1968 Summer Olympics / Participant (Venezuela)

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Venezuela took part in the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City with a delegation of 23 male athletes in 17 competitions in five sports. Boxer Francisco Rodríguez became an Olympic light flyweight champion , which was also the only medal win by a Venezuelan athlete at the Games.

Participants by sport

Boxing

• Francisco Rodríguez

  Light flyweight: eliminated in the quarterfinals

• Félix Marquez

  Flyweight: eliminated in the 1st round

• Armando Mendoza

  Lightweight: eliminated in the last sixteen

• Nelson Ruiz

  Light welterweight: eliminated in the second round

fencing

• Silvio Fernández

  Foil: eliminated in the 1st round

  Epee: eliminated in the quarterfinals

  Foil team: eliminated in the 1st round

• Félix Piñero

  Foil: eliminated in the 1st round

  Epee: eliminated in the 1st round

  Foil team: eliminated in the 1st round

• Freddy Salazar

  Foil: eliminated in the 1st round

  Foil team: eliminated in the 1st round

• Luis García

  Foil team: eliminated in the 1st round

athletics

Men

• Horacio Esteves

  100 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Manuel Planchart

  100 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

• José Jacinto Hidalgo

  400 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 400 meter relay: eliminated in the run-up

• Víctor Maldonado

  400 m hurdles: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 400 meter relay: eliminated in the run-up

• Víctor Patíñez

  4 x 400 meter relay: eliminated in the run-up

• Raúl Dome

  4 x 400 meter relay: eliminated in the run-up

shoot

• Edgar Espinoza

  Free pistol 50 m: 37th place

• Juan Llabot

  Small bore rifle, three-position fight, 50 m: 52nd place

• Enrico Forcella

  Small bore rifle lying 50 m: 44th place

• Boris Loginov

  Small bore rifle lying 50 m: 55th place

• Ivo Orlandi

  Trap: 32nd place

sailing

• Karsten Boysen

  Finn dinghy: 30th place

• Daniel Trujillo

  Dragons: 22nd place

• Frohmund Burger

  Dragons: 22nd place

• Hervé Roche

  Dragons: 22nd place

Web links

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