Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics - Men's decathlon

The men's decathlon was part of the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo. It was held on 19 October and 20 October 1964, with five events each day. 23 athletes from 15 nations entered, with 1 not starting the first event.

The events of the decathlon, in order, were:
# 100 metres
# Long jump
# Shot put
# High jump
# 400 metres
# 110 metre hurdles
# Discus throw
# Pole vault
# Javelin throw
# 1500 metres

Medallists

hot put

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

First day rankings

# Willi Holdorf, 4090 points
# Hans-Joachim Walde, 4074 points
# Rein Aun, 4067 points
# Horst Beyer, 3910 points
# Mikhail Storozhenko, 3908 points
# Paul Irvin Herman, 3876 points
# Werner Duttweiler, 3837 points
# Russell Arden Hodge, 3813 points
# Yang Chuan Kwang, 3803 points
# Vasily 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
# Guerrino Moro, 3261 points
# Wu Ar Min, 1734 points (withdrew)
# Samir Ambrose Vincent, 0 points (withdrew)

econd day

110 metre hurdles

Kamerbeek became the second decathlete to drop out.

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.

References

* Official Report