Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metre freestyle

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

The men's 400 metre freestyle event at the 1968 Olympic Games took place between October 22 and 23. 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 eight lengths of the pool.

Medalists

Gold	Mike Burton United States
Silver	Ralph Hutton Canada
Bronze	Alain Mosconi France

Results

Heats

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Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Mike Burton	United States	4:09.0	OR
	Ralph Hutton	Canada	4:11.7
	Alain Mosconi	France	4:13.3
4	Greg Brough	Australia	4:15.9
5	Graham White	Australia	4:16.7
6	John Nelson	United States	4:17.2
7	Hans Faßnacht	West Germany	4:18.1
8	Brent Berk	United States	4:26.0