The modern pentathlon at the 1964 Summer Olympics was represented by two events (both for men): "Individual competition" and "Team competition". As usual in Olympic modern pentathlon, one competition was held and each competitor's score was included to the "Individual competition" event results table and was also added to his teammates' scores to be included to the "Team competition" event results table. This competition consisted of 5 disciplines:
Participating nations.
A total of 37 athletes from 15 nations competed at the Tokyo Games:
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