Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Women's 800 metre freestyle
Rank Athlete Country Time
1 Debbie Meyer United States 9:42.8
2 Angela Coughlan Canada 10:00.2
3 Sigrid Goral East Germany 10:09.3
4 Kristina Moir Puerto Rico 10:24.5
5 Helen Elliott Philippines 10:32.9
Results -- Heats
Heat 1
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, 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.