This article is about the sporting event. For the social movement, see Mexican Movement of 1968.
Games of the XIX Olympiad
Emblem of the 1968 Summer Olympics
Host city
Mexico City, Mexico
Nations
112
Athletes
5,516 (4,735 men, 781 women)
Events
172 in 18 sports (24 disciplines)
Opening
12 October 1968
Closing
27 October 1968
Opened by
President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz[1]
Cauldron
Enriqueta Basilio[1]
Stadium
Estadio Olímpico Universitario
Summer
← Tokyo 1964
Munich 1972 →
Winter
← Grenoble 1968
Sapporo 1972 →
1968 Summer Paralympics
The 1968 Summer Olympics (Spanish: Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1968), officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad (Spanish: Juegos de la XIX Olimpiada) and commonly known as Mexico 1968 (Spanish: México 1968), were an international multi-sport event held from 12 to 27 October 1968 in Mexico City, Mexico. These were the first Olympic Games to be staged in Latin America and the first to be staged in a Spanish-speaking country. They were also the first Games to use an all-weather (smooth) track for track and field events instead of the traditional cinder track, as well as the first example of the Olympics exclusively using electronic timekeeping equipment.[2]
The 1968 Games were the third to be held in the last quarter of the year, after the 1956 Games in Melbourne and the 1964 Games in Tokyo. The 1968 Mexican Student Movement was crushed days prior, hence the Games were correlated to the government's repression.
The United States won the most gold and overall medals for the last time until the 1984 Summer Games.
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