1968 Winter Olympics medal table
1968 Winter Olympics medals | |
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Location | Grenoble, ![]() |
Highlights | |
Most gold medals | ![]() |
Most total medals | ![]() |
Medalling NOCs | 15 |
The 1968 Winter Olympics, officially known as the X Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event held in Grenoble, France, from 6 to 18 February 1968. A total of 1,158 athletes representing 37 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated, including first-time entrants Morocco.[1][2] The games featured 35 events in 6 sports and 10 disciplines.[3][4] The team relay event in biathlon was contested for the first time.[5]
Fifteen NOCs won at least one medal, and thirteen of them secured at least one gold. For the first time, after three consecutive editions of the Winter Olympics, the Soviet Union did not finish first in the overall and gold medal counts. Having won a total of thirteen medals, of which five were gold, they came second to Norway, whose athletes took home fourteen medals (six golds, six silvers, and two bronzes). The host team, France, concluded its participation with a set of nine medals: four golds (tied with Italy), three silvers, and two bronzes. Eight of these medals were obtained in alpine skiing events, and three of the four French Olympic titles were won by a single alpine skier, Jean-Claude Killy, who swept the men's events.[6]
East and West Germany entered separate teams for the first time,[7] ending a run of three straight editions (1956–1964) in which German athletes participated as a single team. Victories by Thomas Köhler and Klaus-Michael Bonsack (luge doubles), and by Franz Keller (Nordic combined), resulted in the first Winter Olympics gold medals for East and West Germany, respectively.[8][9] Czechoslovakia also got its first-ever gold at the Winter Games, thanks to a successful combination of ski jumps by Jiří Raška in the normal hill (70 m) event.[10] Raška also secured a silver medal in the large hill (90 m) event,[10] after becoming one of the first Olympic ski jumpers to cross the 100-metre mark. Czechoslovak athletes collected a second silver, in ice hockey, and a bronze, in figure skating, helping the nation to achieve its best result in the Winter Olympics, at that time.[11] In Grenoble, Romania won its first and so far only medal at the Winter Games, as Ion Panţuru and Nicolae Neagoe secured the bronze in bobsleigh's two-man event.[12] Toini Gustafsson, a Swedish cross-country skier, contributed three of her NOC's eight medals, including two of its three golds, with victories in both women's individual events and a runner-up place in the team relay.[13] Half of Italy's four gold medals were obtained by nine-time bobsleigh world champion Eugenio Monti, who finally drove his sled to the Olympic two- and four-man titles, after two silvers in Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956 and two bronzes in Innsbruck 1964.[14]
Canada collected three medals, of which two were won by alpine skier Nancy Greene (gold in women's giant slalom and silver in women's slalom).[15] All nine medals secured by athletes of the Dutch delegation were in speed skating events.[16]
Medal table
![A smiling short-haired blond woman wears a track suit with gloves, and a hat with white skiing goggles. She holds her hands on her waist and carries two medals around her neck. Behind her, a sunny and snowy landscape.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Toini_Gustafsson_R%C3%B6nnlund%2C_1968.jpg/220px-Toini_Gustafsson_R%C3%B6nnlund%2C_1968.jpg)
![A smiling female skier wears a red winter jacket, white gloves, and white goggles over of a black winter cap. She holds a pair of skis in her right hand and a pair of ski sticks in her left hand. Behind her, a snowy pine-covered landscape.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Nancy_Greene_at_Sun_Peaks_in_2000.jpg/220px-Nancy_Greene_at_Sun_Peaks_in_2000.jpg)
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, where a nation is an entity represented by a NOC. The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals.[17][18] If teams are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically by their IOC country code.[19]
In speed skating, ties for the second place in the men's 500 m, 1,500 m, and women's 500 m events resulted in the awarding of an additional four silver medals; as a consequence, three bronzes were not presented.[20] This explains the uneven number of total gold (35), silver (39), and bronze (32) medals distributed in these Games.
* Host nation (France)
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | ![]() | 6 | 6 | 2 | 14 |
2 | ![]() | 5 | 5 | 3 | 13 |
3 | ![]() | 4 | 3 | 2 | 9 |
4 | ![]() | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
5 | ![]() | 3 | 4 | 4 | 11 |
6 | ![]() | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 |
7 | ![]() | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 |
8 | ![]() | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 |
9 | ![]() | 1 | 5 | 1 | 7 |
10 | ![]() | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
![]() | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | |
12 | ![]() | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
13 | ![]() | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
14 | ![]() | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
15 | ![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Totals (15 entries) | 35 | 39 | 32 | 106 |
Notes
See also
- List of 1968 Winter Olympics medal winners
- All-time Olympic Games medal table
- 1968 Summer Olympics medal table
References
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- ^ "Super-star Jean-Claude Killy wins 3rd gold medal in slalom". The Modesto Bee. Modesto, California. Associated Press. 18 February 1968. p. B-7. Retrieved 25 September 2010.
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- ^ "West Germany at the 1968 Grenoble Winter Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 25 September 2010.
- ^ a b "Jiří Raška biography and Olympic results". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 25 September 2010.
- ^ "Olympijské Hry – Grenoble 1968". Olympic.cz (in Czech). Czech Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 19 February 2010. Retrieved 25 September 2010.
- ^ "Ion Panţuru biography and Olympic results". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 25 September 2010.
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- ^ "Dream turns to gold for daring 'Red Devil'". St. Petersburg Times. St. Petersburg, Florida. Associated Press. 12 February 1968. p. 3-C. Retrieved 25 September 2010.
- ^ Hughes, Mike (15 February 1968). "Canada's Nancy Greene wins gold medal in giant slalom". The Bryan Times. Bryan, Ohio. United Press International. p. 10. Retrieved 25 September 2010.
- ^ "Netherlands at the 1968 Grenoble Winter Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020.
- ^ Ostlere, Lawrence (11 August 2024). "Olympic medal table: USA beat China to top spot at Paris 2024". The Independent. Archived from the original on 12 August 2024. Retrieved 12 August 2024.
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- ^ "Speed skating at the 1968 Grenoble Winter Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 25 September 2010.
External links
- "Grenoble 1968". Olympics.com. International Olympic Committee.
- "1968 Winter Olympics". Olympedia.com. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
- "Olympic Analytics/1968_2". olympanalyt.com. Archived from the original on 12 September 2022. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
- "1968 Grenoble Winter Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 September 2010.