Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 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 women's 200 metre individual medley event at the 1968 Summer Olympics took place October 20. 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

Gold	Claudia Kolb United States (USA)
Silver	Susan Pedersen United States (USA)
Bronze	Jan Henne United States (USA)

Results

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Claudia Kolb	United States	2:24.7	OR
	Susan Pedersen	United States	2:28.8
	Jan Henne	United States	2:31.4
4	Sabine Steinbach	East Germany	2:31.4
5	Yoshimi Nishigawa	Japan	2:33.7
6	Marianne Seydel	East Germany	2:33.7
7	Larisa Zakharova	Soviet Union	2:37.0
	Shelagh Ratcliffe	Great Britain	DQ

Key: DQ = Disqualified, OR = Olympic record

References

• 1968 Summer Olympics results: Women's 200 m individual medley, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2009-12-05.