Director
Kon Ichikawa
DIRECTOR
Stars (in credits order)
Antonio Ambu
Self - Marathon
Gary Anderson
Self - Shooter
Gerry Ashworth
Self - Relay Team
Polina Astakhova
Self - Gymnast
Mike Austin
Self - Swimmer
Viktor Baikov
Iolanda Balas
Self - High Jump
Karin Balzer
Self - Hurdler
Lynette Bell
Hedhili Ben Boubaker
Uwe Beyer
Self - Hammer Throw
Abebe Bikila
Self
Pyotr Bolotnikov
Self - 10K
Rosie Bonds
Ralph Boston
Self - Long Jump
Ann Brightwell
Self - 800 Meters
Robbie Brightwell
Earlene Brown
Self - Shot Put
Valeri Brumel
Self - 100 Meters
Avery Brundage
Christine Caron
Vera Caslavska
Marise Chamberlain
Vaclav Chudomel
Shin-cho Chung
Self - Boxer
Teresa Cieply
Stephen Clark
Ron Clarke
Bill Craig
Lyn Davies
David Dickson
Csilla Dobai
Jack Douglas
English-Language Narrator
Paul Drayton
Virginia Duenkel
Maryvonne Dupureur
Leonard Graves Edelen
Kathy Ellis
Yukio Endo
Laine Erik
Cathy Ferguson
Enrique Figuerola
Abraham Fornes
Dawn Fraser
Mohamed Gammoudi
Renate Garisch-Culmberger
Anton Geesink
Self - Judo
Antje Gleichfeld
Ann-Christine Hagberg
Yuriko Handa
Self - Volleyball
Fred Hansen
Self - Pole Vault
Takuji Hayata
Bob Hayes
Benjamin Basil Heatley
Egon Henninger
James Joseph Hogan
Aydin Ibragimov
Self - Wrestler
Isao Inokuma
Ahmed Issa
Vyacheslav Ivanov
Chang-Seon Jang
Harry Jerome
Jeffrey Lynn Julian
Akio Kaminaga
Nikolay Karasyov
Ranatunge J. Karunananda
Nodar Khokhashvili
Bruce Kidd
Pam Kilborn
Brian Kilby
Kenji Kimihara
Romuald Klim
Gaoussou Koné
Gerda Kraan
Viktor Kravchenko
Self - Triple Jump
Larisa Latynina
Marion Lay
Dallas Long
Wieslaw Maniak
Thompson Mann
Randy Matson
Nancy McCredie
Bobby McGregor
Billy Mills
Emiko Miyamoto
Zsigmond Nagy
Isao Nakajima
Takayuki Okazaki
Takashi Ono
Mel Pender
Mihaela Penes
Self - Javelin
Stig Petterson
Self - High Jumper
Irina Press
Giorgi Prokopenko
Raymond Puckett
John Rambo
Wolfgang Reinhardt
Tom Robinson
Doug Rogers
Yoshinori Sakai
Torch Bearer
Takao Sakurai
Ana Salajan
Kichizo Sasaki
Fred Schmidt
Jozef Schmidt
Don Schollander
Self - Swimmer (United States)
Heinz Schumann
Boris Shahlin
Robert Shavlakadze
Anne Smith
Peter Snell
Self - 1500 Meters
Richard Stebbins
Sharon Stouder
Jozsef Suto
Zsuzsa Szabó
Satoko Tanaka
Kanuko Tanida
Igor Ter-Ovanesyan
Toru Terasawa
Ganga Bahadur Thapa
John Thomas
Josef Tomas
Kokochi Tsuburaya
Shuji Tsurumi
Yojiro Uetake
Robert Andrew Vagg
Aurele Van Den Driessche
Vilmos Varju
Guido Vogele
Osamu Watanabe
Eileen Weir
Demissie Wolde
Mamo Wolde
Hiroomi Yamada
Haruhiro Yamashita
Ikuko Yoda
Yoshikatsu Yoshida
Valerie Young
Mario Zanin
Self - Cyclist
Gyula Zsivótzky
Galina Zybina
Joe Frazier
Self(uncredited)
Hirohito
Self (Emperor of Japan)(uncredited)