Czechoslovakia at the 1968 Winter Olympics

Czechoslovakia at the Olympic Games
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At the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble
Competitors	48 (41 men, 7 women) in 8 sports
Flag bearer	Jiří Raška (ski jumping)
Medals Rank: 12	Gold 1	Silver 2	Bronze 1	Total 4
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Czechoslovakia competed at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Jiří Raška	Ski jumping	Men's normal hill
Silver	Czechoslovakia men's national ice hockey team Vladimír Nadrchal   Oldřich Machač   Josef Černý Vladimír Dzurilla   Jozef Golonka   František Ševčík Josef Horešovský   Jan Hrbatý   Petr Hejma Jan Suchý   Václav Nedomanský   Jiří Holík Karel Masopust   Jan Havel   Jiří Kochta František Pospíšil   Jaroslav Jiřík   Jan Klapáč	Ice hockey	Men's competition
Silver	Jiří Raška	Ski jumping	Men's large hill
Bronze	Hana Maskova	Figure skating	Women's singles

Alpine skiing

Main article: Alpine skiing at the 1968 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Jaroslav Janda	Downhill					2:07.71	36
Milan Pažout						2:07.45	35
Jaroslav Janda	Giant Slalom	1:52.20	41	1:52.07	33	3:44.27	34
Milan Pažout		1:48.98	29	1:51.34	29	3:40.32	27

Men's slalom

Athlete	Heat 1		Heat 2		Final
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time 1	Rank	Time 2	Rank	Total	Rank
Milan Pažout	55.96	1 QF	–	–	1:02.29	44	DSQ	–	DSQ	–
Jaroslav Janda	53.20	2 QF	–	–	51.62	19	DSQ	–	DSQ	–

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Anna Mohrová	Downhill					1:50.22	33
Anna Mohrová	Giant Slalom					DSQ	–
Anna Mohrová	Slalom	46.23	23	49.73	16	1:35.96	18

Biathlon

Main article: Biathlon at the 1968 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Time	Penalties	Adjusted time 1	Rank
20 km	Ladislav Žižka	1'21:45.3	14	1'35:45.3	55
	Pavel Ploc	1'18:05.0	5	1'23:05.0	15

¹ One minute added per close miss (a hit in the outer ring), two minutes added per complete miss.

Cross-country skiing

Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1968 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
15 km	Václav Peřina	51:06.6	27
	Ján Fajstavr	50:46.5	23
	Karel Štefl	50:15.4	14
30 km	Vit Fousek	DNF	–
	Václav Peřina	1'40:58.0	24
	Ján Fajstavr	1'40:05.1	22
	Karel Štefl	1'39:25.7	18
50 km	Václav Peřina	DNF	–
	Vít Fousek	2'45:09.8	39
	Ján Fajstavr	2'39:25.3	28

Men's 4 x 10 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Time	Rank
Ján Fajstavr Vít Fousek Václav Peřina Karel Štefl	2'19:51.3	9

Figure skating

Main article: Figure skating at the 1968 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	CF	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Marian Filc	13	8	1734.2	97	10
Ondrej Nepala	5	10	1772.8	73	8

Women

Athlete	CF	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Marie Vichova	20	16	1580.4	187	21
Hana Mašková	4	3	1828.8	31

Pairs

Athletes	SP	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Liana Drahova Peter Bartosiewicz	11	15	276.8	116	12
Bohunka Srámkova Jan Srámek	10	10	285.8	91.5	10

Ice hockey

Main article: Ice hockey at the 1968 Winter Olympics

Medal Round

Rank	Team	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
1	Soviet Union	7	6	1	0	48	10	12
2	Czechoslovakia	7	5	1	1	33	17	11
3	Canada	7	5	2	0	28	15	10
4	Sweden	7	4	2	1	23	18	9
5	Finland	7	3	3	1	17	23	7
6	United States	7	2	4	1	23	28	5
7	West Germany	7	1	6	0	13	39	2
8	East Germany	7	0	7	0	13	48	0

Czechoslovakia – USA 5:1 (1:1, 2:0, 2:0)
Goalscorers: Suchý, Havel, Jiřík, Hejma, Jiří Holík – Volmar.
Referees: Dahlberg, Wiking (SWE)

Czechoslovakia – West Germany 5:1 (1:0, 2:0, 2:1)
Goalscorers: Hrbatý, Golonka, Havel, Hejma, Ševčík – Lax.
Referees: Kubinec, McEvoy (CAN)

Czechoslovakia – Finland 4:3 (0:1, 3:0, 1:2)
Goalscorers: Nedomanský 2, Golonka, Havel – Keinonen, Ketola, Oksanen.
Referees: Wiking (SWE), Snětkov (URS)

Czechoslovakia – East Germany 10:3 (5:2, 1:0, 4:1)
Goalscorers: Horešovský 4, Nedomanský 2, Jiřík, Suchý, Kochta, Ševčík – Karrenbauer, Novy, Peters.
Referees: Dahlberg (SWE), Sillankorva (FIN)

Czechoslovakia – Canada 2:3 (0:0, 0:3, 2:0)
Goalscorers: Havel, Nedomanský – Huck, Bourbonnais, Cadieux.
Referees: Trumble (USA), Sillankorva (FIN)

Czechoslovakia – USSR 5:4 (3:1, 1:1, 1:2)
Goalscorers: Ševčík, Hejma, Havel, Golonka, Jiřík – Majorov 2, Blinov, Populanov.
Referees: Trumble (USA), Dahlberg (SWE)

Czechoslovakia – Sweden 2:2 (1:1, 1:0, 0:1)
Goalscorers: Golonka, Hrbatý – Bengtsson, Henriksson.
Referees: Trumble (USA), Sillankorva (FIN)

Leading scorers/Awards

Rk	Team	GP	G	A	Pts
5th	Jozef Golonka	7	4	6	10
7th	Jan Hrbatý	7	2	7	9
10th	Václav Nedomanský	7	5	2	7

IIHF Award:

Best Defender

Josef Horešovský

CZECHOSLOVAKIA
Goaltenders: Vladimír Nadrchal, Vladimír Dzurilla.
Defence: Josef Horešovský, Jan Suchý, Karel Masopust, František Pospíšil, Oldřich Machač.
Forwards: Jozef Golonka, Jan Hrbatý, Václav Nedomanský, Jan Havel, Jaroslav Jiřík, Josef Černý, František Ševčík, Petr Hejma, Jiří Holík, Jiří Kochta, Jan Klapáč.
Coaches: Jaroslav Pitner, Vladimír Kostka.

Luge

Main article: Luge at the 1968 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Roland Urban	59.20	25	59.59	26	1:00.24	31	2:59.03	27
František Halíř	59.07	23	59.10	18	58.93	19	2:57.10	20
Horst Urban	58.93	19	59.54	25	59.91	27	2:58.38	24
Jan Hamřík	58.43	15	58.56	11	59.07	21	2:56.06	15

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes	Run 1		Run 2		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Horst Urban Roland Urban	50.46	12	50.02	12	1:40.48	12
Jan Hamřík František Halíř	51.85	14	50.85	14	1:42.10	14

Women

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Olina Tylová-Hatlová	50.16	11	50.35	9	51.14	10	2:31.65	11
Dana Spálenská-Beldová	49.22	3	50.36	10	50.77	9	2:30.35	6

Nordic combined

Main article: Nordic combined at the 1968 Winter Olympics

Events:

• normal hill ski jumping (Three jumps, best two counted and shown here.)
• 15 km cross-country skiing

Athlete	Event	Ski Jumping				Cross-country			Total
		Distance 1	Distance 2	Points	Rank	Time	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Tomáš Kučera	Individual	72.0	73.0	217.4	9	50:07.7	216.74	6	434.14	4
Ladislav Rygl		71.0	71.5	200.4	18	50:55.5	206.88	14	407.28	16

Ski jumping

Main article: Ski jumping at the 1968 Winter Olympics

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
		Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Zbyněk Hubač	Normal hill	74.0	101.7	73.5	101.9	203.6	19
František Rydval		76.0	106.4	73.5	100.4	206.8	12
Ladislav Divila		76.5	107.2	73.0	100.1	207.3	9
Jiří Raška		79.0	115.2	72.5	101.3	216.5
František Rydval	Large hill	92.0	95.2	88.0	89.6	184.8	27
Zbyněk Hubač		95.0	101.4	87.0	87.2	188.6	25
Rudolf Höhnl		98.5	107.3	91.5	95.5	202.8	12
Jiří Raška		101.0	116.3	98.0	113.1	229.4

References

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database
• Olympic Winter Games 1968, full results by sports-reference.com