Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Women's 800 metre freestyle

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 800 metre freestyle event at the 1968 Olympic Games took place between October 22 and 24. 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

Gold	Debbie Meyer United States (USA)
Silver	Pam Kruse United States (USA)
Bronze	Maria Teresa Ramírez Mexico (MEX)

Results

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Debbie Meyer	United States	9:24.0	OR
	Pam Kruse	United States	9:35.7
	Maria Teresa Ramírez	Mexico	9:38.5
4	Karen Moras	Australia	9:38.6
5	Patty Caretto	United States	9:51.3
6	Angela Coughlan	Canada	9:56.4
7	Denise Langford	Australia	9:56.7
8	Laura Vaca	Mexico	10:02.5

Key: OR = Olympic record

References

• 1968 Summer Olympics results: Women's 800 m freestyle, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2009-12-04.