Ice hockey at the 1964 Winter Olympics

The 1964 men's ice hockey tournament in Innsbruck, Austria, doubled as the 10th Olympic Championship, the 31st World Championships, and the 42nd European Championships. All games took place at the Olympiahalle Innsbruck. The Soviet Union claimed their second Olympic gold medal, along with their fourth World Championship and eighth European Championship. Canada, fielding a purpose-built national team for the first time—organized and coached by Father David Bauer—failed to medal for the first time in Olympic ice hockey history.

Qualification matches determined the Asia/Oceanic representative and, for the third and final time, the German Olympic team. Japan defeated Australia twice (17–1 and 17–6) in November 1963. West Germany and East Germany played to a 4–4 draw on December 6, 1963, and West Germany won the return match 4–3 two days later.

In the first round, winners advanced to Group A (1st–8th places), while losers went to Group B (9th–16th). Seeding roughly followed the 1963 World Championships. Switzerland, a B-pool team, beat Norway (also from the B pool) 5–1. Other first-round results included Canada 14–1 over Yugoslavia, the USSR 19–1 over Hungary, Czechoslovakia 17–2 over Japan, Sweden 12–2 over Italy, the USA 7–2 over Romania, the Unified Team of Germany 2–1 over Poland, and Austria 2–8 to Finland.

During the Canada–Sweden game, Swedish player Carl-Göran Öberg broke his stick and tossed it aside. The broken end struck Canadian coach Father David Bauer in the face, opening a bleeding wound. Bauer insisted his players stay on the bench and not retaliate to avoid penalties late in the game. Canada won 3–1, and Bauer later forgave Öberg, even inviting him to sit together while watching the Soviet Union play Czechoslovakia.

The final round determined medals: first place won gold, second silver, third bronze.