Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Women's 800 metre freestyle
Appearance
Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics | ||
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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 women's 800 metre freestyle event at the 1968 Olympic Games took place between 22 and 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 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.
Medalists
[edit]Gold | Debbie Meyer |
Silver | Pam Kruse |
Bronze | Maria Teresa Ramírez |
Results
[edit]Heats
[edit]Heat 1
Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Note |
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1 | Debbie Meyer | 9:42.8 | ||
2 | Angela Coughlan | 10:00.2 | ||
3 | Sigrid Goral | 10:09.3 | ||
4 | Kristina Moir | 10:24.5 | ||
5 | Helen Elliott | 10:32.9 |
Heat 2
Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Note |
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1 | Karen Moras | 9:38.3 | ||
2 | Denise Langford | 9:59.3 | ||
3 | Laura Vaca | 10:01.8 | ||
4 | Tui Shipston | 10:28.0 | ||
5 | Norma Amezcua | 10:31.6 | ||
6 | Emilia Figueroa | 10:57.7 |
Heat 3
Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Note |
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1 | Pam Kruse | 9:49.8 | ||
2 | Elisabeth Ljunggren-Morris | 10:07.5 | ||
3 | Susan Williams | 10:17.6 | ||
4 | Sabine Rantzsch | 10:18.4 | ||
5 | Lylian Castillo | 11:19.1 |
Heat 4
Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Note |
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1 | Christine Deakes | 10:06.7 | ||
2 | Marie-José Kersaudy | 10:19.8 | ||
3 | Novella Calligaris | 10:21.0 | ||
4 | Patricia Olano | 10:44.1 | ||
5 | Silvana Asturias | 11:12.5 |
Heat 5
Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Note |
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1 | María Teresa Ramírez | 9:46.4 | ||
2 | Patty Caretto | 9:46.4 | ||
3 | Dominique Mollier | 10:21.4 | ||
4 | Marjatta Hara | 10:23.3 | ||
5 | Olga de Angulo | 10:40.5 |
Final
[edit]Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
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Debbie Meyer | 9:24.0 | OR | ||
Pam Kruse | 9:35.7 | |||
Maria Teresa Ramírez | 9:38.5 | |||
4 | Karen Moras | 9:38.6 | ||
5 | Patty Caretto | 9:51.3 | ||
6 | Angela Coughlan | 9:56.4 | ||
7 | Denise Langford | 9:56.7 | ||
8 | Laura Vaca | 10:02.5 |
Key: OR = Olympic record
References
[edit]- ^ "Swimming at the 1968 Mexico City Summer Games: Women's 800 metres Freestyle". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 14 November 2016.