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. For the first time, after three consecutive editions of the Winter Olympics, the Soviet Union did not finish first in the overall and gold medal counts. Having won a total of thirteen medals, of which five were gold, they came second to Norway, whose athletes took home fourteen medals (six golds, six silvers, and two bronzes). The host team, France, concluded its participation with a set of nine medals: four golds (tied with Italy), three silvers, and two bronzes. Eight of these medals were obtained in alpine skiing events, and three of the four French Olympic titles were won by a single alpine skier, Jean-Claude Killy, who swept the men's events.[6]

East and West Germany entered separate teams for the first time,[7] 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.[8] [9] 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.[10] Raška also secured a silver medal in the large hill (90 m) event, after becoming one of the first Olympic ski jumpers to cross the 100-metre mark. Czechoslovak athletes collected a second silver, in ice hockey, and a bronze, in figure skating, helping the nation to achieve its best result in the Winter Olympics, at that time.[11] In Grenoble, Romania won its first and so far only medal at the Winter Games, as Ion Panţuru and Nicolae Neagoe secured the bronze in bobsleigh's two-man event.[12] 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.[13] Half of Italy's four gold medals were obtained by nine-time bobsleigh world champion Eugenio Monti, who finally drove his sled to the Olympic two- and four-man titles, after two silvers in Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956 and two bronzes in Innsbruck 1964.[14]

Canada collected three medals, of which two were won by alpine skier Nancy Greene (gold in women's giant slalom and silver in women's slalom).[15] All nine medals secured by athletes of the Dutch delegation were in speed skating events.[16]

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.[17] [18] If teams are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically by their IOC country code.[19]

In speed skating, ties for the second place in the men's 500 m, 1,500 m, and women's 500 m events resulted in the awarding of an additional four silver medals; as a consequence, three bronzes were not presented.[20] This explains the uneven number of total gold (35), silver (39), and bronze (32) medals distributed in these Games.

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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. News: Super-star Jean-Claude Killy wins 3rd gold medal in slalom. 25 September 2010. The Modesto Bee. Modesto, California. 18 February 1968. Associated Press. B-7.
  7. Web site: 1968 Grenoble, France. Vancouver Now. CBC. 25 September 2010. 18 December 2009.
  8. 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 . .
  9. 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 . .
  10. 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 . .
  11. Web site: Olympijské Hry  - Grenoble 1968. Olympic.cz. Czech Olympic Committee. cs. 25 September 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100219065422/http://www.olympic.cz/cz/olympijske-hry/119/grenoble-1968. 19 February 2010. dead.
  12. 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 . .
  13. 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.
  14. News: Dream turns to gold for daring 'Red Devil'. 25 September 2010. St. Petersburg Times. St. Petersburg, Florida. 12 February 1968. Associated Press. 3-C.
  15. News: Hughes. Mike. Canada's Nancy Greene wins gold medal in giant slalom. 25 September 2010. The Bryan Times. Bryan, Ohio. United Press International. 10. 15 February 1968.
  16. Netherlands at the 1968 Grenoble Winter Games. https://web.archive.org/web/20200417093430/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/NED/winter/1968/. dead. 17 April 2020 . .
  17. 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.
  18. 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 .
  19. 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.
  20. 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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