| Men's 100 metre breaststroke at the Games of the XXII Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Swimming Pool at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex | ||||||||||||
| Date | 21 July (heats) 22 July (final) | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 26 from 20 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 1:03.34 | ||||||||||||
| Medalists | |||||||||||||
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| Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics | ||
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| 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 |
The men's 100 metre breaststroke event at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow was held on 21 and 22 July at the Swimming Pool at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex. [1]
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
| World record | 1:02.86 | Jönköping, Sweden | 18 August 1977 | |
| Olympic record | 1:03.11 | Montreal, Canada | 20 July 1976 |
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duncan Goodhew | 1:03.34 | |||
| Arsens Miskarovs | 1:03.82 | |||
| Peter Evans | 1:03.96 | |||
| 4 | Aleksandr Fedorovsky | 1:04.00 | ||
| 5 | János Dzvonyár | 1:04.67 | ||
| 6 | Lindsay Spencer | 1:05.04 | ||
| 7 | Pablo Restrepo | 1:05.91 | ||
| Albán Vermes | DSQ |