The 1968 Winter Olympics, officially known as the X Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event held in Grenoble, France, from 6 to 18 February 1968. A total of 1,158 athletes representing 37 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated in 35 events from 10 different sports and disciplines. The Olympic programme was largely unchanged from four years prior in Innsbruck; one event was added, a relay event in biathlon.
Norway won the most medals, with 14, and the most gold medals with 6. The Soviet Union finished second in both tallies, with 5 golds and 13 medals in total. Of the 37 NOCs to participate at Grenoble, 15 won at least one medal, with 13 of those winning at least one gold medal. East and West Germany entered separate teams for the first time, having competed together in the three prior Winter Olympics. Both nations won gold medals, their first competing as different nations. Czechoslovakia won its first gold Winter Olympics medal, achieved by Jiří Raška in the ski jumping normal hill event. Romania won its first, and as of the 2018 Winter Olympics, only medal in a Winter Olympics in the two-man bobsleigh event.
Jean-Claude Killy of France was the most successful athlete at these games, winning all three of the men's alpine skiing events. Two other athletes each won three medals: Sweden's Toini Gustafsson earned two golds and a silver, and Finland's Eero Mäntyranta won a silver and two bronzes. Both of them were competitors in cross-country skiing. Four other athletes—Luciano de Paolis, Ole Ellefsæter, Harald Grønningen, and Eugenio Monti—won two gold medals, and 29 individuals in total won at least two medals in Grenoble. In speed skating, three different events ended with ties for the silver medal position, one, the women's 500 metres ended in a three-way tie for silver. In all three cases, multiple silver medals and no bronze medals were awarded. In figure skating, American Peggy Flemming won the gold medal in ladies' singles; this came a mere seven years after the 1961 crash of Sabena Flight 548 that killed the entire US figure skating team.
Alpine skiing
Men's downhillMen's giant slalom Men's slalom Women's downhill Women's giant slalom Women's slalom
Biathlon
Men's Individual Men's RelayAleksandr TikhonovNikolay PuzanovViktor MamatovVladimir GundartsevOla WærhaugOlav JordetMagnar SolbergJon IstadLars-Göran ArwidsonTore ErikssonOlle PetrussonHolmfrid Olsson
Bobsleigh
Two-man Eugenio MontiLuciano De PaolisHorst FlothPepi BaderIon PanțuruNicolae Neagoe Four-man Eugenio Monti Luciano De Paolis Roberto Zandonella Mario ArmanoErwin Thaler Reinhold Durnthaler Herbert Gruber Josef EderJean Wicki Hans Candrian Willi Hofmann Walter Graf
Cross-country skiing
Men's 15 km Men's 30 km Men's 50 km Men's 4×10 km Odd MartinsenPål TyldumHarald GrønningenOle Ellefsæter Jan HalvarssonBjarne AnderssonGunnar LarssonAssar Rönnlund Kalevi OikarainenHannu TaipaleKalevi LaurilaEero Mäntyranta Women's 5 km Women's 10 km Women's 3×5 km Inger AuflesBabben EngerBerit Mørdre Lammedal Barbro MartinssonToini GustafssonBritt Strandberg Alevtina KolchinaRita AchkinaGalina Kulakova
Figure skating
Men's singles Ladies' singles Pairs Liudmila BelousovaOleg Protopopov Tatiana ZhukAlexander Gorelik Margot GlockshuberWolfgang Danne
Ice hockey
Men's teamViktor KonovalenkoViktor ZingerViktor BlinovVitalij DavidovViktor KuzkinAlexandr RagulinOleg ZaytsevIgor RomishevskyAnatolij FirsovVyacheslav StarshinovViktor PolupanovVladimir VikulovVenjamin AlexandrovYury MoiseyevYevgeni MishakovYevgeni ZiminAnatoly IonovBoris MajorovVladimír NadrchalVladimír DzurillaJosef HorešovskýJan SuchýKarel MasopustFrantišek PospíšilOldřich MachačJozef GolonkaJan HrbatýVáclav NedomanskýJan HavelJaroslav JiříkJosef ČernýFrantišek ŠevčíkPetr HejmaJiří HolíkJiří KochtaJan KlapáčRoger BourbonnaisKen BroderickRay CadieuxPaul ConlinGary DineenBrian GlennieTed HargreavesFran HuckMarshall JohnstonBarry MacKenzieBill MacMillanSteve MonteithMorris MottTerry O'MalleyDanny O'SheaGerry PinderHerb PinderWayne Stephenson
Luge
Men's singles Women's singles Doubles Klaus-Michael Bonsack Thomas Köhler Manfred Schmid Ewald Walch Wolfgang Winkler Fritz Nachmann
Nordic combined
Individual
Ski jumping
Normal hill individual Large hill individual
Speed skating
Men's 500 metres None awarded Men's 1500 metres None awardedMen's 5000 metres Men's 10000 metres Women's 500 metres None awardedWomen's 1000 metres Women's 1500 metres Women's 3000 metres
Multiple medalists Athletes who won three medals or two gold medals during the 1968 Winter Olympics are listed below. Athlete Nation SportGoldSilverBronze TotalAlpine skiing 3 0 0 3Cross-country skiing 2 1 0 3Cross-country skiing 0 1 2 3Bobsleigh 2 0 0 2Cross-country skiing 2 0 0 2Cross-country skiing 2 0 0 2Bobsleigh 2 0 0 2
Notes No bronze medal was awarded in this event because two competitors tied for second place with a time of 40.5 seconds. No bronze medal was awarded in this event because two competitors tied for second place with a time of 2 minutes 5.0 seconds. No bronze medal was awarded in this event because three competitors tied for second place with a time of 46.3 seconds.
See also 1968 Winter Olympics medal table
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The three women's 500 metre speed skaters on the podium