1968 Summer Olympics / Modern Pentathlon

Modern pentathlon in the XIX. Summer Olympics
information
venue	Mexico city
Competition venue	see schedule
Nations	18th
Athletes	48 (48 men)
date	13-17 October 1968
decisions	2
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At the XIX. At the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City , two modern pentathlon competitions were held.

Medal table

space	country				total
1	Hungary	1	1	-	2
2	Sweden	1	-	-	1
3	Soviet Union	-	1	1	2
4th	France	-	-	1	1

Time schedule

date	sport	Competition venue
October 13th	Cross-country ride	Campo Militar 1
October 14th	Epee fencing	Fernando Montes de Oca fencing hall
15th October	Pistol shooting	Poligono de tiro Vicente Suarez
October, 16th	300 m freestyle swimming	Alberca Olímpica Francisco Marquez
October 17th	4000 m cross-country run	Campo Militar 1

Results

singles

space	country	athlete	Points
1	SWE	Bjorn Ferm	4964
2	HUN	András Balczó	4953
3	URS	Pavel Lednyov	4795
4th	GDR	Karl-Heinz Kutschke	4764
5	URS	Borys Onyshchenko	4756
6th	FRA	Raoul Gueguen	4756
7th	HUN	István Móna	4714
8th	GBR	Jeremy Fox	4663
9	URS	Stasys Šaparnis	4656
10	ITA	Mario Medda	4631
15th	GDR	Jörg Tscherner	4515
17th	FRG	Elmar Frings	4506
23	AUT	Wolf-Dietrich Sonnleitner	4371
23	SUI	Alex Tschui	4337
28	AUT	Siegfried Springer	4293
32	FRG	Heiner Thade	4264
40	GDR	Wolfgang Lüderitz	3843
46	FRG	Hans Jürgen Todt	3009
	AUT	Wolfgang Leu	DNF

Date: October 13th to 17th, 1968
48 participants from 18 countries, 46 of them in the ranking

team

space	country	athlete	Points
1	HUN	András Balczó , István Móna , Ferenc Török	14,325
2	URS	Pavel Lednyov , Borys Onyshchenko , Stasys Šaparnis	14,248
3	FRA	Jean-Pierre Giudicelli , Raoul Gueguen , Lucien Guiguet	13,289
4th	United States	Robert Beck , Tom Lough , James Moore	13,280
5	FIN	Seppo Aho , Jorma Hotanen , Martti Ketelä	13,238
6th	GDR	Wolfgang Lüderitz , Karl-Heinz Kutschke , Jörg Tscherner	13,167
7th	JPN	Toshio Fukui , Yūsō Makihira , Katsuaki Tashiro	13,083
8th	GBR	Jeremy Fox , Barry Lillywhite , Robert Phelps	12,893
9	ITA	Nicolo Deligia , Mario Medda , Giancarlo Morresi	12,601
10	MEX	David Bárcena , Eduardo Olivera , Eduardo Tovar	12,414
11	BGR	Ivan Apostolow , Antoni Panjowski , Konstantin Sardschew	11,976
12	OUT	Peter Macken , Donald McMiken , Duncan Page	11,959
13	FRG	Elmar Frings , Heiner Thade , Hans Jürgen Todt	11,834
	AUT	Wolfgang Leu , Wolf-Dietrich Sonnleitner , Siegfried Springer	DNF
	SWE	Björn Ferm , Hans Jacobson , Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall	DSQ

Date: October 13th to 17th, 1968
45 participants from 15 countries, 13 teams in the ranking

The originally third-placed Swedish team was disqualified and their medal revoked because Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall had been doped (too high alcohol level in the blood).

Web links

• Modern pentathlon at the 1968 Summer Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official results of the 1968 Summer Games (PDF, 24.4 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games - Chronicle III: Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984 . Sportverlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 , p. 181-182 .