Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m		women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m	men	women
4×200 m	men
Medley relay
4×100 m	men	women
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The men's 4×100 metre freestyle relay event at the 1968 Olympic Games took place 17 October.^[1] The relay featured teams of four swimmers each swimming two lengths of the 50 m pool freestyle.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
United States Zac Zorn Stephen Rerych Mark Spitz Ken Walsh William Johnson* David Johnson* Michael Wall* Don Schollander*	Soviet Union Georgijs Kuļikovs Viktor Mazanov Semyon Belits-Geiman Leonid Ilyichov Sergey Gusev*	Australia Greg Rogers Robert Cusack Bob Windle Michael Wenden

*swimmers who participated in heats

Results

Heats

4 fastest teams from each heat advance to the final

Heat 1

Rank	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
1	Soviet Union	Leonid Ilyichov (54.4) Sergey Gusev (54.7) Viktor Mazanov (54.6) Semyon Belits-Geiman (54.1)	3:37.8	Q
2	Canada	Glen Finch (57.5) George Smith (53.2) Ralph Hutton (54.8) Sandy Gilchrist (54.8)	3:40.3	Q
3	Great Britain	Mike Turner (55.5) Bobby McGregor (55.0) David Hembrow (55.8) Tony Jarvis (54.1)	3:40.4	Q
4	Japan	Kunihiro Iwasaki (55.8) Masayuki Osawa (54.5) Satoru Nakano (55.9) Teruhiko Kitani (55.6)	3:41.8	Q
5	Spain	José Antonio Chicoy (55.1) Juan Fortuny (56.3) Juan Martinez (56.2) Diego Martel (55.1)	3:42.7
6	Sweden	Lester Eriksson (55.7) Ingvar Eriksson (55.9) Bo Westergren (56.1) Gunnar Larsson (56.2)	3:43.9
7	Colombia	Julio Arango (56.0) Tomas Becerra (59.7) Federico Sicard (58.8) Ricardo González (57.0)	3:51.5
8	El Salvador	Salvador Vilanova (55.9) Rubén Guerrero (1:05.9) José Alvarado (1:02.4) Ernesto Durón (1:04.1)	4:08.3

Heat 2

Rank	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
1	United States	William Johnson (54.5) David Johnson (53.1) Michael Wall (54.0) Don Schollander (53.8)	3:35.4	Q
2	Australia	Greg Rogers (55.3) Robert Cusack (55.7) Bob Windle (53.9) Mike Wenden (53.1)	3:38.0	Q
3	West Germany	Peter Schorning (55.1) Wolfgang Kremer (54.8) Olaf, Baron von Scholing (54.9) Hans Faßnacht (55.4)	3:40.2	Q
4	East Germany	Frank Wiegand (55.4) Horst-Günter Gregor (54.4) Udo Poser (55.0) Lothar Gericke (55.7)	3:40.5	Q
5	Hungary	Péter Lázár (56.0) István Szentirmay (56.0) Csaba Csatlós (55.9) Gábor Kucsera (54.5)	3:42.4
6	Mexico	Salvador Ruíz (57.1) Mario Santibáñez (55.7) Eduardo Alanís (57.8) Rafaél Cal (55.5)	3:46.1
7	Puerto Rico	Jorge González (55.0) Michael Goodner (1:00.4) Gary Goodner (55.6) José Ferraioli (56.0)	3:47.0
8	Philippines	Roosevelt Abdulgafur (59.7) Alman Jaamani (54.8) Tony Asamali (57.9) Luis Ayesa (55.4)	3:47.8

Final

Rank	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
	United States	Zac Zorn (53.4) Stephen Rerych (52.8) Mark Spitz (52.7) Ken Walsh (52.8)	3:31.7
	Soviet Union	Semyon Belits-Geiman (54.7) Viktor Mazanov (54.0) Georgijs Kuļikovs (52.9) Leonid Ilyichov (52.6)	3:34.2
	Australia	Greg Rogers (55.2) Robert Cusack (54.1) Bob Windle (53.7) Mike Wenden (51.7)	3:34.7
4	Great Britain	Mike Turner (55.5) Bobby McGregor (54.2) David Hembrow (55.4) Tony Jarvis (53.3)	3:38.4
5	East Germany	Frank Wiegand (54.3) Horst-Günter Gregor (54.3) Udo Poser (55.4) Lothar Gericke (54.8)	3:38.8
6	West Germany	Peter Schorning (54.5) Wolfgang Kremer (55.2) Olaf, Baron von Scholing (54.7) Hans Faßnacht (54.6)	3:39.0
7	Canada	Glen Finch (55.3) George Smith (55.3) Ralph Hutton (54.2) Sandy Gildchrist (54.4)	3:39.2
8	Japan	Kunihiro Iwasaki (55.3) Masayuki Osawa (55.4) Satoru Nakano (55.9) Teruhiko Kitani (54.9)	3:41.5