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

The men's 400 metre individual medley event at the 1968 Summer Olympics took place on 22–23 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

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Gold Charlie Hickcox
  United States
Silver Gary Hall, Sr.
  United States
Bronze Michael Holthaus
  West Germany

Results

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Heats

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Heat 1

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Andrey Dunayev   Soviet Union 5:01.9
2 Martyn Woodroffe   Great Britain 5:03.9
3 Eduardo Alanís   Mexico 5:14.9
4 Jacek Krawczyk   Poland 5:15.1
5 José Martínez   Cuba DQ

Heat 2

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Greg Buckingham   United States 4:57.3
2 Rafael Hernández   Mexico 5:01.1
3 Hans Ljungberg   Sweden 5:06.1
4 Vladimir Kravchenko   Soviet Union 5:08.7
5 Tomas Becerra   Colombia 5:09.7
6 Miguel Torres   Spain 5:12.7
7 Guðmundur Gíslason   Iceland 5:20.2
8 Raúl Villagómez   Mexico 5:24.7

Heat 3

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Charlie Hickcox   United States 4:56.2
2 Reinhard Merkel   West Germany 5:00.6
3 Bernhard Mock   West Germany 5:07.1
4 Péter Lázár   Hungary 5:10.6
5 Angel Chakarov   Bulgaria 5:10.9
6 Ken Campbell   Canada 5:19.6
7 Gershon Shefa   Israel 5:22.6
8 Lee Tong-shing   Chinese Taipei 5:50.0

Heat 4

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Mike Holthaus   West Germany 5:00.8
2 George Smith   Canada 5:04.4
3 Yulyan Rusev   Bulgaria 5:07.0
4 Lars Kraus Jensen   Denmark 5:12.7
5 Zbigniew Pacelt   Poland 5:18.6
6 Raymond Terrell   Great Britain 5:19.5
7 Francisco Ramis   Puerto Rico 5:30.9
8 Antonio Cruz   Guatemala 5:31.1

Heat 5

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Gary Hall   United States 4:56.2
2 Sandy Gilchrist   Canada 4:57.5
3 Karl Byrom   Australia 5:11.9
4 Michele D'Oppido   Italy 5:16.4
5 Jacques Henrard   Belgium 5:17.0
6 Olle Ferm   Sweden 5:18.9

Final

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Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
  Charlie Hickcox   United States 4:48.4
  Gary Hall, Sr.   United States 4:48.7
  Michael Holthaus   West Germany 4:51.4
4 Greg Buckingham   United States 4:51.4
5 Sandy Gilchrist   Canada 4:56.7
6 Reinhard Merkel   West Germany 4:59.8
7 Andrey Dunayev   Soviet Union 5:00.3
8 Rafael Hernández   Mexico 5:04.3

References

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  1. ^ "Swimming at the 1968 Mexico City Summer Games: Men's 400 metres Individual Medley". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 10 November 2016.