1968 Summer Olympics / Sailing

Sailing at the 1968 Summer Olympics
information
venue	Acapulco
Competition venue	Club de Yates de Acapulco
Nations	41
Athletes	251 (251 )
date	14.-21. October 1968
decisions	5
← Tokyo 1964 Munich 1972 →

At the XIX. At the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City , five sailing competitions were held. The venue was Acapulco .

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country
1	United States	2	-	-	2
2	Great Britain	1	-	1	2
3	Sweden	1	-	-	2
	Soviet Union	1	-	-	3
5	Denmark	-	1	-	1
	BR Germany	-	1	-	1
	Norway	-	1	-	1
	Austria	-	1	-	1
	Switzerland	-	1	-	1
10	Italy	-	-	2	2
11	Brazil	-	-	1	1
	GDR	-	-	1	1
total		5	5	5	15th

Medalist

discipline	gold	silver	bronze
Finn dinghy	Valentin Mankin	Hubert Raudaschl	Fabio Albarelli
Flying Dutchman	Great Britain Iain MacDonald-Smith Rodney Pattison	BR Germany Ullrich Libor Peter Naumann	Brazil Reinaldo Conrad Burkhard Cordes
star	United States Lowell North Peter Barrett	Norway Peder Lunde Jr. Per Olav Wiken	Italy Franco Cavallo Camillo Gargano
Dragons	United States George Friedrichs Barton Jahncke Gerald Schreck	Denmark Aage Birch Paul Lindemark Jørgensen Niels Markussen	GDR Paul Borowski Konrad Weichert Karl-Heinz Thun
5.5 mR class	Sweden Jörgen Sundelin Peter Sundelin Ulf Sundelin	Switzerland Bernard Dunand Louis Noverraz Marcel Stern	Great Britain Robin Aisher Paul Anderson Adrian Jardine

Results

Finn dinghy

space	country	athlete	Points
1	URS	Valentin Mankin	11.7
2	AUT	Hubert Raudaschl	53.4
3	ITA	Fabio Albarelli	55.1
4th	OUT	Ronald Jenyns	67.0
5	GRE	Panagiotis Kouligas	71.0
6th	FIN	Jan Winquist	72.0
7th	SWE	Arne Akerson	77.0
8th	FRA	Philippe Soria	80.0

star

space	country	Athletes	Points
1	United States	Lowell North Peter Barrett	14.4
2	NOR	Peder lunde jr. Per Olav Wiken	43.7
3	ITA	Franco Cavallo Camillo Gargano	44.7
4th	THE	Paul Elvstrøm Poul Mik-Meyer	50.4
5	BAH	Durward Knowles Percival Knowles	63.4
6th	OUT	David Forbes Richard Williamson	68.7
7th	BRA	Erik Schmidt Axel Schmidt	74.4
8th	SUI	Edwin Bernet Rolf Amrein	75.0

Flying Dutchman

space	country	Athletes	Points
1	GBR	Iain MacDonald-Smith Rodney Pattison	3.0
2	FRG	Ullrich Libor Peter Naumann	43.7
3	BRA	Reinaldo Conrad Burkhard Cordes	48.4
4th	OUT	Carl Ryves James Sargeant	49.1
5	NOR	Bjørn Lofterød Odd Roar Lofterød	52.4
6th	FRA	Bertrand Cheret Bruno Trouble	68.0
7th	CAN	Roger Green Stewart Green	79.0
8th	NZL	Geoffrey Smale Ralph Roberts	84.0

Dragons

space	country	Athletes	Points
1	United States	George Friedrichs Barton Jahncke Gerald Schreck	6.0
2	THE	Aage Birch Paul Lindemark Jørgensen Niels Markussen	26.4
3	GDR	Paul Borowski Karl-Heinz Thun Konrad Weichert	32.7
4th	CAN	Steve Tupper David Miller Tim Irwin	64.1
5	OUT	John Cuneo Thomas Anderson John Ferguson	65.0
6th	SUI	Gunnar Broberg Lennart Eisner Sven Hanson	71.4
7th	FRG	Klaus Oldendorff Peter Stülcken Axel May	74.0
8th	FRA	Michel Briand Michel Alexandre Pierre Blanchard	81.4

5.5 mR class

space	country	Athletes	Points
1	SWE	Jörgen Sundelin Peter Sundelin Ulf Sundelin	8.0
2	SUI	Bernard Dunand Louis Noverraz Marcel Stern	32.0
3	GBR	Robin Aisher Paul Anderson Adrian Jardine	39.8
4th	FRG	Rudolf Harmstorf Karl-August Stolze Harald Stein	47.4
5	ITA	Giuseppe Zucchinetti Antonio Carattino Domenico Carattino	51.1
6th	CAN	Stanley Leibel Ernest Weiss Jack Bunnies	68.0
7th	OUT	William Solomons James Hardy Gilbert Kaufman	69.4
8th	United States	Gardner Cox Stephen Colgate Stuart Walker	74.7

Web links

• Sailing at the 1968 Summer Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )