Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Women's 800 metre freestyle
Introduction The '''women's 800 metre freestyle''' event at the 1968 Olympic Games took place between 22 and 24 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 sixteen lengths of the pool.
Medalists
Results ===Heats==='''Heat 1''' Rank  Athlete  Country  Time  Note 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 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 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 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 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=== Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes  1  Debbie Meyer   9:24.0  '''OR'''  2 Pam Kruse   9:35.7  '''  '''  3  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
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