	400 m freestyle	4:38.2	7	did not advance
Tan Thuan Heng	1500 m freestyle	18:24.2	6	did not advance
Michael Eu	200 m backstroke	2:35.8	7	did not advance
Michael Eu	200 m breaststroke	2:46.2	7	did not advance
Bernard Chan	200 m butterfly	2:26.6	6	did not advance
Bernard Chan Cheah Tong Kim Michael Eu Tan Thuan Heng	4 × 100 m medley relay	4:29.3	7	did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Jovina Tseng	100 m freestyle	1:13.9	7	did not advance
Jovina Tseng	400 m freestyle	5:46.0	8	did not advance
Jovina Tseng	100 m backstroke	1:20.7	7	did not advance
Marny Jolly	200 m breaststroke	3:11.0	7	did not advance
Molly Tay	100 m butterfly	1:23.0	7	did not advance

Weightlifting

See main article: Weightlifting at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Military press		Snatch		Clean & jerk		Total	Rank
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Chua Phung Kim	Bantamweight	90.0	17	95.0	12	122.5	17	307.5	17
Chung Kum Weng	Featherweight	110.0	8	92.5	17	132.5	9	335.0	10
Boo Kim Siang	Lightweight	97.5	19	102.5	16	135.0	17	335.0	9
Tan Howe Liang	Middleweight	130.0	5	115.0	15	155.0	10	400.0	11
Lim Hiang Kok	Light heavyweight	–	–	–	–	–	–
Leong Chim Seong	Middle heavyweight	–	–	–	–	–	–

Wrestling

See main article: Wrestling at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Men

Freestyle

Athlete	Event	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Liang Soon Hin	Flyweight	L	L	did not advance
Tham Kook Chin	Lightweight	L	L	did not advance

External links

• Official Olympic Reports

Notes and References

1. Web site: Sports Reference LLC . Malaysia . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417092550/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/MAS/ . dead . 17 April 2020 . 11 August 2012 .
2. Web site: Malaysia at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417092552/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/MAS/summer/1964/ . dead . 17 April 2020 . 19 December 2010 . sports-reference.com.