Encyclopedia > Water polo at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Final results for the water polo tournament at the 1964 Summer Olympics: Water polo is a team water sport, which can be best described as a combination of swimming, football (soccer), basketball, ice hockey, rugby and wrestling. ... The 1964 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVIII Olympiad, were held in 1964 in Tokyo, Japan. ...
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Hungary Miklos Ambrus László Felkai Janos Konrad Zoltán Dömötör Tivadar Kanizsa Péter Rusorán György Kárpáti Mihály Mayer Deszö Gyarmati Denes Pocsik András Bodnár
Yugoslavia Milan Muškatirović Ivo Trumbić Vinko Rosić Zlatko Šimenc Božidar Stanišić Ante Nardeli Zoran Janković Mirko Sandić Frane Nonković Ozren Bonačić Karlo Stipanić
Soviet Union Igor Grabovsky Vladimir Kuznetsov Boris Grishin Boris Popov Nikolai Kalashnikov Zenon Bortkevich Nikolai Kuznetsov Vladimir Semenov Viktor Ageev Leonid Osipov Eduard Egorov
Tokyo had already been awarded with the organisation of the 1940 SummerOlympics, but this honour had been passed to Helsinki because of Japan's involvement in China.
The 1940 Olympics were eventually cancelled because of the outbreak of World War II.
Yoshinori Sakai, who lit the Olympic Flame, was born in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, the day the atomic bomb exploded there.