Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics

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.

Medal table

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  East Germany	50.40	Per Holmertz  Sweden	50.91	Per Johansson  Sweden	51.29
200 m freestyle	Sergey Kopliakov  Soviet Union	1:49.81 (OR)	Andrey Krylov  Soviet Union	1:50.76	Graeme Brewer  Australia	1:51.60
400 m freestyle	Vladimir Salnikov  Soviet Union	3:51.31 (OR)	Andrey Krylov  Soviet Union	3:53.24	Ivar Stukolkin  Soviet Union	3:53.95
1500 m freestyle	Vladimir Salnikov  Soviet Union	14:58.27 (WR)	Aleksandr Chayev  Soviet Union	15:14.30	Max Metzker  Australia	15:14.49
100 m backstroke	Bengt Baron  Sweden	56.53	Viktor Kuznetsov  Soviet Union	56.99	Vladimir Dolgov  Soviet Union	57.63
200 m backstroke	Sándor Wladár  Hungary	2:01.93	Zóltan Verrasztó  Hungary	2:02.40	Mark Kerry  Australia	2:03.14
100 m breaststroke	Duncan Goodhew  Great Britain	1:03.34	Arsens Miskarovs  Soviet Union	1:03.82	Peter Evans  Australia	1:03.96
200 m breaststroke	Robertas Žulpa  Soviet Union	2:15.85	Albán Vermes  Hungary	2:16.93	Arsens Miskarovs  Soviet Union	2:17.28
100 m butterfly	Pär Arvidsson  Sweden	54.92	Roger Pyttel  East Germany	54.94	David López-Zubero  Spain	55.13
200 m butterfly	Sergey Fesenko, Sr.  Soviet Union	1:59.76	Phil Hubble  Great Britain	2:01.20	Roger Pyttel  East Germany	2:01.39
400 m individual medley	Aleksandr Sidorenko  Soviet Union	4:22.89 (OR)	Sergey Fesenko, Sr.  Soviet Union	4:23.43	Zóltan Verrasztó  Hungary	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  East Germany	54.79 (WR)	Caren Metschuck  East Germany	55.16	Ines Diers  East Germany	55.65
200 m freestyle	Barbara Krause  East Germany	1:58.33 (OR)	Ines Diers  East Germany	1:59.64	Carmela Schmidt  East Germany	2:01.44
400 m freestyle	Ines Diers  East Germany	4:08.76 (OR)	Petra Schneider  East Germany	4:09.16	Carmela Schmidt  East Germany	4:10.86
800 m freestyle	Michelle Ford  Australia	8:28.90 (OR)	Ines Diers  East Germany	8:32.55	Heike Dähne  East Germany	8:33.48
100 m backstroke	Rica Reinisch  East Germany	1:00.86 (WR)	Ina Kleber  East Germany	1:02.07	Petra Riedel  East Germany	1:02.64
200 m backstroke	Rica Reinisch  East Germany	2:11.77 (WR)	Cornelia Polit  East Germany	2:13.75	Birgit Treiber  East Germany	2:14.14
100 m breaststroke	Ute Geweniger  East Germany	1:10.22	Elvira Vasilkova  Soviet Union	1:10.41	Susanne Nielsson  Denmark	1:11.16
200 m breaststroke	Lina Kačiušytė  Soviet Union	2:29.54 (OR)	Svetlana Varganova  Soviet Union	2:29.61	Yuliya Bogdanova  Soviet Union	2:32.39
100 m butterfly	Caren Metschuck  East Germany	1:00.42	Andrea Pollack  East Germany	1:00.90	Christiane Knacke  East Germany	1:01.44
200 m butterfly	Ines Geißler  East Germany	2:10.44 (OR)	Sybille Schönrock  East Germany	2:10.45	Michelle Ford  Australia	2:11.66
400 m individual medley	Petra Schneider  East Germany	4:36.29 (WR)	Sharron Davies  Great Britain	4:46.83	Agnieszka Czopek  Poland	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.

References

• 1980 Summer Olympics results: swimming, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2009-12-24.