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| X Olympic Winter Games | |
| Nations participating | 37 |
| Athletes participating | 1158 (947 men, 211 women) |
| Events | 35 in 6 sports |
| Opening ceremony | February 6, 1968 |
| Closing ceremony | February 18, 1968 |
| Officially opened by | Charles de Gaulle |
| Athlete's Oath | Leo Lacroix |
| Official's Oath | n/a |
| Olympic Torch | Alain Calmat |
See also: 1968 Winter Paralympics
The X Olympic Winter Games were held in 1968 Grenoble, France and opened on February 6. Thirty-seven countries participated. Norway won the most medals, the first time a country other than the Soviet Union had done so since the Soviet Union first entered the Winter Games in 1956.
Frenchman Jean-Claude Killy won three gold medals in all the alpine skiing events. In women's figure skating, Peggy Fleming won the only United StatesThe United States of America also referred to as the United States U. America ¹ or the States is a federal republic in central North America, stretching from the Atlantic in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west. It shares land borders with Canada in gold medal.
The year 1968 marked the first time the IOCAlternative meanings at IOC (disambiguation The International Olympic Committee is an organization created by Pierre de Coubertin in 1894 to reinstate the Ancient Olympic Games held in Greece, and organize this sports event every four years. The IOC recei first permitted EastFor the historical eastern German provinces, see Eastern Germany East Germany officially the German Democratic Republic GDR , German Deutsche Demokratische Republik DDR , was a Communist Party-led state that existed from 1949 to 1990 in the former Soviet and West GermanyWest Germany was the informal but almost universally used name for the Federal Republic of Germany from 1949 until 1990, during which years the Federal Republic did not yet include the eastern part of Germany. Since the German reunification of 1990, the F to enter separately, and the first time the IOC ever ordered drug and gender testing of competitors.
Top medal-collecting nations:
| 1968 Winter Olympics medal count | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pos. | Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Norway | 6 | 6 | 2 | 14 |
| 2 | Soviet Union | 5 | 5 | 3 | 13 |
| 3 | France | 4 | 3 | 2 | 9 |
| 4 | Italy | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 5 | Austria | 3 | 4 | 4 | 11 |
| 6 | Netherlands | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| 7 | Sweden | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 |
| 8 | West Germany | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 |
| 9 | United States | 1 | 5 | 1 | 7 |
| 10 | Finland | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
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