MEXICO CITY 1968
The Games of the XIX Summer Olympiad. October 12-27, 1968. Mexico City, Mexico.
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MEN
100 m
1.Jim Hines (USA)
200 m
1.Tommie Smith (USA)
2.Peter Norman (Australia)
3.John Carlos (USA)
4.Edwin Roberts (Trinidad and Tobago)
5.Roger Bambuck (France)
6.Larry Questad (USA)
800 m
1.Ralph Doubell (Australia)
1500 m
1.Kipchoge Keino (Kenya)
5000 m
1.Mohammed Gammoudi (Tunisia)
2.Kipchoge Keino (Kenya)
3.Naftali Temu (Kenya)
4.Juan Maximo Martinez (Mexico)
5.Ron Clarke (Australia)
6.Wohib Masresha (Ethiopia)
10000 m
1.Naftali Temu (Kenya)
2.Mamo Wolde (Ethiopia)
3.Mohammed Gammoudi (Tunisia)
110 m hurdles
1.Willie Davenport (USA)
2.Ervin Hall (USA)
3.Eddy Ottoz (Italy)
4.Leon Coleman (USA)
5.Werner Trzmiel (West Germany)
6.Bo Forssander (Sweden)
400 m hurdles
1.David Hemery (Great Britain)
2.Gerhard Hennige (West Germany)
3.John Sherwood (Great Britain)
4.Geoff Vanderstock (USA)
5.Vyacheslav Skomorokhov (USSR)
3000 m steeplechase
1.Amos Biwott (Kenya)
4 x 100 m
1.USA (Jim Hines)
4 x 400 m
1.USA
Marathon
1.Mamo Wolde (Ethiopia)
20 km walk
1.Vladimir Golubnichy (USSR)
2.Jose Pedraza (Mexico)
Long jump
1.Bob Beamon (USA)
2.Klaus Beer (East Germany)
3.Ralph Boston (USA)
4.Igor Ter-Ovanesyan (USSR)
5.Tonu Lepik (USSR)
11.Michael Ahey (Ghana)
Triple jump
1.Viktor Saneyev (USSR)
High jump
1.Dick Fosbury (USA)
2.Ed Caruthers (USA)
Pole vault
1.Bob Seagren (USA)
3.Wolfgang Nordwig (East Germany)
Shot put
1.Randy Matson (USA)
Discus throw
1.Al Oerter (USA)
3.Ludvik Danek (Czechoslovakia)
Hammer throw
1.Gyula Zsivotsky (Hungary)
2.Romuald Klim (USSR)
Javelin throw
1.Janis Lusis (USSR)
3.Gergely Kulcsar (Hungary)
Decathlon
1.Bill Toomey (USA)
2.Hans-Joachim Walde (West Germany)
3.Kurt Bendlin (West Germany)
WOMEN
100 m
1.Wyomia Tyus (USA)
3.Irena Szewinska (Poland)
200 m
1.Irena Szewinska (Poland)
2.Raelene Boyle (Australia)
400 m
1.Colette Besson (France)
2.Lillian Board (Great Britain)
3.Natalya Pechonkina (USSR)
4.Janet Simpson (Great Britain)
5.Aurelia Penton (Cuba)
6.Jarvis Scott (USA)
4 x 100 m
1.USA (Mildrette Netter, Wyomia Tuys)
2.Cuba (Violetta Quesada, Miguelina Cobian)
3.USSR (Lyudmila Zharkova, Vera Popkova, Ludmila Samotyosova)
4.Netherlands (Geertruida Hennipman, Cornelia Bakker)
5.Australia (Raelene Boyle, Dianne Burge)
6.West Germany (Rita Jahn, Ingrid Becker)
7.Great Britain (Janet Simpson, Lillian Board)
8.France (Silviane Telliez)
Shot put
3.Nadezhda Chizhova (USSR)
Discus throw
1.Lia Manoliu (Romania)
Javelin throw
1.Angela Nemeth (Hungary)
2.Mihaela Penes (Romania)
Pentathlon
1.Ingrid Becker (West Germany)
2.Liese Prokop (Austria)
3.Annamaria Toth (Hungary)
4.Valentina Tikhomirova (USSR)
5.Manon Bornholdt (West Germany)
6.Pat Winslow (USA)
1.USA
2.Yugoslavia (Kresimir Cosic)
3.USSR (Sergei Kovalenko)
48 kg
1.Francisco Rodriguez (Venezuela)
51 kg
1.Ricardo Delgado (Mexico)
63.5 kg
1.Jerzy Kulej (Poland)
67 kg
Final
Manfred Wolke (East Germany) - Joseph Bessala (Cameroon) 4:1
1.Manfred Wolke (East Germany)
2.Joseph Bessala (Cameroon)
75 kg
1.Chris Finnegan (Great Britain)
81+ kg
Final
George Foreman (USA) def. Jonas Cepulis (USSR) (referee stopped contest)
1.George Foreman (USA)
2.Jonas Cepulis (USSR)
MEN
C-1 1000 m
1.Tibor Tatai (Hungary)
2. Detlef Lewe (West Germany)
C-2 1000 m
1.Ivan Patzaichin / Serghei Covaliov (Romania)
2.Tamas Wichmann / Gyula Petrikovics (Hungary)
K-1 1000 m
1.Mihaly Hesz (Hungary)
2.Aleksandr Shaparenko (USSR)
K-2 1000 m
1.Aleksandr Shaparenko / Vladimir Morozov (USSR)
WOMEN
K-2 500 m
1.Roswitha Esser / Annemarie Zimmermann (West Germany)
3.Ludmila Pinayeva / Antonina Seredina (USSR)
ROAD
Individual road race
1.Pierfranco Vianelli (Italy)
Team time trial
1.Netherlands (Joop Zoetemelk)
3.Italy (Pierfranco Vianelli)
TRACK
Individual pursuit
1.Daniel Rebillard (France)
2.Mogens Jensen (Denmark)
3.Xaver Kurmann (Switzerland)
Sprint
1.Daniel Morelon (France)
3.Pierre Trentin (France)
Tandem
1.Daniel Morelon / Pierre Trentin (France)
1000 m time trial
1.Pierre Trentin (France)
MEN
3 m springboard
2.Klaus Dibiasi (Italy)
10 m platform
1.Klaus Dibiasi (Italy)
2.Alvaro Gaxiola (Mexico)
3.Win Young (USA)
4.Keith Russell (USA)
5.Jose Robinson (Mexico)
6.Lothar Matthes (East Germany)
Individual dressage
2.Josef Neckermann (West Germany)
3.Reiner Klimke (West Germany)
Team dressage
1.West Germany
(Josef Neckermann, Reiner Klimke, Liselotte Linsenhoff)
2.USSR (Yelena Petushkova)
3.Switzerland (Henri Chammartin)
Individual eventing
1.Jean-Jacques Guyon (France)
Team eventing
1.Great Britain (Richard Meade)
2.USA (Michael Plumb)
Individual jumping
1.William Steinkraus (USA)
3.David Broome (Great Britain)
Team jumping
2.France (Marcel Rozier, Pierre Jonqueres d’Oriola)
3.West Germany (Hermann Schridde, Alwin Schockemohle, Hans Gunter Winkler)
MEN
Individual epee: 1.Gyozo Kulcsar (Hungary)
Team epee: 1.Hungary (Csaba Fenyvesi, Gyozo Kulcsar)
Individual foil
1.Ion Drimba (Romania)
Team foil
3.Poland (Witold Woyda, Egon Franke)
Team sabre
1.USSR (Viktor Sidyak)
WOMEN
Individual foil
1.Elena Belova (USSR)
Team foil
1.USSR (Elena Belova, Svetlana Chirkova)
1.Pakistan
3.India (John Peter, Balbir Singh Kular)
1.Hungary
2.Bulgaria (Evgeni Yanchovski)
5-8.Israel
MEN
Team all-around
1.Japan (Yukio Endo, Sawao Kato, Akinori Nakayama, Mitsuo Tsukahara)
2.USSR (Sergey Diomidov, Viktor Klimenko, Viktor Lisitsky)
Individual all-around
1.Sawao Kato (Japan)
3.Akinori Nakayama (Japan)
Floor exercise
1.Sawao Kato (Japan)
2.Akinori Nakayama (Japan)
Horizontal bar: 1-2.Akinori Nakayama (Japan)
Parallel bars: 1.Akinori Nakayama (Japan)
3.Viktor Klimenko (USSR)
Rings
1.Akinori Nakayama (Japan)
3.Sawao Kato (Japan)
Vault
2.Yukio Endo (Japan)
3.Sergey Diomidov (USSR)
WOMEN
Team all-around
1.USSR (Ludmila Tourischeva)
2.Czechoslovakia (Vera Caslavska)
3.East Germany (Karin Janz)
Individual all-around
1.Vera Caslavska (Czechoslovakia)
Balance beam
2.Vera Caslavska (Czechoslovakia)
Floor exercise
1-2.Vera Caslavska (Czechoslovakia)
Uneven bars
1.Vera Caslavska (Czechoslovakia)
2.Karin Janz (East Germany)
Vault
1.Vera Caslavska (Czechoslovakia)
Individual
1.Bjorn Ferm (Sweden)
2.Andras Balczo (Hungary)
Team
1.Hungary (Andras Balczo, Ferenc Torok)
Double sculls
1.Aleksandr Timoshinin / Anatoliy Sass (USSR)
Coxless pairs
1.Jorg Lucke / Heinz-Jorg Bothe (East Germany)
Coxed pairs
1.Italy (Primo Baran, Renzo Sambo, Bruno Cipolla)
Coxed fours
1.New Zealand (Dick Joyce, Ross Collinge, Dudley Storey, Warren Cole, Simon Dickie)
Flying Dutchman
1.Great Britain (Rodney Pattisson, Iain MacDonald-Smith)
50 m rifle, three positions
1.Bernd Klingner (West Germany)
50 m rifle, prone
2.Laszlo Hammerl (Hungary)
Skeet
1.Yevgeni Petrov (USSR)
MEN
100 m freestyle
1.Michael Wenden (Australia)
3.Mark Spitz (USA)
200 m freestyle
1.Michael Wenden (Australia)
2.Don Schollander (USA)
400 m freestyle
1.Mike Burton (USA)
1500 m freestyle
1.Mike Burton (USA)
100 m backstroke
1.Roland Matthes (East Germany)
2.Charlie Hickcox (USA)
3.Ronnie Mills (USA)
4.Larry Barbiere (USA)
5.Jim Shaw (Canada)
200 m backstroke
1.Roland Matthes (East Germany)
200 m breaststroke
1.Felipe Munoz (Mexico)
100 m butterfly
2.Mark Spitz (USA)
4 x 100 m freestyle: 1.USA (Mark Spitz)
3.Australia (Michael Wenden)
4 x 200 m freestyle: 1.USA (Mark Spitz, Don Schollander)
2.Australia (Michael Wenden)
4 x 100 m medley
1.USA (Don Schollander (swam in Heats))
2.East Germany (Roland Matthes)
WOMEN
200 m freestyle: 1.Debbie Meyer (USA)
800 m freestyle: 1.Debbie Meyer (USA)
400 m freestyle
1.Debbie Meyer (USA)
3.Hungary (Mihaly Mayer)
56 kg
2.Imre Foldi (Hungary)
60 kg
1.Yoshinobu Miyake (Japan)
67.5 kg
1.Waldermar Baszanowski (Poland)
75 kg
1.Viktor Kurentsov (USSR)
90 kg
2.Jaan Talts (USSR)
90+ kg
1.Leonid Zhabotinsky (USSR)
FREESTYLE
87 kg
2.Jigjidiin Monkhbat (Mongolia)
1.Aleksandr Medved (USSR)
3.Wilfried Dietrich (Germany)
GRECO-ROMAN
57 kg: 1.Janos Varga (Hungary)
97+ kg: 1.Istvan Kozma (Hungary)
63 kg
1.Roman Rurua (USSR)
1.USA (45-28-34)
2.USSR (29-32-30)
3.JAPAN (11-7-7)
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