The Philippines first sent athletes to compete at the Olympic Games in 1924, making it the first country to compete and win a medal in Southeast Asia.
 The nation has competed at every Summer Olympic Games since then, except when they participated in the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics.
 The Philippines also decided against participating at the 1940 Summer Olympics before the Games was ultimately cancelled due to the outbreak of World War II.
 Filipino athletes have also competed at the Winter Olympic Games on four different occasions since 1972.
The 2008 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and commonly known as Beijing 2008, was a major international multi-sport event that took place in Beijing, China, from 7 to 24 August 2008.
 A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) competed in 28 sports and 302 events (a total of one event more than the schedule of the 2004 Games).
 China became the 22nd nation to host the Olympic Games and the 18th to hold a Summer Olympic Games.
 It was the third time that the Summer Olympic Games were held in East Asia and Asia, after Tokyo, Japan, in 1964 and Seoul, South Korea, in 1988.
Nikolay Surov (May 20, 1947 – February 28, 2010) was a Russian Olympic rower who competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.
 He died on February 28, 2010 at the age of 62.
Hungary competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.
 The country sent 131 individual competitors (77 men and 54 women) plus the men's and women's water polo teams and the women's handball team (13+13 + 14 athletes, respectively) for a total of 171 Hungarian athletes taking part in the 2008 Summer Olympic Games.
 Hungary's gold medal count of 3 was the lowest in the nation's Summer Olympic history since the Paris Summer Olympic Games of 1924.
 Its total medal count of 10 was the lowest since the 1928 Summer Olympic Games in Amsterdam.
Turkey competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, from 27 July to 12 August 2012.
 This nation has competed at every Summer Olympic Games in the modern era since its debut in 1908.
 Turkey, however, did not attend the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles at the period of Great Depression, and the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow because of the United States boycott.
 The Turkish Olympic Committee (Turkish: "Türkiye Milli Olimpiyat Komitesi" , "TMOK") sent the nation's largest delegation to the Games.
 A total of 114 athletes, 48 men and 66 women, competed in 16 sports.
 For the first time in its Olympic history, Turkey was represented by more female than male athletes.
 Women's basketball and women's volleyball were the only team-based sports in which Turkey had its representation in these Olympic games.
 There was only a single competitor in archery, badminton, and artistic gymnastics.
Scot Hollonbeck (born 1969) is an American wheelchair racer, who competed at the Olympic and Paralympic level.
 At the 1996 Olympic Games, he placed second in the 1500m wheelchair racing event.
 2000 Summer Olympic Games, he placed sixth in the 1500m wheelchair racing event.
 At the 2004 Olympic Games, he finished 4th in the 1500m wheelchair racing event.
 Men's 1500m wheelchair.
 At the 1992 Olympic Games, he finished 5th in the 1500m wheelchair racing event.
 Men's 1500m wheelchairHe competed in four consecutive Summer Olympic finals, winning one silver medal and Summer Paralympics from 1992 to 2004, winning a total of two gold and three silver medals.
Liechtenstein competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016.
 Since the nation's official debut in 1936, Liechtensteinian athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games, except for two occasions.
 Liechtenstein did not register any athletes at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, and eventually joined the United States-led boycott when Moscow hosted the 1980 Summer Olympics.
 The 2016 delegation included two swimmers, Christoph Meier and Julia Hassler, and tennis player Stephanie Vogt.
 Two of the athletes debuted in the London 2012 Games, with long-distance freestyle swimmer Julia Hassler leading the squad as the nation's flag bearer in the opening ceremony.
 Liechtenstein has yet to win a Summer Olympic medal.
Maneyapanda Muthanna Somaya is a former Indian field hockey player from Coorg, Karnataka.
 He was a member of Indian squad in many international games, including the team that won the Gold medal at the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympic Games.
 Somaya went on to play two more Olympic Games, viz., 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympic Games, and 1988 Seoul Summer Olympic Games.
 He was the captain of the 1988 Olympics team.
Brazil first participated at the Olympic Games in 1920, after missing the previous five Summer editions.
 The country has sent athletes to compete in every Summer Olympic Games since then, except for the 1928 Games.
 As of 2016, Brazilian athletes have won a total of 129 medals in 15 different Summer sports.
 Brazil has also participated in the Winter Olympic Games since 1992, though to this date no Brazilian athlete has won an Olympic medal in winter sports.
 The country's best result at the Winter Olympics was a ninth-place finish achieved by snowboarder Isabel Clark Ribeiro at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.
 Since Brazil is mostly a tropical nation, the country's most important results so far have been achieved at the Summer editions.
The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (French: "Jeux olympiques" ) are leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions.
 The Olympic Games are considered the world's foremost sports competition with more than 200 nations participating.
 The Olympic Games are held every four years, with the Summer and Winter Games alternating by occurring every four years but two years apart.

Question: Nikolay Surov was a Russian rower who competed at the summer Olympic games against athletes from all over the world in what year?
Answer: 1968