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

Men's 200 metre freestyle; at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
Venue	Alberca Olímpica Francisco Márquez
Date	24 October
Competitors	57 from 26 nations
Medalists

The men's 200 metre freestyle event at the 1968 Olympic Games took place 24 October.[1] It was the third time the event was held, returning for the first time since 1904 (when the distance was measured in yards).

Competition format

The competition used a two-round (heats, final) format. The advancement rule followed the format introduced in 1952. A swimmer's place in the heat was not used to determine advancement; instead, the fastest times from across all heats in a round were used. There were 9 heats of between 5 and 8 swimmers each. The top 8 swimmers advanced to the final. Swim-offs were used as necessary to break ties.

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.

Results

Heats

Nelson set a new Olympic record in the first heat; it was short-lived, as Wenden broke it in the second.

Rank	Heat	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Note
1	2	Mike Wenden	Australia	1:59.3	Q, OR
2	1	John Nelson	United States	1:59.5	Q, OR
3	8	Ralph Hutton	Canada	2:00.0	Q
3	4	Don Schollander	United States	2:00.0	Q
5	6	Alain Mosconi	France	2:00.1	Q
6	5	Steve Rerych	United States	2:00.6	Q
7	2	Bob Windle	Australia	2:01.0	Q
8	5	Semyon Belits-Geyman	Soviet Union	2:01.2	Q
9	7	Juan Carlos Bello	Peru	2:01.3
9	6	Leonid Ilyichov	Soviet Union	2:01.3
11	9	Michel Rousseau	France	2:01.5
12	8	Olaf, Baron von Schilling	West Germany	2:01.7
13	4	Luis Nicolao	Argentina	2:01.8
13	3	Sandy Gilchrist	Canada	2:01.8
15	3	Lester Eriksson	Sweden	2:02.1
	9	Kunihiro Iwasaki	Japan	2:02.1
	1	Wolfgang Kremer	West Germany	2:02.1
18	1	Mark Anderson	Australia	2:02.2
19	3	Gilles Moreau	France	2:02.7
20	7	Julio Arango	Colombia	2:03.1
21	6	George Smith	Canada	2:03.2
22	1	Noboru Waseda	Japan	2:03.4
23	4	Johan Schans	Netherlands	2:04.1
24	6	Roosevelt Abdulgafur	Philippines	2:04.8
25	5	Pano Capéronis	Switzerland	2:04.9
25	4	Gunnar Larsson	Sweden	2:04.9
27	5	Ørjan Madsen	Norway	2:05.4
28	3	Satoru Nakano	Japan	2:05.5
29	4	Elt Drenth	Netherlands	2:05.6
30	5	Ricardo González	Colombia	2:05.8
31	2	Władysław Wojtakajtis	Poland	2:06.0
32	8	Tony Asamali	Philippines	2:06.2
33	7	Zbigniew Pacelt	Poland	2:06.3
34	2	Mátyás Borlói	Hungary	2:06.5
35	1	Gary Goodner	Puerto Rico	2:06.6
35	9	Aad Oudt	Netherlands	2:06.6
37	6	Fernando González	Ecuador	2:07.3
38	6	Werner Krammel	West Germany	2:07.9
39	4	Georgijs Kuļikovs	Soviet Union	2:08.3
40	7	Jorge González	Puerto Rico	2:09.1
41	2	Amnon Krauz	Israel	2:09.3
41	5	Tony Jarvis	Great Britain	2:09.3
43	7	Csaba Csatlós	Hungary	2:10.0
43	8	Ingvar Eriksson	Sweden	2:10.0
45	2	Gregorio Fiallo	Cuba	2:10.5
46	3	Federico Sicard	Colombia	2:11.1
47	6	Ramiro Benavides	Guatemala	2:11.7
48	9	Luis Ayesa	Philippines	2:12.2
49	7	Gábor Kucsera	Hungary	2:12.8
50	1	Salvador Vilanova	El Salvador	2:14.6
51	4	Ronnie Wong	Hong Kong	2:15.0
52	8	Andrew Loh	Hong Kong	2:15.8
53	3	José Martínez	Cuba	2:16.1
54	5	Bob Loh	Hong Kong	2:16.2
55	4	Angus Edghill	Barbados	2:19.1
56	6	José Alvarado	El Salvador	2:20.2
57	9	Ernesto Durón	El Salvador	2:24.1

Final

Rank	Swimmer	Nation	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

References

"Swimming at the 1968 Mexico City Summer Games: Men's 200 metres Freestyle". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 4 November 2016.

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[SportsRef-1] "Swimming at the 1968 Mexico City Summer Games: Men's 200 metres Freestyle". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 4 November 2016.

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

Olympic champions in men's 200 m freestyle
220 yards	1904: Charles Daniels (USA)
200 metres	1900: Frederick Lane (AUS) 1968: Michael Wenden (AUS) 1972: Mark Spitz (USA) 1976: Bruce Furniss (USA) 1980: Sergey Koplyakov (URS) 1984: Michael Gross (FRG) 1988: Duncan Armstrong (AUS) 1992: Yevgeny Sadovyi (EUN) 1996: Danyon Loader (NZL) 2000: Pieter van den Hoogenband (NED) 2004: Ian Thorpe (AUS) 2008: Michael Phelps (USA) 2012: Yannick Agnel (FRA) 2016: Sun Yang (CHN)