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1968 Olympics

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For the first time since they began attending the Winter Games in 1956, the Russians did not win the most medals—Norway did.

This was also the first year that the IOC permitted East and West Germany to participate as separate countries.

The host French team finished fourth in the overall standings—their best showing ever—thanks mainly to 24–year-old Jean-Claude Killy, who became the first skier to sweep all three Alpine events since Toni Sailer in 1956.

Killy was awarded his third gold medal in the slalom only after original winner Karl Schranz of Austria was disqualified for missing two gates on his second run in the two-heat race. Schranz had been allowed to retake his second heat run when a spectator interrupted his initial attempt, but officials ruled the missed gates came before the interruption.

Once again, the U.S. won only one gold medal—19–year-old Peggy Fleming in women's figure skating. Three of the five silver medals won by the U.S. came in one event—the women's 500–meter speed skating race, where Jenny Fish, Dianne Holum and Mary Myers tied for second place with a time of 46.3 seconds.

Top 10 Standings

National medal standings are not recognized by the IOC. The unofficial point totals are based on 3 points for a gold medal, 2 for a silver and 1 for a bronze. Total medals are in parentheses.

		Gold	Silver	Bronze	Pts
1	Norway (14)	6	6	2	32
2	USSR (13)	5	5	3	28
3	Austria (11)	3	4	4	21
4	France (9)	4	3	2	20
5	Holland (9)	3	3	3	18
6	Sweden (8)	3	2	3	16
7	USA (7)	1	5	1	14
8	West Germany (7)	2	2	3	13
9	Italy (4)	4	0	0	12
10	East Germany (5)	1	2	2	9
	Finland (5)	1	2	2	9

Leading Medal Winners

Number of individual medals won on the left; gold, silver and bronze breakdown to the right.

Men

No		Sport	G-S-B
3	Jean-Claude Killy, FRA	Alpine	3-0-0
3	Eero Mäntyranta, FIN	X-country	0-1-2
2	Eugenio Monti, ITA	Bobsled	2-0-0
2	Luciano De Paolis, ITA	Bobsled	2-0-0
2	Ole Ellefsaeter, NOR	X-country	2-0-0
2	Harald Grönningen, NOR	X-country	2-0-0
2	Thomas Köhler, E.Ger.	Luge	1-1-0
2	Fred Maier, NOR	Sp. Skate	1-1-0
2	Odd Martinsen, NOR	X-country	1-1-0
2	Jiri Raska, CZE	Ski Jump	1-1-0
2	Manfred Schmid, AUT	Luge	1-1-0
2	Magnar Solberg, NOR	Biathlon	1-1-0
2	Aleksandr Tikhonov, USSR	Biathlon	1-1-0
2	Kees Verkerk, NED	Sp. Skate	1-1-0
2	Klaus Bonsack, E. Ger.	Luge	1-0-1
2	Vladimir Goundartsev, USSR	Biathlon	1-0-1
2	Gunnar Larsson, SWE	X-country	0-1-1

Women

No		Sport	G-S-B
3	Toini Gustafsson, SWE	X-country	2-1-0
2	Carolina Geijssen, NED	Sp. Skate	1-1-0
2	Nancy Greene, CAN	Alpine	1-1-0
2	Berit Mördre, NOR	X-country	1-1-0
2	Kaija Mustonen, FIN	Sp. Skate	1-1-0
2	Lyudmila Titova, USSR	Sp. Skate	1-1-0
2	Inger Aufles, NOR	X-country	1-0-1
2	Annie Famose, FRA	Alpine	0-1-1
2	Dianne Holum, USA	Sp. Skate	0-1-1
2	Galina Kulakova, USSR	X-country	0-1-1
2	Christina Kaiser, NED	Sp. Skate	0-0-2
2	Alevtina Kolchina, USSR	X-country	0-0-2

Alpine Skiing

Men

Event		Time
Downhill	Jean-Claude Killy, FRA	1:59.85
Slalom	Jean-Claude Killy, FRA	1:39.73
G.Slalom	Jean-Claude Killy, FRA	3:29.28

Women

Event		Time
Downhill	Olga Pall, AUT	1:40.87
Slalom	Marielle Goitschel, FRA	1:25.86
G.Slalom	Nancy Greene, CAN	1:51.97

Biathlon

Event		MT	Adj.Time
20 km	Magnar Solberg, NOR	0	1:13:45.9
4x7.5km	USSR (Tikonov, Pousanov,
	Mamatov, Goundartsev)	2	2:13:02.4

Bobsled

Event		Time
2-Man	ITA (Eugenio Monti & Luciano De Paolis)	4:41.54
4-Man	ITA (Eugenio Monti, Luciano De Paolis,
	Roberto Zandonella, Mario Armano)	2:17.39

Figure Skating

Event		Points
Men	Wolfgang Schwarz, AUT	1904.1
Women	Peggy Fleming, USA	1970.5
Pairs	Lyudmila Belousova
	& Oleg Protopopov, USSR	315.2

Ice Hockey

Group A

(Overall records in parentheses)

		Gm	W-L-T	Pts	GF	GA
1	USSR	7	6-1-0	12	48	10
2	Czecholslovakia	7	5-1-1	11	33	17
3	Canada	7	5-2-0	10	28	15
4	Sweden	7	4-2-1	9	23	18
5	Finland (4-3-1)	7	3-3-1	9	17	23
6	USA	7	2-4-1	5	23	28
7	West Germany (2-6-0)	7	1-6-0	2	13	39
8	East Germany (1-7-0)	7	0-7-0	0	13	48

Note: Finland and the two Germanys had to win an elimination round game to qualify for Group A.

Luge

Men

Event		Time
1-Seat	Manfred Schmid, AUT	2:52.48
2-Seat	Klaus Bonsack & Thomas Köhler, E. Ger	1:35.85

Women

Event		Time
1-Seat	Erica Lechner, ITA	2:28.66

Note: Defending champion Ortrun Enderlein and teammate Anna Maria Müller of East Germany finished 1–2, but were disqualified for heating the blades of their toboggans.

Nordic Skiing

Men

Cross Country

Event		Time
15km	Harold Grönningen, NOR	47:54.2
30km	Franco Nones, ITA	1:35:39.2
50km	Ole Ellefsaeter, NOR	2:28:45.8
4x10km	NOR (Martinsen, Tyldum, Grönningen,
	Ellefsaeter)	2:08:33.5