Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre freestyle Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre freestyle The women's 200 metre freestyle event at the 1968 Olympic Games took place between 21 and 22 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 four lengths of the pool. Heat 1 Heat 2 Heat 3 Heat 4 Heat 5 Heat 6 Key: OR = Olympic
King's Meadow swimming pool opportunity to develop a scheme to restore the pool for public use. In 2015 Reading Borough Council approved the renovation of the Lido. The restoration was completed in 2017; as well as reopening the pool, there is a restaurant, small spa and private dining facilities. King's Meadow swimming pool King's Meadow swimming pool or Thames Lido is an open-air swimming pool or lido located in King's Meadow in Reading, Berkshire. It was first opened to the public in 1903 as the Ladies Swimming Bath and is believed to be the oldest surviving outdoor municipal pool of a similar early Edwardian