Czechoslovakia at the 1968 Winter Olympics

Czechoslovakia at the
1968 Winter Olympics
Czechoslovakia at the; 1968 Winter Olympics
IOC code	TCH
NOC	Czechoslovak Olympic Committee
in Grenoble
Competitors	48 (41 men, 7 women) in 8 sports
Flag bearer	Jiří Raška (ski jumping)
Medals ; Ranked 12th	Gold1Silver2Bronze1Total4
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
	1924 ; 1928 ; 1932 ; 1936 ; 1948 ; 1952 ; 1956 ; 1960 ; 1964 ; 1968 ; 1972 ; 1976 ; 1980 ; 1984 ; 1988 ; 1992 ;
Other related appearances
	Czech Republic (1994–); Slovakia (1994–)

Last updated October 12, 2025

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 Vladimír Dzurilla Josef Horešovský Jan Suchý Karel Masopust František Pospíšil Oldřich Machač Jozef Golonka Jan Hrbatý Václav Nedomanský Jan Havel Jaroslav Jiřík Josef Černý František Ševčík Petr Hejma Jiří Holík Jiří Kochta 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

Men

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

Men's slalom

Athlete	Heat 1		Heat 2		Final
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time 1	Rank	Time 2	Rank	Total	Rank
Milan Pažout	DSQ	–	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
Athlete	Event	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

Men

Event	Athlete	Time	Penalties	Adjusted time ¹	Rank
20 km	Ladislav Žižka	1'21:45.3	14	1'35:45.3	55
20 km	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

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
15 km	Václav Peřina	51:06.6	27
	Ján Fajstavr	50:46.5	23
	Karel Štefl	50:15.4	14
30 km	Vít Fousek Jr.	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 Jr.	2'45:09.8	39
	Ján Fajstavr	2'39:25.3	28

Men's 4 × 10 km relay

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

Figure skating

Men

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

Women

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

Pairs

Athletes	SP	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Liana Drahová Peter Bartosiewicz	11	15	276.8	116	12
Bohunka Šrámková Jan Šrámek	10	10	285.8	91.5	10

Ice hockey

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

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Total
Athlete	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
Athletes	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
Athlete	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

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
Athlete	Event	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	Individual	71.0	71.5	200.4	18	50:55.5	206.88	14	407.28	16

Ski jumping

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
Athlete	Event	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

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