Ice hockey at the 1968 Winter Olympics

At the 1968 Winter Olympics held in Grenoble, France, one Ice Hockey event was held: men's Ice Hockey. This tournament also counted as "IIHF World Championship" and "IIHF European Championship". Games were held at the Palais des Sports.

Highlights

This was the last IIHF tournament where three titles (Olympic, World and European) were contested.

In their penultimate match of the tournament, the USSR team lost to the Czechoslovakian team, which gave a tie-breaking advantage to the latter as each team had a record of 5 wins, 1 loss (10 points) with one game remaining. Yet the USSR team was also tied with Canada and would play the Canadians for the final game of the tournament. For teams finishing with identical records, it is games between the tied teams that determines placings. In their final matches of the tournament, Sweden tied with Czechoslovakia, while the USSR won its game that day against Canada, and the triple championship.

To win the championship, Czechoslovakia needed to win its game against Sweden and for Canada to lose or tie its match with USSR. Had Canada won against USSR and Czechoslovakia won its game over Sweden, Canada would have tied Czechoslovakia with 12 points but prevailed in the tie breaker to win the championship.

Medalists

*February 7
**Yugoslavia 5-1 Japan
**Romania 3-2 Austria

*February 8
**France 1-4 Norway

*February 9
**Yugoslavia 6-0 Austria
**France 3-7 Romania

*February 10
**Japan 4-0 Norway

*February 11
**France 2-5 Austria

*February 12
**Japan 5-4 Romania
**Norway 5-4 Austria

*February 13
**France 1-10 Yugoslavia

*February 14
**Norway 4-3 Romania

*February 15
**Japan 11-1 Austria

*February 16
**Yugoslavia 9-5 Romania

*February 17
**Yugoslavia 3-2 Norway
**France 2-6 Japan

Leading scorers

Final ranking

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