United States at the 1964 Winter Olympics
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At the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck | ||||||||||
Competitors | 89 (71 men, 18 women) in 10 sports | |||||||||
Flag bearer | William Disney (speed skating) | |||||||||
Medals Rank: 8 |
Gold 1 |
Silver 2 |
Bronze 4 |
Total 7 |
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The United States competed at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria.
Medalists
Medal | Name | Sport | Event |
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Gold | McDermott, TerryTerry McDermott | Speed skating | Men's 500 metres |
Silver | Kidd, BillyBilly Kidd | Alpine skiing | Men's slalom |
Silver | Saubert, JeanJean Saubert | Alpine skiing | Women's giant slalom |
Bronze | Heuga, JamesJames Heuga | Alpine skiing | Men's slalom |
Bronze | Saubert, JeanJean Saubert | Alpine skiing | Women's slalom |
Bronze | Allen, ScottScott Allen | Figure skating | Men's singles |
Bronze | Joseph, VivianVivian Joseph, Joseph, RonaldRonald Joseph | Figure skating | Pairs |
Alpine skiing
Main article: Alpine skiing at the 1964 Winter Olympics
- Men
Athlete | Event | Race | |
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Time | Rank | ||
Chuck Ferries | Downhill | 2:23.00 | 20 |
Buddy Werner | 2:22.05 | 17 | |
Billy Kidd | 2:21.82 | 16 | |
Ni Orsi | 2:21.59 | 14 | |
Buddy Werner | Giant Slalom | DSQ | – |
Jimmy Heuga | DSQ | – | |
Bill Marolt | 1:51.29 | 12 | |
Billy Kidd | 1:49.97 | 7 |
- Men's slalom
Athlete | Qualifying | Final | ||||||||
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Time 1 | Rank | Time 2 | Rank | Time 1 | Rank | Time 2 | Rank | Total | Rank | |
Chuck Ferries | 55.17 | 25 QF | – | – | DSQ | – | – | – | DSQ | – |
Billy Kidd | 53.73 | 11 QF | – | – | 1:10.96 | 6 | 1:00.31 | 2 | 2:11.27 | |
Buddy Werner | 53.19 | 5 QF | – | – | 1:11.64 | 9 | 1:01.82 | 6 | 2:13.46 | 8 |
Jimmy Heuga | 52.45 | 4 QF | – | – | 1:10.16 | 3 | 1:01.36 | 3 | 2:11.52 |
- Women
Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 2 | Total | |||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | ||
Jean Saubert | Downhill | 2:03.79 | 26 | ||||
Margo Walters | 2:02.68 | 21 | |||||
Joan Hannah | 2:01.88 | 15 | |||||
Starr Walton | 2:01.45 | 14 | |||||
Linda Meyers | Giant Slalom | 2:03.46 | 30 | ||||
Joan Hannah | 2:01.97 | 26 | |||||
Barbara Ferries | 1:59.44 | 20 | |||||
Jean Saubert | 1:53.11 | ||||||
Barbara Ferries | Slalom | DSQ | – | – | – | DSQ | – |
Joan Hannah | 51.36 | 22 | 56.03 | 22 | 1:47.39 | 19 | |
Linda Meyers | 47.02 | 12 | 50.91 | 12 | 1:37.93 | 12 | |
Jean Saubert | 44.78 | 6 | 46.58 | 2 | 1:31.36 |
Biathlon
Main article: Biathlon at the 1964 Winter Olympics
- Men
Event | Athlete | Time | Misses | Adjusted time 1 | Rank |
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20 km | Paul Renne | 1'34:45.9 | 6 | 1'46:45.9 | 39 |
Peter Lahdenpera | 1'27:04.7 | 8 | 1'43:04.7 | 36 | |
Bill Spencer | 1'28:49.8 | 4 | 1'36:49.8 | 30 | |
Charlie Akers | 1'28:24.9 | 2 | 1'32:24.9 | 16 |
- 1 Two minutes added per miss.
Bobsleigh
Main article: Bobsleigh at the 1964 Winter Olympics
Sled | Athletes | Event | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total | |||||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |||
USA-1 | Larry McKillip Jim Lamy |
Two-man | 1:06.17 | 7 | 1:06.34 | 7 | 1:05.84 | 5 | 1:06.25 | 4 | 4:24.60 | 5 |
USA-2 | Charlie McDonald Chuck Pandolph |
Two-man | 1:05.97 | 6 | 1:05.85 | 4 | 1:06.16 | 7 | 1:07.02 | 9 | 4:25.00 | 7 |
Sled | Athletes | Event | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total | |||||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |||
USA-1 | Bill Hickey Reg Benham Bill Dundon Chuck Pandolph |
Four-man | 1:03.90 | 4 | 1:04.11 | 7 | 1:04.43 | 6 | 1:04.79 | 11 | 4:17.23 | 6 |
USA-2 | Larry McKillip Bob Rogers Mike Baumgartner Jim Lamy |
Four-man | 1:03.92 | 5 | 1:04.22 | 8 | DNF | – | – | – | DNF | – |
Cross-country skiing
Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1964 Winter Olympics
- Men
Event | Athlete | Race | |
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Time | Rank | ||
15 km | Dick Taylor | 58:19.6 | 49 |
Karl Bohlin | 57:54.0 | 47 | |
Mike Elliott | 56:51.8 | 41 | |
Mike Gallagher | 56:19.4 | 38 | |
30 km | Jim Shea | 1'43:18.4 | 48 |
Larry Damon | 1'42:57.7 | 46 | |
Dick Taylor | 1'42:39.5 | 42 | |
Mike Elliott | 1'40:11.7 | 30 | |
50 km | Dick Taylor | 3'09:58.3 | 34 |
Larry Damon | 3'05:06.4 | 28 |
- Men's 4 x 10 km relay
Athletes | Race | |
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Time | Rank | |
Mike Gallagher Mike Elliott Jim Shea John Bower |
2'39:17.3 | 13 |
Figure skating
Main article: Figure skating at the 1964 Winter Olympics
- Men
Athlete | CF | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
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Monty Hoyt | 6 | 12 | 1755.5 | 81 | 10 |
Thomas Litz | 13 | 2 | 1764.7 | 77 | 6 |
Scott Allen | 4 | 4 | 1873.6 | 26 |
- Women
Athlete | CF | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
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Albertina Noyes | 9 | 7 | 1798.9 | 73 | 8 |
Christine Haigler | 6 | 15 | 1803.8 | 74 | 7 |
Peggy Fleming | 8 | 6 | 1819.6 | 59 | 6 |
- Pairs
Athletes | Points | Places | Rank |
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Cynthia Kauffman Ronald Kauffman |
92.8 | 74 | 8 |
Judianne Fotheringill Jerry Fotheringill |
94.7 | 69.5 | 7 |
Vivian Joseph Ronald Joseph |
89.2 | 35.5 |
Ice hockey
Main article: Ice hockey at the 1964 Winter Olympics
First Round
Winners (in bold) qualified for the Group A to play for 1st-8th places. Teams, which lost their qualification matches, played in Group B for 9th-16th places.
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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United States | 7–2 | Romania |
Medal Round
First place team wins gold, second silver and third bronze.
Rank | Team | Pld | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts |
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1 | Soviet Union | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 54 | 10 | 14 |
2 | Sweden | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 47 | 16 | 10 |
3 | Czechoslovakia | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 38 | 19 | 10 |
4 | Canada | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 32 | 17 | 10 |
5 | United States | 7 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 29 | 33 | 4 |
6 | Finland | 7 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 31 | 4 |
7 | Germany | 7 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 13 | 49 | 4 |
8 | Switzerland | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 9 | 57 | 0 |
- USSR 5-1 USA
- USA 8-0 Germany (UTG)
- Sweden 7-4 USA
- Canada 8-6 USA
- Czechoslovakia 7-1 USA
- Finland 3-2 USA
- USA 7-3 Switzerland
Luge
Main article: Luge at the 1964 Winter Olympics
- Men
Athlete | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total | |||||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |
George Farmer | 56.78 | 25 | 1:26.81 | 31 | 57.00 | 24 | 56.01 | 23 | 4:16.60 | 29 |
Mike Hessel | 55.31 | 20 | 55.50 | 22 | 56.12 | 23 | 56.37 | 24 | 3:43.30 | 22 |
Tom Neely | 54.62 | 17 | 55.40 | 20 | 55.04 | 20 | 55.12 | 17 | 3:40.18 | 17 |
Francis Feltman | 52.91 | 7 | 53.43 | 13 | 54.13 | 14 | 54.58 | 15 | 3:35.05 | 13 |
(Men's) Doubles
Athletes | Run 1 | Run 2 | Total | |||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |
Ray Fales Nicholas Mastromatteo |
1:00.75 | 13 | 1:11.18 | 12 | 2:11.93 | 13 |
Jim Higgins Ron Walters |
DNF | – | – | – | DNF | – |
Nordic combined
Main article: Nordic combined at the 1964 Winter Olympics
Events:
- normal hill ski jumping (Three jumps, best two counted and shown here.)
- 15 km cross-country skiing
Athlete | Event | Ski Jumping | Cross-country | Total | ||||||
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Distance 1 | Distance 2 | Points | Rank | Time | Points | Rank | Points | Rank | ||
Jim Shea | Individual | 56.5 | 53.5 | 141.3 | 31 | 53:04.2 | 205.46 | 13 | 346.76 | 27 |
Jim Page | 57.0 | 49.5 | 152.3 | 30 | DNF | – | – | DNF | – | |
John Bower | 61.0 | 62.0 | 191.1 | 21 | 52:26.4 | 212.66 | 9 | 403.76 | 15 |
Ski jumping
Main article: Ski jumping at the 1964 Winter Olympics
Athletes performed three jumps, the best two were counted and are shown here.
Athlete | Event | Jump 1 | Jump 2 | Total | |||
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Distance | Points | Distance | Points | Points | Rank | ||
David Hicks | Normal hill | 72.0 | 95.4 | 71.5 | 94.9 | 190.3 | 41 |
Ansten Samuelstuen | 72.5 | 100.1 | 73.0 | 100.3 | 200.4 | 24 | |
John Balfanz | 74.5 | 103.9 | 74.5 | 102.6 | 206.5 | 10 | |
Gene Kotlarek | 76.5 | 103.2 | 74.0 | 100.2 | 203.4 | 14 | |
John Balfanz | Large hill | 83.0 | 94.8 | 71.0 | 85.4 | 180.2 | 41 |
Gene Kotlarek | 87.0 | 100.1 | 79.0 | 97.4 | 197.5 | 24 | |
Ansten Samuelstuen | 81.5 | 93.0 | 80.5 | 96.0 | 189.0 | 33 | |
David Hicks | 85.0 | 98.9 | 79.0 | 96.4 | 195.3 | 29 |
Speed skating
Main article: Speed skating at the 1964 Winter Olympics
- Men
Event | Athlete | Race | |
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Time | Rank | ||
500 m | Tom Gray | 41.5 | 14 |
Bill Disney | 41.1 | 8 | |
Eddie Rudolph | 40.9 | 6 | |
Terry McDermott | 40.1 OR | ||
1500 m | Floyd Bedbury | 2:21.3 | 42 |
Eddie Rudolph | 2:16.8 | 26 | |
Buddy Campbell | 2:16.4 | 25 | |
Dick Hunt | 2:14.4 | 15 | |
5000 m | Stan Fail | 8:31.9 | 38 |
Wayne LeBombard | 8:21.3 | 29 | |
Dick Hunt | 8:09.7 | 20 | |
10,000 m | Wayne LeBombard | 17:30.6 | 30 |
- Women
Event | Athlete | Race | |
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Time | Rank | ||
500 m | Mary Lawler | 46.6 | 7 |
Jan Smith | 46.2 | 4 | |
Jeanne Ashworth | 46.2 | 4 | |
1000 m | Jeanne Ashworth | 1:38.7 | 11 |
Barb Lockhart | 1:38.6 | 10 | |
Jan Smith | 1:36.7 | 7 | |
1500 m | Jan Smith | 2:37.8 | 24 |
Mary Lawler | 2:34.9 | 19 | |
Judy Morstein | 2:33.3 | 15 | |
3000 m | Barb Lockhart | 5:43.2 | 23 |
Sylvia White | 5:42.7 | 21 | |
Jeanne Ashworth | 5:30.3 | 11 |
References
- Official Olympic Reports
- Olympic Winter Games 1964, full results by sports-reference.com
- "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2009-06-05.
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