Kenya
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competed at the
1964 Summer Olympics in
Tokyo
Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and List of cities in Japan, largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, ...
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Japan for the first time as an independent country. 37 competitors, all men, took part in 21 events in 5 sports.
won the nation's first ever Olympic medal.
Medalists
Athletics
Boxing
Hockey
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Kenya national field hockey team finished 6th
Sailing
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Peter Cooke Rank 24
Shooting
Four shooters represented Kenya in 1964.
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25 m pistol
25 meter pistol, formerly and unofficially still often known as sport pistol, is one of the ISSF shooting events. It was devised as a women's event in the 1960s, based upon the rules of 25 meter center-fire pistol but shot with a .22-caliber sp ...
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Leonard Bull
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Alan Handford-Rice
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50 m pistol
The 50 meter pistol, formerly and unofficially still often called Free Pistol, is one of the ISSF shooting events. It provides the purest precision shooting among the pistol events, and is one of the oldest shooting disciplines, dating back to t ...
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Michael Horner
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50 m rifle, prone
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Nigel Vernon-Roberts
References
External links
Official Olympic ReportsInternational Olympic Committee results database
Nations at the 1964 Summer Olympics
1964
Events January
* January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved.
* January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarc ...
1964 in Kenyan sport
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