Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's 1500 metre freestyle
Introduction The '''men's 1500 metre freestyle''' event at the 1968 Olympic Games took place between 25 and 26 October. 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 30 lengths of the pool.
Medalists
Results ===Heats==='''Heat 1''' Rank  Athlete  Country  Time  Note 1  Mike Burton    17:27.2   2  Ralph Hutton    17:35.9   3  Hans Faßnacht    17:40.2   4  Julio Arango    17:53.9   5  Vladimir Bure    18:14.7  '''Heat 2''' Rank  Athlete  Country  Time  Note 1  John Nelson    17:36.0   2  Juan Alanís    17:37.4   3  Karl-Rüdiger Mann    17:37.6   4  Antonio Corell    18:12.7  '''Heat 3''' Rank  Athlete  Country  Time  Note 1  Greg Brough    17:17.1   2  John Kinsella    17:22.7   3  Gunnar Larsson    17:57.0   4  Jorge Urreta    17:57.5   5  Władysław Wojtakajtis    18:32.4   6  Jacques Henrard    18:38.2  '''Heat 4''' Rank  Athlete  Country  Time  Note 1  Graham White    17:10.1   2  Guillermo Echevarría    17:11.0   3  Katsuji Ito    17:50.2   4  Jean-François Ravelinghien    18:11.9   5  Jorge González    19:06.0   6  Rubén Guerrero    19:36.4  ===Final=== Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes  1  Mike Burton   16:38.9  '''OR'''  2 John Kinsella   16:57.3  '''  '''  3  Greg Brough   17:04.7  ''' ''' 4  Graham White   17:08.0  ''' ''' 5   Ralph Hutton   17:15.6  ''' ''' 6   Guillermo Echevarría   17:36.4  ''' ''' 7  Juan Alanís   17:46.6  ''' ''' 8  John Nelson   18:05.1  ''' ''''''Key''': OR = Olympic record
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