Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Women's 400 metre freestyle Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Women's 400 metre freestyle The women's 400 metre freestyle event at the 1968 Olympic Games took place between 19 and 20 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 eight lengths of the pool. Heat 1 Heat 2 Heat 3 Heat 4 Heat 5 Heat 6 Key: OR = Olympic record
Cardiff International Pool the Millennium Stadium for football events. The construction of the pool was the subject of a legal dispute. Cardiff International Pool Cardiff International Pool is an Olympic-sized swimming pool built as a public-private funded project, with a partnership between Cardiff Council (land owner), OLLC which is a partnership between Orion Land & Leisure and Explore Investments (developers) and Parkwood Leisure (operator). Parkwood won the contract to manage the facility for 10 years, with a projected turnover of £2.5m each year. Construction of the GB£32 million facility commenced in April 2006 and includes two pools; an Olympic size 10-lane competition swimming