Race profile

Olympic Games
Mexico City MEX
20 Oct 1968
Road
Marathon
Record quality course
Men: 632.34 sec (14.98 sec/km)
Total: 57
Men: 57
Women:
Olympic Games

Results (men)

Finished Time Flags Given name Surname Alternate name Citizenship Birth date Prize money Actions
1 2:20:26.4 Mamo Wolde ETH 12 Jun 1932
2 2:23:31 Kenji Kimihara JPN 20 Mar 1941
3 2:23:45 Michael R Ryan NZL 26 Dec 1941
4 2:25:18.8 Ismail Akcay TUR 09 Jul 1942
5 2:25:33 William Adcocks ENG 11 Nov 1941
6 2:27:17 Merawi Gebru ETH 12 Dec 1932
7 2:27:23.8 Derek Clayton AUS 17 Nov 1942
8 2:28:04.0 Timothy Johnston ENG 11 Mar 1941
9 2:28:06.2 Akio Usami JPN 31 May 1943
10 2:28:40.2 Andy Boychuk CAN 17 May 1941
11 2:29:04.8 Gaston Roelants BEL 05 Feb 1937
12 2:29:21 Patrick McMahon IRL 01 Feb 1942
14 2:29:49.4 Ken Moore USA 01 Dec 1943
15 2:30:42.6 Jürgen Busch GER 24 Dec 1942
16 2:31:15 George Young USA 24 Jul 1937
17 2:31:23.8 Manfred Steffny GER 14 Aug 1941
18 2:32:22 Thin Sumbwegen MYA 12 Mar 1930
19 2:32:36 Naftali Temu KEN 20 Apr 1945
20 2:32:49 Maurice-Andre Peiren BEL 23 Dec 1937
21 2:33:19.6 Antonio Ambu ITA 10 May 1936
22 2:33:53 Ron Daws USA 21 Jun 1937
23 2:34:11.8 Karl-Heinz Sievers GER 02 Oct 1942
24 2:34:49 Gyula Toth HUN 12 Apr 1937
25 2:35:09.6 Hussein Aktas TUR 25 Mar 1941
26 2:35:47.8 Pablo Garrido Lugo MEX 22 Jun 1938
27 2:37:42 Aadrianus Steijlen NED 01 Aug 1935
28 2:38:08 Anatoliy Sukharkov RUS 10 Feb 1938
29 2:38:52.2 Myung-Jung Lee KOR 15 Apr 1945
31 2:39:59 Gioacchino dePalma ITA 21 May 1940
32 2:40:16 Jozef Gwerder SUI 12 Jan 1939
33 2:41:29 Hubert Riesner GER 18 Aug 1940
34 2:42:25 Georg Olsen DEN 05 May 1937
37 2:43:36.6 David McKenzie NZL 16 Mar 1943
41 2:48:14 Michael Molloy IRL 13 Mar 1938
42 2:48:31 Nikola Simeonov BUL 19 Nov 1939
43 2:50:16.8 John Farrington AUS 02 Jul 1942
44 2:50:59 Helmut Kunisch SUI 26 Nov 1938
46 2:52:46.2 Sang-Hoon Lee KOR 30 Sep 1938
48 2:55:17 Paul Mose KEN 15 May 1949
54 3:03:48 Martins Ande NGR 12 Apr 1948
55 3:04:54 Musa Mustapha UGA 25 Jul 1947
57 3:25:17 John Steven Akhwari TAN 1942
DNF DNF Jerome Drayton Buniak Peter CAN 10 Jan 1945
DNF DNF Abebe Bikila ETH 07 Aug 1932
DNF DNF Pentti Rummakko FIN 12 Oct 1943
DNF DNF James Alder SCO 10 Jun 1940
DNF DNF Seiichiro Sasaki JPN 02 Sep 1945
DNF DNF Nedjalko Farcic SER 12 Oct 1941
DNF DNF Carlos Perez Alonso ESP 01 Jun 1935
DNF DNF Jose Garcia Gaspar MEX 20 Mar 1946
DNF DNF Hernan Barreneche Rios COL 25 Jul 1939
DNF DNF Rene Combes FRA 24 Jun 1937
DNF DNF Armando Gonzalez URU 20 Apr 1940
DNF DNF Guy Texereau FRA 14 May 1935
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