1968 Winter Olympics medal table explained

1968 Winter Olympics medals
Location:Grenoble,
Award2 Type:Most total medals
Award1 Type:Most gold medals
Award3 Type:Medalling NOCs
Award3 Winner:15
Previous:1964
Main:Olympics medal tables
Next:1972

The 1968 Winter Olympics, officially known as the X Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event held in Grenoble, France, from 6 to 18 February 1968. A total of 1,158 athletes representing 37 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated, including first-time entrants Morocco.[1] [2] The games featured 35 events in 6 sports and 10 disciplines.[3] [4] The team relay event in biathlon was contested for the first time.[5]

Fifteen NOCs won at least one medal, and thirteen of them secured at least one gold. East and West Germany entered separate teams for the first time,[6] ending a run of three straight editions (1956–1964) in which German athletes participated as a single team. Victories by Thomas Köhler and Klaus-Michael Bonsack (luge doubles), and by Franz Keller (Nordic combined), resulted in the first Winter Olympics gold medals for East and West Germany, respectively.[7] [8] Czechoslovakia also got its first-ever gold at the Winter Games, thanks to a successful combination of ski jumps by Jiří Raška in the normal hill (70 m) event.[9] In Grenoble, Romania won its first medal at the Winter Games, as Ion Panţuru and Nicolae Neagoe secured the bronze in bobsleigh's two-man event.[10]

Toini Gustafsson, a Swedish cross-country skier, contributed three of her NOC's eight medals, including two of its three golds, with victories in both women's individual events and a runner-up place in the team relay.[11] Among individual participants, French alpine skier Jean-Claude Killy had the most gold medals with three, having swept men's alpine skiing events.[12]

Medal table

The medal table is based on information provided by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and is consistent with IOC conventional sorting in its published medal tables. The table uses the Olympic medal table sorting method. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won, where a nation is an entity represented by a NOC. The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals.[13] [14] If teams are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically by their IOC country code.[15]

In speed skating, two-way ties for the second place in the men's 500 m and men's 1,500 m events, as well as a three-way tie in the women's 500 m event, resulted in the awarding of an additional four silver medals; as a consequence, three bronzes were not presented.[16]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Grenoble 1968 Winter Olympics – Athletes, Medals & Results . . http://web.archive.org/web/20240729060019/https://olympics.com/en/olympic-games/grenoble-1968 . 2024-07-29 . live . 6 August 2024.
  2. Web site: A brief history of African nations at the Winter Olympics . . http://web.archive.org/web/20230606100209/https://www.nbcolympics.com/news/brief-history-african-nations-winter-olympics . 2023-06-06 . live . . 6 August 2024 . en.
  3. Web site: Factsheet – The Olympic Winter Games . . 2024-06-20 . http://web.archive.org/web/20240711124443/http://stillmed.olympics.com/media/Documents/Olympic-Games/Factsheets/The-Olympic-Winter-Games.pdf . 2024-07-11 . live . 6 August 2024.
  4. Web site: 1968 Winter Olympics Overview . . http://web.archive.org/web/20240715232551/https://www.olympedia.org/editions/38 . 2024-07-15 . live . 6 August 2024.
  5. Web site: Biathlon 101: Olympic history . . 2021-10-12 . http://web.archive.org/web/20231003143847/https://www.nbcolympics.com/news/biathlon-101-olympic-history . 2023-10-03 . live . 6 August 2024 . en.
  6. Web site: 18 December 2009 . 1968 Grenoble, France . 25 September 2010 . CBC Sports.
  7. Web site: East Germany at the 1968 Grenoble Winter Games. https://web.archive.org/web/20200417042451/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/GDR/winter/1968/. dead. 17 April 2020. 25 September 2010 . .
  8. Web site: West Germany at the 1968 Grenoble Winter Games. https://web.archive.org/web/20200417092059/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/FRG/winter/1968/. dead. 17 April 2020. 25 September 2010 . .
  9. Web site: Jiří Raška biography and Olympic results. https://web.archive.org/web/20200417235606/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ra/jiri-raska-1.html. dead. 17 April 2020. 25 September 2010 . .
  10. Web site: Ion Panţuru biography and Olympic results. https://web.archive.org/web/20200418004918/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/pa/ion-panturu-1.html. dead. 18 April 2020. 25 September 2010 . .
  11. Book: Olsen, Kirstin. Chronology of women's history. Greenwood Publishing Group. 0-313-28803-8. registration. toini gustafsson.. 25 September 2010. 312. 30 June 1994.
  12. News: Super-star Jean-Claude Killy wins 3rd gold medal in slalom . 1968-02-18 . 25 September 2010 . . . B-7.
  13. Web site: Olympic medal table: USA beat China to top spot at Paris 2024 . . 11 August 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240812015233/https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/olympics/olympics-2024-medal-table-count-paris-b2594580.html . 12 August 2024 . live . Ostlere . Lawrence . 12 August 2024 . en.
  14. Web site: A Medal Count That Adds Up To Little . . 18 August 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230321004238/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/19/sports/olympics/19araton.html . 21 March 2023 . live . Araton . Harvey . subscription . 25 July 2024 .
  15. Web site: What happens if two countries are tied in the Olympic medal table? Tiebreaker rules explained . . 10 August 2024 . http://web.archive.org/web/20240811152350/https://en.as.com/olympic_games/what-happens-if-two-countries-are-tied-in-the-olympic-medal-table-tiebreaker-rules-explained-n/ . 11 August 2024 . live . Cons . Roddy . 11 August 2024 . en-us.
  16. Web site: Speed skating at the 1968 Grenoble Winter Games. https://web.archive.org/web/20200417054732/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1968/SSK/. dead. 17 April 2020. 25 September 2010 . .

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