Atletiek is een van de sporten die beoefend werden tijdens de Olympische Zomerspelen 1968 in Mexico-Stad. Dit was het eerste Olympische atletiektoernooi op een atletiekbaan van tartan.

Heren 100 m rangsporter(s)landtijd Jim Hines WR 9.95 Lennox Miller 10.0 Charles Greene 10.0 4 Pablo Montes 10.1 5 Roger Bambuck 10.1 6 Mel Pender 10.1 7 Harry Jerome 10.1 8 Jean-Louis Ravelomanantsoa 10.2

200 m rangsporter(s)landtijd Tommie Smith WR 19.83 Peter Norman 20.0 John Carlos 20.0 4 Edwin Roberts 20.3 5 Roger Bambuck 20.5 6 Larry Questad 20.6 7 Michael Fray 20.6 8 Joachim Eigenherr 20.6

400 m rangsporter(s)landtijd Lee Evans WR 43.86 Larry James 43.9 Ron Freeman 44.4 4 Amadu Gaku 45.0 5 Martin Jellinghaus 45.3 6 Tegegne Bezabeh 45.4 7 Andrzej Badeński 45.5 8 Amos Omolo 47.6

800 m rangsporter(s)landtijd Ralph Doubell WR 1:44.3 Wilson Kiprugut 1:44.5 Thomas Farrell 1:45.4 4 Walter Adams 1:45.8 5 Jozef Plachý 1:45.9 6 Dieter Fromm 1:46.2 7 Thomas Saisi 1:47.5 8 Benedict Cayenne 1:54.3

1500 m rangsporter(s)landtijd Kipchoge Keino OR 3:34.9 Jim Ryun 3:37.8 Bodo Tümmler 3:39.0 4 Harald Norpoth 3:42.5 5 John Whetton 3:43.8 6 Jacques Boxberger 3:46.6 7 Henryk Szordykowski 3:46.6 8 Josef Odložil 3:48.6

5000 m rangsporter(s)landtijd Mohammed Gammoudi 14:05.0 Kipchoge Keino 14:05.2 Naftali Temu 14:06.4 4 Juan Martínez 14:10.8 5 Ron Clarke 14:12.4 6 Wohib Masresha 14:17.6 7 Nikolai Sviridov 14:18.4 8 Fikrou Deguefu 14:19.0

10000 m rangsporter(s)landtijd Naftali Temu 29:27.4 Mamo Wolde 29:28.0 Mohammed Gammoudi 29:34.2 4 Juan Martínez 29:35.0 5 Nikolai Sviridov 29:43.2 6 Ron Clarke 29:44.8 7 Ron Hill 29:53.2 8 Wohib Masresha 29:57.0

marathon rangsporter(s)landtijd Mamo Wolde 2:20:26.4 Kenji Kimihara 2:23:31.0 Michael Ryan 2:23:45.0 4 Ismail Akcay 2:25:18.8 5 William Adcocks 2:25:33.0 6 Merawi Gebru 2:27:16.8 7 Derek Clayton 2:27:23.8 8 Timothy Johnston 2:28:23.8

110 m horden rangsporter(s)landtijd Willie Davenport OR 13.3 Ervin Hall 13.4 Eddy Ottoz 13.4 4 Leon Coleman 13.6 5 Werner Trzmiel 13.6 6 Bo Forssander 13.7 7 Marcel Duriez 13.7 8 Pierre Schoebel 14.0

400 m horden rangsporter(s)landtijd David Hemery WR 48.1 Gerhard Hennige 49.0 John Sherwood 49.0 4 Geoff Vanderstock 49.0 5 Vjatsjeslav Skomorokhov 49.1 6 Ronald Whitney 49.2 7 Rainer Schubert 49.3 8 Roberto Frinolli 50.1

3000 m steeple chase rangsporter(s)landtijd Amos Biwott 8:51.0 Benjamin Kogo 8:51.6 George L. Young 8:51.8 4 Kerry O'Brien 8:52.0 5 Aleksandr Morozov 8:55.8 6 Mikhail Sjelev 8:58.4 7 Gaston Roelants 8:59.4 8 Arne Risa 9:09.0

4x100 m estafette rangsporter(s)landtijd Charles GreeneMel PenderRonnie Ray SmithJim Hines WR 38.2 Hermes RamírezJuan MoralesPablo MontesEnrique Figuerola 38.3 Gérard FénouilJocelyn DelecourClaude PiquemalRoger Bambuck 38.4 4 Errol StewartMichael FrayClifton ForbesLennox Miller 38.4 5 Heinz ErbstößerHartmut SchelterPeter HaaseHarald Eggers 38.6 6 Karl-Peter SchmidtkeGert MetzGerhard WuchererJoachim Eigenherr 38.7 7 Sergio OttolinaEnnio PreatoniAngelo SguazzeroLivio Berruti 39.2 8 Wiesław ManiakEdward RomanowskiZeńon NowoszMarian Dudziak 39.2

4x400 m estafette rangsporter(s)landtijd Vince MatthewsRon FreemanLarry JamesLee Evans WR 2:56.16 Daniel RudishaHezahiah NyamauNaftali BonCharles Asati 2:59.6 Helmar MüllerManfred KinderGerhard HennigeMartin Jellinghaus 3:00.5 4 Jan BalachowskiStanisław GrędzińskiJan WernerAndrzej Badeński 3:00.5 5 Martin Winbolt-LewisColin CampbellDavid HemeryJohn Sherwood 3:01.2 6 George SimonEuric BobbBenedict CayenneEdwin Roberts 3:04.5 7 Sergio OttolinaGiacomo PuosiFurio FusiSergio Bello 3:04.6 8 Jean-Claude NalletJacques CaretteGilles BertouldJean-Pierre Boccardo 3:07.5

20 km snelwandelen rangsporter(s)landtijd Volodymyr Holoebnytsjy 1:33:58.4 José Pedraza 1:34:00.0 Nikolai Smaga 1:34:03.4 4 Rudolph Haluza 1:35:00.2 5 Gerhard Sperling 1:35:27.2 6 Otto Bartsj 1:36:16.8 7 Hans Reimann 1:36:31.4 8 Stefan Ingvarsson 1:36:43.4

50 km snelwandelen rangsporter(s)landtijd Christoph Höhne OR 4:20:13.6 Antal Kiss 4:30:17.0 Larry Young 4:31:55.4 4 Peter Selzer 4:33:09.8 5 Stig Lindberg 4:34:05.0 6 Vittorio Visini 4:36:33.2 7 Bryan Eley 4:37:32.2 8 José Pedraza 4:37:51.4

hoogspringen rangsporter(s)landhoogte Dick Fosbury OR 2.24 m Ed Caruthers 2.22 m Valentin Gavrilov 2.20 m 4 Valeri Skvortsov 2.16 m 5 Reynaldo Brown 2.14 m 6 Giacomo Crosa 2.14 m 7 Gunther Spielvogel 2.14 m 8 Lawrence Peckham 2.12 m

polsstokhoogspringen rangsporter(s)landhoogte Bob Seagren OR 5.40 m Claus Schiprowski 5.40 m Wolfgang Nordwig 5.40 m 4 Christos Papanikolaou 5.34 m 5 John Pennel 5.35 m 6 Gennadi Bliznetsov 5.30 m 7 Hervé d'Encausse 5.25 m 8 Heinfried Engel 5.20 m

verspringen rangsporter(s)landafstand Bob Beamon WR 8.90 m Klaus Beer 8.19 m Ralph Boston 8.16 m 4 Igor Ter-Ovanesjan 8.12 m 5 Tynu Lepik 8.09 m 6 Alan Crawley 8.02 m 7 Jacques Pani 7.97 m 8 Andrzej Stalmach 7.94 m

hink-stap-springen rangsporter(s)landafstand Viktor Sanjejev WR 17.39 m Nelson Prudêncio 17.27 m Giuseppe Gentile 17.22 m 4 Arthur Walker 17.12 m 5 Nikolai Doedkin 17.09 m 6 Philip May 17.02 m 7 Józef Szmidt 16.89 m 8 Mansour Dia 16.73 m

kogelstoten rangsporter(s)landafstand Randy Matson OR 20.54 m George Woods 20.12 m Eduard Gusjtsjin 20.09 m 4 Dieter Hoffmann 20.00 m 5 David Maggard 19.43 m 6 Władysław Komar 19.28 m 7 Uwe Grabe 19.03 m 8 Heinfried Birlenbach 18.80 m

discuswerpen rangsporter(s)landafstand Al Oerter OR 64.78 m Lothar Milde 63.08 m Ludvík Daněk 62.92 m 4 Hartmut Losch 62.12 m 5 Jay Silvester 61.78 m 6 Gary Carlsen 59.46 m 7 Edmund Piatkowski 59.40 m 8 Ricky Bruch 59.28 m

kogelslingeren rangsporter(s)landafstand Gyula Zsivótzky OR 73.36 m Romuald Klim 73.28 m Lázár Lovász 69.78 m 4 Takeo Sugawara 69.78 m 5 Sándor Eckschmiedt 69.46 m 6 Gennadi Kondratsjov 69.08 m 7 Reinhard Theimer 68.84 m 8 Helmut Baumann 68.26 m

speerwerpen rangsporter(s)landafstand Jānis Lūsis OR 90.10 m Jorma Kinnunen 88.58 m Gergely Kulcsár 87.06 m 4 Władysław Nikiciuk 85.70 m 5 Manfred Stolle 84.42 m 6 Karl-Åke Nilsson 83.48 m 7 Janusz Sidło 80.58 m 8 Urs von Wartburg 80.56 m

tienkamp rangsporter(s)landpunten Bill Toomey OR 8193 Hans-Joachim Walde 8111 Kurt Bendlin 8064 4 Nikolaj Avilov 7909 5 Joachim Kirst 7861 6 Thomas Waddell 7720 7 Richard Sloan 7692 8 Steen Smidt-Jensen 7648

Dames 100 m rangsporter(s)landtijd Wyomia Tyus WR 11.0 Barbara Ferrell 11.1 Irena Szewińska 11.1 4 Raelene Boyle 11.1 5 Margaret Bailes 11.3 6 Dianne Burge 11.4 7 Chi Cheng 11.5 8 Miguelina Cobián 11.6

200 m rangsporter(s)landtijd Irena Szewińska WR 22.5 Raelene Boyle 22.7 Jenny Lamy 22.8 4 Barbara Ferrell 22.9 5 Nicole Montandon 23.0 6 Wyomia Tyus 23.0 7 Margaret Bailes 23.1 8 Jutta Stöck 23.2

400 m rangsporter(s)landtijd Colette Besson OR 52.0 Lillian Board 52.1 Natalja Petsjonkina 52.2 4 Janet Simpson 52.5 5 Aurelia Penton 52.7 6 Jarvis Scott 52.7 7 Helga Henning 52.8 8 Mirna van der Hoeven 53.0

800 m rangsporter(s)landtijd Madeline Manning OR 2:00.9 Ileana Silai 2:02.5 Mia Gommers 2:02.6 4 Sheila Taylor 2:03.8 5 Doris Brown 2:03.9 6 Patricia Lowe 2:04.2 7 Abigail Hoffman 2:06.8 8 Maryvonne Dupureur 2:08.2

80 m horden rangsporter(s)landtijd Maureen Caird OR 10.3 Pam Kilborn 10.4 Chi Cheng 10.4 4 Patty van Wolvelaere 10.5 5 Karin Balzer 10.6 6 Danuta Straszyńska 10.6 7 Elzbieta Zebrowska 10.6 8 Tatjana Talytsjeva 10.7

4x100 m estafette rangsporter(s)landtijd Barbara FerrellMargaret BailesMildrette NetterWyomia Tyus WR 42.8 Marlene ElejardeFulgencia RomayVioletta QuesadaMiguelina Cobián 43.3 Ljoedmila ZjarkovaGalina BoekharinaVera PopkovaLjoedmila Ignatjeva 43.4 4 Truus Hennipman-CruimingWilma van Gool-van den BergMieke SterkCorrie Bakker 43.4 5 Jennifer LamyJoyce BennettRaelene BoyleDianne Burge 43.4 6 Renate MeyerJutta StöckRita JahnIngrid Becker 43.6 7 Anita NeilJanet SimpsonMaureen TranterLillian Board 43.7 8 Michele AlayranguesGabrielle MeyerNicole MontandonSilviane Telliez 44.2

hoogspringen rangsporter(s)landhoogte Miloslava Rezková 1.82 m Antonina Okorokova 1.80 m Valentina Kozyr 1.80 m 4 Jaroslava Valentová 1.78 m 5 Rita Schmidt 1.78 m 6 Mária Faithová 1.78 m 7 Karin Schulze 1.76 m 8 Ilona Gusenhauer 1.76 m

verspringen rangsporter(s)landhoogte Viorica Viscopoleanu WR 6.82 m Sheila Sherwood 6.68 m Tatjana Talysjeva 6.66 m 4 Burghild Wieczorek 6.48 m 5 Mirosława Sarna 6.47 m 6 Ingrid Becker 6.43 m 7 Berit Berthelsen 6.40 m 8 Heide Rosendahl 6.40 m

kogelstoten rangsporter(s)landafstand Margitta Gummel WR 19.61 m Marita Lange 18.78 m Nadezjda Tsjizjova 18.19 m 4 Judit Lendvai 17.78 m 5 Renate Boy 17.72 m 6 Ivanka Hristova 17.25 m 7 Marlene Fuchs 17.11 m 8 Els van Noorduyn 16.23 m

discuswerpen rangsporter(s)landafstand Lia Manoliu OR 58.28 m Liesel Westermann 57.76 m Jolán Kleiber-Kontsek 54.90 m 4 Anita Otto 54.40 m 5 Antonina Popova 53.42 m 6 Olga Connolly 52.96 m 7 Christine Spielberg 52.86 m 8 Brigitte Berendonk 52.80 m

speerwerpen rangsporter(s)landafstand Angéla Németh 60.36 m Mihaela Peneş 59.92 m Eva Janko 58.04 m 4 Márta Rudas-Antal 56.38 m 5 Daniela Jaworska 56.06 m 6 Nataša Urbančić 55.42 m 7 Ameli Koloska-Isermeyer 55.20 m 8 Kaisa Launela 53.96 m

vijfkamp rangsporter(s)landpunten Ingrid Becker 5098 Liese Prokop 4966 Annamária Tóth 4959 4 Valentina Tikhomirova 4927 5 Manon Bornholdt 4890 6 Patricia Winslow 4877 7 Ingeborg Bauer 4849 8 Meta Antenen 4848

Medaillespiegel rangland goud zilver bronstotaal 1 15 6 7 28 2 3 4 1 8 3 3 2 8 13 4 2 3 1 6 2 3 1 6 6 2 2 0 4 7 2 1 4 7 8 1 4 3 8 9 1 2 1 4 10 1 1 0 2 11 1 0 1 2 1 0 1 2 1 0 1 2 1 0 1 2 15 0 2 0 2 16 0 1 1 2 17 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 22 0 0 2 2 23 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 totaal 36 36 36 108

Externe links Link naar het officieel rapport van de Olympische Zomerspelen 1968