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

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1968 Summer Olympics
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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[]

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

Results[]

Heats[]

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[]

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Claudia Kolb  United States 2:24.7 OR
2 Susan Pedersen  United States 2:28.8
3 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[]

  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.
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