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Northern Rhodesia (now
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Nations at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia
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) competed in the Summer Olympic Games for the first time at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo
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, Japan. 12 competitors, 11 men and 1 woman, took part in 13 events in 5 sports. These were the only Games for Northern Rhodesia. On 24 October 1964 (the same day as the closing ceremony
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), the country became independent from the UK and changed its name from Northern Rhodesia to Zambia, the first time a country entered an Olympic games as one country and left it as another. For that ceremony, the team celebrated by marching with a new placard with the word "Zambia" on it (as opposed to the "Northern Rhodesia" placard used in the opening ceremony). They were the only team to use a placard for the closing ceremony.BSスペシャル『青春TVタイムトラベル』 第4回 プレイバック・東京オリンピック（NHK衛星第2テレビジョン／1992年12月26日放送で土門自身が振り返ってコメントしている）
Athletics
;Men ;Track & road eventsBoxing
;MenFencing
One female fencer represented Northern Rhodesia in 1964. ; Women's foil * Patricia SkinnerSwimming
;MenWrestling
;Men's FreestyleReferences
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Official Olympic Reports
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 Summer Olympics
1964 in Zambia
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