Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre backstroke

The men's 200 metre backstroke event at the 1968 Olympic Games took place 25 October.^[1] This swimming event used backstroke. Because an Olympic-size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of four lengths of the pool.

Medalists

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Mitch Ivey	United States	2:11.3
2	Franco Del Campo	Italy	2:16.3
3	Franco Chino	Italy	2:19.5
4	José Joaquín Santibáñez	Mexico	2:20.7
5	Jim Shaw	Canada	2:21.0
6	Hans Ljungberg	Sweden	2:22.3
7	Tony Asamali	Philippines	2:30.0
8	Antonio Cruz	Guatemala	2:36.3

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Jack Horsley	United States	2:13.7
2	Reinhard Blechert	West Germany	2:16.5
3	Jaime Monzo	Spain	2:20.1

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Roland Matthes	East Germany	2:13.6
2	Santiago Esteva	Spain	2:15.8
3	Joachim Röther	East Germany	2:16.1
4	Ejvind Pedersen	Denmark	2:16.6
5	Karl Byrom	Australia	2:20.7
6	Eliseo Vidal	Cuba	2:21.3
7	Leonardo Baremboin	Argentina	2:25.2
8	Francisco Ramis	Puerto Rico	2:30.4

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Leonid Dobroskokin	Soviet Union	2:16.1
2	Bob Schoutsen	Netherlands	2:18.2
3	Jaime Rivera	Mexico	2:20.7
4	Lars Kraus Jensen	Denmark	2:22.5
5	Gerald Evard	Switzerland	2:24.7
6	Chan King-ming	Chinese Taipei	2:46.9

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Gary Hall Sr.	United States	2:16.2
2	Mátyás Borlói	Hungary	2:17.9
3	Rinus van Beek	Netherlands	2:21.2
4	Luis Angel Acosta	Mexico	2:24.0
5	Ronnie Wong	Hong Kong	2:38.6

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Roland Matthes	East Germany	2:09.6	OR
	Mitch Ivey	United States	2:10.6
	Jack Horsley	United States	2:10.9
4	Gary Hall Sr.	United States	2:12.6
5	Santiago Esteva	Spain	2:12.9
6	Leonid Dobroskokin	Soviet Union	2:15.4
7	Joachim Röther	East Germany	2:15.8
8	Franco Del Campo	Italy	2:16.5

Key: OR = Olympic record

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Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Freestyle
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m		women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m	men	women
4×200 m	men
Medley relay
4×100 m	men	women