1968 Summer Olympics / Participant (Iceland)

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Iceland participated in the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City with a delegation of eight athletes (six men and two women) in 15 competitions in three sports. None of the athletes managed to win a medal. The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was the athlete Guðmundur Hermannsson .

Participants by sport

Weightlifting

• Óskar Sigurpálsson

  Middle Heavyweight: disqualified

athletics

Men

• Jón Ólafsson

  High jump: eliminated in qualification

• Guðmundur Hermannsson

  Shot put: eliminated in qualifying

• Valbjörn Þorláksson

  Decathlon: competition not finished

swim

Men

• Gudmunður Gíslason

  100 m freestyle: prelims

  200 m butterfly: heats

  200 m layers: heats

  400 m layers: heats

• Leiknir Jónsson

  100 m chest: heats

  200 m chest: heats

Women

• Hrafnhildur Guðmundsdóttir

  100 m freestyle: prelims

  200 m freestyle: prelims

  200 m layers: heats

• Ellen Ingvadóttir

  100 m chest: heats

  200 m chest: heats

  200 m layers: heats

Web links

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