100m

1968-10-14, wind: +0.3
Rank Result Name Country Wind Info
1 9.95 Jim Hines USA +0.3 PB (Alltime-109)
2 10.04 Lennox Miller JAM +0.3 PB (Alltime-300)
3 10.07 Charles Greene USA +0.3

200m

1968-10-16, wind: +0.9
Rank Result Name Country Wind Info
1 19.83 Tommie Smith USA +0.9 PB (Alltime-44)
2 20.06 Peter Norman AUS +0.9 PB (Alltime-140), CR, NR
3 20.10 John Carlos USA +0.9
4 20.34 Edwin Roberts TTO +0.9 PB (Alltime-495)

400m

1968-10-18
Rank Result Name Country Info
1 43.86 Lee Evans USA PB (Alltime-19)
2 43.97 Larry James USA PB (Alltime-25)
3 44.41 Ronald Freeman USA PB (Alltime-95)
4 45.01 Amadou Gakou SEN PB (Alltime-390)

800m

1968-10-15
Rank Result Name Country Info
1 1:44.40 Ralph Doubell AUS PB (Alltime-238)
2 1:44.57 Wilson Kiprugut KEN PB (Alltime-271)
3 1:45.46 Thomas Farrell USA PB (Alltime-616)
4 1:45.83 Walter Adams FRG
5 1:45.99 Jozef Plachý CZE

1500m

1968-10-20
Rank Result Name Country Info
1 3:34.91 Kipchoge Keino KEN PB (Alltime-454)
2 3:37.89 Jim Ryun USA

110m h

1968-10-17, wind: ±0.0
Rank Result Name Country Wind Info
1 13.33 Willie Davenport USA ±0.0 PB (Alltime-204)
2 13.42 Ervin Hall USA ±0.0
3 13.46 Eddy Ottoz ITA ±0.0 PB (Alltime-399)

400m h

1968-10-15
Rank Result Name Country Info
1 48.12 David Hemery GBR PB (Alltime-86)

4x100m

1968-10-20
Rank Result Name Country Info
1 38.24 Charles Greene,
Mel Pender,
Ronnie Ray Smith,
Jim Hines
USA Alltime-297
2 38.39 Hermes Ramírez,
Juan Morales,
Pablo Montes,
Enrique Figuerola
CUB Alltime-452
3 38.42 Gérard Fenouil,
Jocelyn Delecour,
Claude Piquemal,
Roger Bambuck
FRA Alltime-491
4 38.46 Erroll Stewart,
Michael Fray,
Clifton Forbes,
Lennox Miller
JAM
5 38.66 Heinz Erbstößer,
Hartmut Schelter,
Peter Haase,
Harald Eggers
GDR Alltime-912
6 38.76 Karl-Peter Schmidtke,
Gerd Metz,
Gerhard Wucherer,
Jochen Eigenherr
FRG Alltime-1166

4x400m

1968-10-20
Rank Result Name Country Info
1 2:56.16 Vince Matthews,
Ronald Freeman,
Larry James,
Lee Evans
USA Alltime-11
2 2:59.64 Charles Asati,
Mynyoro Hezekiah Nyamau,
Naftali Bon,
Daniel Rudisha
KEN Alltime-180
3 3:00.57 Helmar Müller,
Gerhard Hennige,
Manfred Kinder,
Martin Jellinghaus
FRG Alltime-350
4 3:00.58 Stanislaw Gredzinski,
Jan Balachowski,
Jan Werner,
Andrzej Badenski
POL Alltime-353
5 3:01.21 Martin Winbolt-Lewis,
Colin Cambell,
David Hemery,
John Sherwood
GBR Alltime-554

Long jump

1968-10-18
Rank Result Name Country Wind Info
1 8.90 Bob Beamon USA +2.0 AAR, PB (Alltime-2)

Triple jump

1968-10-17
Rank Result Name Country Wind Info
1 17.39 Viktor Saneyev GEO +2.0
2 17.27 Nelson Prudêncio BRA +2.0 PB (Alltime-168)
Rank Result Name Country
2 88.58 Jorma Kinnunen FIN

Decathlon

1968-10-19
Rank Result Name Country Info
1 8144 Bill Toomey USA
2 8094 Hans-Joachim Walde FRG PB (Alltime-341)
3 8071 Kurt Bendlin FRG