Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics

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Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics as usual was a part of the Swimming Sport, other two parts were Water Polo and Diving. They were not three separate sports, because they all were governed by one federation — FINA. Swimming discipline consisted of 26 events: 13 men's and 13 women's ones. It was held in the Swimming Pool of the Olympiski Sports Complex between July 20 and July 27.

[edit] Men's events

EVENT	GOLD	SILVER	BRONZE
100 m freestyle	Jörg Woithe East Germany	Per Holmertz Sweden	Per Johansson Sweden
200 m freestyle	Sergey Kopliakov Soviet Union	Andrey Krylov Soviet Union	Graeme Brewer Australia
400 m freestyle	Vladimir Salnikov Soviet Union	Andrey Krylov Soviet Union	Ivan Stukolkin Soviet Union
1500 m freestyle	Vladimir Salnikov Soviet Union	Aleksandr Chayev Soviet Union	Max Metzker Australia
100 m backstroke	Bengt Baron Sweden	Viktor Kuznetsov Soviet Union	Vladimir Dolgov Soviet Union
200 m backstroke	Sándor Wladár Hungary	Zoltán Verrazstó Hungary	Mark Kerry Australia
100 m breaststroke	Duncan Goodhew Great Britain	Arsens Miskarovs Soviet Union	Peter Evans Australia
200 m breaststroke	Robertas Zhulpa Soviet Union	Albán Vermes Hungary	Arsen Miskarovs Soviet Union
100 m butterfly	Pär Arvidsson Sweden	Roger Pyttel East Germany	David López-Zubero Spain
200 m butterfly	Sergey Fesenko Soviet Union	Phil Hubble Great Britain	Roger Pyttel East Germany
400 m individual medley	Aleksandr Sidorenko Soviet Union	Sergey Fesenko Soviet Union	Zoltán Verrasztó Hungary
4 x 100 m medley relay	AUSTRALIA Mark Kerry Peter Evans Mark Tonelli Neil Brooks	SOVIET UNION Viktor Kuznetsov Arsens Miskarovs Yevgeny Seredin Sergey Kopliakov	GREAT BRITAIN Gary Abraham Duncan Goodhew David Lowe Martin Smith
4 x 200 m freestyle relay	SOVIET UNION Sergey Kopliakov Vladimir Salnikov Ivan Stukolkin Andrey Krylov	EAST GERMANY Frank Pfülze Jörg Woithe Detlev Grabs Rainer Strohbach	BRAZIL Jorge Luiz Fernandes Marcus Labome Cyro Marques Djan Madruga

[edit] WOMEN'S EVENTS

EVENT	GOLD	SILVER	BRONZE
100 m freestyle	Barbara Krause East Germany	Caren Metschuck East Germany	Ines Diers East Germany
200 m freestyle	Barbara Krause East Germany	Ines Diers East Germany	Carmela Schmidt East Germany
400 m freestyle	Ines Diers East Germany	Petra Schneider East Germany	Carmela Schmidt East Germany
800 m freestyle	Michelle Ford Australia	Ines Diers East Germany	Heike Dähne East Germany
100 m backstroke	Rica Reinisch East Germany	Ina Kleber East Germany	Petra Riedel East Germany
200 m backstroke	Rica Reinisch East Germany	Cornelia Polit East Germany	Birgit Treiber East Germany
100 m breaststroke	Ute Geweniger East Germany	Svetlana Varganova Soviet Union	Susanne Nielsson Denmark
200 m breaststroke	Lina Kaciusyte Soviet Union	Svetlana Varganova Soviet Union	Yuliya Bogdanova Soviet Union
100 m butterfly	Caren Metschuck East Germany	Andrea Pollack East Germany	Christiane Knacke East Germany
200 m butterfly	Ines Geißler East Germany	Sybille Schönrock East Germany	Michelle Ford Australia
400 m individual medley	Petra Schneider East Germany	Sharron Davies United Kingdom	Agnieszka Czopek Poland
4 x 100 m freestyle relay	EAST GERMANY Barbara Krause Caren Metschuck Ines Diers Sarina Hülsenbeck	SWEDEN Carina Ljungdahl Tina Gustafsson Agneta Mortensson Agneta Eriksson	NETHERLANDS Conny van Bentum Wilma van Velsen Reggie de Jong Annelies Maas
4 x 100 m medley relay	EAST GERMANY Rica Reinisch Ute Geweniger Andrea Pollack Caren Metschuck	UNITED KINGDOM Helen Jameson Margaret Kelly Ann Osgerby June Croft	SOVIET UNION Yelena Kruglova Yelvira Vasilkova Alla Grishchenkova Natalya Meschcheryakova