Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre backstroke

The men's 100 metre backstroke event at the 1968 Olympic Games took place between 21 and 22 October.[1] This swimming event used backstroke. Because an Olympic-size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of two lengths of the pool.

Medalists

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Gold Roland Matthes
  East Germany
Silver Charlie Hickcox
  United States
Bronze Ronnie Mills
  United States

Results

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Heats

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Heat 1

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Larry Barbiere   United States 1:01.9
2 Franco Chino   Italy 1:02.0
3 Reinhard Blechert   West Germany 1:02.7
4 Luis Angel Acosta   Mexico 1:06.5
5 Friedrich Jokisch   El Salvador 1:13.7

Heat 2

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Roland Matthes   East Germany 1:01.0
2 Santiago Esteva   Spain 1:03.0
3 Ejvind Pedersen   Denmark 1:03.5
4 Yevgeny Spiridonov   Soviet Union 1:04.2
5 Jesús Cabrera   Spain 1:04.8
6 Eliseo Vidal   Cuba 1:06.4
7 Ronnie Wong   Hong Kong 1:11.3

Heat 3

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Jim Shaw   Canada 1:01.8
2 Viktor Mazanov   Soviet Union 1:03.1
3 Roddy Jones   Great Britain 1:04.1
4 José Joaquín Santibáñez   Mexico 1:04.2
5 Herman Verbauwen   Belgium 1:04.6
6 Gary Goodner   Puerto Rico 1:06.3
7 Yacoub Masboungi   Lebanon 1:11.6

Heat 4

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Charlie Hickcox   United States 1:01.1
2 Franco Del Campo   Italy 1:02.3
3 Danijel Vrhovšek   Yugoslavia 1:02.9
4 Joseph Jackson   Great Britain 1:03.0
5 Gerald Evard   Switzerland 1:05.8
6 Arturo Carranza   El Salvador 1:17.4

Heat 5

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Yuriy Hromak   Soviet Union 1:03.2
2 Leonardo Baremboin   Argentina 1:04.0
3 László Cseh Sr.   Hungary 1:04.6
4 Hans Tegeback   Sweden 1:05.1
5 Jaime Rivera   Mexico 1:05.1
6 Francisco Ramis   Puerto Rico 1:07.2

Heat 6

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Ronnie Mills   United States 1:01.8
2 Bob Schoutsen   Netherlands 1:02.8
3 Karl Byrom   Australia 1:03.2
4 Kishio Tanaka   Japan 1:04.0
5 César Filardi   Brazil 1:04.6
6 Antonio Cruz   Guatemala 1:11.8

Semifinals

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Heat 1

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Charlie Hickcox   United States 1:01.6
2 Jim Shaw   Canada 1:01.9
3 Reinhard Blechert   West Germany 1:02.2
4 Yuriy Hromak   Soviet Union 1:02.4
5 Franco Chino   Italy 1:02.7
6 Danijel Vrhovšek   Yugoslavia 1:02.7
7 Joseph Jackson   Great Britain 1:02.8
8 Ejvind Pedersen   Denmark 1:03.6

Heat 2

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Roland Matthes   East Germany 1:01.3
2 Larry Barbiere   United States 1:01.6
3 Ronnie Mills   United States 1:01.8
4 Franco Del Campo   Italy 1:02.1
5 Bob Schoutsen   Netherlands 1:02.1
6 Karl Byrom   Australia 1:02.3
7 Santiago Esteva   Spain 1:02.4
8 Viktor Mazanov   Soviet Union 1:02.5

Final

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Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
  Roland Matthes   East Germany 58.7 OR
  Charlie Hickcox   United States 1:00.2
  Ronnie Mills   United States 1:00.5
4 Larry Barbiere   United States 1:01.1
5 Jim Shaw   Canada 1:01.4
6 Bob Schoutsen   Netherlands 1:01.8
7 Reinhard Blechert   West Germany 1:01.9
8 Franco Del Campo   Italy 1:02.0

Key: OR = Olympic record

References

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  1. ^ "Swimming at the 1968 Mexico City Summer Games: Men's 100 metres Backstroke". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 6 November 2016.