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


The men's 100 metre backstroke event at the 1968 Olympic Games took place between 21 and 22 October. 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

Results

Heats

Heat 1
RankAthleteCountryTimeNote
1Larry Barbiere1:01.9
2Franco Chino1:02.0
3Reinhard Blechert1:02.7
4Luis Angel Acosta1:06.5
5Friedrich Jokisch1:13.7

Heat 2
RankAthleteCountryTimeNote
1Roland Matthes1:01.0
2Santiago Esteva1:03.0
3Ejvind Pedersen1:03.5
4Yevgeny Spiridonov1:04.2
5Jesús Cabrera1:04.8
6Eliseo Vidal1:06.4
7Ronnie Wong1:11.3

Heat 3
RankAthleteCountryTimeNote
1Jim Shaw1:01.8
2Viktor Mazanov1:03.1
3Roddy Jones1:04.1
4José Joaquín Santibáñez1:04.2
5Herman Verbauwen1:04.6
6Gary Goodner1:06.3
7Yacoub Masboungi1:11.6

Heat 4
RankAthleteCountryTimeNote
1Charlie Hickcox1:01.1
2Franco Del Campo1:02.3
3Danijel Vrhovšek1:02.9
4Joseph Jackson1:03.0
5Gerald Evard1:05.8
6Arturo Carranza1:17.4

Heat 5
RankAthleteCountryTimeNote
1Yuriy Hromak1:03.2
2Leonardo Baremboin1:04.0
3László Cseh Sr.1:04.6
4Hans Tegeback1:05.1
5Jaime Rivera1:05.1
6Francisco Ramis1:07.2

Heat 6
RankAthleteCountryTimeNote
1Ronnie Mills1:01.8
2Bob Schoutsen1:02.8
3Karl Byrom1:03.2
4Kishio Tanaka1:04.0
5César Filardi1:04.6
6Antonio Cruz1:11.8

Semifinals

Heat 1
RankAthleteCountryTimeNote
1Charlie Hickcox1:01.6
2Jim Shaw1:01.9
3Reinhard Blechert1:02.2
4Yuriy Hromak1:02.4
5Franco Chino1:02.7
6Danijel Vrhovšek1:02.7
7Joseph Jackson1:02.8
8Ejvind Pedersen1:03.6

Heat 2
RankAthleteCountryTimeNote
1Roland Matthes1:01.3
2Larry Barbiere1:01.6
3Ronnie Mills1:01.8
4Franco Del Campo1:02.1
5Bob Schoutsen1:02.1
6Karl Byrom1:02.3
7Santiago Esteva1:02.4
8Viktor Mazanov1:02.5

Final

RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
Roland Matthes58.7OR
Charlie Hickcox1:00.2
Ronnie Mills1:00.5
4Larry Barbiere1:01.1
5Jim Shaw1:01.4
6Bob Schoutsen1:01.8
7Reinhard Blechert1:01.9
8Franco Del Campo1:02.0

Key: OR = Olympic record