1968 Olympics: Leading Medal Winners

Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff

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

Men

No  Sport G-S-B
7 Mikhail Voronin, USSR Gymnastics 2-4-1
6 Akinori Nakayama, JPN Gymnastics 4-1-1
4 Charles Hickcox, USA Swimming 3-1-0
4 Sawao Kato, JPN Gymnastics 3-0-1
4 Mark Spitz, USA Swimming 2-1-1
4 Mike Wenden, AUS Swimming 2-1-1
3 Roland Matthes, E. Ger Swimming 2-1-0
3 Ken Walsh, USA Swimming 2-1-0
3 Pierre Trentin, FRA Cycling 2-0-1
3 Vladimir Kosinski, USSR Swimming 0-2-1
3 Leonid Ilyichev, USSR Swimming 0-1-2

Women

No  Sport G-S-B
6 Vera Cáslavská, CZE Gymnastics 4-2-0
4 Sue Pedersen, USA Swimming 2-2-0
4 Natalya Kuchinskaya, USSR Gymnastics 2-0-2
4 Jan Henne, USA Swimming 2-1-1
4 Zinaida Voronina, USSR Gymnastics 1-1-2
3 Debbie Meyer, USA Swimming 3-0-0
3 Kaye Hall, USA Swimming 2-0-1
3 Larissa Petrik, USSR Gymnastics 2-0-1
3 Ellie Daniel, USA Swimming 1-1-1
3 Linda Gustavson, USA Swimming 1-1-1
3 Elaine Tanner, CAN Swimming 0-2-1
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