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Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics as usual was a part of the Swimming Sport, other two parts were Water Polo and Diving. They were not three separate sports, because they all were governed by one federation — FINA. Swimming discipline consisted of 26 events: 13 men's and 13 women's ones. It was held in the Swimming Pool of the Olympiski Sports Complex between July 20 and July 27.


Contents
1 Medals
2 Men's Events

2.1 100 m Freestyle
2.2 200 m Freestyle
2.3 400 m Freestyle
2.4 1500 m Freestyle
2.5 100 m Backstroke
2.6 200 m Backstroke
2.7 100 m Breaststroke
2.8 200 m Breaststroke
2.9 100 m Butterfly
2.10 200 m Butterfly
2.11 400 m Individual Medley
2.12 4x200 m Freestyle Relay
2.13 4x100 m Medley Relay

3 Women's Events

3.1 100 m Freestyle
3.2 200 m Freestyle
3.3 400 m Freestyle
3.4 800 m Freestyle
3.5 100 m Backstroke
3.6 200 m Backstroke
3.7 100 m Breaststroke
3.8 200 m Breaststroke
3.9 100 m Butterfly
3.10 200 m Butterfly
3.11 400 m Individual Medley
3.12 4x100 m Freestyle
3.13 4x100 m Medley Relay

Medals

Gold: Silver: Bronze:
Pos Country: Total:
1 GDR 12 10 8 30
2 USSR 8 9 5 22
3 Sweden 2 2 1 5
4 Australia 2 0 5 7
5 Great Britain 1 3 1 5
6 Hungary 1 2 1 4
7= Brazil 0 0 1 1
7= Denmark 0 0 1 1
7= Netherlands 0 0 1 1
7= Poland 0 0 1 1
7= Spain 0 0 1 1

Men's Events

100 m Freestyle

Final
Rank 		Athlete Country Time
1 Jorg Woithe GDR50"40
2 Per Holmertz Sweden50"91
3 Per Johansson Sweden51"29
4 Sergei Kopliakov USSR51"34
5 Raffaele Franceschi Italy51"69
6 Sergei Krasyuk USSR51"80

200 m Freestyle

Final
Rank 		Athlete Country Time
1 Sergei Kopliakov USSR1'49"81 (ER,OR)
2 Andrei Krylov USSR1'50"76
3 Graeme Brewer Australia1'51"60
4 Jorg Woithe GDR1'51"86
5 Ron McKeon Australia1'52"60
6 Paolo Revelli Italy1'52"76

400 m Freestyle

Final
Rank 		Athlete Country Time
1 Vladimir Salnikov USSR3'51"31 (OR)
2 Andrei Krylov USSR3'53"24
3 Ivar Stukolkin USSR3'53"95
4 Djan Garrido Madruga Brazil3'54"15
5 Daniel Machek Czechoslovakia3'55"66
6 Sandor Nagy Hungary3'56"83

1500 m Freestyle

Final
Rank 		Athlete Country Time
1 Vladimir Salnikov USSR14'58"27 (WR,OR)
2 Alexandr Chaev USSR15'14"30
3 Max Metzker Australia15'14"49
4 Rainer Strohbach GDR15'15"29
5 Borut Petric Yugoslavia15'21"78
6 Rafael Escalas Spain15'21"88

100 m Backstroke

Final
Rank 		Athlete Country Time
1 Bengt Baron Sweden56"53
2 Viktor Kuznetsov USSR56"99 (NR)
3 Vladimir Dolgov USSR57"63
4 Miroslav Rolko Czechoslovakia57"74
5 Sandor Wladar Hungary57"84
6 Fred Eefting Netherlands57"95

200 m Backstroke

Final
Rank 		Athlete Country Time
1 Sandor Wladar Hungary2'01"93
2 Zoltan Verraszto Hungary2'02"40
3 Mark Kerry Australia2'03"14
4 Vladimir Shemetov USSR2'03"48
5 Fred Eefting Netherlands2'03"92
6 Michael Soderlund Sweden2'04"10

100 m Breaststroke

Final
Rank 		Athlete Country Time
1 Duncan GoodhewGreat Britain1'03"34
2 Arsen Miskarov USSR1'03"82
3 Peter Evans Australia1'03"96
4 Alexandr Fedorovsky USSR1'04"00
5 Janos Dzvonyar Hungary1'04"67
6 Lindsay Spencer Australia1'05"04

200 m Breaststroke

Final
Rank 		Athlete Country Time
1 Robertas Zulpa USSR2'15"85
2 Alban Uermes Hungary2'16"93
3 Arsen Miskarov USSR2'17"28
4 Gennady Utenkov USSR2'19"64
5 Lindsay Spencer Australia2'19"68
6 Duncan GoodhewGreat Britain2'20"92

100 m Butterfly

Final
Rank 		Athlete Country Time
1 Par Arvidsson Sweden54"92
2 Roger Pyttel GDR54"94
3 David Lopez Spain55"13
4 Kees Vervoorn Netherlands55"25
5 Evgeny Seredin USSR55"35
6 Gary Abraham Great Britain55"42

200 m Butterfly

Final
Rank 		Athlete Country Time
1 Sergei Fesenko USSR1'59"76
2 Philip Hubble Great Britain2'01"20
3 Roger Pyttel GDR2'01"39
4 Peter Morris Great Britain2'02"27
5 Mikhail Gorelik USSR2'02"44
6 Kees Vervoorn Netherlands2'02"52

400 m Individual Medley

Final
Rank 		Athlete Country Time
1 Aleksandr Sidorenko USSR4'22"89 (OR)
2 Sergei Fesenko USSR4'23"43
3 Zoltan Verraszto Hungary4'24"24
4 Andras Hargitay Hungary4'24"48
5 Djan Garrido Madruga Brazil4'26"81
6 Miroslav Rolko Czechoslovakia4'26"99

4x200 m Freestyle Relay

Final
Rank 		Athletes Country Time
1 Sergei Kopliakov ,Vladimir Salnikov ,Ivar Stukolkin ,Andrei Krylov USSR7'23"50 (ER)
2 Frank Pfutze ,Jorg Woithe ,Detlev Grabs ,Rainer Strohbach GDR7'28"60
3 Jorge Luiz L. Fernandes ,Marcus Laborne Mattioli ,Ciro Marques Delgado ,Djan Garrido Madruga Brazil7'29"30
4 Michael Soderlund ,Pelle Wickstrom ,Per-Alvar Magnusson ,Thomas Lejdstrom Sweden7'30"10
5 Paolo Revelli ,Raffaele Franceschi ,Andrea Ceccarini ,Fabrizio Rampazzo Italy7'30"37
6 Douglas Campbell ,Philip Hubble ,Martin Smith ,Andrew Astbury Great Britain7'30"81

4x100 m Medley Relay

Final
Rank 		Athletes Country Time
1 Mark Kerry ,Peter Evans ,Mark Tonelli ,Neil Brooks Australia3'45"70
2 Viktor Kuznetsov ,Arsen Miskarov ,Evgeny Seredin ,Sergei Kopliakov USSR3'45"92 (ER)
3 Gary Abraham ,Duncan Goodhew,David Lowe ,Martin Smith Great Britain3'47"71
4 Dietmar Gohring ,Jorg Walter ,Roger Pyttel ,Jorg Woithe GDR3'48"25
5 Frederic Delcourt ,Olivier Borios ,Xavier Savin ,Rene Ecuyer France3'49"19
6 Sandor Wladar ,Janos Dzvonyar ,Zoltan Verraszto ,Gabor Meszaros Hungary3'50"29

Women's Events

100 m Freestyle

Final
Rank 		Athlete Country Time
1 Barbara Krause GDR54"79 (WR,OR)
2 Caren Metschuck GDR55"16
3 Ines Diers GDR55"65
4 Olga Klevakina USSR57"40
5 Conny Van Bentum Netherlands 57"63
6 Natalya Strunnikova USSR57"83

200 m Freestyle

Final
Rank 		Athlete Country Time
1 Barbara Krause GDR1'58"33 (OR)
2 Ines Diers GDR1'59"64
3 Carmela Schmidt GDR2'01"44
4 Olga Klevakina USSR2'02"29
5 Reggie De Jong Netherlands2'02"76
6 June Croft Great Britain2'03"15

400 m Freestyle

Final
Rank 		Athlete Country Time
1 Ines Diers GDR4'08"76 (OR)
2 Petra Schneider GDR4'09"16
3 Carmela Schmidt GDR4'10"86
4 Michelle Ford Australia4'11"65
5 Irina Aksyonova USSR4'14"40
6 Annelies Maas Netherlands4'15"79

800 m Freestyle

Final
Rank 		Athlete Country Time
1 Michelle Ford Australia8'28"90 (OR)
2 Ines Diers GDR8'32"55
3 Heike Dahne GDR8'33"48
4 Irina Aksyonova USSR8'38"05
5 Oxana Komissarova USSR8'42"04
6 Pascale Verbauwen Belgium8'44"84

100 m Backstroke

Final
Rank 		Athlete Country Time
1 Rica Reinisch GDR1'00"86 (WR,OR)
2 Ina Kleber GDR1'02"07
3 Petra Riedel GDR1'02"64
4 Carmen Bunaciu Romania1'03"81
5 Carine Verbauwen Belgium1'03"82
6 Larisa Gorchakova USSR1'03"87

200 m Backstroke

Final
Rank 		Athlete Country Time
1 Rica Reinisch GDR2'11"77 (WR,OR)
2 Cornelia Polit GDR2'13"75
3 Birgit Treiber GDR2'14"14
4 Carmen Bunaciu Romania2'15"20
5 Yolande Van der Straeten Belgium2'15"58
6 Carine Verbauwen Belgium2'16"66

100 m Breaststroke

Final
Rank 		Athlete Country Time
1 Ute Geweniger GDR1'10"22
2 Elvira Vasilkova USSR1'10"41 (NR)
3 Susanne Schultz Nielsson Denmark 1'11"16
4 Margaret Kelly Great Britain1'11"48
5 Eva-Marie Hakansson Sweden 1'11"72
6 Susannah Brownsdon Great Britain 1'12"11

200 m Breaststroke

Final
Rank 		Athlete Country Time
1 Lina Kachushite USSR2'29"54 (OR)
2 Svetlana Varganova USSR2'29"61
3 Yulia Bogdanova USSR2'32"39
4 Susanne Schultz Nielsson Denmark2'32"75
5 Irena Fleissnerova Czechoslovakia2'33"23
6 Ute Geweniger GDR2'34"34

100 m Butterfly

Final
Rank 		Athlete Country Time
1 Caren Metschuck GDR1'00"42
2 Andrea Pollack GDR1'00"90
3 Christiane Knacke GDR1'01"44
4 Anne Osgerby Great Britain1'02"21
5 Lisa Curry Australia1'02"40
6 Agneta Martensson Sweden1'02"61

200 m Butterfly

Final
Rank 		Athlete Country Time
1 Ines Geissler GDR2'10"44 (OR)
2 Sybille Schonrock GDR2'10"45
3 Michelle Ford Australia2'11"66
4 Andrea Pollack GDR2'12"13
5 Dorota Brzozowska Poland2'14"12
6 Anne Osgerby Great Britain2'14"83

400 m Individual Medley

Final
Rank 		Athlete Country Time
1 Petra Schneider GDR4'36"29 (WR,OR)
2 Sharron DaviesGreat Britain 4'46"83
3 Agnieszka Czopek Poland4'48"17
4 Grit Slaby GDR4'48"54
5 Ulrike Tauber GDR4'49"18
6 Stoyanka Dangalakova Bulgaria4'49"25

4x100 m Freestyle

Final
Rank 		Athletes Country Time
1 Barbara Krause ,Caren Metschuck ,Ines Diers ,Sarina Hulsenbeck GDR3'42"71 (WR,OR)
2 Carina Ljungdahl ,Tina Gustafsson ,Agneta Martensson ,Agneta Eriksson Sweden3'48"93
3 Conny Van Bentum ,Wilma Van Velsen ,Reggie De Jong ,Annelies Maas Netherlands3'49"51
4 Sharron Davies,Kaye Lovatt ,Jacquelene Willmott ,June Croft Great Britain3'51"71
5 Lisa Curry ,Karen Van de Graaf ,Rosemary Brown (swimmer) ,Michelle Pearson Australia3'54"16
6 Isabel Reuss ,Dagmar Erdman ,Teresa Rivera ,Hellen Plaschinski Mexico3'55"41

4x100 m Medley Relay

Final
Rank 		Athletes Country Time
1 Rica Reinisch ,Ute Geweniger ,Andrea Pollack ,Caren Metschuck GDR

4'06"67 (WR,OR)

2 Helen Jameson ,Margaret Kelly ,Ann Osgerby ,June Croft Great Britain4'12"24
3 Yelena Kruglova ,Elvira Vasilkova ,Alla Grishchenkova ,Natalya Strunnikova USSR4'13"61
4 Annika Uvehall ,Eva-Marie Hakansson ,Agneta Martensson ,Tina Gustafsson Sweden4'16"91
5 Laura Foralosso ,Sabrina Seminatore ,Cinzia Savi Scarponi ,Monica Vallarin Italy4'19"05
6 Lisa Forrest ,Lisa Curry ,Karen Van de Graaf ,Rosemary Brown Australia4'19"90

Remarks:

  • Country names are given in the form they were used in the official documents of the IOC in 1980
  • WR=World Record, OR=Olympic Record, ER=European Record, NR=National Record

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