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XIX Olympic Game, Mexico City 1968
Men, Field
High Jump
1 Dick Fosbury USA 2.24 OR
2 Ed Caruthers USA 2.22  
3 Valentin Gavrilov URS 2.20  
4 Valeriy Skvortsov URS 2.16  
5 Reynaldo Brown USA 2.14  
6 Giacomo Crosa ITA 2.14  
7 Günther Spielvogel FRG 2.14  
8 Lawrence Peckham AUS 2.12  
Pole Vault
1 Robert Seagren USA 5.40 OR
2 Klaus Schiprowski FRG 5.40 OR
3 Wolfgang Nordwig GDR 5.40 OR
4 Christos Papanicolau GRE 5.35  
5 John Pennel USA 5.35  
6 Gennadiy Bliznyetsov URS 5.30  
7 Herve D'Encausse FRA 5.25  
8 Heinfried Engel FRG 5.20  
Long Jump
1 Bob Beamon USA 8.90 WR
2 Klaus Beer GDR 8.19  
3 Ralph Boston USA 8.16  
4 Igor Ter-Ovanesyan URS 8.12  
5 Tonu Lepik URS 8.09  
6 Alan Crawley AUS 8.02  
7 Jacques Pani FRA 7.97  
8 Andrzej Stalmach POL 7.94  
Triple Jump
1 Viktor Saneyev URS 17.39 WR
2 Nelson Prudencio BRA 17.27  
3 Giuseppe Gentile ITA 17.22  
4 Art Walker USA 17.12  
5 Nikolay Dudkin URS 17.09  
6 Phil May AUS 17.02  
7 Jozef Schmidt POL 16.89  
8 Mansour Dia Ba SEN 16.73  
Shot Put
1 Randy Matson USA 20.54  
2 George Woods USA 20.12  
3 Eduard Gushchin URS 20.09  
4 Dieter Hoffmann GDR 20.00  
5 Dave Maggard USA 19.43  
6 Wladyslaw Komar POL 19.28  
7 Uwe Grabe GDR 19.03  
8 Heinfried Birlenbach FRG 18.80  
Discus Throw
1 Alfred Oerter USA 64.78 OR
2 Lothar Milde GDR 63.08  
3 Ludvik Danek TCH 62.92  
4 Hartmut Losch GDR 62.12  
5 Jay Silvester USA 61.78  
6 Gary Carlsen USA 59.46  
7 Edmund Piatkowski POL 59.40  
8 Rickard Bruch SWE 59.28  
Hammer Throw
1 Gyula Zsivótzky HUN 73.36 OR
2 Romuald Klim URS 73.28  
3 Lázár Lovász HUN 69.78  
4 Takeo Sugawara JPN 69.78  
5 Sandor Eckschmidt HUN 69.46  
6 Gennadiy Kondrashov URS 69.08  
7 Reinhard Theimer GDR 68.84  
8 Helmut Baumann GDR 68.26  
Javelin Throw
1 Janis Lusis URS 90.10 OR
2 Jorma Kinnunen FIN 88.58  
3 Gergely Kulcsár HUN 87.06  
4 Wladyslaw Nikiciuk POL 85.70  
5 Manfred Stolle GDR 84.42  
6 Ake Nilsson SWE 83.48  
7 Janusz Sidlo POL 80.58  
8 Urs von Wartburg SUI 80.56  
Decathlon
1 Bill Toomey USA 8193 OR
2 Hans-Joachim Walde FRG 8111  
3 Kurt Bendlin FRG 8064  
4 Nikolay Avilov URS 7909  
5 Joachim Kirst GDR 7861  
6 Tom Waddell USA 7720  
7 Rick Sloan USA 7692  
8 Steen Smidt-Jensen DEN 7648