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

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 400 metre individual medley event at the 1968 Summer Olympics took place on 22–23 October. 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

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

Results

Final

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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