The women's 800 metre freestyle event at the 1968 Olympic Games took place between 22 and 24 October. This swimming event used

freestyle swimming Freestyle is a category of swimming competition, defined by the rules of the International Swimming Federation (FINA), in which competitors are subject to a few limited restrictions on their swimming stroke. Freestyle races are the most commo ...

, 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 sixteen lengths of the pool.

Medalists

Results

Heats

Heat 1 Heat 2 Heat 3 Heat 4 Heat 5

Final

Key: OR = Olympic record

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Swimming At The 1968 Summer Olympics - Women's 800 Metre Freestyle Women's freestyle 800 metre 1968 in women's swimming Women's events at the 1968 Summer Olympics