Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre backstroke
The men's 200 metre backstroke event at the 1980 Summer Olympics was held on 26 July at the Swimming Pool at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex.[1]
| Men's 200 metre backstroke at the Games of the XXII Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Swimming Pool at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex | ||||||||||||
| Date | 26 July | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 25 from 16 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 2:01.93 | ||||||||||||
| Medalists | |||||||||||||
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| Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics | ||
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| Freestyle | ||
| 100 m | men | women |
| 200 m | men | women |
| 400 m | men | women |
| 800 m | women | |
| 1500 m | men | |
| Backstroke | ||
| 100 m | men | women |
| 200 m | men | women |
| Breaststroke | ||
| 100 m | men | women |
| 200 m | men | women |
| Butterfly | ||
| 100 m | men | women |
| 200 m | men | women |
| Individual medley | ||
| 400 m | men | women |
| Freestyle relay | ||
| 4×100 m | women | |
| 4×200 m | men | |
| Medley relay | ||
| 4×100 m | men | women |
Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
| World record |  John Naber (USA) | 1:59.19 | Montreal, Canada | 24 July 1976 |
| Olympic record | John Naber (USA) | 1:59.19 | Montreal, Canada | 24 July 1976 |
Results
Heats
| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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| 1 | 4 | Sándor Wladár |  Hungary | 2:02.62 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Zoltán Verrasztó | Hungary | 2:03.08 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Mark Kerry |  Australia | 2:03.60 | Q |
| 4 | 1 | Vladimir Shemetov |  Soviet Union | 2:04.20 | Q |
| 5 | 3 | Michael Söderlund |  Sweden | 2:04.67 | Q |
| 6 | 1 | Douglas Campbell | Great Britain | 2:04.78 | Q |
| 7 | 1 | Fred Eefting | Netherlands | 2:04.84 | Q |
| 8 | 2 | Paul Moorfoot | Australia | 2:04.87 | Q |
| 9 | 1 | Vladimir Dolgov | Soviet Union | 2:05.11 | |
| 10 | 2 | Miloslav Roľko |  Czechoslovakia | 2:05.13 | |
| 11 | 2 | Viktor Kuznetsov | Soviet Union | 2:05.14 | |
| 12 | 3 | Jörg Stingl |  East Germany | 2:05.19 | |
| 13 | 2 | Frédéric Delcourt | France | 2:05.20 | |
| 14 | 2 | Franky De Groote | Belgium | 2:06.97 | |
| 15 | 4 | Mark Tonelli | Australia | 2:07.04 | |
| 16 | 4 | Bengt Baron | Sweden | 2:07.13 | |
| 17 | 4 | Nenad Miloš | .svg.png.webp){kind=small} Yugoslavia | 2:07.51 | |
| 18 | 4 | Mihai Mandache | .svg.png.webp){kind=small} Romania | 2:07.97 | |
| 19 | 4 | Zbigniew Januszkiewicz |  Poland | 2:08.11 | |
| 20 | 3 | Róbert Rudolf | Hungary | 2:08.23 | |
| 21 | 1 | Jim Carter | Great Britain | 2:09.94 | |
| 22 | 1 | David Cummins | Ireland | 2:12.45 | |
| 23 | 3 | Dietmar Göhring | East Germany | 2:14.11 | |
| 24 | 3 | Daniel Ayora |  Peru | 2:17.12 | |
| 25 | 2 | Phạm Văn Thành |  Vietnam | 2:28.40 | |
| 1 | Rui Abreu |  Portugal | DNS | ||
| 2 | Djan Madruga | .svg.png.webp){kind=small} Brazil | |||
| 3 | Rômulo Arantes | Brazil |
Final
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Sándor Wladár | Hungary | 2:01.93 | |
 | Zoltán Verrasztó | Hungary | 2:02.40 | |
 | Mark Kerry | Australia | 2:03.14 | |
| 4 | Vladimir Shemetov | Soviet Union | 2:03.48 | |
| 5 | Fred Eefting | Netherlands | 2:03.92 | |
| 6 | Michael Söderlund | Sweden | 2:04.10 | |
| 7 | Douglas Campbell | Great Britain | 2:04.23 | |
| 8 | Paul Moorfoot | Australia | 2:06.15 |
References
- "Games of the XXII Olympiad Moscow 1980 – Volume 3: Participants and Results". Fizkultura i sport. pp. 450, 464. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
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