List of 1968 Summer Olympics medal winners explained

The 1968 Summer Olympics were held in Mexico City, from 12 to 27 October 1968.

Athletics

See also: Athletics at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Men's events

100 metres		9.95		10.04		10.07
200 metres		19.83		20.06		20.10
400 metres		43.86		43.97		44.41
800 metres		1:44.40		1:44.57		1:45.46
1500 metres		3:34.91		3:37.89		3:39.08
5000 metres		14:05.01		14:05.16		14:06.41
10,000 metres		29:27.40		29:27.75		29:34.2
110 metres hurdles		13.33		13.42		13.46
400 metres hurdles		48.12		49.02		49.03
3000 metres steeplechase		8:51.02		8:51.56		8:51.86
4 × 100 metres relay	Charles Greene Mel Pender Ronnie Ray Smith Jim Hines	38.24	Hermes Ramírez Juan Morales Pablo Montes Enrique Figuerola	38.40	Gérard Fenouil Jocelyn Delecour Claude Piquemal Roger Bambuck	38.43
4 × 400 metres relay	Vincent Matthews Ron Freeman Larry James Lee Evans	2:56.16	Daniel Rudisha Munyoro Nyamau Naftali Bon Charles Asati	2:59.64	Helmar Müller Manfred Kinder Gerhard Hennige Martin Jellinghaus	3:00.57
Marathon		2:20:27		2:23:31		2:23:45
20 kilometres walk		1:33:58		1:34:00		1:34:03
50 kilometres walk		4:20:14		4:30:17		4:31:55
High jump		2.24 m		2.22 m		2.20 m
Pole vault		5.40 m		5.40 m		5.40 m
Long jump		8.90 m		8.19 m		8.16 m
Triple jump		17.39 m		17.27 m		17.22 m
Shot put		20.54 m		20.12 m		20.09 m
Discus throw		64.78 m		63.08 m		62.92 m
Hammer throw		73.36 m		73.28 m		69.78 m
Javelin throw		90.10 m		88.58 m		87.06 m
Decathlon		8193		8111		8064

Women's events

100 metres		11.08		11.15		11.19
200 metres		22.58		22.74		22.88
400 metres		52.03		52.12		52.25
800 metres		2:00.92		2:02.58		2:02.63
80 metres hurdles		10.39		10.46		10.51
4 × 100 metres relay	Margaret Bailes Barbara Ferrell Mildrette Netter Wyomia Tyus	42.88	Violetta Quesada Miguelina Cobián Marlene Elejarde Fulgencia Romay	43.36	Galina Bukharina Lyudmila Samotyosova Vera Popkova Lyudmila Zharkova	43.41
High jump		1.82 m		1.80 m		1.80 m
Long jump		6.82 m		6.68 m		6.66 m
Shot put		19.61 m		18.78 m		18.19 m
Discus throw		58.28 m		57.76 m		54.90 m
Javelin throw		60.36 m		59.92 m		58.04 m
Pentathlon		5098		4966		4959

Basketball

See also: Basketball at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Medalists

Men's

Dragutin Čermak Krešimir Ćosić Vladimir Cvetković Ivo Daneu Radivoj Korać Zoran Marojević Nikola Plećaš Trajko Rajković Dragoslav Ražnatović Petar Skansi Damir Šolman Aljoša Žorga

Anatoli Krikun Modestas Paulauskas Zurab Sakandelidze Vadim Kapranov Yuri Selikhov Anatoli Polivoda Sergei Belov Priit Tomson Sergei Kovalenko Gennadi Volnov Jaak Lipso Vladimir Andreev

Boxing

See also: Boxing at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Medalists

Light flyweight (-48 kg)
Flyweight (-51 kg)
Bantamweight (-54 kg)
Featherweight (-57 kg)
Lightweight (-60 kg)
Light welterweight (-63.5 kg)
Welterweight (-67 kg)
Light middleweight (-71 kg)
Middleweight (-75 kg)
Light heavyweight (-81 kg)
Heavyweight (+81 kg)

Canoeing

See also: Canoeing at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Men's events

C-1 1000 metres
C-2 1000 metres	Ivan Patzaichin Serghei Covaliov	Tamás Wichmann Gyula Petrikovics	Naum Prokupets Mikhail Zamotin
K-1 1000 metres
K-2 1000 metres	Aleksandr Shaparenko Vladimir Morozov	Csaba Giczy István Timár	Gerhard Siebold Günther Pfaff
K-4 1000 metres	Steinar Amundsen Tore Berger Egil Søby Jan Johansen	Anton Calenic Haralambie Ivanov Dimitrie Ivanov Mihai Țurcaș	Csaba Giczy Imre Szöllősi István Timár István Csizmadia

Women's events

K-1 500 metres
K-2 500 metres	Annemarie Zimmermann Roswitha Esser	Anna Pfeffer Katalin Rozsnyói	Lyudmila Pinayeva Antonina Seredina

Cycling

See also: Cycling at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Road cycling

Individual road race
Team time trial	Joop Zoetemelk Fedor den Hertog Jan Krekels René Pijnen	Sture Pettersson Tomas Pettersson Erik Pettersson Gösta Pettersson	Pierfranco Vianelli Giovanni Bramucci Vittorio Marcelli Mauro Simonetti

Track cycling

Individual Pursuit
Team Pursuit	Per Jørgensen Reno Olsen Gunnar Asmussen Mogens Jensen	Karl Link Udo Hempel Karlheinz Henrichs Jürgen Kissner	Luigi Roncaglia Lorenzo Bosisio Cipriano Chemello Giorgio Morbiato
Sprint
Tandem	Daniel Morelon Pierre Trentin	Leijn Loevesijn Jan Jansen	Daniel Goens Robert van Lancker
Time trial

Diving

See also: Diving at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Men's events

3 m springboard
10 m platform

Women's events

3 m springboard
10 m platform

Equestrian events

See also: Equestrian events at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Medalists

Individual dressage
Team dressage	Josef Neckermann and Mariano Reiner Klimke and Dux Liselott Linsenhoff and Piaff	Yelena Petushkova and Pepel Ivan Kizimov and Ikhor Ivan Kalita and Absent	Henri Chammartin and Wolfdietrich Marianne Gossweiler and Stephan Gustav Fischer and Wald
Individual eventing
Team eventing	Derek Allhusen and Lochinvar Richard Meade and Cornishman V Reuben Jones and The Poacher	Michael Page and Foster James C. Wofford and Kilkenny Michael Plumb and Plain Sailing	Wayne Roycroft and Zhivago Brien Cobcroft and Depeche Bill Roycroft and Warrathoola
Individual jumping
Team jumping	James Day and Canadian Club Thomas Gayford and Big Dee Jim Elder and The Immigrant	Jean Rozier and Quo Vadis Janou Lefèbvre and Rocket Pierre Jonquères d'Oriola and Nagir	Hermann Schridde and Dozent II Alwin Schockemöhle and Donald Rex Hans Günter Winkler and Enigk

Fencing

See also: Fencing at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Men's events

Individual épée
Team épée	Csaba Fenyvesi Zoltan Nemere Pál Schmitt Gyözö Kulcsar Pal Nagy	Grigory Kriss Iosif Vitebsky Aleksei Nikanchikov Yuri Smolyakov Viktor Modzalevsky	Bogdan Andrzejewski Michał Butkiewicz Bogdan Gonsior Henryk Nielaba Kazimierz Barburski
Individual foil
Team foil	Daniel Revenu Gilles Berolatti Christian Noël Jean-Claude Magnan Jacques Dimont	German Sveshnikov Yuri Sharov Vasili Stankovich Viktor Putyatin Yuri Sisikin	Witold Woyda Zbigniew Skrudlik Ryszard Parulski Egon Franke Adam Lisewski
Individual sabre
Team sabre	Vladimir Nazlymov Viktor Sidyak Eduard Vinokurov Mark Rakita Umar Mavlikhanov	Wladimiro Calarese Michele Maffei Cesare Salvadori Pierluigi Chicca Rolando Rigoli	Tamás Kovács János Kalmár Péter Bakonyi Miklós Meszéna Tibor Pézsa

Women's events

Individual foil
Team foil	Aleksandra Zabelina Tatyana Samusenko Elena Belova Galina Gorokhova Svetlana Tširkova	Lidia Dömölki-Sakovics Ildikó Bóbis Ildikó Újlaky-Rejtő Maria Jarmy Paula Marosi-Foldesi	Ecaterina Iencic-Stahl Ileana Gyulai-Drimba-Jenei Maria Vicol Olga Orban-Szabo Ana Dersidan-Ene-Pascu

Field hockey

See also: Field hockey at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Medalists

Men's

Abdul Rashid Jahangir Butt Tanvir Dar Gulraiz Akhtar Khalid Mahmood Muhammad Asad Malik Muhammad Ashfaq Ahmed Tariq Niazi Riaz Ahmed Riaz ud-Din Saeed Anwar Tariq Aziz Zakir Hussain

Paul Dearing Raymond Evans Brian Glencross Robert Haigh Donald Martin James Mason Patrick Nilan Eric Pearce Gordon Pearce Julian Pearce Desmond Piper Fred Quine Ronald Riley Donald Smart Arthur Busch

Rajendra Christy Krishnamurty Perumal John "V.J." Peter Inam-ur Rahman Munir Sait Ajitpal Singh Balbir Singh Kullar Balbir Singh Kular Balbir Singh Gurbux Singh Harbinder Singh Harmik Singh Inder "Gogi" Singh Prithipal Singh Tarsem Singh Jagjit Singh

Football

See also: Football at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Medalists

Men's

István Básti Antal Dunai Lajos Dunai Ernő Noskó Dezső Novák Károly Fatér László Fazekas István Juhász László Keglovich Lajos Kocsis Iván Menczel László Nagy Miklós Páncsics István Sárközi Lajos Szűcs Zoltán Szarka Miklós Szalai

Stoyan Yordanov Atanas Gerov Georgi Hristakiev Milko Gaydarski Kiril Ivkov Ivaylo Georgiev Tsvetan Veselinov Evgeni Yanchovski Petar Zhekov Atanas Hristov Asparuh Donev Kiril Stankov Georgi Ivanov Todor Nikolov Yancho Dimitrov Ivan Zafirov Mihail Gyonin Georgi Vasilev

Kenzo Yokoyama Hiroshi Katayama Masakatsu Miyamoto Yoshitada Yamaguchi Mitsuo Kamata Ryozo Suzuki Kiyoshi Tomizawa Takaji Mori Aritatsu Ogi Eizo Yuguchi Shigeo Yaegashi Teruki Miyamoto Masashi Watanabe Yasuyuki Kuwahara Kunishige Kamamoto Ikuo Matsumoto Ryuichi Sugiyama Masahiro Hamazaki

Gymnastics

See also: Gymnastics at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Men's events

Individual all-around
Team all-around	Yukio Endo Sawao Kato Takeshi Katō Eizo Kenmotsu Akinori Nakayama Mitsuo Tsukahara	Sergei Diomidov Valery Iljinykh Valery Karasev Viktor Klimenko Victor Lisitsky Mikhail Voronin	Günter Beier Matthias Brehme Gerhard Dietrich Siegfried Fülle Klaus Köste Peter Weber
Floor exercise
Horizontal bar		none awarded (as there was a tie for gold)
Parallel bars
Pommel horse
Rings
Vault

Women's events

Individual all-around
Team all-around	Lyubov Burda Olga Karasyova Natalia Kuchinskaya Larisa Petrik Ludmilla Tourischeva Zinaida Voronina	Věra Čáslavská Marianna Krajčírová Jana Kubičková Hana Lišková Bohumila Řimnáčová Miroslava Skleničková	Maritta Bauerschmidt Karin Janz Marianne Noack Magdalena Schmidt Ute Starke Erika Zuchold
Balance beam
Floor exercise		none awarded (as there was a tie for gold)
Uneven bars
Vault

Modern pentathlon

See also: Modern pentathlon at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Medalists

Individual
Team	András Balczó István Móna Ferenc Török	Boris Onishchenko Pavel Lednyov Stasys Šaparnis	Raoul Gueguen Lucien Guiguet Jean-Pierre Giudicelli

Rowing

See also: Rowing at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Medalists

Single sculls
Double sculls	Aleksandr Timoshinin Anatoliy Sass	Harry Droog Leendert van Dis	John Nunn Bill Maher
Coxless pair	Jörg Lucke Heinz-Jürgen Bothe	Larry Hough Philip Johnson	Peter Christiansen Ib Larsen
Coxed pair	Primo Baran Renzo Sambo Bruno Cipolla	Herman Suselbeek Hadriaan van Nes Roderick Rijnders	Jørn Krab Harry Jørgensen Preben Krab
Coxless four	Frank Forberger Frank Rühle Dieter Grahn Dieter Schubert	Zoltán Melis József Csermely György Sarlós Antal Melis	Renato Bosatta Pier Conti-Manzini Tullio Baraglia Abramo Albini
Coxed four	Dick Joyce Ross Collinge Dudley Storey Warren Cole Simon Dickie	Peter Kremtz Manfred Gelpke Roland Göhler Klaus Jacob Dieter Semetzky	Denis Oswald Peter Bolliger Hugo Waser Jakob Grob Gottlieb Fröhlich
Eight	Horst Meyer Wolfgang Hottenrott Dirk Schreyer Egbert Hirschfelder Rüdiger Henning Jörg Siebert Lutz Ulbricht Niko Ott Gunther Tiersch (cox) Roland Böse (heat 1)^[1]	Bob Shirlaw Gary Pearce John Ranch David Douglas Peter Dickson Joe Fazio Michael Morgan Alf Duval Alan Grover	Zigmas Jukna Aleksandr Martyshkin Antanas Bagdonavičius Vytautas Briedis Volodymyr Sterlik Valentyn Kravchuk Juozas Jagelavičius Viktor Suslin Yuriy Lorentsson

Sailing

See also: Sailing at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Medalists

Finn
Flying Dutchman	Rodney Pattisson Iain MacDonald-Smith	Ulli Libor Peter Naumann	Reinaldo Conrad Burkhard Cordes
Star	Lowell North Peter Barrett	Peder Lunde Jr. Per Wiken	Franco Cavallo Camillo Gargano
Dragon	George Friedrichs Barton Jahncke Gerald Schreck	Aage Birch Paul Lindemark Jørgensen Niels Markussen	Paul Borowski Karl-Heinz Thun Konrad Weichert
5.5 metre	Ulf Sundelin Jörgen Sundelin Peter Sundelin	Louis Noverraz Bernhard Dunand Marcel Stern	Robin Aisher Paul Anderson Adrian Jardine

Shooting

See also: Shooting at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Medalists

50 m pistol
25 m rapid fire pistol
50 m rifle prone
50 m rifle three positions
300 m free rifle three positions
Skeet
Trap

Swimming

See also: Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Men's events

100 m freestyle		52.2		52.8		53.0
200 m freestyle		1:55.2		1:55.8		1:58.1
400 m freestyle		4:09.0		4:11.7		4:13.3
1500 m freestyle		16:38.9		16:57.3		17:04.7
100 m backstroke		58.7		1:00.2		1:00.5
200 m backstroke		2:09.6		2:10.6		2:10.9
100 m breaststroke		1:07.7		1:08.0		1:08.0
200 m breaststroke		2:28.7		2:29.2		2:29.9
100 m butterfly		55.9		56.4		57.2
200 m butterfly		2:08.7		2:09.0		2:09.3
200 m individual medley		2:12.0		2:13.0		2:13.3
400 m individual medley		4:48.4		4:48.7		4:51.4
freestyle relay		3:31.7		3:34.2		3:34.7
freestyle relay		7:52.3		7:53.7		8:01.6
medley relay		3:54.9		3:57.5		4:00.7

Women's events

100 m freestyle		1:00.0		1:00.3		1:00.3
200 m freestyle		2:10.5		2:11.0		2:11.2
400 m freestyle		4:31.8		4:35.5		4:37.0
800 m freestyle		9:24.0		9:35.7		9:38.5
100 m backstroke		1:06.2		1:06.7		1:08.1
200 m backstroke		2:24.8		2:27.4		2:28.9
100 m breaststroke		1:15.8		1:15.9		1:16.1
200 m breaststroke		2:44.4		2:46.4		2:47.0
100 m butterfly		1:05.5		1:05.8		1:06.2
200 m butterfly		2:24.7		2:24.8		2:25.9
200 m individual medley		2:24.7		2:28.8		2:31.4
400 m individual medley		5:08.5		5:22.2		5:25.3
freestyle relay		4:02.5		4:05.7		4:07.2
medley relay		4:28.3		4:30.0		4:36.4

Volleyball

See also: Volleyball at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Medalists

Men's	valign=top	Eduard Sibiryakov Yuri Poyarkov Georgi Mondzolevsky Valeri Kravchenko Volodymyr Byelyayev Yevgeni Lapinsky Ivan Bugaenkov Oleg Antropov Vasilius Matushevas Viktor Mikhalchuk Boris Tereshchuk Vladimir Ivanov	valign=top	Masayuki Minami Katsutoshi Nekoda Mamoru Shiragami Isao Koizumi Kenji Kimura Yasuaki Mitsumori Naohiro Ikeda Jungo Morita Tadayoshi Yokota Seiji Oko Tetsuo Satō Kenji Shimaoka	valign=top	Bohumil Golián Antonin Prochazka Petr Kop Jiri Svoboda Josef Musil Lubomir Zajisek Josef Smolka Vladimir Petlak Frantisek Sokol Zdenek Groessel Pavel Schenk Drahomir Koudelka
Women's	valign=top	Lyudmila Buldakova Lyudmila Mikhailkovskaya Tatyana Veinberga Vera Lantratova Vera Galushka-Duyunova Tatyana Sarycheva Tatyana Ponyaeva-Tretyakova Nina Smoleeva Inna Ryskal Galina Leontyeva Roza Salikhova Valentina Kamenek-Vinogradova	valign=top	Setsuko Yosjida Suzue Takayama Toyoko Iwahara Youko Kasahara Aiko Onozawa Yukiyo Kojima Sachiko Fukanaka Kunie Shishikura Setsuko Inoue Sumie Oinuma Makiko Furakawa Keiko Hama	valign=top	Elżbieta Porzec Zofia Szczęśniewska Wanda Wiecha Barbara Hermela-Niemczyk Krystyna Ostromęcka Krystyna Krupa Jadwiga Książek Józefa Ledwig Krystyna Jakubowska Lidia Chmielnicka Krystyna Czajkowska Halina Aszkiełowicz

Water polo

See also: Water polo at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Medalists

Men's

Ozren Bonačić Dejan Dabović Zdravko Hebel Zoran Janković Ronald Lopatni Uroš Marović Đorđe Perišić Miroslav Poljak Mirko Sandić Karlo Stipanić Ivo Trumbić

Vadim Gulyaev Givi Chikvanaya Boris Grishin Aleksandr Dolgushin Aleksei Barkalov Yuri Grigorovsky Vladimir Semyonov Aleksandr Shidlovsky Vyacheslav Skok Leonid Osipov Oleg Bovin

András Bodnár Zoltán Dömötör László Felkai Ferenc Konrád János Konrád Mihály Mayer László Sárosi János Steinmetz Endre Molnár Dénes Pócsik István Szívós, Jr.

Weightlifting

See also: Weightlifting at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Medalists

56 kg
60 kg
67.5 kg
75 kg
82.5 kg
90 kg
+90 kg

Wrestling

See also: Wrestling at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Freestyle

52 kg
57 kg
63 kg
70 kg
78 kg
87 kg
97 kg
+97 kg

Greco-Roman

52 kg
57 kg
63 kg
70 kg
78 kg
87 kg
97 kg
+97 kg

Notes and References

1. Web site: Roland BOESE . . 14 October 2016.