| Date | 16 October 1968 |
|---|---|
| Location | Teatro de los Insurgentes, Ciudad de México |
| Pos | Competitor | NOC | Kilograms | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Viktor Kurentsov | URS | 187.5 | |||
| 2 | Masashi Ohuchi | JPN | 175.0 | |||
| =3 | Károly Bakos | HUN | 170.0 | |||
| =3 | Fred Lowe | USA | 170.0 | |||
| 5 | Russ Knipp | USA | 167.5 | |||
| =6 | Lee Chun-Sik | KOR | 165.0 | |||
| =6 | Werner Dittrich | GDR | 165.0 | |||
| =6 | Sadahiro Miwa | JPN | 165.0 | |||
| =6 | Abel López | CUB | 165.0 | |||
| 10 | Miloslav Kolařík | TCH | 162.5 | |||
| =11 | Rolf Maier | FRA | 160.0 | |||
| =11 | Albert Huser | FRG | 160.0 | |||
| =13 | René Gómez | CUB | 157.5 | |||
| =13 | Leif Jensen | NOR | 157.5 | |||
| 15 | Luiz de Almeida | BRA | 155.0 | |||
| 16 | Rudy Monk | AHO | 150.0 | |||
| 17 | Luis Fonseca | CRC | 130.0 |