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

Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m		women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m	men	women
4×200 m	men
Medley relay
4×100 m	men	women

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

Heats

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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