Mexico 1968
| Opening date | 12.10.1968 |
| Closing date | 27.10.1968 |
| Candidate cities | Detroit, Lyon, Buenos Aires |
| Participating countries | 112 - First time in Olympics (Barbados, Belize, Ginea, Honduras, Central African Republic, Congo, Kuwait, Virgin Islands, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Salvador, Sierra Leone, Suriname, Tanzania, |
| Athletes | 5531 - (781 women, 4750 men) |
| Spectators | 1 457 000 |
| Chairman of Olympic Management Committee | Pedro Ramirez Vezquez |
| The Patron of the Games | President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz |
| Official opening of the Games by | President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz |
| Lighting the Olympic Flame by | Norma Enriqueta Basilio de Sotelo (athletics) |
| Olympic Oath by | Pablo Lugo Garrido (athletics) |
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Discus throw
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| 1 | Alfred | Oerter | USA | 64.78 | |
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| 2 | Lothar | Milde | GDR | 63.08 | |
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| 3 | Ludvik | Danek | TCH | 62.92 | |
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| 4 | Hartmut | Losch | GDR | 62.12 | |
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| 5 | Jay | Silvester | USA | 61.78 | |
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| 6 | Gary | Carlsen | USA | 59.46 | |
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| 7 | Edmund | Piatkowski | POL | 59.4 | |
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| 8 | Rickard | Bruch | SWE | 59.28 | |
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| 9 | Hein-Direck | Neu | GER | 58.66 | |
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| 10 | Günther | Schaumburg | GDR | 58.62 | |
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| 11 | Ferenc | Tegla | HUN | 58.36 | |
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| 12 | Robin | Tait | NZL | 57.68 | |
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