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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]
Schollander had won four Olympic gold medals in 1964, including anchoring the gold medal 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay. Michael Wenden of Australia had won the 100 metre freestyle (in which Schollander did not compete) earlier at the 1968 Olympics and was looking for a double. [2] 19 of the 26 competing nations were making their debut in the ...
W. Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre backstroke; Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre backstroke; Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre breaststroke
The men's 100 metre freestyle event at the 1968 Olympic Games took place between 18 and 19 October. [1] There were 64 competitors from 34 nations. [2] Nations had been limited to three swimmers each since the 1924 Games (except in 1960, when the limit was two).
From 1904 to 1960, a men's 100 metre backstroke was held instead. In 1964, only the 200 metres was held. Beginning in 1968 and ever since, both the 100 and 200 metre versions have been held. [2] None of the 8 finalists from the 1964 Games returned. Roland Matthes had set the world record in the East German Olympic trials. The American team was ...
The women's 200 metre breaststroke event, included in the swimming competition at the 1968 Summer Olympics, took place on October 22–23, at the Alberca Olímpica Francisco Márquez. In this event, swimmers covered four lengths of the 50-metre (160 ft) Olympic-sized pool employing the breaststroke.
Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of sixteen lengths of the pool. The winning margin was 11.7 seconds which as of 2023 remains the greatest winning margin in this event at the Olympics and one of only two occasions when the event was won by more than 7 seconds, the other time being in 2016.
The inaugural women's 200 metre freestyle event at the 1968 Olympic Games took place between 21 and 22 October. [1] This swimming event used freestyle swimming, which means that the method of the stroke is not regulated (unlike backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly events).