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MEXICO CITY 1968 The Games of the XIX Summer Olympiad. October 12-27, 1968. Mexico City, Mexico. 1 ATHLETICS 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) 4 x 100 m: 3.France (Roger Bambuck) 2 800 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 Martinez (Mexico) 5.Ron Clarke (Australia) 10000 m: 3.Mohammed Gammoudi (Tunisia) 3 10000 m 1.Naftali Temu (Kenya) Marathon: 1.Mamo Wolde (Ethiopia) 10000 m: 2.Mamo Wolde (Ethiopia) 4 110 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) 5 400 m hurdles 1.David Hemery (Great Britain) 400 m hurdles: 2.Gerhard Hennige (West Germany) 3.John Sherwood (Great Britain) 4.Geoff Vanderstock (USA) 5.Vyacheslav Skomorokhov (USSR) 4 x 400 m: 3.West Germany (Gerhard Hennige) 6 3000 m steeplechase 1.Amos Biwott (Kenya) 4 x 100 m 1.USA Jim Hines (USA) 7 4 x 400 m 1.USA 20 km walk 1.Vladimir Golubnichy (USSR) 2.Jose Pedraza (Mexico) 8 Long jump 1.Bob Beamon (USA) 2.Klaus Beer (East Germany) 3.Ralph Boston (USA) 4.Igor Ter-Ovanesyan (USSR) 5.Tonu Lepik (USSR) 9 Triple jump 1.Viktor Saneyev (USSR) 10 High jump 1.Dick Fosbury (USA) 2.Ed Caruthers (USA) 11 Pole vault 1.Bob Seagren (USA) 3.Wolfgang Nordwig (East Germany) 12 Shot put 1.Randy Matson (USA) 13 Discus throw 1.Al Oerter (USA) 3.Ludvik Danek (Czechoslovakia) 14 Hammer throw 1.Guyla Zsivotzky (Hungary) 2.Romuald Klim (USSR) 15 Javelin throw 1.Janis Lusis (USSR) 3.Gergely Kulcsar (Hungary) 16 Decathlon 1.Bill Toomey (USA) 2.Hans-Joachim Walde (West Germany) 3.Kurt Bendlin (West Germany) 17 WOMEN 4 x 100 m: 1.USA (Mildrette Netter, Wyomia Tuys) 2.Cuba (Violetta Quesada, Miguelina Cobian) 3.USSR (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) 100 m: 1.Wyomia Tuys (USA) 200 m: 2.Raelene Boyle (Australia) 100 m 3.Irena Szewinska (Poland) 18 200 m 1.Irena Szewinska (Poland) 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) 19 4 x 100 m 3.USSR (Ludmila Zharkova) Shot put 3.Nadezhda Chizhova (USSR) Discus throw 1.Lia Manoliu (Romania) 20 Javelin throw 1.Angela Nemeth (Hungary) 2.Mihaela Penes (Romania) 21 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) 22 BASKETBALL 1.USA 23 2.Yugoslavia (Kresimir Cosic) 3.USSR (Sergei Kovalenko, Zurab Sakandelidze) 5.Mexico 24 6.Poland 11.Cuba (Ruperto Herrera, Rafael Canizares) 25 BOXING 48 kg 51 kg 1.Francisco Rodriguez (Venezuela) 1.Ricardo Delgado (Mexico) 60 kg 2.Jozef Grudzien (Poland) 63.5 kg 1.Jerzy Kulej (Poland) 26 67 kg Final: Manfred Wolke (East Germany) – Joseph Bessala (Cameroon) 4:1 1.Wolke 2.Bessala 71 kg 2.Rolando Garbey (Cuba) 27 75 kg 1.Chris Finnegan (Great Britain) 81+ kg 1.George Foreman (USA) Final: Foreman - Jonas Cepulis (USSR) (referee stopped contest, Foreman won) 2.Cepulis 28 CANOEING MEN C-1 1000 m 1.Tibor Tatai (Hungary) 2.Detlef Lewe (West Germany) 29 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.Alexander Shaparenko (USSR) 30 K-2 1000 m 1.Alexander Shaparenko / Vladimir Morozov (USSR) 2.Hungary (Csaba Giczi / Istvan Timar) 31 WOMEN K-2 500 m 1.Annemarie Zimmermann / Roswitha Esser (West Germany) 3.Ludmila Pinayeva / Antonina Seredina (USSR) 32 CYCLING Individual road race 1.Pierfranco Vianelli (Italy) Team time trial 3.Italy (Pierfranco Vianelli) 33 Individual pursuit 1.Daniel Rebillard (France) Individual pursuit: 2.Mogens Jensen (Denmark) 3.Xaver Kurmann (Switzerland) Team pursuit: 1.Denmark (Mogens Jensen) 34 Team pursuit 9-16. Cuba (Sergio Martinez) Sprint 1.Daniel Morelon (France) 3.Pierre Trentin (France) 35 Tandem 1.Daniel Morelon / Pierre Trentin (France) 1000 m time trial 1.Pierre Trentin (France) 36 DIVING 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) 37 EQUESTRIAN Individual dressage 2.Josef Neckermann (West Germany) 3.Reiner Klimke (West Germany) 38 Team dressage 1.West Germany (Josef Neckermann, Reiner Klimke, Liselotte Linsenhoff) 39 2.USSR (Yelena Petushkova) 3.Switzerland (Henri Chammartin) Individual eventing 1.Jean-Jacques Guyon (France) 40 Team eventing 1.Great Britain (Richard Meade) 2.USA (Michael Plumb) 41 Individual jumping 1.William Steinkraus (USA) 3.David Broome (Great Britain) 42 Team jumping 2.France (Jean-Marcel Rozier, Pierre Jonqueres d’Oriola) 3.West Germany (Alwin Schockemohle, Hermann Schridde, Hans Gunter Winkler) 43 FENCING MEN Individual epee 1.Gyozo Kulcsar (Hungary) Team epee 1.Hungary Team epee: 2.USSR Team foil: 2.USSR 44 Individual foil 1.Ion Drimba (Romania) Team foil 3.Poland (Witold Woyda, Egon Franke) 45 Individual sabre: 3.Tibor Pezsa (Hungary) Team sabre: 3.Hungary (Tibor Pezsa) Team sabre 1.USSR (Viktor Sidyak) 46 WOMEN Individual foil 1.Yelena Novikova-Belova (USSR) 5.Kerstin Palm (Sweden) Individual foil: 3.Ildiko Ujlaky-Rejto (Hungary) Team foil: 2.Hungary (Ildiko Ujlaky-Rejto) 47 Team foil 1.USSR (Yelena Novikova-Belova, Svetlana Chirkova) 48 FIELD HOCKEY 1.Pakistan 3.India (John Victor Peter, Balbir Singh) 49 6.Spain (Pedro Amat, Jose Colomer, Carlos Del Coso, Jose Antonio Dinares, Narciso Ventallo, Juan Amat, Francisco Fabregas) 16.Mexico 50 FOOTBALL 1.Hungary 2.Bulgaria (Evgeni Yanchovski) 4.Mexico 51 5-8.Spain (Juan Manuel Asensi) 5-8.Israel 9-12.Ghana (Robert Mensah – reserve) 52 9-12.Czechoslovakia 13-16.Guinea 53 GYMNASTICS MEN Team all-around 1.Japan Yukio Endo (Japan) Sawao Kato (Japan) 54 2.USSR (Viktor Klimenko, Viktor Lisitsky) 55 Individual all-around 1.Sawao Kato (Japan) Parallel bars: 1.Akinori Nakayama (Japan) Horizontal bar: 1-2.Akinori Nakayama (Japan) Floor exercise: 2.Akinori Nakayama (Japan) Individual all-around: 3.Akinori Nakayama (Japan) Team all-around: 1.Japan (Akinori Nakayama) Floor exercise 1.Sawao Kato (Japan) 56 Parallel bars 3.Viktor Klimenko (USSR) Rings 1.Akinori Nakayama (Japan) 3.Sawao Kato (Japan) Vault 2.Yukio Endo (Japan) Vault: 3.Sergei Diomidov (USSR) Team all-around: 2.USSR (Sergei Diomidov) 57 WOMEN Team all-around 1.USSR (Ludmila Turischeva) 2.Czechoslovakia (Vera Caslavska) 3.East Germany (Karin Janz) Individual all-around 1.Vera Caslavska (Czechoslovakia) 58 Balance beam 2.Vera Caslavska (Czechoslovakia) Floor exercise 1-2.Vera Caslavska (Czechoslovakia) 59 Uneven bars 1.Vera Caslavska (Czechoslovakia) 2.Karin Janz (East Germany) Vault 1.Vera Caslavska (Czechoslovakia) 60 MODERN PENTATHLON Individual 1.Bjorn Ferm (Sweden) 2.Andras Balczo (Hungary) 61 Team 1.Hungary Andras Balczo (Hungary) 62 ROWING Double sculls 1.Alexander Timoshinin / Anatoly Sass (USSR) Coxless pairs 1.Jorg Lucke / Heinz-Jorg Bothe (East Germany) 63 Coxed pairs 1.Italy Coxed fours 1.New Zealand 64 SAILING Flying Dutchman 1.Great Britain 65 SHOOTING 50 m rifle three positions 1.Bernd Klingner (West Germany) Rifle prone 2.Laszlo Hammerl (Hungary) Skeet 1.Yevgeni Petrov (USSR) 66 SWIMMING MEN 100 m freestyle 1.Michael Wenden (Australia) 3.Mark Spitz (USA) 200 m freestyle 1.Michael Wenden (Australia) 2.Don Schollander (USA) 67 400 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) (also Gold in 200 m medley, 400 m medley and 4 x 100 m medley) 3.Ronnie Mills (USA) (also Gold in 4 x 100 m medley) 4.Larry Barbiere (USA) 5.Jim Shaw (Canada) 200 m individual medley: 1.Charlie Hickcox (USA) 400 m individual medley: 1.Charlie Hickcox (USA) 4 x 100 m medley: 1.USA (Charlie Hickcox) (Ronnie Mills swam in Heats) 200 m backstroke 1.Roland Matthes (East Germany) 68 200 m breaststroke 1.Felipe Munoz (Mexico) 100 m butterfly 2.Mark Spitz (USA) 4 x 100 m freestyle 1.USA (Mark Spitz) 69 4 x 200 m freestyle: 2.Australia (Michael Wenden) 4 x 100 m freestyle: 3.Australia (Michael Wenden) 4 x 200 m freestyle 1.USA (Mark Spitz, Don Schollander) 4 x 100 m medley 2.East Germany (Roland Matthes) 70 WOMEN 200 m freestyle 1.Debbie Meyer (USA) 400 m freestyle: 1.Debbie Meyer (USA) 800 m freestyle: 1.Debbie Meyer (USA) 71 VOLLEYBALL Men 3.Czechoslovakia 5.Poland (Hubert Jerzy Wagner) 10.Mexico 72 WATER POLO 3.Hungary (Mihaly Mayer) 6.East Germany 11.Mexico 73 WEIGHTLIFTING 56 kg 2.Imre Foldi (Hungary) 60 kg 1.Yoshinobu Miyake (Japan) 67.5 kg 1.Waldemar Baszanowski (Poland) 74 75 kg 1.Viktor Kurentsov (USSR) 90 kg 2.Jaan Talts (USSR) 90+ kg 1.Leonid Zhabotinsky (USSR) 75 WRESTLING FREESTYLE 87 kg 2.Jigjidiin Monkhbat (Mongolia) 76 87+ kg 3.Wilfried Dietrich (West Germany) Freestyle 63 kg: 2.Enyu Todorov (Bulgaria) Freestyle 87 kg: 3.Prodan Gardzhev (Bulgaria) Greco-Roman 97 kg: 1.Boyan Radev (Bulgaria) 77 GRECO-ROMAN 52 kg 1.Petar Kirov (Bulgaria) 57 kg 1.Janos Varga (Hungary) 63 kg 1.Roman Rurua (USSR) 78 97 kg 3.Nicolae Martinescu (Romania) 97+ kg 1.Istvan Kozma (Hungary) 79 MEDALS 1.USA (45-28-34) 2.USSR (29-32-30) 80 3.JAPAN (11-7-7) Previous Olympiad Next Olympiad (GRENOBLE 1968) (SAPPORO 1972) Previous Summer Olympiad Next Summer Olympiad (TOKYO 1964) (MUNICH 1972) Back to the Main Page (OLYMPIC HISTORY ON STAMPS) 81 .