Swimming at the 1968 Summer Paralympics

Swimming at the III Paralympic Games
Paralympic Swimming
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Swimming at the 1968 Summer Paralympics consisted of 68 events, 34 for men and 34 for women.

Medal summary[]

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Great Britain (GBR)	13	7	8	28
2	United States (USA)	12	10	8	30
3	Netherlands (NED)	9	2	4	15
4	Rhodesia (RHO)	6	6	4	16
5	France (FRA)	6	4	4	14
6	West Germany (FRG)	5	4	6	15
7	Australia (AUS)	4	5	1	10
8	Norway (NOR)	3	1	1	5
9	Italy (ITA)	3	1	0	4
10	Israel (ISR)	2	8	5	15
11	Canada (CAN)	1	2	3	6
12	South Africa (RSA)	1	2	2	5
13	Argentina (ARG)	1	1	2	4
14	Jamaica (JAM)	1	1	0	2
15	Japan (JPN)	1	0	1	2
16	Austria (AUT)	0	3	6	9
17	Spain (ESP)	0	3	1	4
18	Sweden (SWE)	0	2	4	6
19	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	2	3
20	Ireland (IRL)	0	1	1	2
21	Belgium (BEL)	0	1	0	1
	New Zealand (NZL)	0	1	0	1
Totals (22 nations)		68	66	63	197

Participating nations[]

Men's events[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
25 m freestyle class 1 complete	Sparsa  France	Crase  United States	A. West  Great Britain
25 m freestyle class 1 incomplete	France	West Germany	Rhodesia
25 m freestyle class 2 complete	Argentina	David Ellis  Great Britain	Vincent  United States
25 m freestyle class 2 incomplete	Great Britain	Nel  South Africa	France
50 m freestyle class 3 complete	Leonard Chrysler  United States	W. Thornton  Great Britain	Safer  Austria
50 m freestyle class 3 incomplete	Norway	Igel  Austria	Canada
50 m freestyle class 4 complete	Foust  United States	Lewis  South Africa	Arimura  Japan
50 m freestyle class 4 incomplete	Koyachi  Japan	Kim Pollock  United States	Israel
50 m freestyle class 5 (cauda equina)	Roberto Marson  Italy	Carlos Carranza  Argentina	Soderberg  Sweden
50 m freestyle special class	Netherlands	Cestier  France	Netherlands
100 m freestyle open	Branum  United States	John Watts  Great Britain	Switzerland
25 m backstroke class 1 complete	Sparsa  France	A. West  Great Britain	Dunn  United States
25 m backstroke class 1 incomplete	France	West Germany	Rhodesia
25 m backstroke class 2 complete	David Ellis  Great Britain	Vincent  United States	Frank Ponta  Australia
25 m backstroke class 2 incomplete	Nel  South Africa	France	Great Britain
50 m backstroke class 3 complete	Leonard Chrysler  United States	Norway	W. Thornton  Great Britain
50 m backstroke class 3 incomplete	Norway	Rhodesia	Fiorello  United States
50 m backstroke class 4 complete	Rhodesia	B. Dickinson  Great Britain	West Germany
50 m backstroke class 4 incomplete	Moshe Levy  Israel	Rhodesia	Great Britain
50 m backstroke class 5 (cauda equina)	Roberto Marson  Italy	Switzerland	Olfson  Sweden
50 m backstroke special class	Netherlands	Branum  United States	Cestier  France
25 m breaststroke class 1 complete	Crase  United States	Sparsa  France	Austria
25 m breaststroke class 1 incomplete	West Germany	Rhodesia	France
25 m breaststroke class 2 complete	David Ellis  Great Britain	Italy	Vincent  United States
25 m breaststroke class 2 incomplete	West Germany	Great Britain	Nel  South Africa
50 m breaststroke class 3 complete	W. Thornton  Great Britain	Jeff Simmonds  Australia	West Germany
50 m breaststroke class 3 incomplete	Norway	Don Watts  Australia	Igel  Austria
50 m breaststroke class 4 complete	Rhodesia	West Germany	Lewis  South Africa
50 m breaststroke class 4 incomplete	Rhodesia	Jacob Ben-Arie  Israel	M. Eden  Sweden
50 m breaststroke class 5 (cauda equina)	Roberto Marson  Italy	Soderberg  Sweden	Carlos Carranza  Argentina
50 m breaststroke special class	Ed Owen  United States	Carol  Spain	Israel
100 m breaststroke open	Ed Owen  United States	Israel	Carol  Spain
3×25 m individual medley open	Sestier  France	Israel	Branum  United States
3×50 m medley relay open	Netherlands (NED)	Israel (ISR)	United States (USA)

Women's events[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
25 m freestyle class 1 complete	Evelyn Mulry Moore  United States	Gorman  United States	None
25 m freestyle class 1 incomplete	Rhodesia	None	None
25 m freestyle class 2 complete	Lorraine Dodd  Australia	Cornett  United States	West Germany
25 m freestyle class 2 incomplete	Hilda Mae Binns  Canada	Evelyn Mulry Moore  United States	Rhodesia
50 m freestyle class 3 complete	Valerie Forder  Great Britain	Riu  Spain	West Germany
50 m freestyle class 3 incomplete	West Germany	Jacqueline Thompson  Rhodesia	Cardon  France
50 m freestyle class 4 complete	Ailes  United States	Eve M. Rimmer  New Zealand	None
50 m freestyle class 4 incomplete	Elizabeth Edmondson  Australia	Meikle  Jamaica	Netherlands
50 m freestyle class 5 (cauda equina)	Jardine  France	Daphne Hilton  Australia	Bellamy  Great Britain
50 m freestyle special class	Netherlands	Israel	Argentina
100 m freestyle open	Elizabeth Edmondson  Australia	Jardine  France	M. Gibbs  Great Britain
25 m backstroke class 1 complete	Netherlands	Gorman  United States	Switzerland
25 m backstroke class 1 incomplete	Davina Ingrams  Great Britain	White  Ireland	Ireland
25 m backstroke class 2 complete	Lorraine Dodd  Australia	Soulek  United States	S. Jones  Great Britain
25 m backstroke class 2 incomplete	Gwen Buck  Great Britain	Lamb  Australia	West Germany
50 m backstroke class 3 complete	Valerie Forder  Great Britain	Austria	West Germany
50 m backstroke class 3 incomplete	Great Britain	McPherson  Canada	Jacqueline Thompson  Rhodesia
50 m backstroke class 4 complete	Kaminski  United States	Miller  Canada	Fischer  Austria
50 m backstroke class 4 incomplete	Netherlands	Elizabeth Edmondson  Australia	Reklev  Norway
50 m backstroke class 5 (cauda equina)	Bellamy  Great Britain	Rhodesia	United States
50 m backstroke special class	Netherlands	Netherlands	Israel
25 m breaststroke class 1 complete	Gorman  United States	Moore  United States	Israel
25 m breaststroke class 1 incomplete	Rhodesia	None	None
25 m breaststroke class 2 complete	Lorraine Dodd  Australia	West Germany	Cornett  United States
25 m breaststroke class 2 incomplete	West Germany	Rhodesia	Netherlands
50 m breaststroke class 3 complete	Valerie Forder  Great Britain	Riu  Spain	Austria
50 m breaststroke class 3 incomplete	West Germany	Netherlands	McPherson  Canada
50 m breaststroke class 4 complete	Ailes  United States	Austria	Austria
50 m breaststroke class 4 incomplete	Meikle  Jamaica	M. Tufuesson  Sweden	Ora Goldstein  Israel
50 m breaststroke class 5 (cauda equina)	Bellamy  Great Britain	Lampo  Belgium	None
50 m breaststroke special class	Netherlands	Israel	Netherlands
100 m breaststroke open	Ora Goldstein  Israel	Carol Bryant  Great Britain	McPherson  Canada
3×25 m individual medley open	M. Gibbs  Great Britain	Israel	M. Tufuesson  Sweden
3×50 m medley relay open	Netherlands (NED) (backstroke) (Breaststroke) (freestyle)	Israel (ISR)	Great Britain (GBR)

References[]

• Swimming at the 1968 Summer Paralympics (Tel Aviv) from the International Paralympic Committee (archived)