:1964 Summer Paralympics medal table

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The 13th International Stoke Mandeville Games, later known as the 1964 Summer Paralympics, was an international multi-sport event held in Tokyo, Japan, from November 3 to 12, 1964, in which paraplegic and tetraplegic athletes competed against one another.{{cite web|title=Summer Games Governance 1960 to 1992 |url=http://www.iwasf.com/iwasf/index.cfm/about-iwas/history/paralympic-games-1960-1992/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100317013943/http://www.iwasf.com/iwasf/index.cfm/about-iwas/history/paralympic-games-1960-1992/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 March 2010 |publisher=International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation |accessdate=13 May 2011 }}{{cite web|title=Paralympic Games History – Summer |url=http://www.paralympic.org.au/games-amp-events/paralympic-games-history-summer/paralympic-games-history-summer |publisher=Australian Paralympic Committee |accessdate=13 May 2011 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605061121/http://www.paralympic.org.au/games-amp-events/paralympic-games-history-summer/paralympic-games-history-summer |archivedate= 5 June 2011 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|title=Paralympic Games|url=http://www.paralympic.org/Paralympic_Games/|publisher=International Paralympic Committee|accessdate=15 May 2011| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20110605163005/http://www.paralympic.org/Paralympic_Games/| archivedate= 5 June 2011 | url-status= live}} The Stoke Mandeville Games were a forerunner to the Paralympics first organized by Sir Ludwig Guttmann in 1948. This medal table ranks the competing National Paralympic Committees (NPCs) by the number of gold medals won by their athletes.

A total of 418 medals were awarded in 9 sports. Athletes from 17 of the 19 competing NPCs won at least one medal with the United States taking both the most gold medals, with 50, and most in total, with 123.{{cite web|title=Medal Standings Tokyo 1964 Paralympic Games |url=http://www.paralympic.org/ipc_results/reports/medal_standings2pdf.php?sport_id=all&games_id=1964PG |publisher=International Paralympic Committee |accessdate=28 April 2011 |format=pdf |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120911020639/http://www.paralympic.org/ipc_results/reports/medal_standings2pdf.php?sport_id=all&games_id=1964PG |archivedate=11 September 2012 }} The host nation Japan won 10 medals at the Games: 1 gold, 5 silver and 4 bronze. The debuting NPCs included Japan, South Africa, Sweden and Fiji. South Africa, despite being banned from the Olympics,{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=WwpaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=KksNAAAAIBAJ&pg=5214,2078716&dq=south+africa+1964+olympics&hl=en|title=South Africa Readmitted To Olympics.|quote=South Africa, barred from the 1964 Olympics for its racial policies, was readmitted into the 1968 Olympics at Mexico City by a vote of an "absolute majority" of members of the International Olympic Committee.|date= February 16, 1968|newspaper=The Victoria Advocate}} was present at the 1964 Paralympics.{{cite web|url=http://www.dinf.ne.jp/doc/japanese/resource/handicap/bok001/bok001all.html|title=The Thirteenth International Stoke Mandeville Games for The Paralysed|date=March 17, 1999|publisher=Japanese Society for Rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities}}

Athletes with outstanding performances included Margaret Harriman of Rhodesia who won two gold medals in archery,{{cite web|url=http://www.paralympic.org/ipc_results/reports.php?type=event&criteria=0&games=1964PG&sport=1|title=Medallists-Tokyo 1964 Paralympic Games-Archery|publisher=International Paralympic Committee|accessdate=17 March 2012|archive-date=11 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140311111025/http://www.paralympic.org/ipc_results/reports.php?type=event&criteria=0&games=1964PG&sport=1|url-status=dead}} and Serge Bec of France who won two individuals gold medals, one team gold medal and one team silver medal.{{cite web|url=http://www.paralympic.org/ipc_results/reports.php?type=event&criteria=0&games=1964PG&sport=9|title=Medallists-Tokyo 1964 Paralympic Games-Wheelchair Fencing|publisher=International Paralympic Committee|accessdate=17 March 2012|archive-date=11 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140311111036/http://www.paralympic.org/ipc_results/reports.php?type=event&criteria=0&games=1964PG&sport=9|url-status=dead}} Dick Thompson of the United Kingdom won two individual golds, one silver and one bronze in athletics.{{cite web|url=http://www.paralympic.org/ipc_results/reports.php?type=event&criteria=0&games=1964PG&sport=2|title=Medallists-Tokyo 1964 Paralympic Games-Athletics|publisher=International Paralympic Committee|accessdate=17 March 2012|archive-date=11 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140311111047/http://www.paralympic.org/ipc_results/reports.php?type=event&criteria=0&games=1964PG&sport=2|url-status=dead}} The United States' Ron Stein won six golds and South Africa's Daniel Erasmus won two golds and two silvers in athletics.