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Kansas City Athletics move to Oakland, California to become the Oakland Athletics.; January 23 – Joe Medwick is voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.Medwick won the Triple Crown in 1937 and batted.300 in 14 of 17 seasons.
These are the official results of the men's 4 × 100 metres relay event at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico. The event was held on Saturday and Sunday, 19 and 20 October 1968. There were a total number of 19 nations competing. The race was won by the United States in world record time. [1]
The men's 1968 United States Olympic trials for track and field were a two-tiered event. Athletes first met for semi-final Olympic trials in Los Angeles, from June 29 to 30. The final trials were held following a training camp at a specially constructed track at Echo Summit, California, between September 6–16.
This would be the last year of the 23 team field, as the field would stay at 25 teams for the next six seasons until the expansion of the field to 32 teams in the 1975 tournament. Four teams - East Tennessee State, Florida State, New Mexico and Weber State - made their tournament debuts.
6.68 m Tatyana Talysheva Soviet Union: 6.66 m Shot put details: Margitta Gummel East Germany: 19.61 m WR: Marita Lange East Germany: 18.78 m Nadezhda Chizhova Soviet Union: 18.19 m Discus throw details: Lia Manoliu Romania: 58.28 m OR: Liesel Westermann West Germany: 57.76 m Jolán Kleiber-Kontsek Hungary: 54.90 m Javelin throw details: Angéla ...
Event Qualification Final Result Rank Result Rank Martha Watson: Long jump: 6.30 12 q: 6.20 10 Willye White: 6.42 6 Q: 6.08 11 Estelle Baskerville: High jump: NH: Did not advance Sharon Callahan: 1.60 22 Did not advance Eleanor Montgomery: 1.68 19 Did not advance Maren Seidler: Shot put — 14.86 11 Olga Connolly: Discus throw — 52.96 6 Carol ...
The 1968 Washington Redskins season was the franchise's 37th season in the National Football League (NFL) and their 32nd in Washington, D.C. In their third and final year under head coach Otto Graham, the team finished 5–9, failing to improve on their 5–6–3 record from 1967.