United States at the 1968 Winter Olympics explained

Noc:	USA
Nocname:	United States Olympic Committee
Games:	Winter Olympics
Year:	1968
Flagcaption:	Flag of the United States
Location:	Grenoble
Competitors:	96 (75 men, 21 women)
Sports:	10
Flagbearer:	Terry McDermott
Rank:	9
Gold:	1
Silver:	5
Bronze:	1
Appearances:	auto

The United States competed at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France.

Medalists

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Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
		Figure skating	Women's singles
		Speed skating	Women's 500 meters
		Speed skating	Women's 500 meters
		Speed skating	Women's 500 meters
		Speed skating	Men's 500 meters
		Figure skating	Men's singles
		Speed skating	Women's 1000 meters

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Alpine skiing

See main article: Alpine skiing at the 1968 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat 1	Heat 2	Final
		Run 1		Run 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Jim Barrows	align=left rowspan=4	Downhill
Jere Elliott
Billy Kidd	2:03.40	18
Dennis McCoy	2:04.82	21
Rick Chaffee	align=left rowspan=4	Giant slalom	1:46.44	13	1:49.75	14	3:36.19	15
Jimmy Heuga	1:45.46	7	1:48.43	9	3:33.89	10
Billy Kidd	1:45.91	8	1:46.46	1	3:32.37	5
Spider Sabich	1:46.34	12	1:49.81	15	3:36.15	14
Rick Chaffee	align=left rowspan=4	Slalom	54.28	1 QF	49.95	10	51.24	10	1:41.19	9
Jimmy Heuga	52.34	1 QF	49.96	11	51.01	9	1:40.97	7
Billy Kidd	53.37	1 QF
Spider Sabich	53.52	2 QF	49.75	4	50.74	7	1:40.49	5

Women

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Karen Budge	align=left rowspan=4	Downhill	DNS
Suzy Chaffee	1:48.50	28
Kiki Cutter	1:44.94	17
Sandy Shellworth	1:46.53	21
Wendy Allen	align=left rowspan=4	Giant slalom	2:00.03	22
Suzy Chaffee	1:58.38	17
Kiki Cutter	1:59.52	21
Judy Nagel	1:57.39	12
Wendy Allen	align=left rowspan=4	Slalom
Kiki Cutter
Rosie Fortna
Judy Nagel	40.19	1

Biathlon

See main article: Biathlon at the 1968 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Time	Misses	Rank
Jonathan Chaffee	align=left rowspan=4	Individual	1:34:21.1	11 (3+2+4+2)	49
Bill Spencer	1:30:17.7	10 (2+3+1+4)	37
Ralph Wakley	1:27:32.9	5 (1+1+3+0)	27
Edward Williams	1:32:24.5	9 (2+5+0+2)	45
John Ehrensbeck Bill Spencer Ralph Wakley Edward Williams	Relay	2:28:35.5	8	8

Bobsleigh

See main article: Bobsleigh at the 1968 Winter Olympics.

Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Howard Clifton Michael Luce	align=left rowspan=2	Two-man	1:12.10	14	1:12.18	10	1:11.88	9	1:13.15	15	4:49.31	11
Paul Lamey Robert Huscher	1:11.30	8	1:11.54	4	1:11.04	6	1:12.15	9	4:46.03	6
Bill Hickey Howard Clifton Michael Luce Paul Savage	align=left rowspan=2	Four-man	1:11.45	14	1:08.92	14	2:20.37	15
Boris Said David Dunn Robert Crowley Phil Duprey	1:11.08	11	1:08.48	10	2:19.56	10

Cross-country skiing

See main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1968 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Larry Damon	align=left rowspan=4	Men's 15 km	55:07.2	55
Mike Elliott	52:40.8	41
Mike Gallagher	52:02.4	34
Bob Gray	53:24.8	48
Mike Elliott	align=left rowspan=4	Men's 30 km	1:42:22.6	29
Mike Gallagher	1:41:58.2	27
Charles Kellogg	1:50:03.7	51
Jon Lufkin	1:51:21.2	55
Larry Damon	align=left rowspan=4	Men's 50 km	2:41:25.2	32
Mike Elliott	2:40:38.5	30
Mike Gallagher	2:36:26.1	22
Charles Kellogg	2:44:00.4	36
John Bower Mike Elliott Mike Gallagher Bob Gray	Men's 4 × 10 km relay	2:21:30.4	12

Figure skating

See main article: Figure skating at the 1968 Winter Olympics. Ladies' singles skater Peggy Fleming built up a huge lead after the compulsory figures and won the first-place votes of all nine judges.^[1] Her victory marked the first gold medal won by an American after the death of an entire US figure skating team in an air crash in 1961, and heralded an American figure skating renaissance.^[2]

Individual

Athlete	Event			Total
		Rank	Rank	Points	Places	Rank
John Misha Petkevich	align=left rowspan=3	Men's singles	8	4	1806.2	56	6
Gary Visconti	6	5	1810.2	52	5
Tim Wood	2	3	1891.6	17
Peggy Fleming	align=left rowspan=3	Ladies' singles	1	1	1970.5	9
Janet Lynn	14	6	1698.7	90	9
Albertina Noyes	5	7	1797.3	40	4

Mixed

Athlete	Event			Total
		Rank	Rank	Points	Places	Rank
Cynthia Kauffman Ronald Kauffman	align=left rowspan=3	Pairs	5	7	297.0	58	6
JoJo Starbuck Kenneth Shelley	14	12	276.0	121	13
Sandi Sweitzer Roy Wagelein	8	6	294.5	64.5	7

Ice hockey

See main article: Ice hockey at the 1968 Winter Olympics.

Summary

Roster
Coach: Murray Williamson

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Medal Round

Rank	Team	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
1		7	6	1	0	48	10	12
2		7	5	1	1	33	17	11
3		7	5	2	0	28	15	10
4		7	4	2	1	23	18	9
5		7	3	3	1	17	23	7
6		7	2	4	1	23	28	5
7		7	1	6	0	13	39	2
8		7	0	7	0	13	48	0

Czechoslovakia – USA 5:1 (1:1, 2:0, 2:0)
Goalscorers: Suchý, Havel, Jiřík, Hejma, Jiří Holík – Volmar.
Referees: Dahlberg, Wiking (SWE)

Sweden – USA 4:3 (0:0, 4:2, 0:1)
Goalscorers: Nilsson, Wickberg, Hedlund, Bengsston – Falkman, Lilyholm, Nanne.
Referees: McEvoy, Kubinec (CAN)

USSR – USA 10:2 (6:0, 4:2, 0:0)
Goalscorers: Firsov 3, Blinov 2, Populanov 2, Kuzkin, Staršinov, Mojsejev – Ross, Morrison.
Referees: Dahlberg (SWE), Kubinec (CAN)

Canada – USA 3:2 (1:2, 0:0, 2:0)
Goalscorers: Cadieux 2, Johnston – Pleau, Riutta.
Referees: Snětkov, Seglin (URS)

USA – West Germany 8:1 (2:1, 4:0, 2:0)
Goalscorers: Volmar 2, Ross, Morrison, Nanne, Pleau, Cunnoff, P. Hurley – Funk.
Referees: McEvoy (CAN), Seglin (URS)

East Germany – USA 4:6 (1:3, 1:1, 2:2)
Goalscorers: Fuchs 2, Karrenbauer 2 – Stordahl 2, P. Hurley 2, Volmar, Lilyholm.
Referees: Kubinec (CAN), Seglin (URS)

USA – Finland 1:1 (1:1, 0:0, 0:0)
Goalscorers: Volmar – Wahlsten.
Referees: Kubinec (CAN), Seglin (URS)

Luge

See main article: Luge at the 1968 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Mike Hessel	align=left rowspan=4	Singles	1:00.00	29	1:00.46	32	1:00.16	29	3:00.62	30
Kim Layton	59.73	27	59.45	23	59.46	24	2:58.64	26
James Murray	1:00.34	32	59.94	29	59.72	26	3:00.00	28
Robin Partch	1:30.36	47	59.78	28	59.53	25	3:29.67	46
Mike Hessel Jim Moriarty	Doubles

Women

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Sheila Johansen	align=left rowspan=3	Singles	51.21	15	51.90	19	52.36	18	2:35.47	17
Kathleen Ann Roberts-Homstad	50.62	12	51.04	15	51.94	15	2:33.60	14
Ellen Williams	51.67	16	51.09	16	52.39	19	2:35.15	16

Nordic combined

See main article: Nordic combined at the 1968 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Ski Jumping				Cross-country			Total
		Jump 1	Jump 2	Points	Rank	Time	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
John Bower	align=left rowspan=4	Individual	104.2	101.0	205.2	14	51:00.1	205.96	16	411.16	13
Georg Krog	105.4	106.8	212.2	11	53:55.9	171.56	33	383.76	22
Jim Miller	85.1	86.5	171.6	35	50:56.0	206.78	15	378.38	26
Tom Upham	92.2	90.0	182.2	31	56:30.5	142.97	40	325.17	39

Ski jumping

See main article: Ski jumping at the 1968 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
		Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Bill Bakke	align=left rowspan=4	Normal hill	69.5	90.0	70.0	90.8	180.8	40
John Balfanz	72.5	97.8	68.5	91.9	189.7	33
Jay Rand	70.0	85.8	70.5	92.6	178.4	42
Adrian Watt	71.0	86.9	68.0	87.1	174.0	44
Bill Bakke	align=left rowspan=4	Large hill	90.5	90.1	87.5	85.4	175.5	34
John Balfanz	84.5	83.7	85.5	86.1	169.8	42
Jay Martin	85.0	81.4	85.0	82.4	163.8	43
Jay Rand	90.0	90.9	86.0	83.8	174.7	35

Speed skating

See main article: Speed skating at the 1968 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Neil Blatchford	align=left rowspan=4	500 m	40.7	5
Tom Gray	41.6	21
Terry McDermott	40.5
John Wurster	40.7	5
Roger Capan	align=left rowspan=4	1500 m	2:13.6	34
Bill Lanigan	2:11.7	24
Wayne LeBombard	2:11.2	23
Richard Wurster	2:08.4	19
Bill Cox	align=left rowspan=3	5000 m	7:58.1	25
Bill Lanigan	7:57.7	24
Wayne LeBombard	8:03.8	28
Bill Cox	align=left rowspan=2	10,000 m	17:08.2	25
Bill Lanigan	16:50.1	21

Women

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Jenny Fish	align=left rowspan=3	500 m	46.3
Dianne Holum	46.3
Mary Meyers	46.3
Jeanne Ashworth	align=left rowspan=3	1000 m	1:34.7	7
Jenny Fish	1:38.4	23
Dianne Holum	1:33.4
Jeanne Ashworth	align=left rowspan=3	1500 m	2:30.3	16
Dianne Holum	2:28.5	13
Jeanne Omelenchuk	2:35.5	25
Jeanne Ashworth	align=left rowspan=3	3000 m	5:14.0	10
Toy Dorgan	5:17.6	14
Jeanne Omelenchuk	5:14.9	11

Sources

• Official Olympic Reports
• Web site: Olympic Medal Winners . . 2009-06-05.
• Olympic Winter Games 1968, full results by sports-reference.com

Notes and References

1. http://en.beijing2008.cn/spirit/pastgames/winterolympics/grenoble1968/n214049648.shtml Beijing 2008
2. News: Still Crystal Clear. The plane crash that killed the 1961 U.S. world championship figure skating team decimated families and the sport, but alongside grief came renewal.. Ford. Bonnie D.. 2011. ESPN. February 19, 2014.