| Date | 16 October 1968 |
|---|---|
| Location | Teatro de los Insurgentes, Ciudad de México |
| Pos | Competitor | NOC | Kilograms | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Viktor Kurentsov |  URS | 152.5 | |||
| 2 | Russ Knipp |  USA | 147.5 | |||
| =3 | Masashi Ohuchi |  JPN | 140.0 | |||
| =3 | Lee Chun-Sik |  KOR | 140.0 | |||
| =3 | Werner Dittrich |  GDR | 140.0 | |||
| =3 | Miloslav Kolařík |  TCH | 140.0 | |||
| =3 | Rolf Maier |  FRA | 140.0 | |||
| =8 | Károly Bakos |  HUN | 137.5 | |||
| =8 | Luiz de Almeida |  BRA | 137.5 | |||
| 10 | Albert Huser |  FRG | 135.0 | |||
| =11 | Fred Lowe | USA | 132.5 | |||
| =11 | Rudy Monk |  AHO | 132.5 | |||
| =13 | Sadahiro Miwa | JPN | 130.0 | |||
| =13 | René Gómez |  CUB | 130.0 | |||
| 14 | Leif Jensen |  NOR | 127.5 | |||
| 15 | Gioacchino Caracausi |  ITA | 125.0 | |||
| 16 | Abel López | CUB | 122.5 | |||
| 17 | Luis Fonseca |  CRC | 107.5 | |||
| Daniel Gevargiz Nejad |  IRI | – | ||||
| Christos Iakovou |  GRE | – |
