| 1968 Winter Olympics medals | |
|---|---|
 Swedish cross-country skier Toini Gustafsson (pictured) won three medals (two gold, one silver) at the 1968 Winter Olympics, tied for the most of any competing athlete. | |
| Location | Grenoble,  France |
| Highlights | |
| Most gold medals |  Norway (6) |
| Most total medals | Norway (14) |
| Medalling NOCs | 15 |
The 1968 Winter Olympics, officially known as the X Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event held in Grenoble, France, from 4 to 18 February 1968. [1] [2] A total of 1,158 athletes representing 37 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated. [3] This included first-time entrants Morocco, [4] as well as East and West Germany, who entered separate teams for the first time. [5] The games featured 35 events in 6 sports and 10 disciplines, [6] [7] including the team relay event in biathlon, which was contested for the first time. [8]
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Athletes representing 15 NOCs won at least one medal, with 13 winning at least one gold medal. [9] Norway won the most medals overall, with 14, and the most gold medals, with six. [9] East and West Germany won their first Winter Olympic medals of any kind as independent teams, [10] [11] as did Romania, [12] while East and West Germany, along with Czechoslovakia, won their first Winter Olympic gold medals. [10] [11] [13] Among individual participants, French alpine skier Jean-Claude Killy had the most gold medals with three. Killy (three gold), along with Swedish cross-country skier Toini Gustafsson (two gold, one silver) and Finnish cross-country skier Eero Mäntyranta (one silver, two bronze), tied for the most medals overall, with three each. [14]
