Rowing at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's eight

Men's coxed eight at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
The venue in 2015
Venue	Virgilio Uribe Rowing and Canoeing Course
Date	13–19 October
Competitors	114 from 12 nations
Teams	12
Winning time	6:07.00
Medalists
01 ! Horst Meyer Dirk Schreyer Rüdiger Henning Lutz Ulbricht Wolfgang Hottenrott Egbert Hirschfelder Jörg Siebert Nikolaus Ott Gunther Tiersch (cox) Roland Böse () (heat 1)  West Germany 02 ! Alf Duval Michael Morgan Joe Fazio Peter Dickson David Douglas John Ranch Gary Pearce Bob Shirlaw Alan Grover (cox)  Australia 03 ! Zigmas Jukna Aleksandr Martyshkin Antanas Bagdonavičius Vytautas Briedis Volodymyr Sterlyk Valentyn Kravchuk Juozas Jagelavičius Viktor Suslin Yuriy Lorentsson  Soviet Union
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01 !		Horst Meyer Dirk Schreyer Rüdiger Henning Lutz Ulbricht Wolfgang Hottenrott Egbert Hirschfelder Jörg Siebert Nikolaus Ott Gunther Tiersch (cox) Roland Böse () (heat 1)	West Germany
02 !		Alf Duval Michael Morgan Joe Fazio Peter Dickson David Douglas John Ranch Gary Pearce Bob Shirlaw Alan Grover (cox)	Australia
03 !		Zigmas Jukna Aleksandr Martyshkin Antanas Bagdonavičius Vytautas Briedis Volodymyr Sterlyk Valentyn Kravchuk Juozas Jagelavičius Viktor Suslin Yuriy Lorentsson	Soviet Union

The men's coxed eight competition at the 1968 Summer Olympics took place at Virgilio Uribe Rowing and Canoeing Course, Mexico City, Mexico. It was held from 13 to 19 October and was won by the team from West Germany, beating the teams from Australia and the Soviet Union for the other medal positions.

The United States had won this event at the last eight of nine Olympics, only missing out in 1960. West Germany was one of the favourites, as they had won the last four European Championships and the last two World Championships (in 1962 and 1966). The Soviet Union had a number of silver medal placings at recent events and were also among the favourites.

Races were held in up to six lanes. Twelve teams from 12 nations attended the competition. Five of the teams replaced a total of six rowers during the competition, making for a total of 114 rowers who participated in the races.

Rowers are shown as per the seats occupied in the official results book published by the Organizing Committee of the Games of the XIX Olympiad.

Two heats were rowed on 13 October. The winning teams qualified for the final, and the remaining teams progressed to the repechage.

The Official Report of the Organising Committee lists Michael Livingston in seat 7 of the United States boat, but this is incorrect, as he travelled to the 1968 Games as a reserve only. It was his elder brother, Cleve Livingston, who sat in seat 7 for the heat and final.