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USA Gymnastics Online: Results: 1968 Olympics Page 1 of 3 1968 Olympics Mexico City, Mexico Men's Team 1. Japan 2. Soviet Union 3.East Germany 7. USA Men's All-Around 1. Sawao Koto Japan 115.900 2. Mikhail Voronin Soviet Union 115.850 3. Akinori Nakayama Japan 115.650 26. Dave Thor USA 34. Fred Roethlisberger USA 36. Steve Hug USA 46. Steve Cohen USA 57. Sidney Freudenstein USA 80. Kanati Allen USA Men's Floor Exercise 1. Sawao Kato Japan 2. Akinori Nakayama Japan 3. Takeshi Kato Japan Men's Pommel Horse 1. Miroslav Cerar Yugoslavia 2. Olli E. Laiho Finland 3. Mikhail Voronin Soviet Union Men's Still Rings 1. Akinori Nakayama Japan 2. Mikhail Voronin Soviet Union USA Gymnastics Online: Results: 1968 Olympics Page 2 of 3 3. Sawao Kato Japan Men's Vault 1. Mikhail Voronin Soviet Union 2. Yukio Endo Japan 3. Sergei Diamidov Soviet Union Men's Parallel Bars 1. Akinori Nakayama Japan 2. Mikhail Voronin Soviet Union 3. Viktor Klimenko Soviet Union Men's Horizontal Bar 1t. Akinori Nakayama Japan 1t. Mikhail Voronin Soviet Union 3. Eizo Kenmotsu Japan Women's Team 1. Soviet Union 2. Czechoslovakia 3. East Germany 6. USA Women's All-Around 1. Vera Caslavska Czechoslovakia 78.250 2. Zinaida Voronina Soviet Union 76.850 3. Natalia Kuchinskaya Soviet Union 76.750 16. Cathy Rigby (McCoy) USA 28. Linda Metheny (Mulvihill) USA 30. Joyce Tanac (Schroeder) USA 31. Kathy Gleason USA 34. Colleen Mulvihill USA USA Gymnastics Online: Results: 1968 Olympics Page 3 of 3 39. Wendy Cluff (Calabro) USA Women's Vault 1. Vera Caslavska Czechoslovakia 2. Erika Zuchold East Germany 3. Zinaida Voronina Soviet Union Women's Uneven Bars 1. Vera Caslavska Czechoslovakia 2. Karin Janz East Germany 3. Zinaida Voronina Soviet Union Women's Balance Beam 1. Natalia Kutschinskaya Soviet Union 2. Vera Caslavska Czechoslovakia 3. Larissa Petrik Soviet Union Women's Floor Exercise 1t. Vera Caslavska Czechoslovakia 1t. Larissa Petrik Soviet Union 3. Natalia Kuchinskaya Soviet Union.

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