1968 Summer Olympics / Participant (Great Britain)

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Great Britain took part in the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City with a delegation of 225 athletes (175 men and 50 women) in 133 competitions in sixteen sports. The most successful Olympian was eventing rider Derek Allhusen with two medals. A total of four medal wins were recorded in both riding and athletics. The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was long jumper Lynn Davies , at the closing ceremony David Hemery , winner of the 400 meter hurdles,worethe Union Jack .

Participants by sport

Boxing

Men

• Eric Blake
• Mickey Carter
• Johnny Cheshire
• Chris Finnegan

  Gold middleweight

• Johnny McGonigle
• John H. Stracey
• Alan Tottoh
• Terry Waller
• Billy Wells

fencing

Men David Acfield Teddy Bourne Mike Breckin Rodney Craig Nick Halsted Bill Hoskyns Peter Jacobs Allan Jay Ralph Johnson Sandy Leckie Richard Oldcorn Graham Paul

Women Margaret Bain Janet Bewley-Cathie-Wardell-Yerburgh Eva Davies Julia Davis Sue Green

Weightlifting

Men

• Peter Arthur
• Sylvanus Blackman
• Louis Martin
• Precious McKenzie
• Mike Pearman
• Terry Perdue
• Gerald Perrin

hockey

Men

• 12th place

• Jeremy Barham
• Harry Cahill
• Gerald Carr
• Basil Christensen
• Jim Deegan
• Charles Donald
• Tony Ekins
• Roger Flood
• Timothy Lawson
• Stuart Morris
• John W. Neill
• Richard Oliver
• Malcolm Read
• Keith Sinclair
• Andrew Trentham
• Campbell Whalley
• David Wilman
• Peter Wilson

canoe

Men Alan Edwards John Glavin Peter Lawler Michael Mean John Oliver Mark Whitby Alistair Wilson

Women Sylvia Jackson Barbara Mean Lesley Oliver

athletics

Men Bill Adcocks Jim Alder Fred Alsop Ralph Banthorpe Maurice Benn Alan Blinston Derek Boosey John Boulter Gareth Bryan-Jones Mike Bull Colin Campbell Chris Carter John Cooper Dave Cropper Howard Davies Lynn Davies Bryan Eley David Hemery Gold 400 m hurdles Maurice Herriott Ron Hill Jim Hogan Bob Hughes John Jackson Tim Johnston Arthur Jones Ron Jones Barrie Kelly Alan Lerwill Shaun Lightman Clive lunge Paul Nihill Mike Parker Alan Pascoe Howard Payne Peter Reed Allan Rushmer John Sherwood Bronze 400 m hurdles Joseph Speake Dick Steane Stuart Storey Mike Tagg Bill Tancred Dick Taylor Jeff Teale Dave Travis John Webb John Whetton Martin Winbolt-Lewis

Women Maureen Chitty Lillian Board Silver 400 m Mary Green Barbara Inkpen Della Pascoe Pat Jones Pat Lowe Anita Neil Joan Allison Sheila Sherwood Silver long jump Val Peat Mary Peters Sue Platt Pat Pryce Sue Reeve Dorothy Shirley Janet Simpson Sheila Carey Maureen Tranter Ann Wilson

Modern pentathlon

Men

• Jim Fox
• Barry Lillywhite
• Robert Phelps

Cycling

Men

• Ian Alsop
• Reg Barnett
• John Bettison
• Billy Bilsland
• Roy Cromack
• Ian Hallam
• Harry Jackson
• Brian Jolly
• Ron Keeble
• Brendan McKeown
• Dave Rollinson
• Pete Smith
• John Watson
• Les West

horse riding

• Derek Allhusen

  Silver eventing individual

  Gold eventing team

• David Broome

  Bronze individual jumping

• Jane cops

  Gold eventing team

• Marion Coakes

  Silver jumping individual

• Johanna Hall
• Lorna Johnstone
• Ben jones

  Gold eventing team

• Domini Lawrence
• Richard Meade

  Gold eventing team

• Harvey Smith

Wrestling

Men

• Ron Grinstead
• John McCourtney
• Tony Shacklady
• Roger Till

rowing

Men

• Andrew Bayles
• Bruce Carter
• Matthew Cooper
• Kenneth Dwan
• Timothy Kirk
• Peter Knapp
• Malcolm Malpass
• John Mullard
• Peter Thomas
• Patrick Wright
• Robin Yarrow

shoot

• Alister Allan
• Alec Bonnett
• Bob Braithwaite

  Gold trap

• Tony Clark
• Eric Grantham
• Robert Hassell
• Marcus Loader
• John Palin
• Colin Sephton
• Charles Sexton

swim

Men David Hembrow Joseph Jackson Tony Jarvis Roddy Jones Bobby McGregor Roger Roberts Stuart Roberts Raymond Terrell John Thurley Mike Turner Martyn Woodroffe Silver 200 m butterfly

Women Margaret Auton Jacqueline Brown Wendy Burrell Sheila Clayton Sally Davison Diana Harris Dorothy Harrison Alexandra Jackson Fiona Kellock Shelagh Ratcliffe Jill Slattery Gillian Treers Susan Williams

sailing

• Robin Aisher

  Bronze 5.5 mR class

• Paul Anderson

  Bronze 5.5 mR class

• Adrian Jardine

  Bronze 5.5 mR class

• Stuart Jardine
• Robin Judah
• Iain MacDonald-Smith

  Gold Flying Dutchman

• Michael Maynard
• Rodney Pattison

  Gold Flying Dutchman

• James Ramus
• Charles Reynolds
• David Tucker

do gymnastics

Men Michael Booth Stan Wild

Women Margaret Bell Mary Prestidge

Diving

Men Robin Baskerville Frank Carter David Priestley

Women Mandi Haswell Kathy Rowlatt

Web links

• British Olympic team from 1968 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )