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.

Results

Heats Heat 1 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Larry Barbiere 1:01.9 2 Franco Chino 1:02.0 3 Reinhard Blechert 1:02.7 4 Luis Angel Acosta 1:06.5 5 Friedrich Jokisch 1:13.7

Heat 2 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Roland Matthes 1:01.0 2 Santiago Esteva 1:03.0 3 Ejvind Pedersen 1:03.5 4 Yevgeny Spiridonov 1:04.2 5 Jesús Cabrera 1:04.8 6 Eliseo Vidal 1:06.4 7 Ronnie Wong 1:11.3

Heat 3 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Jim Shaw 1:01.8 2 Viktor Mazanov 1:03.1 3 Roddy Jones 1:04.1 4 José Joaquín Santibáñez 1:04.2 5 Herman Verbauwen 1:04.6 6 Gary Goodner 1:06.3 7 Yacoub Masboungi 1:11.6

Heat 4 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Charlie Hickcox 1:01.1 2 Franco Del Campo 1:02.3 3 Danijel Vrhovšek 1:02.9 4 Joseph Jackson 1:03.0 5 Gerald Evard 1:05.8 6 Arturo Carranza 1:17.4

Heat 5 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Yuriy Hromak 1:03.2 2 Leonardo Baremboin 1:04.0 3 László Cseh Sr. 1:04.6 4 Hans Tegeback 1:05.1 5 Jaime Rivera 1:05.1 6 Francisco Ramis 1:07.2

Heat 6 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Ronnie Mills 1:01.8 2 Bob Schoutsen 1:02.8 3 Karl Byrom 1:03.2 4 Kishio Tanaka 1:04.0 5 César Filardi 1:04.6 6 Antonio Cruz 1:11.8

Semifinals Heat 1 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Charlie Hickcox 1:01.6 2 Jim Shaw 1:01.9 3 Reinhard Blechert 1:02.2 4 Yuriy Hromak 1:02.4 5 Franco Chino 1:02.7 6 Danijel Vrhovšek 1:02.7 7 Joseph Jackson 1:02.8 8 Ejvind Pedersen 1:03.6

Heat 2 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Roland Matthes 1:01.3 2 Larry Barbiere 1:01.6 3 Ronnie Mills 1:01.8 4 Franco Del Campo 1:02.1 5 Bob Schoutsen 1:02.1 6 Karl Byrom 1:02.3 7 Santiago Esteva 1:02.4 8 Viktor Mazanov 1:02.5

Final

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes Roland Matthes 58.7 OR Charlie Hickcox 1:00.2 Ronnie Mills 1:00.5 4 Larry Barbiere 1:01.1 5 Jim Shaw 1:01.4 6 Bob Schoutsen 1:01.8 7 Reinhard Blechert 1:01.9 8 Franco Del Campo 1:02.0

Key: OR = Olympic record

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