Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre individual medley
Introduction The '''women's 200 metre individual medley''' event at the 1968 Summer Olympics took place 20 October. This swimming event used medley swimming. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of four lengths of the pool. The first length was swum using the butterfly stroke, the second with the backstroke, the third length in breaststroke, and the fourth 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 anyway.
Medalists
Results ===Heats==='''Heat 1''' Rank  Athlete  Country  Time  Note 1  Sabine Steinbach    2:33.2   2  Jan Henne    2:33.9   3  Sue Eddy    2:36.6   4  Yvonne Tobis    2:41.0   5  Nelly Syro    2:55.7   6  Liana Vicens    2:57.0  '''Heat 2''' Rank  Athlete  Country  Time  Note 1  Tui Shipston    2:35.5   2  Dianna Rickard    2:36.0   3  Consuelo Changanaqui    2:40.0   4  Heli Matzdorf    2:42.1   5  Felicia Ospitaletche    2:47.8   6  Donatella Ferracuti    2:48.6  '''Heat 3''' Rank  Athlete  Country  Time  Note 1  Yoshimi Nishigawa    2:31.5   2  Pru Chapman    2:42.1   3  Hedy García    2:42.3   4  Ellen Ingvadóttir    2:43.1   5  Hrafnhildur Guðmundsdóttir    2:44.3   6  Ruth Apt    2:45.9  '''Heat 4''' Rank  Athlete  Country  Time  Note 1  Claudia Kolb    2:28.8   2  Larisa Zakharova    2:34.6   3  Shelagh Ratcliffe    2:34.9   4  Kirsten Strange-Campbell    2:39.4   5  Eva Sigg    2:41.0   6  Lidia Ramírez    2:42.6   7  María Moreño    2:51.1  '''Heat 5''' Rank  Athlete  Country  Time  Note 1  Marianne Seydel    2:32.8   2  Sue Pedersen    2:33.2   3  Danièle Dorléans    2:39.5   4  Carla Galle    2:40.9   5  Kristina Moir    2:42.8   6  Carmen Ferracuti    2:44.7   7  Olga de Angulo    2:48.7  '''Heat 6''' Rank  Athlete  Country  Time  Note 1  Hennie Penterman    2:36.7   2  Judit Turóczy    2:38.8   3  Márta Egerváry    2:40.7   4  Mariya Nikolova    2:40.8   5  Pilar von Carsten    2:41.7   6  Helmi Boxberger    2:45.2   7  Shen Bao-ni    2:48.1  ===Final=== Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes  1  Claudia Kolb   2:24.7  '''OR'''  2 Susan Pedersen   2:28.8  '''  '''  3  Jan Henne   2:31.4  ''' ''' 4  Sabine Steinbach   2:31.4  ''' ''' 5   Yoshimi Nishigawa   2:33.7  ''' ''' 6   Marianne Seydel   2:33.7  ''' ''' 7  Larisa Zakharova   2:37.0  ''' '''    Shelagh Ratcliffe    DQ  ''' ''''''Key''': DQ = Disqualified, OR = Olympic record
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