The Games of the XVIIIth Olympiad, Tokyo, 1964: Patronage: International Olympic Committee, Lausanne |
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... lead with an opening lap of 64 sec- onds . Even this pace failed to break up the big field and the runners were still bunched dangerously six abreast . Although the International Amateur Athletic Feder- ation had set qualification times ...
... lead with an opening lap of 64 sec- onds . Even this pace failed to break up the big field and the runners were still bunched dangerously six abreast . Although the International Amateur Athletic Feder- ation had set qualification times ...
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... lead only to find the pace too fast against the wind and eventually dropped to last . The Canadians took over with the Dutchmen and the Germans tagging along . Then the Canadians gained a two - length lead at the 1500 - metre mark and ...
... lead only to find the pace too fast against the wind and eventually dropped to last . The Canadians took over with the Dutchmen and the Germans tagging along . Then the Canadians gained a two - length lead at the 1500 - metre mark and ...
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... lead was whittled down to a slender 19 points before the final day when Torok again asserted himself to win finally by 49 . After two days Hungary had grasped the teams ' lead by a bare 3 points from Austria . U.S.A. lay third and ...
... lead was whittled down to a slender 19 points before the final day when Torok again asserted himself to win finally by 49 . After two days Hungary had grasped the teams ' lead by a bare 3 points from Austria . U.S.A. lay third and ...
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100 metres free-style Abebe Abebe Bikila American Ann Packer athletes Australia beat Bikila bouts Brightwell Britain British bronze medal ceremony championship Clarke coach competition competitors Czech Czechoslovakia Dawn Fraser defeat eight eliminated European event fastest fifth final finished four fourth France Gammoudi Germany girls gold medal gymnastics heats Holdorf horse Hungary individual Irina Press Italy Japan Japanese Korea Latynina long jump Mary Rand match medallist metres minutes Miss Olympiad Olympic and world Olympic Games Olympic record participants performance Peter Snell Poland pool qualifying race record was broken relay riders Robbie Brightwell Rome round Rumania runners Russian Schollander score semi-finals silver medal Snell Soviet sport sprint success swimming Tamara Press third Tokyo took Total Points tournament track victory weightlifters winner women's world champion world record Zealand