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

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

The men's 200 metre freestyle event at the 1968 Olympic Games took place 24 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). 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.

Medalists

Gold	Mike Wenden  Australia
Silver	Don Schollander  United States
Bronze	John Nelson  United States

Results

Heats

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	John Nelson	United States	1:59.5
2	Wolfgang Kremer	West Germany	2:02.1
3	Mark Anderson	Australia	2:02.2
4	Noboru Waseda	Japan	2:03.4
5	Gary Goodner	Puerto Rico	2:06.6
6	Salvador Vilanova	El Salvador	2:14.6

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Mike Wenden	Australia	1:59.3
2	Bob Windle	Australia	2:01.0
3	Władysław Wojtakajtis	Poland	2:06.0
4	Mátyás Borlói	Hungary	2:06.5
5	Amnon Krauz	Israel	2:09.3
6	Gregorio Fiallo	Cuba	2:10.5

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Sandy Gilchrist	Canada	2:01.8
2	Lester Eriksson	Sweden	2:02.1
3	Gilles Moreau	France	2:02.7
4	Satoru Nakano	Japan	2:05.5
5	Federico Sicard	Colombia	2:11.1
6	José Martínez	Cuba	2:16.1

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Don Schollander	United States	2:00.0
2	Luis Nicolao	Argentina	2:01.8
3	Johan Schans	Netherlands	2:04.1
4	Gunnar Larsson	Sweden	2:04.9
5	Elt Drenth	Netherlands	2:05.6
6	Georgijs Kuļikovs	Soviet Union	2:08.3
7	Ronnie Wong	Hong Kong	2:15.0
8	Angus Edghill	Barbados	2:19.1

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Steve Rerych	United States	2:00.6
2	Semyon Belits-Geyman	Soviet Union	2:01.2
3	Pano Capéronis	Switzerland	2:04.9
4	Ørjan Madsen	Norway	2:05.4
5	Ricardo González	Colombia	2:05.8
6	Tony Jarvis	Great Britain	2:09.3
7	Bob Loh	Hong Kong	2:16.2

Heat 6

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Alain Mosconi	France	2:00.1
2	Leonid Ilyichov	Soviet Union	2:01.3
3	George Smith	Canada	2:03.2
4	Roosevelt Abdulgafur	Philippines	2:04.8
5	Fernando González	Ecuador	2:07.3
6	Werner Krammel	West Germany	2:07.9
7	Ramiro Benavides	Guatemala	2:11.7
8	José Alvarado	El Salvador	2:20.2

Heat 7

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Juan Carlos Bello	Peru	2:01.3
2	Julio Arango	Colombia	2:03.1
3	Zbigniew Pacelt	Poland	2:06.3
4	Jorge González	Puerto Rico	2:09.1
5	Csaba Csatlós	Hungary	2:10.0
6	Gábor Kucsera	Hungary	2:12.8

Heat 8

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Ralph Hutton	Canada	2:00.0
2	Olaf, Baron von Schilling	West Germany	2:01.7
3	Tony Asamali	Philippines	2:06.2
4	Ingvar Eriksson	Sweden	2:10.0
5	Andrew Loh	Hong Kong	2:15.8

Heat 9

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Michel Rousseau	France	2:01.5
2	Kunihiro Iwasaki	Japan	2:02.1
3	Aad Oudt	Netherlands	2:06.6
4	Luis Ayesa	Philippines	2:12.2
5	Ernesto Durón	El Salvador	2:24.1

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Mike Wenden	Australia	1:55.2	OR
	Don Schollander	United States	1:55.8
	John Nelson	United States	1:58.1
4	Ralph Hutton	Canada	1:58.6
5	Alain Mosconi	France	1:59.1
6	Bob Windle	Australia	2:00.9
7	Semyon Belits-Geiman	Soviet Union	2:01.5

Key: OR = Olympic record

References