Brazil competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. 61 competitors, 60 men and 1 woman, took part in 17 events in 11 sports. The country single medal in 1964 was the bronze obtained by the men's basketball team.

Women

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Aída dos Santos	High jump	1.70	5 Q	1.74	4

Qualified for the semifinals

Team	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Tie
United States	7	0	569	333	+236	14
Brazil	5	2	473	452	+21	12	1W−0L
SFR Yugoslavia	5	2	529	453	+76	12	0W−1L
Uruguay	4	3	472	482	−10	11
Finland	3	4	409	475	−66	10
Australia	2	5	434	460	−26	9	1W−0L
Peru	2	5	431	453	−22	9	0W−1L
South Korea	0	7	432	641	−209	7

Men

Athlete	Event	1 Round	2 Round	3 Round	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Joao Henrique da Silva	Light-Welterweight	BYE	Chang Pin Cheng (ROC) W RSC-1	Keramat Nadimi (IRN) W 3-2	Eddie Blay (GHA) L 0-5	did not advance		5
Luiz Fabre	Light-Middleweight	BYE	Sayed Elnahas (EGY) L 1-4	did not advance
Luiz Leonidas Cezar	Middleweight	BYE		Franco Valle (ITA) L 1-4	did not advance

Athlete	Horse	Event	Round 1		Round 2		Final
			Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Rank	Total	Jump-off	Rank
Nelson Pessoa	Individual	Huipil	12.00	6	8.00	3	20.00	—	5

Brazil at the 1964 Summer Olympics

Football at the 1964 Olympics on a stamp of Japan
Tournament details
Host country	Japan
Dates	11–23 October 1964
Teams	14 (from 5 confederations)
Venue(s)	8 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Hungary (2nd title)
Runners-up	Czechoslovakia
Third place	United Team of Germany
Fourth place	Egypt
Tournament statistics
Matches played	29
Goals scored	123 (4.24 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Ferenc Bene (12 goals)
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The football competition at the 1964 Summer Olympics started on 11 October and ended on 23 October. Only one event, the men's tournament, was contested. The tournament features 14 men's national teams from six continental confederations. The 14 teams are drawn into two groups of four and two groups of three and each group plays a round-robin tournament. At the end of the group stage, the top two teams advanced to the knockout stage, beginning with the quarter-finals and culminating with the gold medal match at the Olympic Stadium on 23 October 1964. There was also three consolation matches played by losing quarter-finalists. The winner of these matches placed fifth in the tournament.

Regional qualifying tournaments were held. During the CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament among South American national teams, a riot in Lima during the decisive Peru–Argentina match, after Peru's equalizing goal in the last minutes was disallowed by the referee, resulted in 328 deaths, which was considered the worst football disaster in history. Due to the riot, further CONMEBOL matches were not played that year, except for a playoff between Brazil and Peru (won by Brazil), and Argentina qualified instead of Peru.

16 teams qualified, and were divided into four groups:

• Group A (United Team of Germany (which was de facto East Germany), Romania, Mexico, Iran)
• Group B (Hungary, Yugoslavia, Morocco, Korea D.P.R.)
• Group C (Czechoslovakia, United Arab Republic (Egypt), Brazil, Korea Rep.)
• Group D (Japan, Ghana, Argentina, Italy)

The two best teams of each group competed in the quarter-finals.

Ultimately, the tournament was played two teams short:

• Italy were disqualified as their team was not amateur; Poland, who Italy had beaten to qualify, declined to take Italy's place due to a lack of preparation time.
• North Korea withdrew from the entire Games before the Opening Ceremony after Japanese immigration officials refused six of their athletes entry.

Tokyo
Prince Chichibu Football Field (1)	National Olympic Stadium (2)	Komazawa Olympic Park Stadium (3)
Capacity: 17,569	Capacity: 71,556	Capacity: 20,780
Saitama	45km 30miles 4 1 3 2 5
Ōmiya Football Field (4)
Capacity: 14,392
Yokohama
Mitsuzawa Football Field (5)
Capacity: 10,102

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Hungary	Czechoslovakia	United Team of Germany
Ferenc Bene Tibor Csernai János Farkas József Gelei Kálmán Ihász Sándor Katona Imre Komora Ferenc Nógrádi Dezső Novák Árpád Orbán Károly Palotai Antal Szentmihályi Gusztáv Szepesi Zoltán Varga	Jan Brumovský Ludovít Cvetler Ján Geleta František Knebort Karel Knesl Karel Lichtnégl Vojtech Masný Štefan Matlák Ivan Mráz Karel Nepomucký Zdeněk Pičman František Schmucker Anton Švajlen Anton Urban František Valošek Josef Vojta Vladimír Weiss	Gerd Backhaus Wolfgang Barthels Bernd Bauchspieß Gerhard Körner Otto Fräßdorf Henning Frenzel Dieter Engelhardt Herbert Pankau Manfred Geisler Jürgen Heinsch Klaus Lisiewicz Jürgen Nöldner Peter Rock Klaus-Dieter Seehaus Hermann Stöcker Werner Unger Klaus Urbanczyk Eberhard Vogel Manfred Walter Horst Weigang

Note: Only players from the East Germany represented the joint Olympic team of United Team of Germany.

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	United Team of Germany	3	2	1	0	7	1	+6	5	Advanced to knockout stage
2	Romania	3	2	1	0	5	2	+3	5
3	Mexico	3	0	1	2	2	6	−4	1
4	Iran	3	0	1	2	1	6	−5	1

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Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Hungary	2	2	0	0	12	5	+7	4	Advanced to knockout stage
2	Yugoslavia	2	1	0	1	8	7	+1	2
3	Morocco	2	0	0	2	1	9	−8	0
4	North Korea	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Withdrew

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Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Czechoslovakia	3	3	0	0	12	2	+10	6	Advanced to knockout stage
2	United Arab Republic	3	1	1	1	12	6	+6	3
3	Brazil	3	1	1	1	5	2	+3	3
4	South Korea	3	0	0	3	1	20	−19	0

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Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Ghana	2	1	1	0	4	3	+1	3	Advanced to knockout stage
2	Japan	2	1	0	1	5	5	0	2
3	Argentina	2	0	1	1	3	4	−1	1
4	Italy	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Withdrew

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	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Gold medal match
	18 October – Yokohama
	Romania	0
					20 October – Tokyo (CRS)
	Hungary	2
					Hungary	6
	18 October – Saitama
					United Arab Republic	0
	United Arab Republic	5
									23 October – Tokyo (NS)
	Ghana	1
									Hungary	2
	18 October – Tokyo (KOPS)
									Czechoslovakia	1
	Czechoslovakia	4
					20 October – Tokyo (KOPS)
	Japan	0
					Czechoslovakia	2
	18 October – Tokyo (CRS)
					United Team of Germany	1			Bronze medal match
	Yugoslavia	0
									23 October – Tokyo (NS)
	United Team of Germany	1
									United Team of Germany	3
									United Arab Republic	1

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With 12 goals, Ferenc Bene of Hungary is the top scorer in the tournament. In total, 123 goals were scored by 56 different players, with only one of them credited as own goal.

12 goals

• Ferenc Bene

8 goals

• Moustafa Reyadh

6 goals

• Tibor Csernai
• Cornel Pavlovici

5 goals

• Ivan Mráz
• Slaven Zambata

4 goals

• Josef Vojta
• Henning Frenzel
• Rudolf Belin
• Ivica Osim

3 goals

• Jan Brumovský
• Eberhard Vogel
• Hamoud Fulaiteh
• Rifaat El-Fanagily

2 goals

1 goal

Own goal

• Vladimír Weiss (playing against Hungary)

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Hungary	5	5	0	0	22	6	+16	10
2	Czechoslovakia	6	5	0	1	19	5	+14	10
3	United Team of Germany	6	4	1	1	12	4	+8	9
4	United Arab Republic	6	2	1	3	18	16	+2	5
5	Romania	6	4	1	1	12	6	+6	9
6	Yugoslavia	5	2	0	3	14	12	+2	4
7	Ghana	4	1	1	2	7	12	−5	3
8	Japan	4	1	0	3	6	15	−9	2
9	Brazil	3	1	1	1	5	2	+3	3
10	Argentina	2	0	1	1	3	4	−1	1
11	Mexico	3	0	1	2	2	6	−4	1
12	Iran	3	0	1	2	1	6	−5	1
13	Morocco	2	0	0	2	1	9	−8	0
14	South Korea	3	0	0	3	1	20	−19	0

• Olympic Football Tournament Tokyo 1964, FIFA.com
• RSSSF Summary
• Hungarian medalists - Tokyo 1964

35°40′41″N 139°42′53″E / 35.6781°N 139.7147°E / 35.6781; 139.7147

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Men

Athlete	Event	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Elimination	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Lhofei Shiozawa	−80 kg	Rafael Barquero (CRC) W 1000-0000	Alfred Redl (AUT) W 1000-0000	Narzal García (PHI) W 1000-0000	1 Q	Kim Eui-Tae (KOR) L 0000-0100	did not advance		5

One male pentathlete represented Brazil in 1964.

Men

Athlete	Event	Riding (show jumping)	Fencing (épée one touch)	Shooting (25 m rapid-fire pistol)	Swimming (300 m freestyle)	Running (4000 m)	Total points	Final rank
		Points	Points	Points	Points	Points
José Wilson	Men's	940	640	940	1025	733	4278	28

Open

Athlete	Event	Race														Final rank
		1		2		3		4		5		6		7
		Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Jörg Bruder	Finn	19	341	8	716	5	921	12	540	10	620	6	841	2	1318	4956	7
Joaquim Roderbourg Klaus Hendriksen	Flying Dutchman	12	344	12	344	9	469	14	277	17	193	17	193	8	520	2147	16
Harry Adler Luiz Ramos	Star	10	331	6	553	DNF	101	12	252	9	377	9	377	10	331	2221	11

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Mauri Fonseca	100 metre freestyle	59.6	7	did not advance
Athos de Oliveira		56.0	3	did not advance
Alvaro Pires		56.8	5	did not advance
Farid Zablith Filho	200 metre breaststroke	2:45.2	4	did not advance
Athos de Oliveira Farid Zablith Filho Mauri Fonseca Alvaro Pires	4 × 100 metre medley relay	4:21.2	6	did not advance

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR
1	Soviet Union	9	8	1	17	25	5	5.000	415	279	1.487
2	Czechoslovakia	9	8	1	17	26	10	2.600	486	399	1.218
3	Japan	9	7	2	16	22	12	1.833	475	372	1.277
4	Romania	9	6	3	15	19	15	1.267	432	394	1.096
5	Bulgaria	9	5	4	14	20	16	1.250	464	429	1.082
6	Hungary	9	4	5	13	18	18	1.000	449	466	0.964
7	Brazil	9	3	6	12	13	23	0.565	410	474	0.865
8	Netherlands	9	2	7	11	11	24	0.458	378	482	0.784
9	United States	9	2	7	11	10	23	0.435	360	450	0.800
10	South Korea	9	0	9	9	9	27	0.333	376	500	0.752

Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
13 Oct	Bulgaria	3–0	Brazil	16–14	15–10	15–6			46–30
14 Oct	Romania	3–0	Brazil	15–6	15–5	15–5			45–16
15 Oct	Netherlands	3–2	Brazil	14–16	15–11	15–12	6–15	16–14	66–68
17 Oct	Brazil	3–1	South Korea	15–12	15–8	14–16	16–14		60–50
18 Oct	Brazil	3–2	Hungary	15–4	13–15	11–15	16–14	15–11	70–59
19 Oct	Czechoslovakia	3–0	Brazil	15–5	15–6	15–10			45–21
21 Oct	Japan	3–2	Brazil	15–12	15–9	12–15	7–15	15–11	64–62
22 Oct	Brazil	3–2	United States	5–15	11–15	15–9	15–6	15–9	61–54
23 Oct	Soviet Union	3–0	Brazil	15–7	15–6	15–9			45–22

• João Cláudio França
• José da Costa
• Hamilton de Oliveira
• Emanuel Newdon
• Feitosa
• Marco Antônio Volpi
• Carlos Arthur Nuzman
• José Ramalho
• Décio de Azevedo
• Victor Barcellos Borges
• Giuseppe Mezzasalma
• Pedro Barbosa de Oliveira

Head coach: Samy Mehlinski

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
Yugoslavia	3	3	0	17	3	+14	6
Netherlands	3	2	1	11	13	−2	5
United States	3	1	2	12	9	+3	4
Brazil	3	0	3	3	18	−15	3

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• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database