Puerto Rico competed at the

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in Tokyo,

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. 32 competitors, 30 men and 2 women, took part in 29 events in 8 sports. The Games were hosted from 11 to 24 October.

Athletics

Men's Pole Vault *

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Men's Swimming *

Eliot Chenaux Eliot Chenaux born on April 11, 1947 in Honolulu, Hawaii, is a former academic and competitive swimmer who competed with the Puerto Rican team in the 1964 Summer Olympics. He also swam for Puerto Rico in the Pan American Games in São Paulo in 1 ...

Basketball

Boxing

Diving

Sailing

Shooting

Three shooters represented Puerto Rico in 1964. ;

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* Leon Lyon ;

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* Fred Guillermety ;

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* Jaime Loyola

Swimming

Weightlifting

References

External links

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 Patriarch ...

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