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Swimming at the
1980 Summer Olympics
Sample picture of the event (unofficial)
Freestyle
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
800 mwomen
1500 mmen
Backstroke
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Breaststroke
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Butterfly
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Individual medley
400 mmenwomen
Freestyle relay
4 × 100 mwomen
4 × 200 mmen
Medley relay
4 × 100 mmenwomen

The men's 400 metre freestyle event at the 1980 Summer Olympics was held on 24 July at the Swimming Pool at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex.[1]

Records

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

World record  Vladimir Salnikov (URS) 3:51.20 Potsdam, East Germany 29 February 1980
Olympic record  Brian Goodell (USA) 3:51.93 Montreal, Canada 22 July 1976

The following records were established during the competition:

Date Event Name Nationality Time Record
24 July Final Vladimir Salnikov  Soviet Union 3:51.31 OR

Results

Heats

Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes
1 5 Vladimir Salnikov  Soviet Union 3:54.54 Q
2 3 Andrey Krylov  Soviet Union 3:54.79 Q
3 4 Djan Madruga  Brazil 3:55.69 Q
4 3 Max Metzker  Australia 3:56.42 Q
5 2 Ivar Stukolkin  Soviet Union 3:56.60 Q
6 2 Ron McKeon  Australia 3:56.77 Q
7 1 Sándor Nagy  Hungary 3:56.91 Q
8 5 Daniel Machek  Czechoslovakia 3:57.02 Q
9 1 Graeme Brewer  Australia 3:57.19
10 5 Rainer Strohbach  East Germany 3:57.22
11 5 Simon Gray  Great Britain 3:57.60
12 4 Detlev Grabs  East Germany 3:58.21
13 3 Zoltán Wladár  Hungary 3:58.37
14 5 Rafael Escalas  Spain 3:58.45
15 2 Frank Pfütze  East Germany 3:59.53
16 1 Borut Petrič  Yugoslavia 3:59.63
17 3 Andrew Astbury  Great Britain 4:00.30
18 4 Thomas Lejdström  Sweden 4:01.89
19 2 Darjan Petrič  Yugoslavia 4:03.54
20 4 Marcelo Jucá  Brazil 4:03.92
21 3 Petr Adamec  Czechoslovakia 4:03.97
22 2 Jean-Marie François  Venezuela 4:04.48
23 3 Petar Kochanov  Bulgaria 4:05.28
24 1 Diego Quiroga  Ecuador 4:05.70
25 5 Radek Havel  Czechoslovakia 4:05.71
26 1 Kevin Williamson  Ireland 4:09.01
27 3 José María Larrañaga  Peru 4:11.06
28 2 Mohamed Abdul Wahab  Kuwait 4:37.68
1 Federico Silvestri  Italy DNS
1 Mohamed Bendahmane  Algeria
2 Fernando Lopes  Angola
4 Paulo Frischknecht  Portugal
4 Paolo Revelli  Italy
4 István Koczka  Hungary
5 Abdelhakim Bitat  Algeria
5 Reda Yadi  Algeria

Final

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Vladimir Salnikov  Soviet Union 3:51.31 OR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Andrey Krylov  Soviet Union 3:53.24
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Ivar Stukolkin  Soviet Union 3:53.95
4 Djan Madruga  Brazil 3:54.15
5 Daniel Machek  Czechoslovakia 3:55.66
6 Sándor Nagy  Hungary 3:56.83
7 Max Metzker  Australia 3:56.87
8 Ron McKeon  Australia 3:57.00

References

  1. ^ "Games of the XXII Olympiad Moscow 1980 – Volume 3: Participants and Results". Fizkultura i sport. pp. 451, 462. Retrieved 27 November 2018.
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swimming_at_the_1980_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Men%27s_400_metre_freestyle