| Women's floor at the Games of the XIX Olympiad | |||||||||||||||||
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 Věra Čáslavská (1967)  Larisa Petrik (1966) | |||||||||||||||||
| Venue | Auditorio Nacional | ||||||||||||||||
| Date | 21–25 October 1968 | ||||||||||||||||
| Competitors | 101 from 28 nations | ||||||||||||||||
| Winning score | 19.675 | ||||||||||||||||
| Medalists | |||||||||||||||||
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| Gymnastics at the 1968 Summer Olympics | ||
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| List of gymnasts | ||
| Artistic | ||
| Team all-around | men | women |
| Individual all-around | men | women |
| Vault | men | women |
| Floor | men | women |
| Pommel horse | men | |
| Rings | men | |
| Parallel bars | men | |
| Horizontal bar | men | |
| Uneven bars | women | |
| Balance beam | women | |
These are the results of the women's floor competition, one of six events for female competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.
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Larisa Petrik's gold medal on floor was very controversial because originally, Čáslavská won outright. After the competition was concluded, Petrik's prelims scores were changed to let her tie with Čáslavská, an action which caused Čáslavská to publicly defy the Soviets who had recently invaded her home country. A similar controversy occurred in the balance beam, where Čáslavská was denied gold altogether. [1]
