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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
	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 details	Jim Hines  United States	9.95 WR	Lennox Miller  Jamaica	10.04	Charles Greene  United States	10.07
200 metres details	Tommie Smith  United States	19.83 WR	Peter Norman  Australia	20.06 NR	John Carlos  United States	20.10
400 metres details	Lee Evans  United States	43.86 WR	Larry James  United States	43.97	Ron Freeman  United States	44.41
800 metres details	Ralph Doubell  Australia	1:44.40 WR	Wilson Kiprugut  Kenya	1:44.57	Tom Farrell  United States	1:45.46
1500 metres details	Kipchoge Keino  Kenya	3:34.91 OR	Jim Ryun  United States	3:37.89	Bodo Tümmler  West Germany	3:39.08
5000 metres details	Mohammed Gammoudi  Tunisia	14:05.01	Kipchoge Keino  Kenya	14:05.16	Naftali Temu  Kenya	14:06.41
10,000 metres details	Naftali Temu  Kenya	29:27.40	Mamo Wolde  Ethiopia	29:27.75	Mohammed Gammoudi  Tunisia	29:34.2
110 metres hurdles details	Willie Davenport  United States	13.33 OR	Ervin Hall  United States	13.42	Eddy Ottoz  Italy	13.46
400 metres hurdles details	David Hemery  Great Britain	48.12 WR	Gerhard Hennige  West Germany	49.02	John Sherwood  Great Britain	49.03
3000 metres steeplechase details	Amos Biwott  Kenya	8:51.02	Benjamin Kogo  Kenya	8:51.56	George Young  United States	8:51.86
4 × 100 metres relay details	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 details	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 details	Mamo Wolde  Ethiopia	2:20:27	Kenji Kimihara  Japan	2:23:31	Mike Ryan  New Zealand	2:23:45
20 kilometres walk details	Volodymyr Holubnychy  Soviet Union	1:33:58	José Pedraza  Mexico	1:34:00	Nikolay Smaga  Soviet Union	1:34:03
50 kilometres walk details	Christoph Höhne  East Germany	4:20:14	Antal Kiss  Hungary	4:30:17	Larry Young  United States	4:31:55
High jump details	Dick Fosbury  United States	2.24 m OR	Ed Caruthers  United States	2.22 m	Valentin Gavrilov  Soviet Union	2.20 m
Pole vault details	Bob Seagren  United States	5.40 m OR	Claus Schiprowski  West Germany	5.40 m	Wolfgang Nordwig  East Germany	5.40 m
Long jump details	Bob Beamon  United States	8.90 m WR	Klaus Beer  East Germany	8.19 m	Ralph Boston  United States	8.16 m
Triple jump details	Viktor Saneyev  Soviet Union	17.39 m WR	Nelson Prudêncio  Brazil	17.27 m	Giuseppe Gentile  Italy	17.22 m
Shot put details	Randy Matson  United States	20.54 m OR	George Woods  United States	20.12 m	Eduard Gushchin  Soviet Union	20.09 m
Discus throw details	Al Oerter  United States	64.78 m OR	Lothar Milde  East Germany	63.08 m	Ludvík Daněk  Czechoslovakia	62.92 m
Hammer throw details	Gyula Zsivótzky  Hungary	73.36 m OR	Romuald Klim  Soviet Union	73.28 m	Lázár Lovász  Hungary	69.78 m
Javelin throw details	Jānis Lūsis  Soviet Union	90.10 m OR	Jorma Kinnunen  Finland	88.58 m	Gergely Kulcsár  Hungary	87.06 m
Decathlon details	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 details	Wyomia Tyus  United States	11.08 WR	Barbara Ferrell  United States	11.15	Irena Szewińska  Poland	11.19
200 metres details	Irena Szewińska  Poland	22.58 WR	Raelene Boyle  Australia	22.74	Jenny Lamy  Australia	22.88
400 metres details	Colette Besson  France	52.03	Lillian Board  Great Britain	52.12	Natalya Pechonkina  Soviet Union	52.25
800 metres details	Madeline Manning  United States	2:00.92 OR	Ileana Silai  Romania	2:02.58	Mia Gommers  Netherlands	2:02.63
80 metres hurdles details	Maureen Caird  Australia	10.39 OR	Pam Kilborn  Australia	10.46	Chi Cheng  Taiwan	10.51
4 × 100 metres relay details	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 details	Miloslava Rezková  Czechoslovakia	1.82 m	Antonina Okorokova  Soviet Union	1.80 m	Valentina Kozyr  Soviet Union	1.80 m
Long jump details	Viorica Viscopoleanu  Romania	6.82 m WR	Sheila Sherwood  Great Britain	6.68 m	Tatyana Talysheva  Soviet Union	6.66 m
Shot put details	Margitta Gummel  East Germany	19.61 m WR	Marita Lange  East Germany	18.78 m	Nadezhda Chizhova  Soviet Union	18.19 m
Discus throw details	Lia Manoliu  Romania	58.28 m OR	Liesel Westermann  West Germany	57.76 m	Jolán Kleiber-Kontsek  Hungary	54.90 m
Javelin throw details	Angéla Németh  Hungary	60.36 m	Mihaela Peneș  Romania	59.92 m	Eva Janko  Austria	58.04 m
Pentathlon details	Ingrid Becker  West Germany	5098	Liese Prokop  Austria	4966	Annamária Tóth  Hungary	4959

Basketball

Medal table

Rank	NOC	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	1	0	0	1
2	Yugoslavia	0	1	0	1
3	Soviet Union	0	0	1	1
Totals (3 entries)		1	1	1	3

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) details	Francisco Rodríguez  Venezuela	Jee Yong-ju  South Korea	Hubert Skrzypczak  Poland
			Harlan Marbley  United States
Flyweight (-51 kg) details	Ricardo Delgado  Mexico	Artur Olech  Poland	Servílio de Oliveira  Brazil
			Leo Rwabwogo  Uganda
Bantamweight (-54 kg) details	Valerian Sokolov  Soviet Union	Eridadi Mukwanga  Uganda	Eiji Morioka  Japan
			Chang Kyou-chul  South Korea
Featherweight (-57 kg) details	Antonio Roldán  Mexico	Al Robinson  United States	Philip Waruinge  Kenya
			Ivan Mihailov  Bulgaria
Lightweight (-60 kg) details	Ronnie Harris  United States	Józef Grudzień  Poland	Zvonimir Vujin  Yugoslavia
			Calistrat Cuțov  Romania
Light welterweight (-63.5 kg) details	Jerzy Kulej  Poland	Enrique Regüeiferos  Cuba	Arto Nilsson  Finland
			Jim Wallington  United States
Welterweight (-67 kg) details	Manfred Wolke  East Germany	Joseph Bessala  Cameroon	Mario Guilloti  Argentina
			Vladimir Musalimov  Soviet Union
Light middleweight (-71 kg) details	Boris Lagutin  Soviet Union	Rolando Garbey  Cuba	John Baldwin  United States
			Günther Meier  West Germany
Middleweight (-75 kg) details	Chris Finnegan  Great Britain	Aleksei Kiselyov  Soviet Union	Agustín Zaragoza  Mexico
			Alfred Jones  United States
Light heavyweight (-81 kg) details	Danas Pozniakas  Soviet Union	Ion Monea  Romania	Georgi Stankov  Bulgaria
			Stanisław Dragan  Poland
Heavyweight (+81 kg) details	George Foreman  United States	Jonas Čepulis  Soviet Union	Giorgio Bambini  Italy
			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
	Denmark (DEN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		7	7	7	21

Men's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
C-1 1000 metres details	Tibor Tatai  Hungary	Detlef Lewe  West Germany	Vitaly Galkov  Soviet Union
C-2 1000 metres details	Romania Ivan Patzaichin Serghei Covaliov	Hungary Tamás Wichmann Gyula Petrikovics	Soviet Union Naum Prokupets Mikhail Zamotin
K-1 1000 metres details	Mihály Hesz  Hungary	Aleksandr Shaparenko  Soviet Union	Erik Hansen  Denmark
K-2 1000 metres details	Soviet Union Aleksandr Shaparenko Vladimir Morozov	Hungary Csaba Giczy István Timár	Austria Gerhard Siebold Günther Pfaff
K-4 1000 metres details	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 details	Lyudmila Pinayeva  Soviet Union	Renate Breuer  West Germany	Viorica Dumitru  Romania
K-2 500 metres details	West Germany Annemarie Zimmermann Roswitha Esser	Hungary Anna Pfeffer Katalin Rozsnyói	Soviet Union Lyudmila Pinayeva Antonina Seredina

Cycling

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	France	4	0	1	5
2	Denmark	1	3	0	4
3	Italy	1	1	2	4
4	Netherlands	1	1	0	2
5	Sweden	0	1	1	2
6	West Germany	0	1	0	1
7	Belgium	0	0	1	1
	Poland	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 entries)		7	7	7	21

Road cycling

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual road race details	Pierfranco Vianelli  Italy	Leif Mortensen  Denmark	Gösta Pettersson  Sweden
Team time trial details	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 details	Daniel Rebillard  France	Mogens Jensen  Denmark	Xaver Kurmann  Switzerland
Team Pursuit details	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 details	Daniel Morelon  France	Giurdano Turrini  Italy	Pierre Trentin  France
Tandem details	France Daniel Morelon Pierre Trentin	Netherlands Leijn Loevesijn Jan Jansen	Belgium Daniel Goens Robert van Lancker
Time trial details	Pierre Trentin  France	Niels Fredborg  Denmark	Janusz Kierzkowski  Poland

Diving

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Mexico)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	2	0	4	6
2	Italy (ITA)	1	1	0	2
3	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	1	0	0	1
4	Soviet Union (URS)	0	2	0	2
5	Mexico (MEX)*	0	1	0	1
Totals (5 entries)		4	4	4	12

Men's events

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

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
3 m springboard details	Susanne Gossick  United States	Tamara Pogozheva  Soviet Union	Keala O'Sullivan  United States
10 m platform details	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
	Soviet Union (URS)	1	1	0	2
6	Canada (CAN)	1	0	0	1
7	Australia (AUS)	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		6	6	6	18

Medalists

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual dressage details	Ivan Kizimov on Ikhor (URS)	Josef Neckermann on Mariano (FRG)	Reiner Klimke on Dux (FRG)
Team dressage details	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 details	Jean-Jacques Guyon and Pitou (FRA)	Derek Allhusen and Lochinvar (GBR)	Michael Page and Foster (USA)
Team eventing details	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 details	William Steinkraus and Snowbound (USA)	Marion Coakes and Stroller (GBR)	David Broome and Mr. Softee (GBR)
Team jumping details	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
	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 details	Győző Kulcsár  Hungary	Grigory Kriss  Soviet Union	Gianluigi Saccaro  Italy
Team épée details	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 details	Ion Drîmbă  Romania	Jenő Kamuti  Hungary	Daniel Revenu  France
Team foil details	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 details	Jerzy Pawłowski  Poland	Mark Rakita  Soviet Union	Tibor Pézsa  Hungary
Team sabre details	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 details	Elena Belova  Soviet Union	Pilar Roldán  Mexico	Ildikó Újlaky-Rejtő  Hungary
Team foil details	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

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Pakistan	1	0	0	1
2	Australia	0	1	0	1
3	India	0	0	1	1
Totals (3 entries)		1	1	1	3

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

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Hungary	1	0	0	1
2	Bulgaria	0	1	0	1
3	Japan	0	0	1	1
Totals (3 entries)		1	1	1	3

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

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	6	2	4	12
2	Soviet Union	5	5	8	18
3	Czechoslovakia	4	2	0	6
4	Yugoslavia	1	0	0	1
5	East Germany	0	2	2	4
6	Finland	0	1	0	1
Totals (6 entries)		16	12	14	42

Men's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual all-around details	Sawao Kato  Japan	Mikhail Voronin  Soviet Union	Akinori Nakayama  Japan
Team all-around details	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 details	Sawao Kato  Japan	Akinori Nakayama  Japan	Takeshi Katō  Japan
Horizontal bar details	Mikhail Voronin  Soviet Union	none awarded (as there was a tie for gold)	Eizo Kenmotsu  Japan
	Akinori Nakayama  Japan
Parallel bars details	Akinori Nakayama  Japan	Mikhail Voronin  Soviet Union	Viktor Klimenko  Soviet Union
Pommel horse details	Miroslav Cerar  Yugoslavia	Olli Laiho  Finland	Mikhail Voronin  Soviet Union
Rings details	Akinori Nakayama  Japan	Mikhail Voronin  Soviet Union	Sawao Kato  Japan
Vault details	Mikhail Voronin  Soviet Union	Yukio Endo  Japan	Sergei Diomidov  Soviet Union

Women's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual all-around details	Věra Čáslavská  Czechoslovakia	Zinaida Voronina  Soviet Union	Natalia Kuchinskaya  Soviet Union
Team all-around details	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 details	Natalia Kuchinskaya  Soviet Union	Věra Čáslavská  Czechoslovakia	Larisa Petrik  Soviet Union
Floor exercise details	Larisa Petrik  Soviet Union	none awarded (as there was a tie for gold)	Natalia Kuchinskaya  Soviet Union
	Věra Čáslavská  Czechoslovakia
Uneven bars details	Věra Čáslavská  Czechoslovakia	Karin Janz  East Germany	Zinaida Voronina  Soviet Union
Vault details	Věra Čáslavská  Czechoslovakia	Erika Zuchold  East Germany	Zinaida Voronina  Soviet Union

Modern pentathlon

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Hungary	1	1	0	2
2	Sweden	1	0	0	1
3	Soviet Union	0	1	1	2
4	France	0	0	1	1
Totals (4 entries)		2	2	2	6

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual details	Björn Ferm  Sweden	András Balczó  Hungary	Pavel Lednyov  Soviet Union
Team details	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
	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
	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	0	1
10	Denmark (DEN)	0	0	2	2
11	Argentina (ARG)	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 entries)		7	7	7	21

Medalists

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Single sculls details	Jan Wienese  Netherlands	Jochen Meißner  West Germany	Alberto Demiddi  Argentina
Double sculls details	Soviet Union Aleksandr Timoshinin Anatoliy Sass	Netherlands Harry Droog Leendert van Dis	United States John Nunn Bill Maher
Coxless pair details	East Germany Jörg Lucke Heinz-Jürgen Bothe	United States Larry Hough Philip Johnson	Denmark Peter Christiansen Ib Larsen
Coxed pair details	Italy Primo Baran Renzo Sambo Bruno Cipolla	Netherlands Herman Suselbeek Hadriaan van Nes Roderick Rijnders	Denmark Jørn Krab Harry Jørgensen Preben Krab
Coxless four details	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 details	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 details	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)	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
	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
	East Germany (GDR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 entries)		5	5	5	15

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Finn details	Valentin Mankin  Soviet Union	Hubert Raudaschl  Austria	Fabio Albarelli  Italy
Flying Dutchman details	Great Britain Rodney Pattisson Iain MacDonald-Smith	West Germany Ulli Libor Peter Naumann	Brazil Reinaldo Conrad Burkhard Cordes
Star details	United States Lowell North Peter Barrett	Norway Peder Lunde Jr. Per Wiken	Italy Franco Cavallo Camillo Gargano
Dragon details	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 details	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
	Switzerland	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 entries)		7	7	7	21

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
50 m pistol details	Grigory Kosykh  Soviet Union	Heinz Mertel  West Germany	Harald Vollmar  East Germany
25 m rapid fire pistol details	Józef Zapędzki  Poland	Marcel Roșca  Romania	Renart Suleymanov  Soviet Union
50 m rifle prone details	Jan Kůrka  Czechoslovakia	László Hammerl  Hungary	Ian Ballinger  New Zealand
50 m rifle three positions details	Bernd Klingner  West Germany	John Writer  United States	Vitali Parkhimovitch  Soviet Union
300 m free rifle three positions details	Gary Anderson  United States	Valentin Kornev  Soviet Union	Kurt Müller  Switzerland
Skeet details	Yevgeni Petrov  Soviet Union	Romano Garagnani  Italy	Konrad Wirnhier  West Germany
Trap details	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 details	Michael Wenden  Australia	52.2 WR	Ken Walsh  United States	52.8	Mark Spitz  United States	53.0
200 m freestyle details	Michael Wenden  Australia	1:55.2 OR	Don Schollander  United States	1:55.8	John Nelson  United States	1:58.1
400 m freestyle details	Mike Burton  United States	4:09.0 OR	Ralph Hutton  Canada	4:11.7	Alain Mosconi  France	4:13.3
1500 m freestyle details	Mike Burton  United States	16:38.9 OR	John Kinsella  United States	16:57.3	Greg Brough  Australia	17:04.7
100 m backstroke details	Roland Matthes  East Germany	58.7 OR	Charlie Hickcox  United States	1:00.2	Ronnie Mills  United States	1:00.5
200 m backstroke details	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 details	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 details	Felipe Muñoz  Mexico	2:28.7	Vladimir Kosinsky  Soviet Union	2:29.2	Brian Job  United States	2:29.9
100 m butterfly details	Doug Russell  United States	55.9 OR	Mark Spitz  United States	56.4	Ross Wales  United States	57.2
200 m butterfly details	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 details	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 details	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 details	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 details	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 details	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 details	Jan Henne  United States	1:00.0	Susan Pedersen  United States	1:00.3	Linda Gustavson  United States	1:00.3
200 m freestyle details	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 details	Debbie Meyer  United States	4:31.8 OR	Linda Gustavson  United States	4:35.5	Karen Moras  Australia	4:37.0
800 m freestyle details	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 details	Kaye Hall  United States	1:06.2 WR	Elaine Tanner  Canada	1:06.7	Jane Swagerty  United States	1:08.1
200 m backstroke details	Lillian Watson  United States	2:24.8 OR	Elaine Tanner  Canada	2:27.4	Kaye Hall  United States	2:28.9
100 m breaststroke details	Đurđica Bjedov  Yugoslavia	1:15.8 OR	Galina Prozumenshchikova  Soviet Union	1:15.9	Sharon Wichman  United States	1:16.1
200 m breaststroke details	Sharon Wichman  United States	2:44.4 OR	Đurđica Bjedov  Yugoslavia	2:46.4	Galina Prozumenshchikova  Soviet Union	2:47.0
100 m butterfly details	Lyn McClements  Australia	1:05.5	Ellie Daniel  United States	1:05.8	Susan Shields  United States	1:06.2
200 m butterfly details	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 details	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 details	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 details	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 details	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

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	2	0	0	2
2	Japan	0	2	0	2
3	Czechoslovakia	0	0	1	1
	Poland	0	0	1	1
Totals (4 entries)		2	2	2	6

Medalists

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's details	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 details	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

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Yugoslavia	1	0	0	1
2	Soviet Union	0	1	0	1
3	Hungary	0	0	1	1
Totals (3 entries)		1	1	1	3

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 details	Mohammad Nassiri  Iran	Imre Földi  Hungary	Henryk Trębicki  Poland
60 kg details	Yoshinobu Miyake  Japan	Dito Shanidze  Soviet Union	Yoshiyuki Miyake  Japan
67.5 kg details	Waldemar Baszanowski  Poland	Parviz Jalayer  Iran	Marian Zieliński  Poland
75 kg details	Viktor Kurentsov  Soviet Union	Masushi Ouchi  Japan	Károly Bakos  Hungary
82.5 kg details	Boris Selitsky  Soviet Union	Vladimir Belyaev  Soviet Union	Norbert Ozimek  Poland
90 kg details	Kaarlo Kangasniemi  Finland	Jaan Talts  Soviet Union	Marek Gołąb  Poland
+90 kg details	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
	Turkey (TUR)	2	0	0	2
7	Iran (IRI)	1	0	2	3
8	France (FRA)	0	2	0	2
	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
	West Germany (FRG)	0	0	1	1
Totals (15 entries)		16	16	16	48

Freestyle

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

Greco-Roman

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

References

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

External links

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

• Lists of Summer Olympic medalists by year
• Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics