Sailing at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Acapulco Bay is located on the Pacific coast in the state of Guerrero, 250 miles from Mexico City. The facilities at Club de Yates were improved and modified. 20,000 square metres of new docks provided with potable water, electricity and telephones were created. The buoys bearing colored flags delineated the three course areas.

Technical control was assured by a staff of measurers for gauging all yachts before racing.

The Olympic Village, located in the Caleta Hotel, provided accommodation for 503 competitors, trainers, team managers from 40 countries.

• Asia
• Oceania
• Europe
• Americas

  = Male,   = Female,   = Open

• This Olympic sailing event was gender independent, but turned out to be a Men-only event. This was one of the triggers to create gender specific events. This however had to wait until 1988.
•   Paul Elvstrøm (DEN) was trying to win his fifth gold medal. This time in the Star. He came close. 4th.
•   Rodney Pattison (GBR) won his first Olympic medal (Gold) in his boat Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. It is difficult to appoint Olympic records to sailing, but the score of this Flying Dutchman team would hold probably the record of best Olympic score: DSQ, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2!
• In each of the five classes there was a major difference in points between the gold and the silver medalists.

During the Sailing regattas at the 1968 Summer Olympics among others the following persons were competing in the various classes:

• Royalties
  •   Norway (NOR), King of Norway, HRH Crown Prince Harald in the 5.5 Metre
• Sport managers
  •   Belgium (BEL), President International Olympic Committee, Jacques Rogge in the Finn
  •   Finland (FIN), Future president International Sailing Federation, Peter Tallberg in the Star
  •   Canada (CAN), Future president International Sailing Federation, Paul Henderson in the Finn
  •   Greece (GRE). Future holder of the Silver Olympic Order, George Andreadis in the Flying Dutchman

• Organizing Committee for the Games of the XIX Olympiad (1968). The Games of the XIX Olympiad Mexico 1968, The Official Report of the Organizing Committee Volume One Part One (pdf).
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• Organizing Committee for the Games of the XIX Olympiad (1968). The Games of the XIX Olympiad Mexico 1968, The Official Report of the Organizing Committee Volume Two Part Two (pdf).
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• Organizing Committee for the Games of the XIX Olympiad (1968). The Games of the XIX Olympiad Mexico 1968, The Official Report of the Organizing Committee Volume Four Part One (pdf).
• Organizing Committee for the Games of the XIX Olympiad (1968). The Games of the XIX Olympiad Mexico 1968, The Official Report of the Organizing Committee Volume Four Part Two (pdf).
• Hugh Drake & Paul Henderson (2009). Canada's Olympic Sailing Legacy, Paris 1924 – Beijing 2008. Toronto: CYA.
• "Mexico City 1968". Olympics.com. International Olympic Committee.