The women's pentathlon was part of the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics

Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics

At the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, the athletics competition included 36 events, 24 for men and 12 for women. The women's 400 metres and women's pentathlon events were newly introduced at these Games. There were a total number of 1016 participating athletes from 82 countries.-Men's...

 program in Tokyo

Tokyo

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. It was held on 16 October and 17 October 1964, with the first three events on 16 October and the last two on 17 October. 20 athletes from 15 nations entered.

The 1964 Summer Olympics

1964 Summer Olympics

The 1964 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVIII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held in Tokyo, Japan in 1964. Tokyo had been awarded with the organization of the 1940 Summer Olympics, but this honor was subsequently passed to Helsinki because of Japan's...

 were the first appearance of the women's pentathlon

Women's pentathlon

The pentathlon is a sports contest made up of five events . The women's pentathlon was contested in the Olympics from 1964 until 1980, and it was replaced in the 1984 Games with the heptathlon. It had a different set of events than the ancient Olympic pentathlon...

.

The events of the pentathlon, in order, were:

1. 80 metre hurdles
2. Shot put
3. High jump
4. Long jump
5. 200 metres

80 metre hurdles

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time	Points
				Event	Total	Rank
1	Galina Bystrova Galina Bystrova Galina Petrovna Bystrova was a Soviet athlete who competed mainly in the Pentathlon. She trained at Burevestnik in Gorky....		10.7 seconds	1096	1096	1
	Irina Press Irina Press Irina Natanovna Press was a Ukrainian athlete.-Career:Press was Jewish. She won two Olympic gold medals for the USSR team, in 80 m hurdles and pentathlon...		10.7 seconds	1096	1096	1
3	Mary Rand Mary Rand Mary Denise Rand, MBE, is a former English track-and-field athlete. She won the gold medal in the long jump at the 1964 Summer Olympics by breaking the world record, becoming the first-ever British female to win an Olympic gold medal in a track and field event.-Early life:She is the daughter of...		10.9 seconds	1061	1061	3
	Draga Stamejcic		10.9 seconds	1061	1061	3
5	Mary Elizabeth Peters		11.0 seconds	1044	1044	5
6	Chi Cheng		11.1 seconds	1027	1027	6
	Denise Guenard		11.1 seconds	1027	1027	6
	Nina Hansen		11.1 seconds	1027	1027	6
	Maria Siziakova		11.1 seconds	1027	1027	6
10	Helga Hoffmann		11.2 seconds	1011	1011	10
11	Amelia Hinten		11.3 seconds	995	995	11
	Jenny Wingerson Jenny Wingerson Jennifer Ann Wingerson-Meldrum is a retired female hurdler and heptathlete from Canada, who represented her native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1964. She won the silver medal at the 80m hurdles event at the 1963 Pan American Games.-References:*...		11.3 seconds	995	995	11
13	Ingrid Becker Ingrid Becker Ingrid Mickler-Becker is a former West German athlete and a double Olympic champion. Her name is sometimes written incorrectly as Ingrid Mickler in result lists....		11.6 seconds	948	948	13
14	Helen Frith		11.9 seconds	904	904	14
	Dianne Gerace		11.9 seconds	904	904	14
16	Oddrun Hokland		12.0 seconds	890	890	16
	Takahashi Miyuki		12.0 seconds	890	890	16
	Pat Winslow Pat Winslow Pat Connolly is a retired female heptathlete and track and field coach from the United States, who was the U.S. track and field national champion in the women's 800m in 1960 and 1961 and in the women's pentathlon from 1961 to 1967 and in 1970...		12.0 seconds	890	890	16
19	Ulla Flegel		12.2 seconds	862	862	19
20	Lee Hak Ja		12.6 seconds	809	809	20

Shot put

Press's shot put, more than 2.5 metres further than the nearest competitor's, combined with her hurdles victory to give her a solid lead after two events.

Place	Athlete	Nation	Distance	Points
				Event	Total	Rank
1	Irina Press		17.16 metres	1173	2269	1
2	Mary Elizabeth Peters		14.48 metres	1015	2059	3
3	Galina Bystrova		14.47 metres	1014	2110	2
4	Pat Winslow		13.04 metres	924	1814	10
5	Draga Stamejcic		12.73 metres	904	1965	4
6	Jennifer Wingerson		12.06 metres	859	1854	6
7	Maria Siziakova		11.87 metres	846	1873	5
8	Ulla Flegel		11.66 metres	832	1694	17
9	Ingrid Becker		11.62 metres	829	1777	11
10	Denise Guenard		11.30 metres	807	1834	8
11	Nina Hansen		11.26 metres	804	1831	9
12	Dianne Gerace		11.19 metres	799	1703	15
13	Helen Frith		11.16 metres	797	1701	16
14	Mary Rand		11.05 metres	789	1850	7
15	Amelia Hinten		10.72 metres	766	1761	13
16	Helga Hoffmann		10.67 metres	762	1773	12
17	Lee Hak Ja		10.19 metres	727	1536	20
18	Oddrun Hokland		10.05 metres	717	1607	18
19	Chi Cheng		9.79 metres	697	1724	14
20	Takahashi Miyuki		9.56 metres	680	1570	19

High jump

Place	Athlete	Nation	Height	Points
				Event	Total	Rank
1	Mary Rand		1.72 metres	1067	2917	4
2	Dianne Gerace		1.69 metres	1037	2740	9
	Helen Frith		1.69 metres	1037	2738	10
4	Irina Press		1.63 metres	976	3245	1
	Pat Winslow		1.63 metres	976	2790	6
	Ulla Flegel		1.63 metres	976	2670	14
	Oddrun Hokland		1.63 metres	976	2583	16
8	Galina Bystrova		1.60 metres	945	3055	2
	Mary Elizabeth Peters		1.60 metres	945	3004	3
	Denise Guenard		1.60 metres	945	2779	8
	Ingrid Becker		1.60 metres	945	2722	11
	Helga Hoffmann		1.60 metres	945	2718	12
13	Maria Siziakova		1.57 metres	913	2786	7
14	Draga Stamejcic		1.54 metres	880	2845	5
	Nina Hansen		1.54 metres	880	2711	13
16	Jennifer Wingerson		1.48 metres	814	2668	15
17	Amelia Hinten		1.45 metres	780	2541	17
18	Chi Cheng		1.40 metres	721	2445	18
	Takahashi Miyuki		1.40 metres	721	2291	19
20	Lee Hak Ja		1.35 metres	660	2196	20

First day rankings

1. Irina Press, 3245 points
2. Galina Bystrova, 3055 points
3. Mary Elizabeth Peters, 3004 points
4. Mary Rand, 2917 points
5. Draga Stamejcic, 2845 points
6. Pat Winslow, 2790 points
7. Maria Siziakova, 2786 points
8. Denise Guenard, 2779 points
9. Dianne Gerace, 2740 points
10. Helen Frith, 2738 points
11. Ingrid Becker, 2722 points
12. Helga Hoffmann, 2718 points
13. Nina Hansen, 2711 points
14. Ulla Flegel, 2670 points
15. Jennifer Wingerson, 2668 points
16. Oddrun Hokland, 2583 points
17. Amelia Hinten, 2541 points
18. Chi Cheng, 2445 points
19. Takahashi Miyuki, 2291 points
20. Lee Hak Ja, 2196 points

Long jump

Rand won her second straight event, climbing back up to third place overall after her fall to seventh following the shot put. Press, never having been outside the top four in any event, increased her lead to over 200 points above fellow Soviet Bystrova.

Place	Athlete	Nation	Distance	Points
				Event	Total	Rank
1	Mary Rand		6.55 metres	1111	4028	3
2	Helga Hoffmann		6.44 metres	1087	3805	6
3	Nina Hansen		6.27 metres	1049	3760	8
4	Irina Press		6.24 metres	1042	4287	1
5	Draga Stamejcic		6.19 metres	1031	3876	5
6	Ingrid Becker		6.17 metres	1027	3749	10
7	Galina Bystrova		6.11 metres	1014	4069	2
8	Maria Siziakova		5.94 metres	975	3761	7
9	Pat Winslow		5.90 metres	966	3756	9
10	Helen Frith		5.87 metres	959	3697	11
11	Amelia Hinten		5.82 metres	948	3489	16
12	Oddrun Hokland		5.79 metres	941	3524	15
13	Dianne Gerace		5.76 metres	934	3674	13
14	Chi Cheng		5.72 metres	924	3369	18
15	Denise Guenard		5.69 metres	918	3697	11
16	Mary Elizabeth Peters		5.60 metres	897	3901	4
17	Jennifer Wingerson		5.52 metres	878	3546	14
18	Takahashi Miyuki		5.51 metres	875	3166	19
19	Ulla Flegel		5.22 metres	806	3476	17
20	Lee Hak Ja		4.91 metres	729	2925	20

200 metres

Rand won her third straight event to pass Bystrova and take the silver medal

Silver medal

A silver medal is a medal awarded to the second place finisher of contests such as the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, and contests with similar formats....

. Press, who had won the first two events, had her lowest finish of the pentathlon in sixth place, still winning the gold medal

Gold medal

A gold medal is typically the medal awarded for highest achievement in a non-military field. Its name derives from the use of at least a fraction of gold in form of plating or alloying in its manufacture...

by over 200 points and breaking her own world record (5137 points, set in 1961) by more than 100 points.

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time	Points
				Event	Total	Rank
1	Mary Rand		24.2 seconds	1007	5035	2
2	Amelia Hinten		24.5 seconds	977	4466	14
3	Pat Winslow		24.6 seconds	968	4724	7
	Ingrid Becker		24.6 seconds	968	4717	8
	Jennifer Wingerson		24.6 seconds	968	4514	13
6	Irina Press		24.7 seconds	959	5246	1
7	Helga Hoffmann		25.0 seconds	932	4737	6
8	Draga Stamejcic		25.2 seconds	914	4790	5
9	Oddrun Hokland		25.3 seconds	905	4429	16
10	Mary Elizabeth Peters		25.4 seconds	896	4797	4
11	Galina Bystrova		25.5 seconds	887	4956	3
12	Helen Frith		25.8 seconds	860	4557	11
	Chi Cheng		25.8 seconds	860	4229	17
14	Nina Hansen		25.9 seconds	851	4611	9
	Denise Guenard		25.9 seconds	851	4548	12
16	Maria Siziakova		26.3 seconds	819	4580	10
17	Dianne Gerace		26.9 seconds	771	4445	15
18	Takahashi Miyuki		27.2 seconds	748	3914	18
19	Lee Hak Ja		27.5 seconds	724	3649	19
—	Ulla Flegel		Withdrew	—	3476	—

Final standings

Place	Athlete	Nation	Points
1	Irina Press		5246 WR
2	Mary Rand		5035
3	Galina Bystrova		4956
4	Mary Elizabeth Peters		4797
5	Draga Stamejcic		4790
6	Helga Hoffmann		4737
7	Pat Winslow		4724
8	Ingrid Becker		4717
9	Nina Hansen		4611
10	Maria Siziakova		4580
11	Helen Frith		4557
12	Denise Guenard		4548
13	Jennifer Wingerson		4514
14	Amelia Hinten		4466
15	Dianne Gerace		4445
16	Oddrun Hokland		4429
17	Chi Cheng		4229
18	Takahashi Miyuki		3914
19	Lee Hak Ja		3649
—	Ulla Flegel		Did not finish 3476 after 4 events