The men's 4×100 metre medley relay event at the 1968 Olympic Games took place on October 26.
This
swimming event uses
medley swimming as a relay. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, each of the four swimmers completed two lengths of the pool, each using a different stroke. The first on each team used the
backstroke, the second used the
breaststroke
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, the third used the
butterfly stroke
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, and the final swimmer used
freestyle
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(restricted to not allow any of the first three strokes to be used, though nearly all swimmers use
front crawl regardless).
The first swimmer must touch the wall before the next can leave the starting block, and so forth; timing of the starts is thus important.
Medalists
Results
Heats
Heat 1
Heat 2
Heat 3
Final
References
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Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Men's events at the 1968 Summer Olympics