![A woman, standing, wearing a green necklace.](Https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Toini_Gustafsson_R%C3%B6nnlund_in_Jan_2014.jpg/220px-Toini_Gustafsson_R%C3%B6nnlund_in_Jan_2014.jpg)
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 in 35 events from 10 different sports and disciplines.[1] The Olympic programme was largely unchanged from four years prior in Innsbruck; one event was added, a relay event in biathlon.[2]
Norway won the most medals, with 14, and the most gold medals with 6. The Soviet Union finished second in both tallies, with 5 golds and 13 medals in total.[3] Of the 37 NOCs to participate at Grenoble, 15 won at least one medal, with 13 of those winning at least one gold medal.[3] East and West Germany entered separate teams for the first time, having competed together in the three prior Winter Olympics. Both nations won gold medals, their first competing as different nations.[4] Czechoslovakia won its first gold Winter Olympics medal, achieved by Jiří Raška in the ski jumping normal hill event.[5] Romania won its first, and as of the 2018 Winter Olympics, only medal in a Winter Olympics in the two-man bobsleigh event.[6][7]
Jean-Claude Killy of France was the most successful athlete at these games, winning all three of the men's alpine skiing events. Two other athletes each won three medals: Sweden's Toini Gustafsson earned two golds and a silver, and Finland's Eero Mäntyranta won a silver and two bronzes. Both of them were competitors in cross-country skiing. Four other athletes—Luciano de Paolis, Ole Ellefsæter, Harald Grønningen, and Eugenio Monti—won two gold medals, and 29 individuals in total won at least two medals in Grenoble.[3] In speed skating, three different events ended with ties for the silver medal position, one, the women's 500 metres ended in a three-way tie for silver.[8] In all three cases, multiple silver medals and no bronze medals were awarded.[9][10] In figure skating, American Peggy Flemming won the gold medal in ladies' singles; this came a mere seven years after the 1961 crash of Sabena Flight 548 that killed the entire US figure skating team.[11]
Alpine skiing
![A man stands, wearing a business suit.](Https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Jean-Claude_Killy_in_Moscow.jpg/170px-Jean-Claude_Killy_in_Moscow.jpg)
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Men's downhill[12] |
Jean-Claude Killy![]() |
Guy Périllat![]() |
Jean-Daniel Dätwyler![]() |
Men's giant slalom[13] |
Jean-Claude Killy![]() |
Willy Favre![]() |
Heini Messner![]() |
Men's slalom[14] |
Jean-Claude Killy![]() |
Herbert Huber![]() |
Alfred Matt![]() |
Women's downhill[15] |
Olga Pall![]() |
Isabelle Mir![]() |
Christl Haas![]() |
Women's giant slalom[16] |
Nancy Greene![]() |
Annie Famose![]() |
Fernande Bochatay![]() |
Women's slalom[17] |
Marielle Goitschel![]() |
Nancy Greene![]() |
Annie Famose![]() |
Biathlon
![A man sitting, wearing sunglasses, wearing a business suit.](Https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Alexander_Tikhonov.jpg/170px-Alexander_Tikhonov.jpg)
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Men's Individual[19] |
Magnar Solberg![]() |
Aleksandr Tikhonov![]() |
Vladimir Gundartsev![]() |
Men's Relay |
![]() Aleksandr Tikhonov Nikolay Puzanov Viktor Mamatov Vladimir Gundartsev |
![]() Ola Wærhaug Olav Jordet Magnar Solberg Jon Istad |
![]() Lars-Göran Arwidson Tore Eriksson Olle Petrusson Holmfrid Olsson |
Bobsleigh
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Two-man |
![]() Eugenio Monti Luciano De Paolis |
![]() Horst Floth Pepi Bader |
![]() Ion Panțuru Nicolae Neagoe |
Four-man |
![]() Eugenio Monti Luciano De Paolis Roberto Zandonella Mario Armano |
![]() Erwin Thaler Reinhold Durnthaler Herbert Gruber Josef Eder |
![]() Jean Wicki Hans Candrian Willi Hofmann Walter Graf |
Cross-country skiing
![A smiling woman, wearing red, holding flowers.](Https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Inger_Aufles_1968.jpg/170px-Inger_Aufles_1968.jpg)
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Men's 15 km[28] |
Harald Grønningen![]() |
Eero Mäntyranta![]() |
Gunnar Larsson![]() |
Men's 30 km[29] |
Franco Nones![]() |
Odd Martinsen![]() |
Eero Mäntyranta![]() |
Men's 50 km[30] |
Ole Ellefsæter![]() |
Vyacheslav Vedenin![]() |
Josef Haas![]() |
Men's 4×10 km |
![]() Odd Martinsen Pål Tyldum Harald Grønningen Ole Ellefsæter |
![]() Jan Halvarsson Bjarne Andersson Gunnar Larsson Assar Rönnlund |
![]() Kalevi Oikarainen Hannu Taipale Kalevi Laurila Eero Mäntyranta |
Women's 5 km[34] |
Toini Gustafsson![]() |
Galina Kulakova![]() |
Alevtina Kolchina![]() |
Women's 10 km[35] |
Toini Gustafsson![]() |
Berit Mørdre![]() |
Inger Aufles![]() |
Women's 3×5 km |
![]() Inger Aufles Babben Enger Berit Mørdre Lammedal |
![]() Barbro Martinsson Toini Gustafsson Britt Strandberg |
![]() Alevtina Kolchina Rita Achkina Galina Kulakova |
Figure skating
![A smiling blonde woman, holding a gold medal from the Vancouver 2010 Olympics.](Https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Former_U.S._Olympian_Peggy_Fleming_holds_a_Gold_at_the_Pavilion.jpg/170px-Former_U.S._Olympian_Peggy_Fleming_holds_a_Gold_at_the_Pavilion.jpg)
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Men's singles[37] |
Wolfgang Schwarz![]() |
Tim Wood![]() |
Patrick Péra![]() |
Ladies' singles[38] |
Peggy Fleming![]() |
Gabriele Seyfert![]() |
Hana Mašková![]() |
Pairs |
![]() Liudmila Belousova Oleg Protopopov |
![]() Tatiana Zhuk Alexander Gorelik |
![]() Margot Glockshuber Wolfgang Danne |
Ice hockey
Luge
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Men's singles[44] |
Manfred Schmid![]() |
Thomas Köhler![]() |
Klaus-Michael Bonsack![]() |
Women's singles[45] |
Erika Lechner![]() |
Christa Schmuck![]() |
Angelika Dünhaupt![]() |
Doubles |
![]() Klaus-Michael Bonsack Thomas Köhler |
![]() Manfred Schmid Ewald Walch |
![]() Wolfgang Winkler Fritz Nachmann |
Nordic combined
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Individual[49] |
Franz Keller![]() |
Alois Kälin![]() |
Andreas Kunz![]() |
Ski jumping
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Normal hill individual[50] |
Jiří Raška![]() |
Reinhold Bachler![]() |
Baldur Preiml![]() |
Large hill individual[51] |
Vladimir Belousov![]() |
Jiří Raška![]() |
Lars Grini![]() |
Speed skating
![A woman in skating garb, in a competition pose](Https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Carry_Geijssen_1968.jpg/170px-Carry_Geijssen_1968.jpg)
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Men's 500 metres[9] |
Erhard Keller![]() |
Terry McDermott![]() Magne Thomassen ![]() |
None awarded[a] |
Men's 1500 metres[10] |
Kees Verkerk![]() |
Ivar Eriksen![]() Ard Schenk ![]() |
None awarded[b] |
Men's 5000 metres[52] |
Fred Anton Maier![]() |
Kees Verkerk![]() |
Peter Nottet![]() |
Men's 10000 metres[53] |
Johnny Höglin![]() |
Fred Anton Maier![]() |
Örjan Sandler![]() |
Women's 500 metres[8] |
Lyudmila Titova![]() |
Jenny Fish![]() Dianne Holum ![]() Mary Meyers ![]() |
None awarded[c] |
Women's 1000 metres[54] |
Carry Geijssen![]() |
Lyudmila Titova![]() |
Dianne Holum![]() |
Women's 1500 metres[55] |
Kaija Mustonen![]() |
Carry Geijssen![]() |
Stien Kaiser![]() |
Women's 3000 metres[56] |
Ans Schut![]() |
Kaija Mustonen![]() |
Stien Kaiser![]() |
Multiple medalists
Athletes who won three medals or two gold medals during the 1968 Winter Olympics are listed below.[3]
Athlete | Nation | Sport | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jean-Claude Killy | ![]() |
Alpine skiing | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Toini Gustafsson | ![]() |
Cross-country skiing | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
Eero Mäntyranta | ![]() |
Cross-country skiing | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Luciano de Paolis | ![]() |
Bobsleigh | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Ole Ellefsæter | ![]() |
Cross-country skiing | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Harald Grønningen | ![]() |
Cross-country skiing | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Eugenio Monti | ![]() |
Bobsleigh | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Notes
- a No bronze medal was awarded in this event because two competitors tied for second place with a time of 40.5 seconds.[9]
- b No bronze medal was awarded in this event because two competitors tied for second place with a time of 2 minutes 5.0 seconds.[10]
- c No bronze medal was awarded in this event because three competitors tied for second place with a time of 46.3 seconds.[8]
See also
References
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External links
- "Grenoble 1968". Olympics.com. International Olympic Committee.
- The three women's 500 metre speed skaters on the podium Archived 2018-04-25 at the Wayback Machine