Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Swimming at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Olimpiysky Pool, Moscow, as seen in 1991
Venue	Olimpiysky Sports Complex
Competitors	333 from 41 nations

Swimming at the 1980 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
400 m		men		women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m				women
4×200 m		men
Medley relay
4×100 m		men		women

Swimming as usual was one of the three aquatics disciplines at the 1980 Summer Olympics—the other two being Water Polo and Diving. The swimming competition consisted of 26 events: 13 for men and 13 for women. It was held in the Swimming Pool of the Olimpiysky Sports Complex between July 20 and July 27. There was a total of 333 participants from 41 countries competing.^[1]

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany (GDR)	12	10	8	30
2	Soviet Union (URS)	8	9	5	22
3	Sweden (SWE)	2	2	1	5
4	Australia (AUS)	2	0	5	7
5	Great Britain (GBR)	1	3	1	5
6	Hungary (HUN)	1	2	1	4
7	Brazil (BRA)	0	0	1	1
	Denmark (DEN)	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	1	1
	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
	Spain (ESP)	0	0	1	1

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle	Jörg Woithe (GDR)	50.40	Per Holmertz (SWE)	50.91	Per Johansson (SWE)	51.29
200 m freestyle	Sergey Kopliakov (URS)	1:49.81 (OR)	Andrey Krylov (URS)	1:50.76	Graeme Brewer (AUS)	1:51.60
400 m freestyle	Vladimir Salnikov (URS)	3:51.31 (OR)	Andrey Krylov (URS)	3:53.24	Ivar Stukolkin (URS)	3:53.95
1500 m freestyle	Vladimir Salnikov (URS)	14:58.27 (WR)	Aleksandr Chayev (URS)	15:14.30	Max Metzker (AUS)	15:14.49
100 m backstroke	Bengt Baron (SWE)	56.53	Viktor Kuznetsov (URS)	56.99	Vladimir Dolgov (URS)	57.63
200 m backstroke	Sándor Wladár (HUN)	2:01.93	Zoltán Verrasztó (HUN)	2:02.40	Mark Kerry (AUS)	2:03.14
100 m breaststroke	Duncan Goodhew (GBR)	1:03.34	Arsens Miskarovs (URS)	1:03.82	Peter Evans (AUS)	1:03.96
200 m breaststroke	Robertas Žulpa (URS)	2:15.85	Albán Vermes (HUN)	2:16.93	Arsens Miskarovs (URS)	2:17.28
100 m butterfly	Pär Arvidsson (SWE)	54.92	Roger Pyttel (GDR)	54.94	David López-Zubero (ESP)	55.13
200 m butterfly	Sergey Fesenko, Sr. (URS)	1:59.76	Phil Hubble (GBR)	2:01.20	Roger Pyttel (GDR)	2:01.39
400 m individual medley	Aleksandr Sidorenko (URS)	4:22.89 (OR)	Sergey Fesenko, Sr. (URS)	4:23.43	Zoltán Verrasztó (HUN)	4:24.24
4 × 200 m freestyle relay	Soviet Union (URS) Sergey Kopliakov Vladimir Salnikov Ivar Stukolkin Andrey Krylov Sergey Rusin* Sergey Krasyuk* Yuri Presekin*	7:23.50	East Germany (GDR) Frank Pfütze Jörg Woithe Detlev Grabs Rainer Strohbach Frank Kühne*	7:28.60	Brazil (BRA) Jorge Fernandes Marcus Mattioli Cyro Marques Djan Madruga	7:29.30
4 × 100 m medley relay	Australia (AUS) Mark Kerry Peter Evans Mark Tonelli Neil Brooks Glenn Patching*	3:45.70	Soviet Union (URS) Viktor Kuznetsov Arsens Miskarovs Yevgeny Seredin Sergey Kopliakov Vladimir Shemetov* Aleksandr Fedorovsky* Aleksey Markovsky* Sergey Krasyuk*	3:45.92	Great Britain (GBR) Gary Abraham Duncan Goodhew David Lowe Martin Smith Paul Marshall* Mark Taylor*	3:47.71

* Swimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals.

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle	Barbara Krause (GDR)	54.79 (WR)	Caren Metschuck (GDR)	55.16	Ines Diers (GDR)	55.65
200 m freestyle	Barbara Krause (GDR)	1:58.33 (OR)	Ines Diers (GDR)	1:59.64	Carmela Schmidt (GDR)	2:01.44
400 m freestyle	Ines Diers (GDR)	4:08.76 (OR)	Petra Schneider (GDR)	4:09.16	Carmela Schmidt (GDR)	4:10.86
800 m freestyle	Michelle Ford (AUS)	8:28.90 (OR)	Ines Diers (GDR)	8:32.55	Heike Dähne (GDR)	8:33.48
100 m backstroke	Rica Reinisch (GDR)	1:00.86 (WR)	Ina Kleber (GDR)	1:02.07	Petra Riedel (GDR)	1:02.64
200 m backstroke	Rica Reinisch (GDR)	2:11.77 (WR)	Cornelia Polit (GDR)	2:13.75	Birgit Treiber (GDR)	2:14.14
100 m breaststroke	Ute Geweniger (GDR)	1:10.22	Elvira Vasilkova (URS)	1:10.41	Susanne Nielsson (DEN)	1:11.16
200 m breaststroke	Lina Kačiušytė (URS)	2:29.54 (OR)	Svetlana Varganova (URS)	2:29.61	Yuliya Bogdanova (URS)	2:32.39
100 m butterfly	Caren Metschuck (GDR)	1:00.42	Andrea Pollack (GDR)	1:00.90	Christiane Knacke (GDR)	1:01.44
200 m butterfly	Ines Geißler (GDR)	2:10.44 (OR)	Sybille Schönrock (GDR)	2:10.45	Michelle Ford (AUS)	2:11.66
400 m individual medley	Petra Schneider (GDR)	4:36.29 (WR)	Sharron Davies (GBR)	4:46.83	Agnieszka Czopek (POL)	4:48.17
4 × 100 m freestyle relay	East Germany (GDR) Barbara Krause Caren Metschuck Ines Diers Sarina Hülsenbeck Carmela Schmidt*	3:42.71 (WR)	Sweden (SWE) Carina Ljungdahl Tina Gustafsson Agneta Mårtensson Agneta Eriksson Birgitta Jönsson* Helena Peterson*	3:48.93	Netherlands (NED) Conny van Bentum Wilma van Velsen Reggie de Jong Annelies Maas	3:49.51
4 × 100 m medley relay	East Germany (GDR) Rica Reinisch Ute Geweniger Andrea Pollack Caren Metschuck Sarina Hülsenbeck*	4:06.67 (WR)	Great Britain (GBR) Helen Jameson Margaret Kelly Ann Osgerby June Croft	4:12.24	Soviet Union (URS) Yelena Kruglova Elvira Vasilkova Alla Grishchenkova Natalya Strunnikova Irina Aksyonova* Olga Klevakina*	4:13.61

* Swimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals.

Participating nations

333 swimmers from 41 nations competed.^[1]

References

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