Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Women's 400 metre freestyle

The women's 400 metre freestyle event at the 1968 Olympic Games took place between 19 and 20 October.[1] This swimming event used freestyle swimming, which means that the method of the stroke is not regulated (unlike backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly events). Nearly all swimmers use the front crawl or a variant of that stroke. Because an Olympic-size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of eight lengths of the pool.

Medalists edit

Gold Debbie Meyer
  United States
Silver Linda Gustavson
  United States
Bronze Karen Moras
  Australia

Results edit

Heats edit

Heat 1

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 María Teresa Ramírez   Mexico 4:43.9
2 Gabriele Wetzko   East Germany 4:49.8
3 Laura Vaca   Mexico 4:53.3
4 Helen Elliott   Philippines 4:59.9
5 Shen Bao-ni   Chinese Taipei 5:41.8

Heat 2

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Debbie Meyer   United States 4:35.0
2 Norma Amezcua   Mexico 5:00.5
3 Dominique Mollier   France 5:00.5
4 Sheila Clayton   Great Britain 5:08.0

Heat 3

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Pam Kruse   United States 4:45.2
2 Marjatta Hara   Finland 4:53.0
3 Olga de Angulo   Colombia 5:08.6
4 Sally Davison   Great Britain 5:11.2
5 Lylian Castillo   Uruguay 5:30.2
6 Lorna Blake   Puerto Rico 5:54.7

Heat 4

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Linda Gustavson   United States 4:41.4
2 Marie-José Kersaudy   France 4:57.3
3 Kristina Moir   Puerto Rico 4:57.7
4 Susan Williams   Great Britain 5:02.7
5 Emilia Figueroa   Uruguay 5:21.0

Heat 5

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Karen Moras   Australia 4:39.6
2 Elisabeth Ljunggren-Morris   Sweden 4:51.6
3 Novella Calligaris   Italy 4:59.4
4 Consuelo Changanaqui   Peru 5:02.9
5 Silvana Asturias   Guatemala 5:25.6

Heat 6

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Angela Coughlan   Canada 4:47.4
2 Denise Langford   Australia 4:52.2
3 Eva Sigg   Finland 4:58.5
4 Christine Deakes   Australia 5:01.5
5 Patricia Olano   Colombia 5:01.8

Final edit

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
  Debbie Meyer   United States 4:31.8 OR
  Linda Gustavson   United States 4:35.5
  Karen Moras   Australia 4:37.0
4 Pam Kruse   United States 4:37.2
5 Gabriele Wetzko   East Germany 4:40.2
6 María Teresa Ramírez   Mexico 4:42.2
7 Angela Coughlan   Canada 4:51.9
8 Elisabeth Ljunggren-Morris   Sweden 4:53.8

Key: OR = Olympic record

References edit

  1. ^ "Swimming at the 1968 Mexico City Summer Games: Women's 400 metres Freestyle". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 13 November 2016.