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1968
Track
Field
High Jump
1
Dick Fosbury
USA
2.24
2
Ed Caruthers
USA
2.22
3
Peter Boyce
AUS
2.21
3
Reynaldo Brown
USA
2.21
5
Valentin Gavrilov
URS
2.20
6
Mike Bowers
USA
2.19
6
Robert Saint-Rose
FRA
2.19
8
John Hartfield
USA
2.185
9
Valeriy Skvortsov
URS
2.18
10
Günther Spielvogel
FRG
2.175
Pole Vault
1
Robert Seagren
USA
5.41
2
Klaus Schiprowski
FRG
5.40
2
Wolfgang Nordwig
GDR
5.40
4
Herve D'Encausse
FRA
5.37
5
Christos Papanicolau
GRE
5.35
5
John Pennel
USA
5.35
7
Jonathan Vaughn
USA
5.31
8
Gennadiy Bliznyetsov
URS
5.30
9
Altti Alarotu
FIN
5.26
10
Kjell Isaksson
SWE
5.25
Long Jump
1
Bob Beamon
USA
8.90
A
2
Igor Ter-Ovanesyan
URS
8.28
A
3
Ralph Boston
USA
8.27
A
4
Lynn Davies
GBR
8.23
5
Klaus Beer
GDR
8.19
A
6
Phil Shinnick
USA
8.16
7
Andrzej Stalmach
POL
8.11
8
Tonu Lepik
URS
8.09
A
9
Jacques Pani
FRA
8.08
10
Gayle Hopkins
USA
8.07
Triple Jump
1
Viktor Saneyev
URS
17.39
A
2
Nelson Prudencio
BRA
17.27
A
3
Giuseppe Gentile
ITA
17.22
A
4
Phil May
AUS
17.02
A
5
Pertti Pousi
FIN
17.00
6
Jozef Schmidt
POL
16.89
A
7
Klaus Neumann
GDR
16.82
8
Art Walker
USA
16.81
9
Nikolay Dudkin
URS
16.77
10
Mansour Dia
SEN
16.73
A
Shot Put
1
Randy Matson
USA
21.30
2
George Woods
USA
20.73
3
Dave Maggard
USA
20.53
4
Eduard Gushchin
URS
20.28
5
Heinfried Birlenbach
FRG
20.18
6
Dieter Hoffmann
GDR
20.10
7
Heinz-Joachim Rothenburg
GDR
20.01
8
Karl Salb
USA
19.99
9
Hans-Dieter Prollius
GDR
19.94
10
Neal Steinhauer
USA
19.90
Discus Throw
1
Jay Silvester
USA
68.40
2
Alfred Oerter
USA
64.78
3
George Puce
CAN
64.39
4
Gary Carlsen
USA
64.14
5
Rink Babka
USA
63.93
6
Lothar Milde
GDR
63.32
7
Guram Gudashvili
URS
63.10
8
Ludvik Danek
TCH
62.92
9
Hartmut Losch
GDR
62.72
10
Günter Schaumberg
GDR
62.68
Hammer Throw
1
Gyula Zsivótzky
HUN
73.76
2
Romuald Klim
URS
73.54
3
Uwe Beyer
FRG
72.46
4
Reinhard Theimer
GDR
71.26
5
Anatoliy Bondarchuk
URS
70.72
6
Gennadiy Kondrashov
URS
70.52
7
Helmut Baumann
GDR
69.90
8
Hans Fahsl
FRG
69.88
9
Anatoliy Shchuplyakov
URS
69.84
10
Lázár Lovász
HUN
69.78
Javelin Throw
1
Janis Lusis
URS
91.98
2
Jorma Kinnunen
FIN
88.58
3
Ĺke Nilsson
SWE
87.76
4
Gergely Kulcsár
HUN
87.06
5
Frank Covelli
USA
86.77
6
Vyacheslav Gorovoy
URS
86.58
7
Wladyslaw Nikiciuk
POL
86.10
8
Manfred Stolle
GDR
85.80
9
Pauli Nevala
FIN
84.92
10
Janusz Sidlo
POL
84.40
Decathlon
1
Bill Toomey
USA
8222
A
2
Hans-Joachim Walde
FRG
8111
A
3
Kurt Bendlin
FRG
8086
4
Rein Aun
URS
8026
A
5
Janis Lanka
URS
7972
A
6
Herbert Wessel
GDR
7953
7
Nikolay Avilov
URS
7909
A
8
Manfred Tiedke
GDR
7904
9
Max Klauss
GDR
7889
10
Yuriy Dyachkov
URS
7879