1968 Summer Olympics / Modern Pentathlon
Modern pentathlon in the XIX. Summer Olympics |
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venue | Mexico city |
Competition venue | see schedule |
Nations | 18th |
Athletes | 48 (48 men) |
date | 13-17 October 1968 |
decisions | 2 |
← Tokyo 1964 |
At the XIX. At the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City , two modern pentathlon competitions were held.
Medal table
space | country | total | |||
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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
- ↑ Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games - Chronicle III: Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984 . Sportverlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 , p. 181-182 .