Ice hockey at the 1968 Winter Olympics

At the 1968 Winter Olympics held in Grenoble, France, one Ice Hockey event was held: men's Ice Hockey. This tournament also counted as IIHF World Championship and IIHF European Championship. Games were held at the Palais des Sports.

Highlights

This was the last IIHF tournament where three titles (Olympic, World and European) were contested.

In their penultimate match of the tournament, the USSR team lost to the Czechoslovakian team, which gave a tie-breaking advantage to the latter as each team had a record of 5 wins, 1 loss (10 points) with one game remaining. Yet the USSR team was also tied with Canada and would play the Canadians for the final game of the tournament. For teams finishing with identical records, it is games between the tied teams that determines placings. In their final matches of the tournament, Sweden tied with Czechoslovakia, while the USSR won its game that day against Canada, and the triple championship.

To win the championship, Czechoslovakia needed to win its game against Sweden and for Canada to lose or tie its match with USSR. Had Canada won against USSR and Czechoslovakia won its game over Sweden, Canada would have tied Czechoslovakia with 12 points but prevailed in the tie breaker to win the championship.

Medalists

Pos	Team
Gold	Template:URSh
Silver	Template:TCHh
Bronze	Template:CANh

Qualification matches

Winners (in bold) qualify for the Group A to play for 1st-8th places. Teams, which lost their qualification matches, played in Group B for 9th-14th places.

• Finland 11-2 Yugoslavia
• GDR 3-1 Norway
• West Germany 7-0 Romania

Group A

First place team wins gold, second silver and third bronze.

Rank		Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
1	Template:URSh	7	6	1	0	48	10	12
2	Template:TCHh	7	5	1	1	33	17	11
3	Template:CANh	7	5	2	0	28	15	10
4	Template:SWEh	7	4	2	1	23	18	9
5	Template:FINh	7	3	3	1	17	23	7
6	Template:USAh	7	2	4	1	23	28	5
7	Template:FRGh	7	1	6	0	13	39	2
8	East Germany	7	0	7	0	13	48	0

• USSR 5-0 Canada
• USSR 3-2 Sweden
• USSR 8-0 Finland
• USSR 10-2 USA
• USSR 9-1 West Germany
• USSR 9-0 East Germany
• Czechoslovakia 5-4 USSR
• Czechoslovakia 2-2 Sweden
• Czechoslovakia 4-3 Finland
• Czechoslovakia 5-1 USA
• Czechoslovakia 5-1 West Germany
• Czechoslovakia 10-3 East Germany
• Canada 3-2 Czechoslovakia
• Canada 3-0 Sweden
• Canada 3-2 USA
• Canada 6-1 West Germany
• Canada 11-0 East Germany
• Sweden 5-1 Finland
• Sweden 4-3 USA
• Sweden 5-4 West Germany
• Sweden 5-2 East Germany
• Finland 5-2 Canada
• Finland 1-1 USA
• Finland 4-1 West Germany
• Finland 3-2 East Germany
• USA 8-1 West Germany
• USA 6-4 East Germany
• West Germany 4-2 East Germany

Group B

Teams in this group play for 9th-14th places.

Rank		Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
9	Yugoslavia	5	5	0	0	33	9	10
10	Template:JPNh	5	4	1	0	27	12	8
11	Template:NORh	5	3	2	0	15	15	6
12	File:Romania flag 1947-1989.png Romania	5	2	3	0	22	23	4
13	Template:AUTh	5	1	4	0	12	27	2
14	Template:FRAh	5	0	5	0	9	32	0

• Yugoslavia 5-1 Japan
• Yugoslavia 3-2 Norway
• Yugoslavia 9-5 Romania
• Yugoslavia 6-0 Austria
• Yugoslavia 10-1 France
• Japan 4-0 Norway
• Japan 5-4 Romania
• Japan 11-1 Austria
• Japan 6-2 France
• Norway 4-3 Romania
• Norway 5-4 Austria
• Norway 4-1 France
• Romania 3-2 Austria
• Romania 7-3 France
• Austria 5-2 France

Leading scorers

Rk		GP	G	A	Pts
1	Anatoli Firsov	7	12	4	16
2	Viktor Polupanov	7	6	6	12
2	Viacheslav Starsinov	7	6	6	12
4	Vladimir Vikulov	7	2	10	12
5	Josef Golonka	7	4	6	10
6	Fran Huck	7	4	5	9
7	Jan Hrbaty	7	2	7	9
8	Marshall Johnston	7	2	6	8
8	Jack Morrison	7	2	6	8
10	Vaclav Nedomansky	7	5	2	7

Final ranking

1. USSR
2. Czechoslovakia
3. Canada
4. Sweden
5. Finland
6. United States
7. West Germany
8. East Germany
9. Yugoslavia
10. Japan
11. Norway
12. Romania
13. Austria
14. France