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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