Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre backstroke

Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m		women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m	men	women
4×200 m	men
Medley relay
4×100 m	men	women

The men's 200 metre backstroke event at the 1968 Olympic Games took place October 25. This swimming event used backstroke. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of four lengths of the pool.

Medalists

Gold	Roland Matthes East Germany (GDR)
Silver	Mitch Ivey United States (USA)
Bronze	Jack Horsley United States (USA)

Results

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Roland Matthes	East Germany	2:09.6	OR
	Mitch Ivey	United States	2:10.6
	Jack Horsley	United States	2:10.9
4	Gary Hall, Sr.	United States	2:12.6
5	Santiago Esteva	Spain	2:12.9
6	Leonid Dobroskokin	Soviet Union	2:15.4
7	Joachim Röther	East Germany	2:15.8
8	Franco Del Campo	Italy	2:16.5

Key: OR = Olympic record

References

• 1968 Summer Olympics results: Men's 200 m backstroke, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2009-11-28.