Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Women's 400 metre individual medley

The final of the Women's 400 metres Individual Medley event at the 1980 Summer Olympics was held in Moscow, Soviet Union, on Saturday July 26, 1980. The eventual gold medal winner, Petra Schneider, later admitted that her performance was aided by the use of steroids as part of the East German state-run doping programme.

Final

RANK	FINAL	TIME
	Petra Schneider (GDR)	4:36.29
	Sharron Davies (GBR)	4:46.83
	Agnieszka Czopek (POL)	4:48.17
4.	Grit Slaby (GDR)	4:48.54
5.	Ulrike Tauber (GDR)	4:49.18
6.	Stoianka Dyngalakova (BUL)	4:49.25
7.	Olga Klevakina (URS)	4:50.91
8.	Magdalena Bialas (POL)	4:53.30

Qualifying heats

• Held on Saturday 1980-07-26

RANK	HEAT 1	TIME
1.	Sharron Davies (GBR)	4:52.38
2.	Olga Klevakina (URS)	4:55.99
3.	Sarah Kerswell (GBR)	5:03.75
4.	Mariana Paraschiv (ROU)	5:04.56
5.	Maria Pia Ayora (PER)	5:27.19
—	Klara Gulyas (HUN)	DNS

RANK	HEAT 2	TIME
1.	Ulrike Tauber (GDR)	4:51.97
2.	Grit Slaby (GDR)	4:52.01
3.	Stoianka Dyngalakova (BUL)	4:56.26
4.	Christel Fechner (BEL)	4:56.92
—	Michelle Ford (AUS)	DNS
—	Lisa Forrest (AUS)	DNS
—	Susanne Nielsson (DEN)	DNS

RANK	HEAT 3	TIME
1.	Petra Schneider (GDR)	4:46.53
2.	Agnieszka Szopek (POL)	4:49.04
3.	Magdalena Bialas (POL)	4:51.59
4.	Ann-Sofi Roos (SWE)	4:57.13
5.	Lisa Curry (AUS)	5:01.58
6.	Irinel Panulescu (ROU)	5:07.74
7.	Catherine Bohan (IRL)	5:21.82

References

• Results