Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre individual medley

The men's 200 metre individual medley event at the 1968 Olympic Games took place between 19 and 20 October.[1] 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.

Silver medalist Greg Buckingham's younger brother, Lindsey, went on to fame as a member of the rock group Fleetwood Mac.

Medalists

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Gold Charlie Hickcox
  United States
Silver Greg Buckingham
  United States
Bronze John Ferris
  United States

Results

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Heats

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Heat 1

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Charlie Hickcox   United States 2:16.1
2 Péter Lázár   Hungary 2:17.1
3 Lars Kraus Jensen   Denmark 2:21.2
4 Zbigniew Pacelt   Poland 2:23.3
5 Guðmundur Gíslason   Iceland 2:24.1
6 Andrey Dunayev   Soviet Union 2:25.9
7 Francisco Ramis   Puerto Rico 2:31.9
8 Rubén Guerrero   El Salvador 2:37.5

Heat 2

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 George Smith   Canada 2:16.4
2 Mike Holthaus   West Germany 2:17.5
3 Frank Wiegand   East Germany 2:18.0
4 Ronnie Wong   Hong Kong 2:36.1
5 Donnacha O'Dea   Ireland 2:36.6

Heat 3

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 John Ferris   United States 2:14.6
2 Reinhard Merkel   West Germany 2:17.8
3 Hans Ljungberg   Sweden 2:17.8
4 Yulyan Rusev   Bulgaria 2:22.7
5 Raymond Terrell   Great Britain 2:23.5
6 Olle Ferm   Sweden 2:27.5
7 Lee Tong-shing   Chinese Taipei DQ

Heat 4

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Vladimir Kravchenko   Soviet Union 2:18.6
2 István Szentirmay   Hungary 2:21.0
3 Angel Chakarov   Bulgaria 2:24.0
4 José Joaquín Santibáñez   Mexico 2:24.6
5 Karl Byrom   Australia 2:28.0
6 Chan King-ming   Chinese Taipei 2:44.9

Heat 5

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Sandy Gilchrist   Canada 2:16.8
2 Juan Carlos Bello   Peru 2:17.5
3 Juan Fortuny   Spain 2:20.6
4 François Simons   Belgium 2:22.5
5 Rafael Hernández   Mexico 2:24.7
6 Salvador Vilanova   El Salvador 2:33.8
7 Bob Loh   Hong Kong 2:39.3

Heat 6

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Greg Buckingham   United States 2:15.6
2 Michele D'Oppido   Italy 2:18.5
3 Ken Campbell   Canada 2:20.9
4 Eduardo Alanís   Mexico 2:23.0
5 Gershon Shefa   Israel 2:26.6
6 Peter Schmid   Austria 2:36.4
7 Friedrich Jokisch   El Salvador 2:41.6

Heat 7

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Jürgen Schiller   West Germany 2:20.8
2 Martyn Woodroffe   Great Britain 2:22.0
3 Jacek Krawczyk   Poland 2:23.8
4 Tony Asamali   Philippines 2:24.6
5 José Martínez   Cuba 2:31.4
6 Andrew Loh   Hong Kong 2:42.0

Final

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Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
  Charlie Hickcox   United States 2:12.0 OR
  Greg Buckingham   United States 2:13.0
  John Ferris   United States 2:13.3
4 Juan Carlos Bello   Peru 2:13.7
5 George Smith   Canada 2:15.9
6 Sandy Gilchrist   Canada 2:16.6
7 Mike Holthaus   West Germany 2:16.8
8 Péter Lázár   Hungary 2:18.3

Key: OR = Olympic record

References

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  1. ^ "Swimming at the 1968 Mexico City Summer Games: Men's 200 metres Individual Medley". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 10 November 2016.