Israel competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico. 29 competitors, 26 men and 3 women, took part in 20 events in 4 sports.
Results by event
Athletics
EventParticipantResultRef50 km walkShaul Ladany24th placeTime: 5.1.6.400 meter womenHana Shezifi7th in 3rd elimination heatTime: 56.3800 meter womenHana Shezifi6th in 2nd elimination headTime: 2:09.2
Football
Preliminary round - Group C During the Group C competition, Ghana replaced Morocco, after Morocco refused to play Israel. Standings Team321082+65320186+24302168−22301228−61
Matches
Quarter-finals
Final ranking
Bracket
Matches
Bulgaria progressed after a drawing of lots.
Goal scorers 4 goals Yehoshua Feigenbaum
2 goals Giora Spiegel
1 goal Mordechai Spiegler Rachamim Talbi Shraga Bar
Squad Head coach: Emmanuel Scheffer No.Pos.PlayerDoBAgeCapsClubTournamentgamesTournamentgoalsMinutesplayedSub offSub onCardsyellow/red 1 GK Haim Levin 3 Mar 1937 31 ? Maccabi Tel Aviv 3 0 300 0 0 0 2 DF Shraga Bar 24 Mar 1948 21 ? Maccabi Netanya 4 1 293 0 1 1 3 DF Menachem Bello 26 Dec 1947 20 ? Maccabi Tel Aviv 4 0 390 0 0 0 4 DF Zvi Rosen 23 Jun 1947 21 ? Maccabi Tel Aviv 4 0 390 0 0 3 5 DF Yisha'ayahu Schwager 10 Feb 1946 22 ? Maccabi Haifa 3 0 196 2 0 0 6 MF Shmuel Rosenthal 22 Apr 1947 21 ? Hapoel Petah Tikva 3 0 300 0 0 1 7 FW Rachamim Talbi 17 May 1943 25 ? Maccabi Tel Aviv 3 1 238 0 0 1 1 8 MF Giora Spiegel 27 Jul 1947 21 ? Maccabi Tel Aviv 4 2 390 0 0 0 9 FW Yehoshua Feigenbaum 5 Dec 1947 20 ? Hapoel Tel Aviv 4 4 390 0 0 0 10 FW Mordechai Spiegler 19 Aug 1944 23 ? Maccabi Netanya 4 1 390 0 0 0 11 MF Roby Young 15 May 1942 26 ? Hapoel Haifa 2 0 120 1 1 0 12 FW Itzhak Drucker 3 Jul 1947 21 ? Hapoel Petah Tikva 3 0 211 0 0 1 13 MF George Borba 12 Jul 1944 23 ? Hapoel Tel Aviv 3 0 225 1 0 0 14 DF Yitzhak Englander 30 Apr 1946 22 ? Hapoel Haifa 1 0 45 0 1 0 15 MF Itzhak Shum 1 Sep 1948 19 ? Hapoel Kfar Saba 0 0 0 0 0 0 16 DF David Karako 11 Feb 1945 23 ? Maccabi Tel Aviv 1 0 70 1 0 0 17 FW Nachman Castro 23 Jan 1948 20 ? Hapoel Tel Aviv 1 0 20 0 1 0 18 GK Zion Digmi 8 May 1942 26 ? Hapoel Ramat Gan 0 0 0 0 0 0 19 GK Shmuel Malika-Aharon 1 Jan 1947 21 ? Bnei Yehuda 1 0 90 0 0 0
Shooting
Four shooters, all men, represented Israel in 1968.
EventParticipantResultRef 50 m Rifle - Prone positionNehemia Sirkis28thHenry Herscovici45th50 m PistolMichael Marton47th 50 m Rifle - Three positionsHenry Herscovici41stZelig Shtroch51st
Swimming
GenderEventParticipantResultRef Men's200 m freestyleAmnon Krauz5th in 2nd elimination heatTime: 2:01.6100 m freestyleAmnon Krauz6th in 9th elimination heatTime: 57.2100 m breaststrokeYohan Kende6th in 5th elimination heatTime: 1:12.3 200 m breaststrokeGershon Shefa7th in 3rd elimination heatYohan Kende8th in 4th elimination heat100 m butterflyAbraham Melamed4th in semi-finalsTime: 59.6 200 m butterflyAbraham Melamed3rd in 1st elimination heatGershon Shefa5th in 6th elimination heat Women's100 m breaststrokeShlomit Nir3rd in 2nd elimination heatTime: 1:20.9200 m breaststrokeShlomit Nir5th in 3rd elimination heat100 m butterflyYvonne Tobis3rd in 3rd elimination heatTime: 1:12.0200 m individual medleyYvonne Tobis4th in 1st elimination heatTime: 2:41.0400 m individual medleyYvonne Tobis6th in 4th elimination heat
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