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Olympic Games 1968 - Mexico City

The men's marathon was held on Sunday October 20, 1968. The race started at 3.00 p.m. local time. There were a total number of 74 competitors from 41 countries. Seventeen of them did not finish.


Results

1°	Mamo	Wolde	Ethiopia	2:20:26
2°	Kenji	Kimihara	Japan	2:23:31
3°	Mike	Ryan	New Zealand	2:23:45
4°	Ismail	Akçay	Turkey	2:25:18
5°	William	Adcocks	Great Britain	2:25:33
6°	Gabrou	Merawi	Ethiopia	2:27:16
7°	Derek	Clayton	Australia	2:27:23
8°	Timothy	Johnston	Great Britain	2:28:04
9°	Akio	Usami	Japan	2:28:06
10°	Andy	Boychak	Turkey	2:28:40
11°	Gaston	Roelants	Belgium	2:29:04
12°	Pat	McMahon	Ireland	2:29:21
13°	Alfredo	Penaloza	Mexico	2:29:48
14°	Kenneth	Moore	United States of America	2:29:49
15°	Jürgen	Busch	West Germany	2:30:42
16°	George	Young	United States of America	2:31:15
17°	Manfred	Steffny	West Germany	2:31:23
18°	Thin	Sumbwegam	Myanmar	2:32:22
19°	Naftali	Temu	Kenya	2:32:36
20°	Maurice	Peiren	Belgium	2:32:49
21°	Antonio	Ambu	Italy	2:33:19
22°	Ron	Daws	United States of America	2:33:53
23°	Karl-Heinz	Sievers	West Germany	2:34:11
24°	Gyula	Tóth	Hungary	2:34:49
25°	Hüseyin	Aktas	Turkey	2:35:09
26°	Pablo	Garrido	Mexico	2:35:47
27°	Aad	Steylen	Netherlands	2:37:42
28°	Anatoly	Sukharyev	Soviet Union	2:38:07
29°	Lee	Myung-Jung	South Korea	2:38:52
30°	Ivailo	Sharankov	Bulgaria	2:39:49
31°	Gioacchino	de Palma	Italy	2:39:58
32°	Josef	Gwerder	Switzerland	2:40:16
33°	Hubert	Riesner	West Germany	2:41:29
34°	Georg	Olsen	Denmark	2:42:24
35°	Douglas	Sinkala	Zambia	2:42:51
36°	Exequiel	Baeza	Chile	2:43:15
37°	Dave	McKenzie	New Zealand	2:43:36
38°	Kim	Bong-Nae	South Korea	2:43:56
39°	Carlos	Cuque	Guatemala	2:45:20
40°	Godwin	Kalimbwe	Zambia	2:45:26
41°	Mick	Molloy	Ireland	2:48:13
42°	Nikola	Simeonov	Bulgaria	2:48:30
43°	John	Farrington	Australia	2:50:16
44°	Helmut	Kunisch	Switzerland	2:50:58
45°	Alifu	Massaquoi	Sierra Leone	2:52:28
46°	Lee	Sang-Hoon	South Korea	2:52:46
47°	Hla	Thein	Myanmar	2:54:03
48°	Paul	Mose	Kenya	2:55:17
49°	Benjamin	Silva-Netto	Philippines	2:56:19
50°	Harry	Prowell	Guyana	2:57:01
51°	Wimalasena	Perera	Ceylon	2:59:05
52°	Fulgencio	Hernández	Guatemala	3:00:40
53°	Gustavo	Gutiérrez	Ecuador	3:03:07
54°	Martin	Ande	Nigeria	3:03:47
55°	Mustapha	Musa	Uganda	3:04:53
56°	Enoch	Nwemba	Zambia	3:06:16
57°	John Stephen	Akhwari	Tanzania	3:25:17

Did not finish

DNF	Peter	Buniak	Canada
DNF	Hernándo	Barreneche	Colombia
DNF	Abebe	Bikila	Ethiopia
DNF	Pentti	Rummakko	Finland
DNF	René	Combes	France
DNF	Guy	Texereau	France
DNF	Jim	Alder	Great Britain
DNF	Lajos	Mecser	Hungary
DNF	Seiichiro	Sasaki	Japan
DNF	Mraljeb	Ayed-Mansoor	Kuwait
DNF	Saoud	Obaid-Daifallah	Kuwait
DNF	José	García	Mexico
DNF	Mukhamed	Shakirov	Soviet Union
DNF	Carlos	Pérez	Spain
DNF	Edgar	Friedli	Switzerland
DNF	Armando	González	Uruguay
DNF	Nedo	Farcic	Yugoslavia

Did not start


Disqualified

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Olympic Games 1968 - Mexico City

Results 1968