Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metre individual medley

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The men's 400 metre individual medley event at the 1968 Summer Olympics took place on 22–23 October.[1] This swimming event used medley swimming. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of eight lengths of the pool. The first two lengths were swum using the butterfly stroke, the second pair with the backstroke, the third pair of lengths in breaststroke, and the final two were 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.

Medalists[]

Gold Charlie Hickcox
 United States
Silver Gary Hall, Sr.
 United States
Bronze Michael Holthaus
 West Germany

Results[]

Heats[]

Heat 1

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Andrey Dunayev  Soviet Union 5:01.9
2 Martyn Woodroffe  Great Britain 5:03.9
3 Eduardo Alanís  Mexico 5:14.9
4 Jacek Krawczyk  Poland 5:15.1
5 José Martínez  Cuba DQ

Heat 2

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Greg Buckingham  United States 4:57.3
2 Rafael Hernández  Mexico 5:01.1
3 Hans Ljungberg  Sweden 5:06.1
4 Vladimir Kravchenko  Soviet Union 5:08.7
5 Tomas Becerra  Colombia 5:09.7
6 Miguel Torres  Spain 5:12.7
7 Gudmunður Gíslason  Iceland 5:20.2
8 Raúl Villagómez  Mexico 5:24.7

Heat 3

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Charlie Hickcox  United States 4:56.2
2 Reinhard Merkel  West Germany 5:00.6
3 Bernhard Mock  West Germany 5:07.1
4 Péter Lázár  Hungary 5:10.6
5 Angel Chakarov  Bulgaria 5:10.9
6 Ken Campbell  Canada 5:19.6
7 Gershon Shefa  Israel 5:22.6
8 Lee Tong-shing  Chinese Taipei 5:50.0

Heat 4

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Mike Holthaus  West Germany 5:00.8
2 George Smith  Canada 5:04.4
3 Yulyan Rusev  Bulgaria 5:07.0
4 Lars Kraus Jensen  Denmark 5:12.7
5 Zbigniew Pacelt  Poland 5:18.6
6 Raymond Terrell  Great Britain 5:19.5
7 Francisco Ramis  Puerto Rico 5:30.9
8 Antonio Cruz  Guatemala 5:31.1

Heat 5

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Gary Hall  United States 4:56.2
2 Sandy Gilchrist  Canada 4:57.5
3 Karl Byrom  Australia 5:11.9
4 Michele D'Oppido  Italy 5:16.4
5 Jacques Henrard  Belgium 5:17.0
6 Olle Ferm  Sweden 5:18.9

Final[]

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Charlie Hickcox  United States 4:48.4
2 Gary Hall, Sr.  United States 4:48.7
3 Michael Holthaus  West Germany 4:51.4
4 Greg Buckingham  United States 4:51.4
5 Sandy Gilchrist  Canada 4:56.7
6 Reinhard Merkel  West Germany 4:59.8
7 Andrey Dunayev  Soviet Union 5:00.3
8 Rafael Hernández  Mexico 5:04.3

References[]

  1. ^ "Swimming at the 1968 Mexico City Summer Games: Men's 400 metres Individual Medley". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 10 November 2016.
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