List of 1968 Summer Olympics medal winners

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

Athletics

Medal table

* Host nation (Mexico)


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	15	6	7	28
2	Kenya (KEN)	3	4	1	8
3	Soviet Union (URS)	3	2	8	13
4	Australia (AUS)	2	3	1	6
4	East Germany (GDR)	2	3	1	6
6	Romania (ROU)	2	2	0	4
7	Hungary (HUN)	2	1	4	7
8	West Germany (FRG)	1	4	3	8
9	Great Britain (GBR)	1	2	1	4
10	Ethiopia (ETH)	1	1	0	2
11	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	1	0	1	2
	France (FRA)	1	0	1	2
	Poland (POL)	1	0	1	2
	Tunisia (TUN)	1	0	1	2
15	Cuba (CUB)	0	2	0	2
16	Austria (AUT)	0	1	1	2
17	Brazil (BRA)	0	1	0	1
	Finland (FIN)	0	1	0	1
	Jamaica (JAM)	0	1	0	1
	Japan (JPN)	0	1	0	1
	Mexico (MEX)*	0	1	0	1
22	Italy (ITA)	0	0	2	2
23	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	1	1
	New Zealand (NZL)	0	0	1	1
	Taiwan (ROC)	0	0	1	1
Totals (25 entries)		36	36	36	108

Men's events

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Jim Hines United States	9.95 WR	Lennox Miller Jamaica	10.04	Charles Greene United States	10.07
200 metres	Tommie Smith United States	19.83 WR	Peter Norman Australia	20.06 NR	John Carlos United States	20.10
400 metres	Lee Evans United States	43.86 WR	Larry James United States	43.97	Ron Freeman United States	44.41
800 metres	Ralph Doubell Australia	1:44.40 WR	Wilson Kiprugut Kenya	1:44.57	Tom Farrell United States	1:45.46
1500 metres	Kipchoge Keino Kenya	3:34.91 OR	Jim Ryun United States	3:37.89	Bodo Tümmler West Germany	3:39.08
5000 metres	Mohammed Gammoudi Tunisia	14:05.01	Kipchoge Keino Kenya	14:05.16	Naftali Temu Kenya	14:06.41
10,000 metres	Naftali Temu Kenya	29:27.40	Mamo Wolde Ethiopia	29:27.75	Mohammed Gammoudi Tunisia	29:34.2
110 metres hurdles	Willie Davenport United States	13.33 OR	Ervin Hall United States	13.42	Eddy Ottoz Italy	13.46
400 metres hurdles	David Hemery Great Britain	48.12 WR	Gerhard Hennige West Germany	49.02	John Sherwood Great Britain	49.03
3000 metres steeplechase	Amos Biwott Kenya	8:51.02	Benjamin Kogo Kenya	8:51.56	George Young United States	8:51.86
4 × 100 metres relay	United States (USA) Charles Greene Mel Pender Ronnie Ray Smith Jim Hines	38.24 WR	Cuba (CUB) Hermes Ramírez Juan Morales Pablo Montes Enrique Figuerola	38.40	France (FRA) Gérard Fenouil Jocelyn Delecour Claude Piquemal Roger Bambuck	38.43
4 × 400 metres relay	United States (USA) Vincent Matthews Ron Freeman Larry James Lee Evans	2:56.16 WR	Kenya (KEN) Daniel Rudisha Munyoro Nyamau Naftali Bon Charles Asati	2:59.64	West Germany (FRG) Helmar Müller Manfred Kinder Gerhard Hennige Martin Jellinghaus	3:00.57
Marathon	Mamo Wolde Ethiopia	2:20:27	Kenji Kimihara Japan	2:23:31	Mike Ryan New Zealand	2:23:45
20 kilometres walk	Volodymyr Holubnychy Soviet Union	1:33:58	José Pedraza Mexico	1:34:00	Nikolay Smaga Soviet Union	1:34:03
50 kilometres walk	Christoph Höhne East Germany	4:20:14	Antal Kiss Hungary	4:30:17	Larry Young United States	4:31:55
High jump	Dick Fosbury United States	2.24 m OR	Ed Caruthers United States	2.22 m	Valentin Gavrilov Soviet Union	2.20 m
Pole vault	Bob Seagren United States	5.40 m OR	Claus Schiprowski West Germany	5.40 m	Wolfgang Nordwig East Germany	5.40 m
Long jump	Bob Beamon United States	8.90 m WR	Klaus Beer East Germany	8.19 m	Ralph Boston United States	8.16 m
Triple jump	Viktor Saneyev Soviet Union	17.39 m WR	Nelson Prudêncio Brazil	17.27 m	Giuseppe Gentile Italy	17.22 m
Shot put	Randy Matson United States	20.54 m OR	George Woods United States	20.12 m	Eduard Gushchin Soviet Union	20.09 m
Discus throw	Al Oerter United States	64.78 m OR	Lothar Milde East Germany	63.08 m	Ludvík Daněk Czechoslovakia	62.92 m
Hammer throw	Gyula Zsivótzky Hungary	73.36 m OR	Romuald Klim Soviet Union	73.28 m	Lázár Lovász Hungary	69.78 m
Javelin throw	Jānis Lūsis Soviet Union	90.10 m OR	Jorma Kinnunen Finland	88.58 m	Gergely Kulcsár Hungary	87.06 m
Decathlon	Bill Toomey United States	8193 OR	Hans-Joachim Walde West Germany	8111	Kurt Bendlin West Germany	8064

Women's events

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Wyomia Tyus United States	11.08 WR	Barbara Ferrell United States	11.15	Irena Szewińska Poland	11.19
200 metres	Irena Szewińska Poland	22.58 WR	Raelene Boyle Australia	22.74	Jenny Lamy Australia	22.88
400 metres	Colette Besson France	52.03	Lillian Board Great Britain	52.12	Natalya Pechonkina Soviet Union	52.25
800 metres	Madeline Manning United States	2:00.92 OR	Ileana Silai Romania	2:02.58	Mia Gommers Netherlands	2:02.63
80 metres hurdles	Maureen Caird Australia	10.39 OR	Pam Kilborn Australia	10.46	Chi Cheng Taiwan	10.51
4 × 100 metres relay	United States (USA) Margaret Bailes Barbara Ferrell Mildrette Netter Wyomia Tyus	42.88 WR	Cuba (CUB) Violetta Quesada Miguelina Cobián Marlene Elejarde Fulgencia Romay	43.36	Soviet Union (URS) Galina Bukharina Lyudmila Samotyosova Vera Popkova Lyudmila Zharkova	43.41
High jump	Miloslava Rezková Czechoslovakia	1.82 m	Antonina Okorokova Soviet Union	1.80 m	Valentina Kozyr Soviet Union	1.80 m
Long jump	Viorica Viscopoleanu Romania	6.82 m WR	Sheila Sherwood Great Britain	6.68 m	Tatyana Talysheva Soviet Union	6.66 m
Shot put	Margitta Gummel East Germany	19.61 m WR	Marita Lange East Germany	18.78 m	Nadezhda Chizhova Soviet Union	18.19 m
Discus throw	Lia Manoliu Romania	58.28 m OR	Liesel Westermann West Germany	57.76 m	Jolán Kleiber-Kontsek Hungary	54.90 m
Javelin throw	Angéla Németh Hungary	60.36 m	Mihaela Peneș Romania	59.92 m	Eva Janko Austria	58.04 m
Pentathlon	Ingrid Becker West Germany	5098	Liese Prokop Austria	4966	Annamária Tóth Hungary	4959

Basketball

Medal table

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's	United States (USA) Mike Barrett John Clawson Don Dee Calvin Fowler Spencer Haywood Bill Hosket Jim King Glynn Saulters Mike Silliman Ken Spain Jo Jo White Charlie Scott	Yugoslavia (YUG) Dragutin Čermak Krešimir Ćosić Vladimir Cvetković Ivo Daneu Radivoj Korać Zoran Marojević Nikola Plećaš Trajko Rajković Dragoslav Ražnatović Petar Skansi Damir Šolman Aljoša Žorga	Soviet Union (URS) 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

Medal table

* Host nation (Mexico)


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	3	2	1	6
2	United States (USA)	2	1	4	7
3	Mexico (MEX)*	2	0	2	4
4	Poland (POL)	1	2	2	5
5	East Germany (GDR)	1	0	0	1
	Great Britain (GBR)	1	0	0	1
	Venezuela (VEN)	1	0	0	1
8	Cuba (CUB)	0	2	0	2
9	Romania (ROU)	0	1	1	2
	South Korea (KOR)	0	1	1	2
	Uganda (UGA)	0	1	1	2
12	Cameroon (CMR)	0	1	0	1
13	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	0	2	2
14	Argentina (ARG)	0	0	1	1
	Brazil (BRA)	0	0	1	1
	Finland (FIN)	0	0	1	1
	Italy (ITA)	0	0	1	1
	Japan (JPN)	0	0	1	1
	Kenya (KEN)	0	0	1	1
	West Germany (FRG)	0	0	1	1
	Yugoslavia (YUG)	0	0	1	1
Totals (21 entries)		11	11	22	44

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Light flyweight (-48 kg)	Francisco Rodríguez Venezuela	Jee Yong-ju South Korea	Hubert Skrzypczak Poland
Light flyweight (-48 kg)	Francisco Rodríguez Venezuela	Jee Yong-ju South Korea	Harlan Marbley United States
Flyweight (-51 kg)	Ricardo Delgado Mexico	Artur Olech Poland	Servílio de Oliveira Brazil
Flyweight (-51 kg)	Ricardo Delgado Mexico	Artur Olech Poland	Leo Rwabwogo Uganda
Bantamweight (-54 kg)	Valerian Sokolov Soviet Union	Eridadi Mukwanga Uganda	Eiji Morioka Japan
Bantamweight (-54 kg)	Valerian Sokolov Soviet Union	Eridadi Mukwanga Uganda	Chang Kyou-chul South Korea
Featherweight (-57 kg)	Antonio Roldán Mexico	Al Robinson United States	Philip Waruinge Kenya
Featherweight (-57 kg)	Antonio Roldán Mexico	Al Robinson United States	Ivan Mihailov Bulgaria
Lightweight (-60 kg)	Ronnie Harris United States	Józef Grudzień Poland	Zvonimir Vujin Yugoslavia
Lightweight (-60 kg)	Ronnie Harris United States	Józef Grudzień Poland	Calistrat Cuțov Romania
Light welterweight (-63.5 kg)	Jerzy Kulej Poland	Enrique Regüeiferos Cuba	Arto Nilsson Finland
Light welterweight (-63.5 kg)	Jerzy Kulej Poland	Enrique Regüeiferos Cuba	Jim Wallington United States
Welterweight (-67 kg)	Manfred Wolke East Germany	Joseph Bessala Cameroon	Mario Guilloti Argentina
Welterweight (-67 kg)	Manfred Wolke East Germany	Joseph Bessala Cameroon	Vladimir Musalimov Soviet Union
Light middleweight (-71 kg)	Boris Lagutin Soviet Union	Rolando Garbey Cuba	John Baldwin United States
Light middleweight (-71 kg)	Boris Lagutin Soviet Union	Rolando Garbey Cuba	Günther Meier West Germany
Middleweight (-75 kg)	Chris Finnegan Great Britain	Aleksei Kiselyov Soviet Union	Agustín Zaragoza Mexico
Middleweight (-75 kg)	Chris Finnegan Great Britain	Aleksei Kiselyov Soviet Union	Alfred Jones United States
Light heavyweight (-81 kg)	Danas Pozniakas Soviet Union	Ion Monea Romania	Georgi Stankov Bulgaria
Light heavyweight (-81 kg)	Danas Pozniakas Soviet Union	Ion Monea Romania	Stanisław Dragan Poland
Heavyweight (+81 kg)	George Foreman United States	Jonas Čepulis Soviet Union	Giorgio Bambini Italy
Heavyweight (+81 kg)	George Foreman United States	Jonas Čepulis Soviet Union	Joaquín Rocha Mexico

Canoeing

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Hungary (HUN)	2	3	1	6
2	Soviet Union (URS)	2	1	3	6
3	West Germany (FRG)	1	2	0	3
4	Romania (ROU)	1	1	1	3
5	Norway (NOR)	1	0	0	1
6	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
6	Denmark (DEN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		7	7	7	21

Men's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
C-1 1000 metres	Tibor Tatai Hungary	Detlef Lewe West Germany	Vitaly Galkov Soviet Union
C-2 1000 metres	Romania Ivan Patzaichin Serghei Covaliov	Hungary Tamás Wichmann Gyula Petrikovics	Soviet Union Naum Prokupets Mikhail Zamotin
K-1 1000 metres	Mihály Hesz Hungary	Aleksandr Shaparenko Soviet Union	Erik Hansen Denmark
K-2 1000 metres	Soviet Union Aleksandr Shaparenko Vladimir Morozov	Hungary Csaba Giczy István Timár	Austria Gerhard Siebold Günther Pfaff
K-4 1000 metres	Norway (NOR) Steinar Amundsen Tore Berger Egil Søby Jan Johansen	Romania (ROU) Anton Calenic Haralambie Ivanov Dimitrie Ivanov Mihai Țurcaș	Hungary (HUN) Csaba Giczy Imre Szöllősi István Timár István Csizmadia

Women's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
K-1 500 metres	Lyudmila Pinayeva Soviet Union	Renate Breuer West Germany	Viorica Dumitru Romania
K-2 500 metres	West Germany Annemarie Zimmermann Roswitha Esser	Hungary Anna Pfeffer Katalin Rozsnyói	Soviet Union Lyudmila Pinayeva Antonina Seredina

Cycling

Medal table

Road cycling

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual road race	Pierfranco Vianelli Italy	Leif Mortensen Denmark	Gösta Pettersson Sweden
Team time trial	Netherlands (NED) Joop Zoetemelk Fedor den Hertog Jan Krekels René Pijnen	Sweden (SWE) Sture Pettersson Tomas Pettersson Erik Pettersson Gösta Pettersson	Italy (ITA) Pierfranco Vianelli Giovanni Bramucci Vittorio Marcelli Mauro Simonetti

Track cycling

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual Pursuit	Daniel Rebillard France	Mogens Jensen Denmark	Xaver Kurmann Switzerland
Team Pursuit	Denmark (DEN) Per Jørgensen Reno Olsen Gunnar Asmussen Mogens Jensen	West Germany (FRG) Karl Link Udo Hempel Karlheinz Henrichs Jürgen Kissner	Italy (ITA) Luigi Roncaglia Lorenzo Bosisio Cipriano Chemello Giorgio Morbiato
Sprint	Daniel Morelon France	Giurdano Turrini Italy	Pierre Trentin France
Tandem	France Daniel Morelon Pierre Trentin	Netherlands Leijn Loevesijn Jan Jansen	Belgium Daniel Goens Robert van Lancker
Time trial	Pierre Trentin France	Niels Fredborg Denmark	Janusz Kierzkowski Poland

Diving

Medal table

* Host nation (Mexico)

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
3 m springboard	Bernard Wrightson United States	Klaus Dibiasi Italy	Jim Henry United States
10 m platform	Klaus Dibiasi Italy	Alvaro Gaxiola Mexico	Win Young United States

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
3 m springboard	Susanne Gossick United States	Tamara Pogozheva Soviet Union	Keala O'Sullivan United States
10 m platform	Milena Duchková Czechoslovakia	Natalya Lobanova Soviet Union	Ann Peterson United States

Equestrian events

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Great Britain (GBR)	1	2	1	4
2	West Germany (FRG)	1	1	2	4
3	United States (USA)	1	1	1	3
4	France (FRA)	1	1	0	2
4	Soviet Union (URS)	1	1	0	2
6	Canada (CAN)	1	0	0	1
7	Australia (AUS)	0	0	1	1
7	Switzerland (SUI)	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		6	6	6	18

Medalists

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual dressage	Ivan Kizimov on Ikhor (URS)	Josef Neckermann on Mariano (FRG)	Reiner Klimke on Dux (FRG)
Team dressage	West Germany (FRG) Josef Neckermann and Mariano Reiner Klimke and Dux Liselott Linsenhoff and Piaff	Soviet Union (URS) Yelena Petushkova and Pepel Ivan Kizimov and Ikhor Ivan Kalita and Absent	Switzerland (SUI) Henri Chammartin and Wolfdietrich Marianne Gossweiler and Stephan Gustav Fischer and Wald
Individual eventing	Jean-Jacques Guyon and Pitou (FRA)	Derek Allhusen and Lochinvar (GBR)	Michael Page and Foster (USA)
Team eventing	Great Britain (GBR) Derek Allhusen and Lochinvar Richard Meade and Cornishman V Reuben Jones and The Poacher	United States (USA) Michael Page and Foster James C. Wofford and Kilkenny Michael Plumb and Plain Sailing	Australia (AUS) Wayne Roycroft and Zhivago Brien Cobcroft and Depeche Bill Roycroft and Warrathoola
Individual jumping	William Steinkraus and Snowbound (USA)	Marion Coakes and Stroller (GBR)	David Broome and Mr. Softee (GBR)
Team jumping	Canada (CAN) James Day and Canadian Club Thomas Gayford and Big Dee Jim Elder and The Immigrant	France (FRA) Jean Rozier and Quo Vadis Janou Lefèbvre and Rocket Pierre Jonquères d'Oriola and Nagir	West Germany (FRG) Hermann Schridde and Dozent II Alwin Schockemöhle and Donald Rex Hans Günter Winkler and Enigk

Fencing

Medal table

* Host nation (Mexico)


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	3	4	0	7
2	Hungary (HUN)	2	2	3	7
3	Poland (POL)	1	0	2	3
4	France (FRA)	1	0	1	2
4	Romania (ROU)	1	0	1	2
6	Italy (ITA)	0	1	1	2
7	Mexico (MEX)*	0	1	0	1
Totals (7 entries)		8	8	8	24

Men's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual épée	Győző Kulcsár Hungary	Grigory Kriss Soviet Union	Gianluigi Saccaro Italy
Team épée	Hungary (HUN) Csaba Fenyvesi Zoltan Nemere Pál Schmitt Gyözö Kulcsar Pal Nagy	Soviet Union (URS) Grigory Kriss Iosif Vitebsky Aleksei Nikanchikov Yuri Smolyakov Viktor Modzalevsky	Poland (POL) Bogdan Andrzejewski Michał Butkiewicz Bogdan Gonsior Henryk Nielaba Kazimierz Barburski
Individual foil	Ion Drîmbă Romania	Jenő Kamuti Hungary	Daniel Revenu France
Team foil	France (FRA) Daniel Revenu Gilles Berolatti Christian Noël Jean-Claude Magnan Jacques Dimont	Soviet Union (URS) German Sveshnikov Yuri Sharov Vasili Stankovich Viktor Putyatin Yuri Sisikin	Poland (POL) Witold Woyda Zbigniew Skrudlik Ryszard Parulski Egon Franke Adam Lisewski
Individual sabre	Jerzy Pawłowski Poland	Mark Rakita Soviet Union	Tibor Pézsa Hungary
Team sabre	Soviet Union (URS) Vladimir Nazlymov Viktor Sidyak Eduard Vinokurov Mark Rakita Umar Mavlikhanov	Italy (ITA) Wladimiro Calarese Michele Maffei Cesare Salvadori Pierluigi Chicca Rolando Rigoli	Hungary (HUN) Tamás Kovács János Kalmár Péter Bakonyi Miklós Meszéna Tibor Pézsa

Women's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual foil	Elena Belova Soviet Union	Pilar Roldán Mexico	Ildikó Újlaky-Rejtő Hungary
Team foil	Soviet Union (URS) Aleksandra Zabelina Tatyana Samusenko Elena Belova Galina Gorokhova Svetlana Tširkova	Hungary (HUN) Lidia Dömölki-Sakovics Ildikó Bóbis Ildikó Újlaky-Rejtő Maria Jarmy Paula Marosi-Foldesi	Romania (ROU) Ecaterina Iencic-Stahl Ileana Gyulai-Drimba-Jenei Maria Vicol Olga Orban-Szabo Ana Dersidan-Ene-Pascu

Field hockey

Medal table

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's	Pakistan (PAK) 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	Australia (AUS) 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	India (IND) 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

Medal table

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's	Hungary (HUN) 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	Bulgaria (BUL) 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	Japan (JPN) 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

Medal table

Men's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual all-around	Sawao Kato Japan	Mikhail Voronin Soviet Union	Akinori Nakayama Japan
Team all-around	Japan (JPN) Yukio Endo Sawao Kato Takeshi Katō Eizo Kenmotsu Akinori Nakayama Mitsuo Tsukahara	Soviet Union (URS) Sergei Diomidov Valery Iljinykh Valery Karasev Viktor Klimenko Victor Lisitsky Mikhail Voronin	East Germany (GDR) Günter Beier Matthias Brehme Gerhard Dietrich Siegfried Fülle Klaus Köste Peter Weber
Floor exercise	Sawao Kato Japan	Akinori Nakayama Japan	Takeshi Katō Japan
Horizontal bar	Mikhail Voronin Soviet Union	none awarded (as there was a tie for gold)	Eizo Kenmotsu Japan
Horizontal bar	Akinori Nakayama Japan	none awarded (as there was a tie for gold)	Eizo Kenmotsu Japan
Parallel bars	Akinori Nakayama Japan	Mikhail Voronin Soviet Union	Viktor Klimenko Soviet Union
Pommel horse	Miroslav Cerar Yugoslavia	Olli Laiho Finland	Mikhail Voronin Soviet Union
Rings	Akinori Nakayama Japan	Mikhail Voronin Soviet Union	Sawao Kato Japan
Vault	Mikhail Voronin Soviet Union	Yukio Endo Japan	Sergei Diomidov Soviet Union

Women's events

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

Modern pentathlon

Medal table

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual	Björn Ferm Sweden	András Balczó Hungary	Pavel Lednyov Soviet Union
Team	Hungary (HUN) András Balczó István Móna Ferenc Török	Soviet Union (URS) Boris Onishchenko Pavel Lednyov Stasys Šaparnis	France (FRA) Raoul Gueguen Lucien Guiguet Jean-Pierre Giudicelli

Rowing

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany (GDR)	2	1	0	3
2	Netherlands (NED)	1	2	0	3
3	West Germany (FRG)	1	1	0	2
4	Italy (ITA)	1	0	1	2
4	Soviet Union (URS)	1	0	1	2
6	New Zealand (NZL)	1	0	0	1
7	United States (USA)	0	1	1	2
8	Australia (AUS)	0	1	0	1
8	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	0	1
10	Denmark (DEN)	0	0	2	2
11	Argentina (ARG)	0	0	1	1
11	Switzerland (SUI)	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 entries)		7	7	7	21

Medalists

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

Sailing

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	2	0	0	2
2	Great Britain (GBR)	1	0	1	2
3	Soviet Union (URS)	1	0	0	1
3	Sweden (SWE)	1	0	0	1
5	Austria (AUT)	0	1	0	1
	Denmark (DEN)	0	1	0	1
	Norway (NOR)	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	0	1
	West Germany (FRG)	0	1	0	1
10	Italy (ITA)	0	0	2	2
11	Brazil (BRA)	0	0	1	1
11	East Germany (GDR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 entries)		5	5	5	15

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Finn	Valentin Mankin Soviet Union	Hubert Raudaschl Austria	Fabio Albarelli Italy
Flying Dutchman	Great Britain Rodney Pattisson Iain MacDonald-Smith	West Germany Ulli Libor Peter Naumann	Brazil Reinaldo Conrad Burkhard Cordes
Star	United States Lowell North Peter Barrett	Norway Peder Lunde Jr. Per Wiken	Italy Franco Cavallo Camillo Gargano
Dragon	United States George Friedrichs Barton Jahncke Gerald Schreck	Denmark Aage Birch Paul Lindemark Jørgensen Niels Markussen	East Germany Paul Borowski Karl-Heinz Thun Konrad Weichert
5.5 metre	Sweden Ulf Sundelin Jörgen Sundelin Peter Sundelin	Switzerland Louis Noverraz Bernhard Dunand Marcel Stern	Great Britain Robin Aisher Paul Anderson Adrian Jardine

Shooting

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	2	1	2	5
2	United States	1	2	0	3
3	West Germany	1	1	1	3
4	Czechoslovakia	1	0	0	1
	Great Britain	1	0	0	1
	Poland	1	0	0	1
7	Hungary	0	1	0	1
	Italy	0	1	0	1
	Romania	0	1	0	1
10	East Germany	0	0	2	2
11	New Zealand	0	0	1	1
11	Switzerland	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 entries)		7	7	7	21

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
50 m pistol	Grigory Kosykh Soviet Union	Heinz Mertel West Germany	Harald Vollmar East Germany
25 m rapid fire pistol	Józef Zapędzki Poland	Marcel Roșca Romania	Renart Suleymanov Soviet Union
50 m rifle prone	Jan Kůrka Czechoslovakia	László Hammerl Hungary	Ian Ballinger New Zealand
50 m rifle three positions	Bernd Klingner West Germany	John Writer United States	Vitali Parkhimovitch Soviet Union
300 m free rifle three positions	Gary Anderson United States	Valentin Kornev Soviet Union	Kurt Müller Switzerland
Skeet	Yevgeni Petrov Soviet Union	Romano Garagnani Italy	Konrad Wirnhier West Germany
Trap	Bob Braithwaite Great Britain	Thomas Garrigus United States	Kurt Czekalla East Germany

Swimming

Medal table

* Host nation (Mexico)


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	21	15	16	52
2	Australia	3	2	3	8
3	East Germany	2	3	1	6
4	Yugoslavia	1	1	0	2
5	Mexico*	1	0	1	2
6	Netherlands	1	0	0	1
7	Soviet Union	0	4	4	8
8	Canada	0	3	1	4
9	Great Britain	0	1	0	1
10	West Germany	0	0	2	2
11	France	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 entries)		29	29	29	87

Men's events

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle	Michael Wenden Australia	52.2 WR	Ken Walsh United States	52.8	Mark Spitz United States	53.0
200 m freestyle	Michael Wenden Australia	1:55.2 OR	Don Schollander United States	1:55.8	John Nelson United States	1:58.1
400 m freestyle	Mike Burton United States	4:09.0 OR	Ralph Hutton Canada	4:11.7	Alain Mosconi France	4:13.3
1500 m freestyle	Mike Burton United States	16:38.9 OR	John Kinsella United States	16:57.3	Greg Brough Australia	17:04.7
100 m backstroke	Roland Matthes East Germany	58.7 OR	Charlie Hickcox United States	1:00.2	Ronnie Mills United States	1:00.5
200 m backstroke	Roland Matthes East Germany	2:09.6 OR	Mitch Ivey United States	2:10.6	Jack Horsley United States	2:10.9
100 m breaststroke	Don McKenzie United States	1:07.7 OR	Vladimir Kosinsky Soviet Union	1:08.0	Nikolai Pankin Soviet Union	1:08.0
200 m breaststroke	Felipe Muñoz Mexico	2:28.7	Vladimir Kosinsky Soviet Union	2:29.2	Brian Job United States	2:29.9
100 m butterfly	Doug Russell United States	55.9 OR	Mark Spitz United States	56.4	Ross Wales United States	57.2
200 m butterfly	Carl Robie United States	2:08.7	Martyn Woodroffe Great Britain	2:09.0	John Ferris United States	2:09.3
200 m individual medley	Charlie Hickcox United States	2:12.0 OR	Greg Buckingham United States	2:13.0	John Ferris United States	2:13.3
400 m individual medley	Charlie Hickcox United States	4:48.4	Gary Hall, Sr. United States	4:48.7	Michael Holthaus West Germany	4:51.4
4 × 100 m freestyle relay	United States (USA) Zac Zorn Stephen Rerych Ken Walsh Mark Spitz	3:31.7 WR	Soviet Union (URS) Georgi Kulikov Viktor Mazanov Semyon Belits-Geiman Leonid Ilyichov	3:34.2	Australia (AUS) Greg Rogers Robert Cusack Bob Windle Michael Wenden	3:34.7
4 × 200 m freestyle relay	United States (USA) John Nelson Stephen Rerych Mark Spitz Don Schollander	7:52.3	Australia (AUS) Greg Rogers Graham White Bob Windle Michael Wenden	7:53.7	Soviet Union (URS) Vladimir Bure Semyon Belits-Geiman Georgi Kulikov Leonid Ilyichov	8:01.6
4 × 100 m medley relay	United States (USA) Charlie Hickcox Don McKenzie Doug Russell Ken Walsh	3:54.9 WR	East Germany (GDR) Roland Matthes Egon Henninger Horst-Günter Gregor Frank Wiegand	3:57.5	Soviet Union (URS) Yuri Gromak Vladimir Nemshilov Vladimir Kosinsky Leonid Ilyichov	4:00.7

Women's events

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle	Jan Henne United States	1:00.0	Susan Pedersen United States	1:00.3	Linda Gustavson United States	1:00.3
200 m freestyle	Debbie Meyer United States	2:10.5 OR	Jan Henne United States	2:11.0	Jane Barkman United States	2:11.2
400 m freestyle	Debbie Meyer United States	4:31.8 OR	Linda Gustavson United States	4:35.5	Karen Moras Australia	4:37.0
800 m freestyle	Debbie Meyer United States	9:24.0 OR	Pam Kruse United States	9:35.7	Maria Teresa Ramírez Mexico	9:38.5
100 m backstroke	Kaye Hall United States	1:06.2 WR	Elaine Tanner Canada	1:06.7	Jane Swagerty United States	1:08.1
200 m backstroke	Lillian Watson United States	2:24.8 OR	Elaine Tanner Canada	2:27.4	Kaye Hall United States	2:28.9
100 m breaststroke	Đurđica Bjedov Yugoslavia	1:15.8 OR	Galina Prozumenshchikova Soviet Union	1:15.9	Sharon Wichman United States	1:16.1
200 m breaststroke	Sharon Wichman United States	2:44.4 OR	Đurđica Bjedov Yugoslavia	2:46.4	Galina Prozumenshchikova Soviet Union	2:47.0
100 m butterfly	Lyn McClements Australia	1:05.5	Ellie Daniel United States	1:05.8	Susan Shields United States	1:06.2
200 m butterfly	Ada Kok Netherlands	2:24.7 OR	Helga Lindner East Germany	2:24.8	Ellie Daniel United States	2:25.9
200 m individual medley	Claudia Kolb United States	2:24.7 OR	Susan Pedersen United States	2:28.8	Jan Henne United States	2:31.4
400 m individual medley	Claudia Kolb United States	5:08.5 OR	Lynn Vidali United States	5:22.2	Sabine Steinbach East Germany	5:25.3
4 × 100 m freestyle relay	United States (USA) Jane Barkman Linda Gustavson Susan Pedersen Jan Henne	4:02.5 OR	East Germany (GDR) Gabriele Wetzko Roswitha Krause Uta Schmuck Martina Grunert	4:05.7	Canada (CAN) Angela Coughlan Marilyn Corson Elaine Tanner Marion Lay	4:07.2
4 × 100 m medley relay	United States (USA) Kaye Hall Catie Ball Ellie Daniel Susan Pedersen	4:28.3 OR	Australia (AUS) Lynne Watson Judy Playfair Lyn McClements Janet Steinbeck	4:30.0	West Germany (FRG) Angelika Kraus Uta Frommater Heike Hustede Heidemarie Reineck	4:36.4

Volleyball

Medal table

Medalists

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's	Soviet Union (URS) Eduard Sibiryakov Yuri Poyarkov Georgi Mondzolevsky Valeri Kravchenko Volodymyr Byelyayev Yevgeni Lapinsky Ivan Bugaenkov Oleg Antropov Vasilius Matushevas Viktor Mikhalchuk Boris Tereshchuk Vladimir Ivanov	Japan (JPN) Masayuki Minami Katsutoshi Nekoda Mamoru Shiragami Isao Koizumi Kenji Kimura Yasuaki Mitsumori Naohiro Ikeda Jungo Morita Tadayoshi Yokota Seiji Oko Tetsuo Satō Kenji Shimaoka	Czechoslovakia (TCH) 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	Soviet Union (URS) 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	Japan (JPN) Setsuko Yosjida Suzue Takayama Toyoko Iwahara Youko Kasahara Aiko Onozawa Yukiyo Kojima Sachiko Fukanaka Kunie Shishikura Setsuko Inoue Sumie Oinuma Makiko Furakawa Keiko Hama	Poland (POL) 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

Medal table

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's	Yugoslavia (YUG) Ozren Bonačić Dejan Dabović Zdravko Hebel Zoran Janković Ronald Lopatni Uroš Marović Đorđe Perišić Miroslav Poljak Mirko Sandić Karlo Stipanić Ivo Trumbić	Soviet Union (URS) Vadim Gulyaev Givi Chikvanaya Boris Grishin Aleksandr Dolgushin Aleksei Barkalov Yuri Grigorovsky Vladimir Semyonov Aleksandr Shidlovsky Vyacheslav Skok Leonid Osipov Oleg Bovin	Hungary (HUN) András Bodnár Zoltán Dömötör László Felkai Ferenc Konrád János Konrád Mihály Mayer László Sárosi János Steinmetz Endre Molnár Dénes Pócsik István Szívós, Jr.

Weightlifting

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	3	3	0	6
2	Japan (JPN)	1	1	1	3
3	Iran (IRI)	1	1	0	2
4	Poland (POL)	1	0	4	5
5	Finland (FIN)	1	0	0	1
6	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	1	2
7	Belgium (BEL)	0	1	0	1
8	United States (USA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		7	7	7	21

Medalists

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
56 kg	Mohammad Nassiri Iran	Imre Földi Hungary	Henryk Trębicki Poland
60 kg	Yoshinobu Miyake Japan	Dito Shanidze Soviet Union	Yoshiyuki Miyake Japan
67.5 kg	Waldemar Baszanowski Poland	Parviz Jalayer Iran	Marian Zieliński Poland
75 kg	Viktor Kurentsov Soviet Union	Masushi Ouchi Japan	Károly Bakos Hungary
82.5 kg	Boris Selitsky Soviet Union	Vladimir Belyaev Soviet Union	Norbert Ozimek Poland
90 kg	Kaarlo Kangasniemi Finland	Jaan Talts Soviet Union	Marek Gołąb Poland
+90 kg	Leonid Zhabotinsky Soviet Union	Serge Reding Belgium	Joseph Dube United States

Wrestling

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	4	1	0	5
2	Soviet Union (URS)	3	5	1	9
3	Bulgaria (BUL)	2	3	1	6
4	Hungary (HUN)	2	0	2	4
5	East Germany (GDR)	2	0	0	2
5	Turkey (TUR)	2	0	0	2
7	Iran (IRI)	1	0	2	3
8	France (FRA)	0	2	0	2
8	United States (USA)	0	2	0	2
10	Mongolia (MGL)	0	1	3	4
11	Romania (ROU)	0	1	2	3
12	Yugoslavia (YUG)	0	1	1	2
13	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	0	2	2
14	Greece (GRE)	0	0	1	1
14	West Germany (FRG)	0	0	1	1
Totals (15 entries)		16	16	16	48

Freestyle

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
52 kg	Shigeo Nakata Japan	Richard Sanders United States	Chimedbazaryn Damdinsharav Mongolia
57 kg	Yojiro Uetake Japan	Donald Behm United States	Aboutaleb Talebi Iran
63 kg	Masaaki Kaneko Japan	Enyu Todorov Bulgaria	Shamseddin Seyed-Abbasi Iran
70 kg	Abdollah Movahed Iran	Enyu Valchev Bulgaria	Danzandarjaagiin Sereeter Mongolia
78 kg	Mahmut Atalay Turkey	Daniel Robin France	Tömöriin Artag Mongolia
87 kg	Boris Michail Gurevich Soviet Union	Jigjidiin Mönkhbat Mongolia	Prodan Gardzhev Bulgaria
97 kg	Ahmet Ayık Turkey	Shota Lomidze Soviet Union	József Csatári Hungary
+97 kg	Aleksandr Medved Soviet Union	Osman Duraliev Bulgaria	Wilfried Dietrich West Germany

Greco-Roman

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
52 kg	Petar Kirov Bulgaria	Vladimir Bakulin Soviet Union	Miroslav Zeman Czechoslovakia
57 kg	János Varga Hungary	Ion Baciu Romania	Ivan Kochergin Soviet Union
63 kg	Roman Rurua Soviet Union	Hideo Fujimoto Japan	Simion Popescu Romania
70 kg	Muneji Munemura Japan	Stevan Horvat Yugoslavia	Petros Galaktopoulos Greece
78 kg	Rudolf Vesper East Germany	Daniel Robin France	Károly Bajkó Hungary
87 kg	Lothar Metz East Germany	Valentin Oleynik Soviet Union	Branislav Simić Yugoslavia
97 kg	Boyan Radev Bulgaria	Nikolai Yakovenko Soviet Union	Nicolae Martinescu Romania
+97 kg	István Kozma Hungary	Anatoly Roshchin Soviet Union	Petr Kment Czechoslovakia

References

^ "Roland BOESE". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 14 October 2016.

External links

"Mexico City 1968". Olympics.com. International Olympic Committee.

[1] "Roland BOESE". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 14 October 2016.

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