Guyana Guyana ( or ), officially the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, is a country on the northern mainland of South America. Guyana is an indigenous word which means "Land of Many Waters". The capital city is Georgetown. Guyana is bordered by the ...

competed at the

1968 Summer Olympics The 1968 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1968), officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XIX Olimpiada) and commonly known as Mexico 1968 ( es, México 1968), were an international multi-sport eve ...

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. The Games were hosted from October 13 through October 20, with 1,028 participants (785 men and 243 women) representing 92 countries.Sports Reference
/ref> They fielded five competitors, all men.

Results by event

Athletics Athletics may refer to: Sports * Sport of athletics, a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking ** Track and field, a sub-category of the above sport * Athletics (physical culture), competiti ...

Men's marathon *

Harry Prowell Harry Prowell A.A. (10 July 1936 – 27 June 2000) was a Guyanese long distance runner who represented Guyana in the Marathon at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico. He is known to be one of the greatest long distance runners ...

— 2:57.01.4 hrs (→ 50th place)

Boxing Boxing (also known as "Western boxing" or "pugilism") is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves and other protective equipment such as hand wraps and mouthguards, throw punches at each other for a predetermined ...

Bantamweight (54 kg) * Dhanraj Singh :* Round 2 - Lost to

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Middleweight (75 kg) * Charles Amos :* Round of 16 - Lost to Wiesław Rudkowski of

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Cycling Cycling, also, when on a two-wheeled bicycle, called bicycling or biking, is the use of cycles for transport, recreation, exercise or sport. People engaged in cycling are referred to as "cyclists", "bicyclists", or "bikers". Apart from two ...

1000 metres time trial * Aubrey Bryce — 1:12.73 min (→ 31st place) Sprint * Aubrey Bryce :* Round 1 — 3rd place in heat (→ advanced to repechage) :* Repechage — 3rd place in heat (→ did not advance)

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Light heavyweight (82.5 kg) * Rudolph James :* Press — 120.0 :* Snatch — 127.5 :* Snatch — 165.0 :* Total — 412.5 (→ 19th place)

References

Official Olympic Reports

Part Three: Results
Nations at the 1968 Summer Olympics

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