Judo at the 1964 Summer Olympics explained

Event:	Judo
Games:	1964 Summer
Venue:	Nippon Budokan
Competitors:	72
Nations:	27
Next:	1972

The judo competition at the 1964 Summer Olympics was the first time the sport was included in the Summer Olympic Games.^[1] As a result, decades of judo being officially banned as an "imperialist sport" in the Soviet Union ended shortly before the Games started, as Soviet authorities prioritized winning medals over anything else.^[2] The medals were awarded in 4 classes, and competition was restricted to men only. The competition was held in the Nippon Budokan, which was built to host the competition.

Medal summary

Lightweight 68 kg
Middleweight 80 kg
Heavyweight +80 kg
Open category

Participating nations

A total of 72 judoka from twenty-seven nations competed at the Tokyo Games:^[1]

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Further reading

• Web site: Olympic Medal Winners . . 2006-11-18 .
• Book: Tokyo Organizing Committee . The Games of the XVIII Olympiad: Tokyo 1964, vol. 2 . 1964 .
• Videos of the 1964 Judo Summer Olympics

External links

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Notes and References

1. Web site: Judo at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417063838/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1964/JUD/ . dead . 17 April 2020 . 7 May 2018 . Sports Reference.
2. Web site: Egorov . Boris . May 29, 2019 . Why Vladimir Putin would have struggled to be a black belt in the Soviet Union . Russia Beyond.
3. Web site: Olympic.org search.