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The women's 4×100 metre medley relay event at the 1968 Olympic Games took place on 17 October.[ 1] This swimming event uses medley swimming as a relay. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, each of the four swimmers completed two lengths of the pool, each using a different stroke. The first on each team used the backstroke , the second used the breaststroke , the third used the butterfly stroke , and the final swimmer used freestyle (restricted to not allow any of the first three strokes to be used, though nearly all swimmers use front crawl regardless).
The first swimmer must touch the wall before the next can leave the starting block, and so forth; timing of the starts is thus important.
Heat 1[ 2]
Place
Swimmers
Time
Notes
1
Jane Swagerty , Suzy Jones , Susan Shields , Jan Henne (USA )
4:34.7
2
Martina Grunert , Eva Wittke , Helga Lindner , Uta Schmuck (GDR )
4:39.3
3
Tina Lek'veishvili , Alla Grebennikova , Larisa Zakharova , Lidiya Hrebets (URS )
4:39.5
4
Wendy Burrell , Dorothy Harrison , Margaret Auton , Alexandra Jackson (GBR )
4:40.4
5
Elaine Tanner , Anne Walton , Jeanne Warren, Marion Lay (CAN )
4:43.1
6
Glenda Stirling , Pru Chapman , Sandra Whittleston , Tui Shipston (NZL )
4:49.0
7
Lidia Ramírez , Tamara Oynick , Patricia Obregón , María Teresa Ramírez (MEX )
4:51.0
8
Rosa Hasbún , María Moreño , Carmen Ferracuti , Donatella Ferracuti (ESA )
5:12.6
Heat 2[ 3]
Place
Swimmers
Time
Notes
1
Lynne Watson , Judy Playfair , Lyn McClements , Lyn Bell (AUS )
4:34.6
2
Cobie Buter , Klenie Bimolt , Ada Kok , Nel Bos (NED )
4:39.4
3
Angelika Kraus , Uta Frommater , Heike Hustede-Nagel , Heidi Reineck (FRG )
4:39.5
4
Mária Balla-Lantos , Edit Kovács , Andrea Gyarmati , Judit Turóczy (HUN )
4:41.2
5
Yukiko Goushi , Kiyoe Nakagawa , Yasuko Fujii , Miwako Kobayashi (JPN )
4:41.4
6
Felicia Ospitaletche , Ana María Norbis , Ruth Apt , Emilia Figueroa (URU )
4:56.0
7
Ana Marcial , Liana Vicens , Kristina Moir , Lorna Blake (PUR )
5:18.2
8
Zdenka Gašparač , Đurđica Bjedov , Mirjana Šegrt , Ana Boban (YUG )
DQ
[ 4]
Place
Swimmers
Time
Notes
Kaye Hall , Catie Ball , Ellie Daniel , Susan Pedersen (USA )
4:28.3
OR
Lynne Watson , Judy Playfair , Lyn McClements , Jenny Steinbeck (AUS )
4:30.0
Angelika Kraus , Uta Frommater , Heike Hustede-Nagel , Heidi Reineck (FRG )
4:36.4
4
Tina Lek'veishvili , Alla Grebennikova , Tetiana Dev'iatova , Lidiya Hrebets (URS )
4:37.0
5
Martina Grunert , Eva Wittke , Helga Lindner , Uta Schmuck (GDR )
4:38.0
6
Wendy Burrell , Dorothy Harrison , Margaret Auton , Alexandra Jackson (GBR )
4:38.3
7
Cobie Buter , Klenie Bimolt , Ada Kok , Nel Bos (NED )
4:38.7
8
Mária Balla-Lantos , Edit Kovács , Andrea Gyarmati , Judit Turóczy (HUN )
4:42.9
1960 : Lynn Burke , Patty Kempner , Carolyn Schuler , Chris von Saltza (USA )
1964 : Cathy Ferguson , Cynthia Goyette , Sharon Stouder , Kathy Ellis (USA )
1968 : Kaye Hall , Catie Ball , Ellie Daniel , Susan Pedersen (USA )
1972 : Melissa Belote , Cathy Carr , Deena Deardurff , Sandy Neilson (USA )
1976 : Ulrike Richter , Hannelore Anke , Kornelia Ender , Andrea Pollack (GDR )
1980 : Rica Reinisch , Ute Geweniger , Andrea Pollack , Caren Metschuck (GDR )
1984 : Theresa Andrews , Tracy Caulkins , Mary T. Meagher , Nancy Hogshead (USA )
1988 : Kristin Otto , Silke Hörner , Birte Weigang , Katrin Meissner (GDR )
1992 : Lea Loveless , Anita Nall , Crissy Ahmann-Leighton , Jenny Thompson , Janie Wagstaff , Megan Kleine , Summer Sanders , Nicole Haislett (USA )
1996 : Beth Botsford , Amanda Beard , Angel Martino , Amy Van Dyken , Catherine Fox , Whitney Hedgepeth , Kristine Quance , Jenny Thompson (USA )
2000 : Barbara Bedford , Megan Quann , Jenny Thompson , Dara Torres , Courtney Shealy , Ashley Tappin , Amy Van Dyken , Staciana Stitts (USA )
2004 : Giaan Rooney , Leisel Jones , Petria Thomas , Jodie Henry , Brooke Hanson , Jessicah Schipper , Alice Mills (AUS )
2008 : Emily Seebohm , Leisel Jones , Jessicah Schipper , Libby Trickett , Tarnee White , Felicity Galvez , Shayne Reese (AUS )
2012 : Missy Franklin , Rebecca Soni , Dana Vollmer , Allison Schmitt , Rachel Bootsma , Breeja Larson , Claire Donahue , Jessica Hardy (USA )
2016 : Kathleen Baker , Lilly King , Dana Vollmer , Simone Manuel , Olivia Smoliga , Katie Meili , Kelsi Worrell , Abbey Weitzeil (USA )
2020 : Cate Campbell , Chelsea Hodges , Emma McKeon , Kaylee McKeown , Mollie O'Callaghan , Emily Seebohm , Brianna Throssell (AUS )
2024 : Regan Smith , Lilly King , Gretchen Walsh , Torri Huske , Katharine Berkoff , Emma Weber , Alex Shackell , Kate Douglass (USA )