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1968 Summer Olympics medal table

List of medals won by Olympic delegations at the Games of the XIX Olympiad

Field	Value
name	1968 Summer Olympics medals
location	Mexico City, MEX
image	Turnerin am Sprungpferd (Kiel 20.676).jpg
image_caption	Věra Čáslavská of Czechoslovakia was the most successful competitor at the games, winning four gold and two silver medals in artistic gymnastics
alt	A gymnast performing
award2_type	Most total medals
award2_winner	USA
award1_type	Most gold medals
award1_winner	USA
award3_type	Medalling NOCs
award3_winner	44
previous	[1964](1964-summer-olympics-medal-table)
main	Olympics medal tables
next	[1972](1972-summer-olympics-medal-table)

The 1968 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Mexico City, from 12 to 27 October. A total of 5,516 athletes from 112 nations participated in 172 events in 18 sports across 24 different disciplines. These were the first games to be held in Latin America.

Overall, athletes from 44 nations received at least one medal, and 39 nations won at least one gold medal. Athletes from the United States won the most gold medals, with 45, and the most medals overall, with 107. Teams from Kenya, Tunisia, and Venezuela won their nations' first Olympic gold medals, Mongolia, and Uganda won their nations' first Olympic medals.

Artistic gymnast Věra Čáslavská of Czechoslovakia was the most successful competitor at the games, winning six medals (four gold and two silver). After her gold medal wins at these games, Čáslavská held the record for the most individual Olympic gold medals by a female athlete with seven, until Katie Ledecky of the United States surpassed it at the 2024 Summer Olympics with eight. Artistic gymnast Mikhail Voronin of the Soviet Union won the most total medals at the games with seven (two golds, four silvers, and one bronze).

Medal table

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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. The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals. Two bronze medals were awarded in each boxing event to the losing semi-finalists, as opposed to them fighting in a third place tiebreaker.

In gymnastics, two gold medals (and no silver medal) were awarded in the men's horizontal bar and women's floor exercise due to a first-place tie in both events.

Changes in medal standings

Main article: List of stripped Olympic medals

;Key Disqualified athlete(s)

Ruling date	Sport/Event	Total	Notes
Modern pentathlon
Men's team	SWEBjörn Ferm ※
Hans Jacobson ※
Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall ※		−1	−1
FRARaoul Gueguen
Lucien Guiguet
Jean-Pierre Giudicelli		+1	+1

NOC	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Net Change	SWE	FRA
	0	0	−1	−1
	0	0	+1	+1

References

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