Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Women's 400 metre individual medley

The women's 400 metre individual medley event at the 1968 Summer Olympics took place on 24–25 October.[1] This swimming event used medley swimming. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of eight lengths of the pool. The first two lengths were swum using the butterfly stroke, the second pair with the backstroke, the third pair of lengths in breaststroke, and the final two were freestyle. Unlike other events using freestyle, swimmers could not use butterfly, backstroke, or breaststroke for the freestyle leg; most swimmers use the front crawl in freestyle events.

Medalists

GoldClaudia Kolb
 United States
SilverLynn Vidali
 United States
BronzeSabine Steinbach
 East Germany

Results

Heats

Heat 1

RankAthleteCountryTimeNote
1Sue Pedersen United States5:26.4
2Larisa Zakharova Soviet Union5:38.6
3Hennie Penterman Netherlands5:38.8
4Carla Galle Belgium5:55.2
5Olga de Angulo Colombia6:00.6

Heat 2

RankAthleteCountryTimeNote
1Sabine Steinbach East Germany5:31.3
2Eva Sigg Finland5:37.3
3Sue Eddy Australia5:42.2
4Norma Amezcua Mexico5:47.9
5Ruth Apt Uruguay6:04.5
6Shen Bao-ni Republic of China6:21.5

Heat 3

RankAthleteCountryTimeNote
1Lynn Vidali United States5:28.9
2Shelagh Ratcliffe Great Britain5:33.2
3Laura Vaca Mexico5:33.7
4Tamara Oynick Mexico5:48.4
5Kirsten Strange-Campbell Denmark5:59.0

Heat 4

RankAthleteCountryTimeNote
1Marianne Seydel East Germany5:30.9
2Tui Shipston New Zealand5:33.7
3Eva Wittke East Germany5:40.6
4Mariya Nikolova Bulgaria5:45.2
5Patricia Olano Colombia5:52.6
6Yvonne Tobis Israel5:53.8
7Hedy García Philippines6:07.3

Heat 5

RankAthleteCountryTimeNote
1Claudia Kolb United States5:17.2
2Dianna Rickard Australia5:37.8
3Heli Matzdorf West Germany5:50.5
4Consuelo Changanaqui Peru5:52.2
5Nelly Syro Colombia6:13.1

Final

RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
Claudia Kolb United States5:08.5OR
Lynn Vidali United States5:22.2
Sabine Steinbach East Germany5:25.3
4Sue Pedersen United States5:25.8
5Shelagh Ratcliffe Great Britain5:30.5
6Marianne Seydel East Germany5:32.0
7Tui Shipston New Zealand5:34.6
8Laura Vaca Mexico5:35.7

Key: OR = Olympic record

References

  1. "Swimming at the 1968 Mexico City Summer Games: Women's 400 metres Individual Medley". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
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