| 1968 Summer Olympics medals | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Věra Čáslavská ofCzechoslovakia was the most successful competitor at the games, winning four gold and two silver medals inartistic gymnastics | |
| Location | Mexico City, Mexico |
| Highlights | |
| Most gold medals |  United States (45) |
| Most total medals | United States (107) |
| Medalling NOCs | 44 |
The1968 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held inMexico 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 inLatin America.[1][2][3]
Overall, athletes from 44 nations received at least one medal, and 39 nations won at least one gold medal. Athletes from theUnited States won the most gold medals, with 45, and the most medals overall, with 107.[4] Teams fromEast Germany andWest Germany won their nations' first Summer Olympic medals of every color at their first Summer Olympic appearance.[5][6] Teams fromKenya,[7]Tunisia,[8] andVenezuela won their nations' first Olympic gold medals,[9] while athletes fromCameroon,[10]Mongolia,[11][12] andUganda won their nations' first Olympic medals.[13]
Artistic gymnastVěra Čáslavská ofCzechoslovakia was the most successful competitor at the games, winning six medals (four gold and two silver).[14] 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, untilKatie Ledecky of the United States surpassed it at the2024 Summer Olympics with eight.[15][16] Artistic gymnastMikhail Voronin of theSoviet Union won the most total medals at the games with seven (two golds, four silvers, and one bronze).[17]
The medal table is based on information provided by theInternational Olympic Committee (IOC) and is consistent with IOC conventional sorting in its published medal tables. The table uses theOlympic 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.[19][20] Two bronze medals were awarded in eachboxing event to the losing semi-finalists, as opposed to them fighting in athird place tiebreaker.[21]
Ingymnastics, two gold medals (and no silver medal) were awarded in themen's horizontal bar andwomen's floor exercise due to a first-place tie in both events.[17][22]
* Host nation (Mexico)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 45 | 28 | 34 | 107 |
| 2 |  Soviet Union | 29 | 32 | 30 | 91 |
| 3 |  Japan | 11 | 7 | 7 | 25 |
| 4 |  Hungary | 10 | 10 | 12 | 32 |
| 5 |  East Germany | 9 | 9 | 7 | 25 |
| 6 |  France | 7 | 3 | 5 | 15 |
| 7 |  Czechoslovakia | 7 | 2 | 4 | 13 |
| 8 | West Germany | 5 | 11 | 10 | 26 |
| 9 |  Australia | 5 | 7 | 5 | 17 |
| 10 |  Great Britain | 5 | 5 | 3 | 13 |
| 11 |  Poland | 5 | 2 | 11 | 18 |
| 12 |  Romania | 4 | 6 | 5 | 15 |
| 13 |  Italy | 3 | 4 | 9 | 16 |
| 14 |  Kenya | 3 | 4 | 2 | 9 |
| 15 | Mexico* | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| 16 |  Yugoslavia | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 |
| 17 |  Netherlands | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| 18 |  Bulgaria | 2 | 4 | 3 | 9 |
| 19 |  Iran | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 20 |  Sweden | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 21 |  Turkey | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 22 |  Denmark | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 |
| 23 |  Canada | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| 24 |  Finland | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 25 |  Ethiopia | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
 Norway | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
| 27 |  New Zealand | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 28 |  Tunisia | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 29 |  Pakistan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
 Venezuela | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 31 |  Cuba | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 32 |  Austria | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 33 |  Switzerland | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 34 |  Mongolia | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 35 |  Brazil | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 36 |  Belgium | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
 South Korea | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
 Uganda | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 39 |  Cameroon | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Jamaica | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 41 |  Argentina | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 42 |  Greece | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 India | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Taiwan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (44 entries) | 174 | 170 | 183 | 527 | |
※ Disqualified athlete(s)
| Ruling date | Sport/Event | Athlete (NOC) |  |  |  | Total | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | Modern pentathlon Men's team | −1 | −1 | Following the introduction of anti-doping regulations by the International Olympic Committee in 1967,[23] these Olympics saw the first disqualification fordrug 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.[24] 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.[25][26] | |||
| +1 | +1 |
| NOC | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Net Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sweden | 0 | 0 | −1 | −1 |
| France | 0 | 0 | +1 | +1 |
