Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Women's 400 metre freestyle

The women's 400 metre freestyle event at the 1968 Olympic Games took place between October 19 and 20. 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 eight lengths of the pool.

Medalists

Gold	Debbie Meyer  United States
Silver	Linda Gustavson  United States
Bronze	Karen Moras  Australia

Results

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Debbie Meyer	United States	4:31.8	OR
	Linda Gustavson	United States	4:35.5
	Karen Moras	Australia	4:37.0
4	Pam Kruse	United States	4:37.2
5	Gabriele Wetzko	East Germany	4:40.2
6	María Teresa Ramírez	Mexico	4:42.2
7	Angela Coughlan	Canada	4:51.9
8	Elisabeth Ljunggren-Morris	Sweden	4:53.8

Key: OR = Olympic record

References

• 1968 Summer Olympics results: Women's 400 m freestyle, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2009-12-04.