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Swimming at the 1968 Olympics featured a total of 29 events (15 for men and 14 for women). This was a significant increase from the 18 events contested in the previous Olympic Games. The following events were contested (all pool events are long course, and distances are in meters): [ 1 ]
Swimming: Men's 100 m butterfly: October 21 Gold: David Johnson William Johnson John Nelson Stephen Rerych Don Schollander Mark Spitz Andrew Strenk Michael Wall: Swimming: Men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay: October 21 Gold: Debbie Meyer: Swimming: Women's 200 m freestyle: October 22 Gold: William Steinkraus: Equestrian: Individual jumping ...
The 1968 Summer Olympics (Spanish: Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1968), officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad (Spanish: Juegos de la XIX Olimpiada) and officially branded as Mexico 1968 (Spanish: México 1968), were an international multi-sport event held from 12 to 27 October 1968 in Mexico City, Mexico.
There were 5 heats of up to 8 swimmers each; with numerous withdrawals, one heat had only 3 swimmers. The top 8 swimmers advanced to the final. Swim-offs were used as necessary to break ties. This swimming event used backstroke. Because an Olympic-size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of four lengths of the pool.
At the 1968 Summer Olympics, Schollander won another gold medal in the 4×200-meter freestyle relay, but finished second in the 200-meter freestyle, the event that Schollander had considered to be his best. [6] This was the first Olympics in which 200-meter swimming events were part of the competition.
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 four lengths of the pool.
S. Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay; Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay
Brian Gregory Job (November 29, 1951 – August 14, 2019) was an American competition swimmer, Olympic medalist, and world record-holder.At the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, he won the bronze medal for his third-place finish in the men's 200-meter breaststroke. [1]