Soviet Union at the 1968 Summer Olympics
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At the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City | ||||||||||
Competitors | 312 (246 men, 66 women)[1] in 18 sports | |||||||||
Flag bearer | Leonid Zhabotinsky | |||||||||
Medals Rank: 2 |
Gold 29 |
Silver 32 |
Bronze 30 |
Total 91 |
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The Soviet Union (USSR) competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. 312 competitors, 246 men and 66 women, took part in 164 events in 18 sports.[2]
Medalists
The USSR finished second in the final medal rankings, with 29 gold and 91 total medals.
Gold
- Natalia Kuchinskaya — Artistic Gymnastics, Women's Balance Beam
- Larisa Petrik — Artistic Gymnastics, Women's Floor Exercise
- Mikhail Voronin — Artistic Gymnastics, Men's Horizontal Bar
- Natalia Kuchinskaya, Zinaida Voronina, Larisa Petrik, Olga Karaseva, Ludmilla Tourischeva, Lyubov Burda — Artistic Gymnastics, Women's Team Competition
- Mikhail Voronin — Artistic Gymnastics, Men's Vault
- Vladimir Golubnichy — Athletics, Men's 20 km Walk
- Yanis Lusis — Athletics, Men's Javelin Throw
- Viktor Saneev — Athletics, Men's Triple Jump
- Valeri Sokolov — Boxing, Men's Bantamweight
- Boris Lagutin — Boxing, Men's Light-middleweight
- Daniel Poznyak — Boxing, Men's Light-heavyweight
- Lyudmila Khvedosyuk-Pinaeva — Canoeing, Women's K-1 500m
- Aleksandr Sharapenko, Vladimir Morozov — Canoeing, Men's K-2 1000m
- Ivan Kizimov, his horse Ijor — Equestrian, Individual Mixed
- Elena Novikova-Belova — Fencing, Women's Foil Individual
- Aleksandra Zabelina, Tatyana Petrenko-Samusenko, Elena Novikova-Belova, Galina Gorokhova, Svetlana Tširkova — Fencing, Women's Foil Team
- Vladimir Nazlymov, Viktor Sidyak, Eduard Vinokurov, Mark Rakita, Umar Mavlikhanov — Fencing, Men's Sabre Team
- Anatoli Sass, Aleksandr Timoshinin — Rowing, Men's Double Sculls
- Valentyn Mankin — Sailing, Men's Finn
- Grigory Kosykh — Shooting, Men's 50m Pistol
- Evgeni Petrov — Shooting, Men's Skeet
- Eduard Sibiryakov, Valeri Kravchenko, Vladimir Belyaev, Yevgeni Lapinsky, Oleg Antropov, Vasilius Matushevas, Viktor Mikhalchuk, Yuri Poyarkov, Boris Tereshchuk, Vladimir Ivanov, Ivan Bugaenkov, Georgi Mondzolevsky — Volleyball, Men's Team
- Lyudmila Buldakova, Lyudmila Mikhailovskaya, Tatyana Veinberga, Vera Lantratova, Vera Galushka-Duyunova, Tatyana Sarycheva, Tatyana Ponyaeva-Tretyakova, Nina Smoleeva, Inna Ryskal, Galina Leontyeva, Roza Salikhova, Valentina Kamenek-Vinogradova — Volleyball, Women's Team
- Leonid Zhabotinsky — Weightlifting, Men's Heavyweight
- Viktor Kurentsov — Weightlifting, Men's Middleweight
- Boris Selitsky — Weightlifting, Men's Light-heavyweight
- Aleksandr Medved — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Heavyweight
- Boris Gurevich — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Middleweight
- Roman Rurua — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Featherweight
Silver
- Dito Shanidze — Men's Weightlifting
- Mikhail Voronin — Artistic Gymnastics, Men's Individual All-round
- Zinaida Voronina — Artistic Gymnastics, Women's Individual All-round
- Mikhail Voronin — Artistic Gymnastics, Men's Parallel Bars
- Mikhail Voronin — Artistic Gymnastics, Men's Rings
- Mikhail Voronin, Sergei Diomidov, Viktor Lisitsky, Valeri Karasev, Viktor Klimenko, Valeri Ilyinykh — Artistic Gymnastics, Men's Team Competition
- Romuald Klim — Athletics, Men's Hammer Throw
- Antonina Okorokova-Lazareva — Athletics, Women's High Jump
- Jonas Chepulis — Boxing, Men's Heavyweight
- Aleksei Kiselyov — Boxing, Men's 71–75 kg
- Aleksandr Sharapenko — Canoeing, Men's K-1 1000m
- Natalya Lobanova — Diving, Women's 10m Platform
- Tamara Pogozheva — Diving, Women's 3m Platform
- Yelena Petushkova, Pepel, Ivan Kizimov, Ijor, Ivan Kalita, Absent — Equestrian, Team Mixed
- Grigori Kriss — Fencing, Men's Épée Individual
- Grigori Kriss, Iosif Vitebsky, Aleksei Nikanchikov, Yuri Smolyakov, Viktor Modzalevsky — Fencing, Men's Épée Team
- German Sveshnikov, Yuri Sharov, Vasili Stankovich, Viktor Putyatin, Yuri Sisikin — Fencing, Men's Foil Team
- Mark Rakita — Fencing, Men's Sabre Individual
- Stasis Shaparnis, Boris Onishenko, Pavel Lednev — Modern Pentathlon, Men's Team Competition
- Valentin Kornev — Shooting, Men's 300m Free Rifle 3 Positions
- Vladimir Kosinsky — Swimming, Men's 100m Breaststroke
Bronze
- Larisa Petrik — Artistic Gymnastics, Women's Balance Beam
- Natalia Kuchinskaya — Artistic Gymnastics, Women's Floor Exercise
- Natalia Kuchinskaya — Artistic Gymnastics, Women's Individual All-round
- Viktor Klimenko — Artistic Gymnastics, Men's Parallel Bars
- Mikhail Voronin — Artistic Gymnastics, Men's Pommel Horse
- Zinaida Voronina — Artistic Gymnastics, Women's Uneven Bars
- Sergei Diomidov — Artistic Gymnastics, Men's Vault
- Zinaida Voronina — Artistic Gymnastics, Women's Vault
- Nikolai Smaga — Athletics, Men's 20 km Walk
- Natalya Pechenkina — Athletics, Women's 400m
- Lyudmila Zharkova, Galina Bukharina, Vera Popkova, Lyudmila Samotyosova — Athletics, Women's 4x100m Relay
- Valentin Gavrilov — Athletics, Men's High Jump
- Valentina Kozyr — Athletics, Women's High Jump
- Tatyana Talysheva — Athletics, Women's Long Jump
- Eduard Gushchin — Athletics, Men's Shot Put
- Nadezhda Chizhova — Athletics, Women's Shot Put
- Anatoli Krikun, Modestas Paulauskas, Zurab Sakandelidze, Vadim Kapranov, Yuri Selikhov, Anatoli Polivoda, Sergei Belov, Priit Tomson, Sergei Kovalenko, Gennadi Volnov, Jaak Lipso, Vladimir Andreyev — Basketball, Men's Team
- Vladimir Musalimov — Boxing, Men's Welterweight
- Vitaly Galkov — Canoeing, Men's C-1 1000m
- Naum Prokupets, Mikhail Zamotin — Canoeing, Men's C-2 1000m
- Lyudmila Pinayeva, Antonina Seredina — Canoeing, Women's K-2 500m
- Pavel Lednyov — Modern Pentathlon, Men's Individual Competition
- Zigmas Jukna, Antanas Bagdonavičius, Volodymyr Sterlyk, Juozas Jagelavičius, Aleksandr Martyshkin, Vytautas Briedis, Valentyn Kravchuk, Viktor Suslin, Yuri Lorentsson — Rowing, Men's Eight with Coxswain
- Renart Suleimanov — Shooting, Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol
- Vitali Parkhimovich — Shooting, Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions
- Nikolai Pankin — Swimming, Men's 100m Breaststroke
- Galina Prozumenschikova-Stepanova — Swimming, Women's 200m Breaststroke
- Yuri Gromak, Vladimir Kosinsky, Vladimir Nemshilov, Leonid Ilyichev — Swimming, Men's 4x100m Medley Relay
- Vladimir Bure, Semyon Belits-Geiman, Georgi Kulikov, Leonid Ilyichev — Swimming, Men's 4x200m Freestyle Relay
- Ivan Kochergin — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Bantamweight
Athletics
Main article: Athletics at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Basketball
Main article: Basketball at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Boxing
Main article: Boxing at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Canoeing
Main article: Canoeing at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Cycling
Main article: Cycling at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Fifteen cyclists represented the Soviet Union in 1968.
Diving
Main article: Diving at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Equestrianism
Main article: Equestrianism at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Fencing
Main article: Fencing at the 1968 Summer Olympics
20 fencers, 15 men and 5 women, represented the Soviet Union in 1968.
- Yelena Novikova-Belova, Galina Gorokhova, Aleksandra Zabelina, Tatyana Petrenko-Samusenko, Svetlana Tširkova
Gymnastics
Main article: Gymnastics at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Modern pentathlon
Main article: Modern pentathlon at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Three male pentathletes represented the Soviet Union in 1968. They won a team silver and Pavel Lednyov won an individual bronze.
- Individual
- Team
- Pavel Lednyov
- Borys Onyshchenko
- Stasys Šaparnis
Rowing
Main article: Rowing at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Sailing
Main article: Sailing at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Shooting
Main article: Shooting at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Twelve shooters, all men, represented the Soviet Union in 1968. Between them they won two gold and two bronze medals.
Swimming
Main article: Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Volleyball
Main article: Volleyball at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Men's Team Competition
- Round Robin
- Lost to United States (2-3)
- Defeated Brazil (3-2)
- Defeated Bulgaria (3-0)
- Defeated Poland (3-0)
- Defeated East Germany (3-2)
- Defeated Japan (3-1)
- Defeated Mexico (3-1)
- Defeated Belgium (3-0)
- Defeated Czechoslovakia (3-0) →
Gold Medal
- Team Roster
- Women's Team Competition
- Round Robin
- Defeated Czechoslovakia (3-1)
- Defeated Poland (3-0)
- Defeated South Korea (3-0)
- Defeated Peru (3-0)
- Defeated United States (3-1)
- Defeated Mexico (3-0)
- Defeated Japan (3-0) →
Gold Medal
- Team Roster
Water polo
Main article: Water polo at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Men's Team Competition
- Preliminary Round (Group A)
- Defeated Cuba (11:4)
- Defeated West Germany (6:3)
- Defeated Spain (5:0)
- Lost to Hungary (5:6)
- Defeated United States (8:3)
- Defeated Brazil (8:2)
- Semifinals
- Defeated Italy (8:5)
- Final
- Lost to Yugoslavia (11:13) →
Silver Medal
- Lost to Yugoslavia (11:13) →
- Team Roster
Weightlifting
Main article: Weightlifting at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Wrestling
Main article: Wrestling at the 1968 Summer Olympics
References
- ↑ "The USSR and Olympism" (PDF). Olympic Review (International Olympic Committee) (84): 530–557. October 1974. Retrieved 2008-03-28.
- ↑ "Soviet Union at the 1968 Mexico City Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 6 September 2014.
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