Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre individual medley

The women's 200 metre individual medley event at the 1968 Summer Olympics took place 20 October.[1] This swimming event used medley swimming. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of four lengths of the pool. The first length was swum using the butterfly stroke, the second with the backstroke, the third length in breaststroke, and the fourth freestyle. Unlike other events using freestyle, swimmers could not use butterfly, backstroke, or breaststroke for the freestyle leg; most swimmers use the front crawl in freestyle events anyway.

Medalists

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Gold Claudia Kolb
  United States
Silver Susan Pedersen
  United States
Bronze Jan Henne
  United States

Results

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Heats

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Heat 1

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Sabine Steinbach   East Germany 2:33.2
2 Jan Henne   United States 2:33.9
3 Sue Eddy   Australia 2:36.6
4 Yvonne Tobis   Israel 2:41.0
5 Nelly Syro   Colombia 2:55.7
6 Liana Vicens   Puerto Rico 2:57.0

Heat 2

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Tui Shipston   New Zealand 2:35.5
2 Dianna Rickard   Australia 2:36.0
3 Consuelo Changanaqui   Peru 2:40.0
4 Heli Matzdorf   West Germany 2:42.1
5 Felicia Ospitaletche   Uruguay 2:47.8
6 Donatella Ferracuti   El Salvador 2:48.6

Heat 3

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Yoshimi Nishigawa   Japan 2:31.5
2 Pru Chapman   New Zealand 2:42.1
3 Hedy García   Philippines 2:42.3
4 Ellen Ingvadóttir   Iceland 2:43.1
5 Hrafnhildur Guðmundsdóttir   Iceland 2:44.3
6 Ruth Apt   Uruguay 2:45.9

Heat 4

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Claudia Kolb   United States 2:28.8
2 Larisa Zakharova   Soviet Union 2:34.6
3 Shelagh Ratcliffe   Great Britain 2:34.9
4 Kirsten Strange-Campbell   Denmark 2:39.4
5 Eva Sigg   Finland 2:41.0
6 Lidia Ramírez   Mexico 2:42.6
7 María Moreño   El Salvador 2:51.1

Heat 5

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Marianne Seydel   East Germany 2:32.8
2 Sue Pedersen   United States 2:33.2
3 Danièle Dorléans   France 2:39.5
4 Carla Galle   Belgium 2:40.9
5 Kristina Moir   Puerto Rico 2:42.8
6 Carmen Ferracuti   El Salvador 2:44.7
7 Olga de Angulo   Colombia 2:48.7

Heat 6

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Hennie Penterman   Netherlands 2:36.7
2 Judit Turóczy   Hungary 2:38.8
3 Márta Egerváry   Hungary 2:40.7
4 Mariya Nikolova   Bulgaria 2:40.8
5 Pilar von Carsten   Spain 2:41.7
6 Helmi Boxberger   West Germany 2:45.2
7 Shen Bao-ni   Taiwan 2:48.1

Final

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Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
  Claudia Kolb   United States 2:24.7 OR
  Susan Pedersen   United States 2:28.8
  Jan Henne   United States 2:31.4
4 Sabine Steinbach   East Germany 2:31.4
5 Yoshimi Nishigawa   Japan 2:33.7
6 Marianne Seydel   East Germany 2:33.7
7 Larisa Zakharova   Soviet Union 2:37.0
Shelagh Ratcliffe   Great Britain DQ

Key: DQ = Disqualified, OR = Olympic record

References

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  1. ^ "Swimming at the 1968 Mexico City Summer Games: Women's 200 metres Individual Medley". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 19 November 2016.