| Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics |
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| 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 |
The women's 200 metre individual medley event at the 1968 Summer Olympics took place October 20. This swimming event used medley swimming. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of four lengths of the pool. The first length was swum using the butterfly stroke, the second with the backstroke, the third length in breaststroke, and the fourth freestyle. Unlike other events using freestyle, swimmers could not use butterfly, backstroke, or breaststroke for the freestyle leg; most swimmers use the front crawl in freestyle events anyway.
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| Gold | Claudia Kolb United States (USA) |
| Silver | Susan Pedersen United States (USA) |
| Bronze | Jan Henne United States (USA) |
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
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| Claudia Kolb | United States | 2:24.7 | OR | |
| Susan Pedersen | United States | 2:28.8 | ||
| Jan Henne | United States | 2:31.4 | ||
| 4 | Sabine Steinbach | East Germany | 2:31.4 | |
| 5 | Yoshimi Nishigawa | Japan | 2:33.7 | |
| 6 | Marianne Seydel | East Germany | 2:33.7 | |
| 7 | Larisa Zakharova | Soviet Union | 2:37.0 | |
| Shelagh Ratcliffe | Great Britain | DQ |
Key: DQ = Disqualified, OR = Olympic record
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