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Swimming At The 1968 Summer Olympics
The swimming competitions at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City took place from 17 to 26 October at the Alberca Olímpica Francisco Márquez. Swimming featured a record total of 29 events. There was a total of 468 participants from 51 countries competing. The United States dominated the competition, winning 52 of 87 possible medals. 15-year-old American phenom Debbie Meyer from Maryland won three gold medals. Events Swimming at the 1968 Olympics featured a total of 29 events (15 for men and 14 for women). This was a significant increase from the 18 events contested in the previous Olympic Games. The following events were contested (all pool events are long course, and distances are in meters): * Freestyle: 100, 200, 400, and 1,500 (men's); 100, 200, 400 and 800 (women's) *Backstroke: 100 and 200; *Breaststroke: 100 and 200; *Butterfly: 100 and 200; *Individual medley: 200 and 400; *Relays: 4×100 free, 4×200 free, 4×100 medley (men's); 4×100 free, 4×100 medley (women's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberca Olímpica Francisco Márquez
The Alberca Olímpica Francisco Márquez is an indoor swimming pool Olympic facility located in Mexico City, Mexico. It has a capacity of 4,300. It hosted the 1968 Summer Olympics for competitions of swimming, diving, water polo, and the swimming part of modern pentathlon. The only Mexican gold medal in Olympic swimming competitions was won at this site. It was won by Felipe Muñoz Felipe Muñoz Kapamas (born February 3, 1951) is a Mexican former breaststroke swimmer. He competed at the 1968 and 1972 Summer Olympics and won a gold medal in the 200 m event in 1968. Since 2008, he is the President of the Mexican Olympic Co ... in the 200 metres men breast stroke competition. It also hosted the 2017 World Para Swimming Championships. References1968 Summer Olympics official report.Volume 2. Part 1. p. 72. Sports venues in Mexico City Venues of the 1968 Summer Olympics Olympic diving venues Olympic modern pentathlon venues Olympic swimming venues Olympic w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Schollander
Donald Arthur Schollander (born April 30, 1946) is an American former competition swimmer, five-time Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in four events. He won a total of five gold medals and one silver medal at the 1964 and 1968 Summer Olympics. With four gold medals, he was the most successful athlete at the 1964 Olympics. Early career Schollander was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, and learned competitive swimming from his uncle, Newt Perry, who ran a swimming school in Florida. As a boy, Schollander moved with his family to Lake Oswego, Oregon. Although his first sporting passion was football, he was too small to compete in high school football. Instead, he joined Lake Oswego High School's swim team, and in 1960, helped lead the team to an Oregon state swimming championship as a freshman. Olympics As a teenager in 1962, Schollander moved to Santa Clara, California to train under swim coach George Haines of the Santa Clara Swim Club. Two years later at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Kosinsky
Vladimir Ivanovich Kosinsky (russian: Владимир Иванович Косинский; 26 February 1945 – 14 July 2011)Swimming Worl"Passages: Russia's Vladimir Kosinsky, 66" ''Swimming World Magazine'', July 20, 2011, accessed July 20, 2011. was a Soviet swimmer. Over his career he won two silver and one bronze Olympic medals for the Soviet Union. He was born in Kotlas, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. See also *World record progression 200 metres breaststroke The first world record in the men's 200 metres breaststroke in long course (50 metres) swimming was recognised by the International Swimming Federation (FINA) in 1908 and the first world record in the women's 200 metres breaststro ... References External links * Vladimir Kosinsky's obituary Russian male swimmers Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union Swimmers at the 1964 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 1968 Summer Olympics Swimmers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don McKenzie (swimmer)
Donald Ward McKenzie Jr. (May 11, 1947 – December 3, 2008) was an American competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder. McKenzie attended Indiana University, where he swam for coach Doc Counsilman's Indiana Hoosiers swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition during the late 1960s. He won an individual NCAA national championship in the 100-yard breaststroke while swimming for the Hoosiers. He competed at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, where he received a gold medal for winning the men's 100-meter breaststroke. He won a second gold medal as a member of the winning U.S. team in the men's 4×100-meter medley relay. The first-place team of Charlie Hickcox, McKenzie, Doug Russell and Ken Walsh set a new world-record time of 3:54.9 in the event final. McKenzie was inducted as an "Honor Swimmer" into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1989. In 2000, he was inducted into the Indiana Univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Horsley
Jack S. Horsley (born September 25, 1951) is an American former competition swimmer and Olympic medalist. He represented the United States as a 17-year-old at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, where he won a bronze medal in the 200-meter backstroke, finishing behind East German Roland Matthes and fellow American Mitch Ivey. Horsley was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, and attended high school in Seattle, Washington. He enrolled in Indiana University, where he swam for coach Doc Counsilman's Indiana Hoosiers swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and Big Ten Conference competition. He graduated from Indiana University with a bachelor's degree, and earned his medical degree from the University of Cincinnati Medical School. He completed his residency in Stockton, California, and has lived in Ellensburg, Washington since 1979. Horsley is currently the medical director of Central Washington University's student health center. Horsley ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitch Ivey
Mitchell Ivey (born February 2, 1949) is a former American international swimmer who was a backstroke specialist and Olympic medalist. Ivey later became a prominent Olympic and college swimming coach. Early years He was born in San Jose, California, and trained with the Santa Clara Swim Club under coach George Haines.Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Athletes Mitch Ivey Retrieved July 5, 2012. As a member of the Santa Clara Swim Club, he won three Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) United States national championships. He initially attended Stanford University, but transferred to California State University, Long Beach, where he swam for coach Don Gambril's Long Beach State 49ers swim team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition. Ivey won the 200-yard backstroke at the NCAA Men's Swimming and Diving Championships with a time of 1:52.77 in 1970, and graduated from Long Beach State in 1972. Olympic career Ivey participated in two Olympics as a member of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronnie Mills
Ronald Parker Mills (born February 25, 1951) is an American former competition swimmer and Olympic medalist. Mills competed at the age of 17 at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. Individually, he won a bronze medal for his third-place finish in the men's 100-meter backstroke. He also swam the backstroke leg for the gold medal-winning U.S. team in the preliminary heats of the men's 4×100-meter medley relay. After the Olympics, he attended Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, where he swam for the SMU Mustangs swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition. He went on to earn All-American honors and was the Southwest Conference champion in eight individual swimming events over a three-year span. He also swam on an American record-setting relay team, and was later inducted into the Texas Swimming & Diving Hall of Fame. See also * List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men) This is the complete list of men's Olympic m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Hickcox
Charles Buchanan Hickcox (February 6, 1947 – June 14, 2010) was an American competition swimmer, three-time Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in six events. Career Hickcox was born in Phoenix, Arizona. He attended Indiana University, and swam for the Indiana Hoosiers swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition from 1967 to 1969. He won a total of seven individual NCAA national championships while swimming for Hoosiers coach Doc Counsilman. The peak of Hickcox's swimming career occurred between 1967 and 1968 when he set eight world records in the space of sixteen months. He received four medals (three gold and one silver) at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. He won gold medals in both the 200-meter and 400-meter individual medley events (setting an Olympic record in the 200-meter), and another gold as a member of the world record-setting U.S. team in the men's 4×100-meter medley relay. He also added a s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roland Matthes
Roland Matthes (, ; 17 November 1950 – 20 December 2019) was a German swimmer and the most successful backstroke swimmer of all time. Between April 1967 and August 1974 he won all backstroke competitions he entered. He won four European championships and three world championships in a row, and swam 19 world and 28 European records in various backstroke, butterfly and medley events. He was trained by Marlies Grohe. Swimming career As an Olympian in 1968, 1972 and 1976 he won a total of eight medals (four gold, two silver and two bronze): In 1968 and 1972 he won gold in both the 100 m and 200 m backstroke, while in 1976 he was third in the 100 m backstroke. In addition to these individual events, he won the 4 × 100 m team medley silver in 1968 and 1972, and a bronze medal for the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay in 1972. At Montreal, he was the only East German male swimmer to win a medal. In 1973 in Belgrade he became the first world champion holding the titles in both the Swimmi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg Brough
Gregory John Brough (26 March 1951 – 9 March 2014) was an Australian long-distance freestyle swimmer of the 1960s and 1970s, who won a bronze medal in the 1500-metre freestyle at the 1968 Summer Olympics. In Mexico City, Brough finished behind the American world record-holder Mike Burton and his teammate John Kinsella. He also finished fourth in the 400-metre, also won by Burton. At the 1970 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Brough won a bronze in the 400-metre behind fellow Australian Graham White. He attended The Southport School. See also * List of Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming (men) * List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men) This is the complete list of men's Olympic medalists in swimming. Men's events 50 metre freestyle 100 metre freestyle 200 metre freestyle 400 metre freestyle 800 metre freestyle 1500 metre freestyle 100 metre backstroke 200 metre ... References * External links Greg Brough's obituary [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Kinsella (swimmer)
John Pitann Kinsella (born August 26, 1952) is an American former competition swimmer, an Olympic champion, and a former world record-holder in multiple events. Kinsella was a standout at Illinois swimming powerhouse Hinsdale Central High School in the late 1960s. As a 16-year-old, he was the silver medalist in the men's 1,500-meter freestyle at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, finishing second to U.S. teammate Mike Burton. In 1970, while still a high school senior swimming for the Hinsdale McDonald's Swim Club under coach Don Watson, he was awarded the Amateur Athletic Union's James E. Sullivan Award in recognition of the outstanding American amateur athlete of the year. In 1970 he also became the first person to swim 1,500 meters under 16 minutes. After graduating from high school, Kinsella, together with Mark Spitz, Gary Hall Sr., and other notable swimmers, were part of Doc Counsilman's legendary Indiana Hoosiers swimming and diving team at Indiana University, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alain Mosconi
Alain Mosconi (born 9 September 1949) is a French former swimmer, Olympic medalist and world record holder. He competed at the 1968 and 1972 Summer Olympics in six freestyle, butterfly and medley relay events. In 1968 he won a bronze medal in the 400 m freestyle and finished in fifth place in the 200 m individual freestyle and 4 × 200 m freestyle relay. In 1972, his best achievement was seventh place in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay. He won two medals at the European Championships in 1966 and 1970. In 1967 he set world records in the 400 metres freestyle and 800 metres freestyle. He was president of General Motors, SEAT and Fiat, in France. See also *World record progression 400 metres freestyle *World record progression 800 metres freestyle The first world record in the women's 800 metres freestyle in long course (50 metres) swimming was recognised by the International Swimming Federation (FINA) in 1931. The women's 880 yard freestyle had been a FINA-recognised ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
