1968 Summer Olympics medal table

The 1968 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Mexico City, from 12 to 27 October. A total of 5,516 athletes from 112 nations participated in 172 events in 18 sports across 24 different disciplines. These were the first games to be held in Latin America.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn

Overall, athletes from 44 nations received at least one medal, and 39 nations won at least one gold medal. Athletes from the United States won the most gold medals, with 45, and the most medals overall, with 107.<ref name=medaltable /> Teams from East Germany and West Germany won their nations' first Summer Olympic medals of every color at their first Summer Olympic appearance.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Teams from Kenya,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Tunisia,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and Venezuela won their nations' first Olympic gold medals,<ref name=venezuela /> while athletes from Cameroon,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Mongolia,<ref name=ub>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=mnoc>Template:Cite news</ref> and Uganda won their nations' first Olympic medals.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Artistic gymnast Věra Čáslavská of Czechoslovakia was the most successful competitor at the games, winning six medals (four gold and two silver).<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> After her gold medal wins at these games, Čáslavská held the record for the most individual Olympic gold medals by a female athlete with seven, until Katie Ledecky of the United States surpassed it at the 2024 Summer Olympics with eight.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> Artistic gymnast Mikhail Voronin of the Soviet Union won the most total medals at the games with seven (two golds, four silvers, and one bronze).<ref name=seven />

Medal table

Peter Norman, Tommie Smith, and John Carlos in 1968

From left to right: Peter Norman, Tommie Smith, and John Carlos won silver, gold, and bronze respectively during the men's 200 metres event.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

A man draped in the Colombian flag with a gold medal around his neck

Boxer Francisco Rodríguez, the first-ever Olympic gold medalist for Venezuela<ref name=venezuela>Template:Cite news</ref>

A half naked man with a sash full of medallions

Wrestler Tömöriin Artag, one of the first Olympic medalists for Mongolia<ref name=ub /><ref name=mnoc />

The medal table is based on information provided by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and is consistent with IOC conventional sorting in its published medal tables. The table uses the Olympic medal table sorting method. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won. The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Two bronze medals were awarded in each boxing event to the losing semi-finalists, as opposed to them fighting in a third place tiebreaker.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

In gymnastics, two gold medals (and no silver medal) were awarded in the men's horizontal bar and women's floor exercise due to a first-place tie in both events.<ref name=seven>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Changes in medal standings

Key

Template:Color box Disqualified athlete(s)

List of official changes in medal standings

Ruling date	Sport/Event	Athlete (Template:Abbr)	Template:Gold1	Template:Silver2	Template:Bronze3	Total	Notes
1968	Modern pentathlon Men's team	Template:FlagIOCteam Björn Ferm ※ Hans Jacobson ※ Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall ※			−1	−1	Following the introduction of anti-doping regulations by the International Olympic Committee in 1967,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> these Olympics saw the first disqualification for drug use in the Olympic Games. Modern pentathlete Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall was reported to have drunk beers beforehand to calm down his nerves before the pistol shooting event.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He and the rest of his team were disqualified after he tested positive for excessive alcohol consumption and had to give the bronze medals they had won to the French team.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
		Template:FlagIOCteam Raoul Gueguen Lucien Guiguet Jean-Pierre Giudicelli			+1	+1

List of official changes by country

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References

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