Soviet Union at the 1968 Summer Olympics

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Soviet Union at the
1968 Summer Olympics
Flag of the Soviet Union.svg
Flag of the Soviet Union
IOC codeURS
NOCSoviet Olympic Committee
in Mexico City
Competitors312 (246 men, 66 women)[1] in 18 sports
Flag bearerLeonid Zhabotinsky
Medals
Ranked 2nd
Gold
29
Silver
32
Bronze
30
Total
91
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
Other related appearances
 Russian Empire (1900–1912)
 Estonia (1920–1936, 1992–)
 Latvia (1924–1936, 1992–)
 Lithuania (1924–1928, 1992–)
 Unified Team (1992)
 Armenia (1994–)
 Belarus (1994–)
 Georgia (1994–)
 Kazakhstan (1994–)
 Kyrgyzstan (1994–)
 Moldova (1994–)
 Russia (1994–2016)
 Ukraine (1994–)
 Uzbekistan (1994–)
 Azerbaijan (1996–)
 Tajikistan (1996–)
 Turkmenistan (1996–)
 ROC (2020-2022)

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[]

Bronze[]

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.

Individual road race
Team time trial
Sprint
1000m time trial
Tandem
Team pursuit

Diving[]

Main article: Diving at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Equestrian[]

Main article: Equestrian 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.

Men's foil
Men's team foil
Men's épée
Men's team épée
Men's sabre
Men's team sabre
Women's foil
Women's team foil

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

The Soviet Union had 27 male rowers participate in all seven rowing events in 1968.[3]

Men's single sculls
  • Viktor Melnikov (Виктор Мельников)
Men's double sculls – 1st place (Med 1.png gold medal)
  • Anatoliy Sass (Анатолий Сасс)
  • Aleksandr Timoshinin (Александр Тимошинин)
Men's coxless pair
  • Apolinaras Grigas (Аполинарас Григас)
  • Vladimir Rikkanen (Владимир Рикканен)
Men's coxed pair
Men's coxless four – 11th place
Men's coxed four – 6th place
Men's eight – 3rd place (Med 3.png bronze medal)

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.

25 m pistol
50 m pistol
300 m rifle, three positions
50 m rifle, three positions
50 m rifle, prone
Trap
Skeet

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) → Med 1.png 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) → Med 1.png 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) → Med 2.png Silver Medal
  • Team Roster

Weightlifting[]

Main article: Weightlifting at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Wrestling[]

Main article: Wrestling at the 1968 Summer Olympics

References[]

  1. ^ "The USSR and Olympism" (PDF). Olympic Review. International Olympic Committee (84): 530–557. October 1974. Retrieved 28 March 2008.
  2. ^ "Soviet Union at the 1968 Mexico City Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 6 September 2014.
  3. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Soviet Union Rowing at the 1968 Ciudad de Mexico Summer Games". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 5 February 2018.

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