Swimming 1980

Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics was held from 20 to 27 July 1980 at Olimpiysky Sports Complex.

Medal Table[]

Event
100 m freestyle	Jorg Woithe	Per Holmertz	Per Johansson
200 m freestyle	Sergei Kopliakov	Andrei Krylov	Graeme Brewer
400 m freestyle	Vladimir Salnikov	Andrei Krylov	Ivar Stukolkin
1500 m freestyle	Vladimir Salnikov	Aleksandr Chaev	Maxwell Metzker
100 m backstroke	Bengt Baron	Viktor Kuznetsov	Vladimir Dolgov
200 m backstroke	Sandor Wladar	Zoltan Verraszto	Mark Kerry
100 m breaststroke	Duncan Goodhew	Arsen Miskarov	Peter Evans
200 m breaststroke	Robertas Zulpa	Alban Vermes	Arsen Miskarov
100 m butterfly	Par Arvidsson	Roger Pyttel	David Lopez-Zubero
200 m butterfly	Sergei Fesenko	Philip Hubble	Roger Pyttel
400 m individual medley	Aleksandr Sidorenko	Sergei Fesenko	Zoltan Verraszto
4x200 m freestyle relay	Soviet Union Sergei Kopliakov Sergei Krasiuk Andrei Krylov Yuri Presekin Sergei Rusin Vladimir Salnikov Ivar Stukolkin	East Germany Detlev Grabs Frank Kuhne Frank Pfutze Rainer Strohbach Jorg Woithe	Brazil Ciro Marques Delgado Jorge Luiz Fernandes Marcus Laborne Mattioli Djan Garrido Madruga
4x100 m medley relay	Australia Neil Brooks Peter Evans Mark Kerry Glenn Patching Mark Tonelli	Soviet Union Aleksandr Fedorovski Sergei Kopliakov Sergei Krasiuk Viktor Kuznetsov Aleksei Markovski Arsen Miskarov Evgeni Seredin Vladimir Shemetov	Great Britain Gary Abraham Duncan Goodhew David Lowe Paul Marshall Martin Smith Mark Taylor

Event
100 m freestyle	Barbara Krause	Caren Metschuck	Ines Diers
200 m freestyle	Barbara Krause	Ines Diers	Carmela Schmidt
400 m freestyle	Ines Diers	Petra Schneider	Carmela Schmidt
800 m freestyle	Michelle Ford	Ines Diers	Heike Dahne
100 m backstroke	Rica Reinisch	Ina Kleber	Petra Riedel
200 m backstroke	Rica Reinisch	Cornelia Polit	Birgit Treiber
100 m breaststroke	Ute Geweniger	Elvira Vasilkova	Susanne Schultz Nielsson
200 m breaststroke	Lina Kaciusyte	Svetlana Varganova	Yulia Bogdanova
100 m butterfly	Caren Metschuck	Andrea Pollack	Christiane Knacke
200 m butterfly	Ines Geissler	Sybille Schonrock	Michelle Ford
400 m individual medley	Petra Schneider	Sharron Davies	Agnieszka Czopek
4x100 m freestyle relay	East Germany Ines Diers Sarina Hulsenbeck Barbara Krause Caren Metschuck Carmela Schmidt	Sweden Agneta Eriksson Tina Gustafsson Birgitta Jonsson Carina Ljungdahl Agneta Martensson Helena Peterson	Netherlands Conny van Bentum Reggie de Jong Annelies Maas Wilma van Velsen
4x100 m medley relay	East Germany Ute Geweniger Sarina Hulsenbeck Caren Metschuck Andrea Pollack Rica Reinisch	Great Britain June Croft Helen Jameson Margaret Kelly Ann Osgerby	Soviet Union Irina Akseonova Alla Grishchenkova Olga Krevakina Elena Kruglova Natalia Strunnikova Elvira Vasilkova

There were 333 total athletes from 41 countries.
Jorge Lima was the youngest participant with 13 years and 7 days.
Manh Tuan Nguyen was the oldest participant with 33 years and 48 days.
5 participants were chosen to be a flag bearer at the opening ceremony.
East Germany won 30 medals, more than in any other sport.
Denmark won its first medal in the sport since London 1948.
Australia and Sweden won their first 2 gold medals in the sport since Munich 1972.
Poland and Spain won their first-ever medal in the sport.
10 world records and 22 Olympic records were broken in the course of the competition.