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
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Swimming as usual was one of the three aquatics disciplines at the 1980 Summer Olympics—the other two being Water Polo and Diving. 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] [2]}

Because the number of participants was reduced by the boycott, FINA broke format by doing away with the semifinals. Instead, the top 8 finishers from the heats qualified directly for the final, or final A as it was called. In events up to 400m, those that finished 9th to 16th in the heats would swim in Final B for the 9th place after the swimmers from Final A swam. This would continue as the Olympic format up to the 1996 Olympic Games.

Participating nations

333 swimmers from 41 nations competed. ^[1]

•   Algeria  (5)
•   Angola  (5)
•   Australia  (17)
•   Austria  (5)
•   Belgium  (7)
•   Brazil  (9)
•   Bulgaria  (13)
•   Colombia  (2)
•   Costa Rica  (2)
•   Cyprus  (4)
•   Czechoslovakia  (5)
•   Denmark  (1)
•   East Germany  (30)
•   Ecuador  (2)
•   Finland  (1)
•   France  (13)
•   Great Britain  (29)
•   Greece  (2)
•   Hungary  (13)
•   Ireland  (3)
•   Italy  (13)
•   Kuwait  (3)
•   Lebanon  (2)
•   Libya  (4)
•   Madagascar  (3)
•   Mexico  (7)
•   Mozambique  (5)
•   Netherlands  (12)
•   Nicaragua  (1)
•   Peru  (4)
•   Poland  (8)
•   Portugal  (2)
•   Romania  (5)
•   Soviet Union  (39)
•   Spain  (11)
•   Sweden  (24)
•   Switzerland  (3)
•   Venezuela  (3)
•   Vietnam  (11)
•   Yugoslavia  (3)
•   Zimbabwe  (2)

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Soviet Union)

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
Totals (11 entries)		26	26	26	78

Men's events

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle details	Jörg Woithe  (GDR)	50.40	Per Holmertz  (SWE)	50.91	Per Johansson  (SWE)	51.29
200 m freestyle details	Sergey Koplyakov  (URS)	1:49.81 OR	Andrey Krylov  (URS)	1:50.76	Graeme Brewer  (AUS)	1:51.60
400 m freestyle details	Vladimir Salnikov  (URS)	3:51.31 OR	Andrey Krylov  (URS)	3:53.24	Ivar Stukolkin  (URS)	3:53.95
1500 m freestyle details	Vladimir Salnikov  (URS)	14:58.27 WR	Aleksandr Chayev  (URS)	15:14.30	Max Metzker  (AUS)	15:14.49
100 m backstroke details	Bengt Baron  (SWE)	56.53	Viktor Kuznetsov  (URS)	56.99	Vladimir Dolgov  (URS)	57.63
200 m backstroke details	Sándor Wladár  (HUN)	2:01.93	Zoltán Verrasztó  (HUN)	2:02.40	Mark Kerry  (AUS)	2:03.14
100 m breaststroke details	Duncan Goodhew  (GBR)	1:03.34	Arsens Miskarovs  (URS)	1:03.82	Peter Evans  (AUS)	1:03.96
200 m breaststroke details	Robertas Žulpa  (URS)	2:15.85	Albán Vermes  (HUN)	2:16.93	Arsens Miskarovs  (URS)	2:17.28
100 m butterfly details	Pär Arvidsson  (SWE)	54.92	Roger Pyttel  (GDR)	54.94	David López-Zubero  (ESP)	55.13
200 m butterfly details	Sergey Fesenko  (URS)	1:59.76	Phil Hubble  (GBR)	2:01.20	Roger Pyttel  (GDR)	2:01.39
400 m individual medley details	Aleksandr Sidorenko  (URS)	4:22.89 OR	Sergey Fesenko  (URS)	4:23.43	Zoltán Verrasztó  (HUN)	4:24.24
4 × 200 m freestyle relay details	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 details	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

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle details	Barbara Krause  (GDR)	54.79 WR	Caren Metschuck  (GDR)	55.16	Ines Diers  (GDR)	55.65
200 m freestyle details	Barbara Krause  (GDR)	1:58.33 OR	Ines Diers  (GDR)	1:59.64	Carmela Schmidt  (GDR)	2:01.44
400 m freestyle details	Ines Diers  (GDR)	4:08.76 OR	Petra Schneider  (GDR)	4:09.16	Carmela Schmidt  (GDR)	4:10.86
800 m freestyle details	Michelle Ford  (AUS)	8:28.90 OR	Ines Diers  (GDR)	8:32.55	Heike Dähne  (GDR)	8:33.48
100 m backstroke details	Rica Reinisch  (GDR)	1:00.86 WR	Ina Kleber  (GDR)	1:02.07	Petra Riedel  (GDR)	1:02.64
200 m backstroke details	Rica Reinisch  (GDR)	2:11.77 WR	Cornelia Polit  (GDR)	2:13.75	Birgit Treiber  (GDR)	2:14.14
100 m breaststroke details	Ute Geweniger  (GDR)	1:10.22	Elvira Vasilkova  (URS)	1:10.41	Susanne Nielsson  (DEN)	1:11.16
200 m breaststroke details	Lina Kačiušytė  (URS)	2:29.54 OR	Svetlana Varganova  (URS)	2:29.61	Yuliya Bogdanova  (URS)	2:32.39
100 m butterfly details	Caren Metschuck  (GDR)	1:00.42	Andrea Pollack  (GDR)	1:00.90	Christiane Knacke  (GDR)	1:01.44
200 m butterfly details	Ines Geißler  (GDR)	2:10.44 OR	Sybille Schönrock  (GDR)	2:10.45	Michelle Ford  (AUS)	2:11.66
400 m individual medley details	Petra Schneider  (GDR)	4:36.29 WR	Sharron Davies  (GBR)	4:46.83	Agnieszka Czopek  (POL)	4:48.17
4 × 100 m freestyle relay details	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 details	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.

Gallery of the medalists

Some of the Olympic medalists in Moscow:

• 
  Jörg Woithe, winner of the 100-metre freestyle.
• 
  Bengt Baron, winner of the 100-metre backstroke.
• 
  Barbara Krause, winner of the 100-metre freestyle, 200-metre freestyle, and 4 × 100-metre freestyle relay.
• 
  Vladimir Salnikov, winner of the 400-metre freestyle, 1500-metre freestyle, and 4 × 200-metre freestyle relay.
• 
  Petra Schneider, winner of the 400-metre individual medley.

References

1. "Swimming at the 1980 Moscow Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 7 November 2016.
2. "Olympedia – Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved 2023-12-17.