Athletics at the 1968 Summer Olympics

At the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, 36 athletics events were contested, 24 for men and 12 for women. There were a total number of 1031 participating athletes from 93 countries.

These games were notable for a number of Olympic firsts and numerous world records, attributable to the high altitude of Mexico City. These included:

This was the first Olympics to use an all-weather track surface now used in every major international athletics competition.

Medal summary

Men

Event 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
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
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
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

Event 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 Ilona Silai
 Romania
2:02.58 Maria Gommers
 Netherlands
2:02.63
80 metres hurdles
Maureen Caird
 Australia
10.39 OR Pam Kilborn
 Australia
10.46 Chi Cheng
 Republic of China
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
Long jump
Viorica Viscopoleanu
 Romania
6.82 m WR Sheila Sherwood
 Great Britain
6.68 m Tatyana Talysheva
 Soviet Union
6.66 m
High jump
Miloslava Rezková
 Czechoslovakia
1.82 m Antonina Okorokova
 Soviet Union
1.80 m Valentina Kozyr
 Soviet Union
1.80 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 Peneş
 Romania
59.92 m Eva Janko
 Austria
58.04 m
Pentathlon
Ingrid Becker
 West Germany
5098 Liese Prokop
 Austria
4966 Annamária Tóth
 Hungary
4959

Medal table

Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  United States (USA) 15 6 7 28
2  Soviet Union (URS) 3 2 8 13
3  Kenya (KEN) 3 4 1 8
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
 Republic of China (ROC) 0 0 1 1

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