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Soviet Union at the 1968 Summer Olympics

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.

Medalists

The USSR finished second in the final medal rankings, with 29 gold and 91 total medals.

Gold

Silver

Bronze

Athletics

Basketball

Boxing

Canoeing

Cycling

Fifteen cyclists represented the Soviet Union in 1968.

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

Diving

Equestrian

Fencing

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

Modern pentathlon

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 Å aparnis

Rowing

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

Men's single sculls
  • Viktor Melnikov (Виктор Мельников)
Men's double sculls – 1st place ( 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
  • Leonid Drachevsky (Леонид Драчевский)
  • Tiit Helmja (Тийт Хельмя)
  • Igor Rudakov (Игорь Рудаков)
Men's coxless four – 11th place
  • Vitolds Barkāns (Витольдс Барканс)
  • Elmārs RubÄ«ns (Эльмар Рубинс)
  • Pavel Ilyinsky (Павел Ильинский)
  • Guntis Niedra (Гунтис Ниедра)
Men's coxed four – 6th place
  • Anatoly Nemtyryov (Анатолий Немтырёв)
  • Nikolay Surov (Николай Суров)
  • Aleksey Mishin (Алексей Мишин)
  • Arkady Kudinov (Аркадий Кудинов) – competed in the semi-final only
  • Boris Duyunov (Борис Дуюнов) – did not compete in the semi-final
  • Viktor Mikheyev (Виктор Михеев) – cox
Men's eight – 3rd place ( bronze medal)
  • Zigmas Jukna (Зигмас Юкна)
  • Antanas Bagdonavičius (Антанас Багдонавичюс)
  • Volodymyr Sterlik (Володимир Стерлик)
  • Juozas Jagelavičius (Йозас Ягелавичюс)
  • Aleksandr Martyshkin (Александр Мартышкин)
  • Vytautas Briedis (Витаутас Бриедис)
  • Valentyn Kravchuk (Валентин Кравчук)
  • Viktor Suslin (Виктор Суслин)
  • Yuriy Lorentsson (Юрий Лоренцсон) – cox

Sailing

Shooting

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

Volleyball

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
*Eduard Sibiryakov
*Valeri Kravchenko
*Vladimir Belyayev
*Yevgeni Lapinsky
*Oleg Antropov
*Vasilius Matushevas
*Viktor Mikhalchuk
*Yuri Poyarkov
*Boris Tereshchuk
*Vladimir Ivanov
*Ivan Bugaenkov
*Georgi Mondzolevsky
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
*Lyudmila Buldakova
*Lyudmila Mikhailkovskaya
*Tatyana Veinberga
*Vera Lantratova
*Vera Galushka-Duyunova
*Tatyana Sarycheva
*Tatyana Ponyaeva-Tretyakova
*Nina Smoleeva
*Inna Ryskal
*Galina Leontyeva
*Roza Salikhova
*Valentina Kamenek-Vinogradova

Water polo

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
  • Team Roster
*Aleksey Barkalov
*Aleksandr Dolgushin
*Aleksandr Shidlovsky
*Boris Grishin
*Givi Chikvanaya
*Leonid Osipov
*Oleg Bovin
*Vadim Gulyaev
*Vladimir Semyonov
*Vyacheslav Skok
*Yury Grigorovsky

Weightlifting

Wrestling

Medals by republic

In the following table for team events number of team representatives, who received medals are counted, not "one medal for all the team", as usual. Because there were people from different republics in one team.

References

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