Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre backstroke

Swimming at the
1968 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
800 mwomen
1500 mmen
Backstroke
100 mwomen
200 mmenwomen
Breaststroke
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Butterfly
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Individual medley
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
Freestyle relay
4 × 100 mmenwomen
4 × 200 mmen
Medley relay
4 × 100 mmenwomen

The men's 100 metre backstroke event at the 1968 Olympic Games took place between 21 and 22 October.[1] This swimming event used backstroke. Because an Olympic-size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of two lengths of the pool.

Medalists

Gold Roland Matthes
 East Germany
Silver Charlie Hickcox
 United States
Bronze Ronnie Mills
 United States

Results

Heats

Heat 1

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Larry Barbiere  United States 1:01.9
2 Franco Chino  Italy 1:02.0
3 Reinhard Blechert  West Germany 1:02.7
4 Luis Angel Acosta  Mexico 1:06.5
5 Friedrich Jokisch  El Salvador 1:13.7

Heat 2

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Roland Matthes  East Germany 1:01.0
2 Santiago Esteva  Spain 1:03.0
3 Ejvind Pedersen  Denmark 1:03.5
4 Yevgeny Spiridonov  Soviet Union 1:04.2
5 Jesús Cabrera  Spain 1:04.8
6 Eliseo Vidal  Cuba 1:06.4
7 Ronnie Wong  Hong Kong 1:11.3

Heat 3

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Jim Shaw  Canada 1:01.8
2 Viktor Mazanov  Soviet Union 1:03.1
3 Roddy Jones  Great Britain 1:04.1
4 José Joaquín Santibáñez  Mexico 1:04.2
5 Herman Verbauwen  Belgium 1:04.6
6 Gary Goodner  Puerto Rico 1:06.3
7 Yacoub Masboungi  Lebanon 1:11.6

Heat 4

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Charlie Hickcox  United States 1:01.1
2 Franco Del Campo  Italy 1:02.3
3 Danijel Vrhovšek  Yugoslavia 1:02.9
4 Joseph Jackson  Great Britain 1:03.0
5 Gerald Evard  Switzerland 1:05.8
6 Arturo Carranza  El Salvador 1:17.4

Heat 5

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Yuriy Hromak  Soviet Union 1:03.2
2 Leonardo Baremboin  Argentina 1:04.0
3 László Cseh Sr.  Hungary 1:04.6
4 Hans Tegeback  Sweden 1:05.1
5 Jaime Rivera  Mexico 1:05.1
6 Francisco Ramis  Puerto Rico 1:07.2

Heat 6

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Ronnie Mills  United States 1:01.8
2 Bob Schoutsen  Netherlands 1:02.8
3 Karl Byrom  Australia 1:03.2
4 Kishio Tanaka  Japan 1:04.0
5 César Filardi  Brazil 1:04.6
6 Antonio Cruz  Guatemala 1:11.8

Semifinals

Heat 1

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Charlie Hickcox  United States 1:01.6
2 Jim Shaw  Canada 1:01.9
3 Reinhard Blechert  West Germany 1:02.2
4 Yuriy Hromak  Soviet Union 1:02.4
5 Franco Chino  Italy 1:02.7
6 Danijel Vrhovšek  Yugoslavia 1:02.7
7 Joseph Jackson  Great Britain 1:02.8
8 Ejvind Pedersen  Denmark 1:03.6

Heat 2

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Roland Matthes  East Germany 1:01.3
2 Larry Barbiere  United States 1:01.6
3 Ronnie Mills  United States 1:01.8
4 Franco Del Campo  Italy 1:02.1
5 Bob Schoutsen  Netherlands 1:02.1
6 Karl Byrom  Australia 1:02.3
7 Santiago Esteva  Spain 1:02.4
8 Viktor Mazanov  Soviet Union 1:02.5

Final

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Roland Matthes  East Germany 58.7 OR
2 Charlie Hickcox  United States 1:00.2
3 Ronnie Mills  United States 1:00.5
4 Larry Barbiere  United States 1:01.1
5 Jim Shaw  Canada 1:01.4
6 Bob Schoutsen  Netherlands 1:01.8
7 Reinhard Blechert  West Germany 1:01.9
8 Franco Del Campo  Italy 1:02.0

Key: OR = Olympic record

References

  1. ^ "Swimming at the 1968 Mexico City Summer Games: Men's 100 metres Backstroke". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 6 November 2016.
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