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Did you know that?
** Tokyo, Japan was the host for the 1964 Games, the first by an Asian country.
**The Olympic flame for the 1964 Games was brought into the stadium by a young runner Yoshinori Sakai, who had been born near Hiroshima on the day the atom bomb was dropped there in 1945.
**The Olympic flag for the 1964 Games was raised to the top of flagpole, which measured 15.21m, the distance reached in the triple jump by Mikio Oda in 1928 when he won Japan's first gold medal.
**Mary Rand won Britain its first gold medal in women's athletics when she took the long jump title during the 1964 Games.
**Swimmer Galina Prozumenshchikova in the 200m breaststroke in the 1964 Games won Soviet Union its first ever swimming gold medal.
**American Dob Schollander at Tokyo in 1964 became the first swimmer to win four golds in a single Games.
**Australia's swimmer Dawn Fraser won her third consecutive 100m freestyle title in the 1964 Games - a unique achievement in swimming. She took her total haul to eight medals, a record for a female swimmer.
** Soviet gymnast Larissa Latynina between 1956 and 1964 won the maximum 18 medals, including nine golds during her career - the maximum won by any athlete in the Olympics.
** Polish wrestler Imre Polyak finally won a gold medal in the 1964 Games after gaining three silvers in the previous three Games since 1952.
** Judo was included in the 1964 Games at the request of the hosts, Japan, who were considered the best at this sport. But Dutchman Anton Geesink caused a major upset when he won the Open class event.
** Bill Bradley, who led the United States basketball team to its sixth consecutive victory in the 1964 Games, later became a member of the US Senate.
** The 1964 Games also saw the first Olympic wedding, as two Bulgarian athletes, long jumper Diana Yorgova and gymnast Nikolai Prodanov, exchanged vows at a ceremony in the Olympic Village.
** In the men's springboard contest in the 1964 Games, US divers earned the gold and silver medals for the tenth consecutive Olympics.
** In the 1964 Games Ethiopian Abebe Bikila became the first repeat winner of the marathon - less than six weeks after having his appendix removed.
** American Al Oerter won his third gold in the discus throw in the 1964 Games despite a cervical disc injury, which forced him to wear a neck harness.
** The cycling event for the 195km long road race in the 1964 Games was so close that even though Sture Petterson of Sweden finished only sixteen-hundredths of a second behind the winner, Mario Zanin of Italy, he ended up in 51st place!