Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre freestyle

Men's 200 metre freestyle at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Venue	Swimming Pool at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex
Date	21 July
Competitors	42 from 24 nations
Winning time	1:49.81 OR
Medalists
Sergey Koplyakov  Soviet Union Andrey Krylov  Soviet Union Graeme Brewer  Australia

The men's 200 metre freestyle event at the 1980 Summer Olympics was held on 21 July at the Swimming Pool at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	Rowdy Gaines (USA)	1:49.16	Austin, United States	11 April 1980
Olympic record	Bruce Furniss (USA)	1:50.29	Montreal, Canada	19 July 1976

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
21 July	Final	Sergey Koplyakov	Soviet Union	1:49.81	OR

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6	Sergey Koplyakov	Soviet Union	1:51.04	Q
2	5	Andrey Krylov	Soviet Union	1:51.21	Q
3	6	Graeme Brewer	Australia	1:51.92	Q
4	4	Jörg Woithe	East Germany	1:52.33	Q
5	1	Paolo Revelli	Italy	1:52.56	Q
6	2	Fabrizio Rampazzo	Italy	1:52.62	Q
7	4	Ron McKeon	Australia	1:52.66	Q
8	4	Thomas Lejdström	Sweden	1:53.04	Q
9	3	David López-Zubero	Spain	1:53.22
10	2	Fabien Noël	France	1:53.25
11	5	Detlev Grabs	East Germany	1:53.38
12	3	Ivar Stukolkin	Soviet Union	1:53.44
13	1	Per Wikström	Sweden	1:53.59
14	6	Frank Kühne	East Germany	1:53.63
15	4	Martin Smith	Great Britain	1:54.17
16	3	Jorge Fernandes	Brazil	1:54.32
17	5	Marcus Mattioli	Brazil	1:54.39
18	6	Petar Kochanov	Bulgaria	1:54.45
19	4	Cyro Delgado	Brazil	1:54.59
20	6	Jean-Marie François	Venezuela	1:54.76
21	1	Paulo Frischknecht	Portugal	1:55.06
22	6	Radek Havel	Czechoslovakia	1:55.07
23	1	Rui Abreu	Portugal	1:55.25
24	2	Peter Drost	Netherlands	1:55.41
25	2	Per-Ola Quist	Sweden	1:55.38
26	2	Kevin Lee	Great Britain	1:55.63
27	3	Alberto Mestre	Venezuela	1:55.69
28	5	Petr Adamec	Czechoslovakia	1:55.84
29	6	Tsvetan Golomeev	Bulgaria	1:55.88
30	1	Dominique Petit	France	1:56.01
31	4	Cees Jan Winkel	Netherlands	1:56.48
32	2	Borut Petrič	Yugoslavia	1:56.51
33	1	Guy Goosen	Zimbabwe	1:56.58
34	3	Ramón Lavín	Spain	1:56.99
35	3	Kevin Williamson	Ireland	1:57.37
36	5	Stéfan Voléry	Switzerland	1:57.69
37	2	Reda Yadi	Algeria	2:06.26
38	4	Adham Hemdan	Kuwait	2:07.51
39	3	Tô Văn Vệ	Vietnam	2:11.51
40	2	Jorge Lima	Angola	2:14.37
41	1	Bilall Yamouth	Lebanon	2:27.94
42	4	Ntewane Machel	Mozambique	2:35.45
	1	Mohamed Bendahmane	Algeria	DNS
	3	Mark Lazzaro	France
	5	Mark Tonelli	Australia
	5	Rafael Vidal	Venezuela
	5	Mohamed Halimi	Algeria
	6	David Cummins	Ireland

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Sergey Koplyakov	Soviet Union	1:49.81	OR
	Andrey Krylov	Soviet Union	1:50.76
	Graeme Brewer	Australia	1:51.60
4	Jörg Woithe	East Germany	1:51.86
5	Ron McKeon	Australia	1:52.60
6	Paolo Revelli	Italy	1:52.76
7	Thomas Lejdström	Sweden	1:52.94
8	Fabrizio Rampazzo	Italy	1:53.25