Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre breaststroke

Men's 100 metre breaststroke
at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
VenueSwimming Pool at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex
Date21 July (heats)
22 July (final)
Competitors26 from 20 nations
Winning time1:03.34
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Duncan Goodhew  Great Britain
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Arsens Miskarovs  Soviet Union
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Peter Evans  Australia
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The men's 100 metre breaststroke event at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow was held on 21 and 22 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  Gerald Mörken (FRG) 1:02.86 Jönköping, Sweden 18 August 1977
Olympic record  John Hencken (USA) 1:03.11 Montreal, Canada 20 July 1976

Results

Heats

Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes
1 4 Duncan Goodhew  Great Britain 1:03.48 Q
2 3 Aleksandr Fedorovsky  Soviet Union 1:03.86 Q
3 3 Arsens Miskarovs  Soviet Union 1:04.06 Q
4 2 János Dzvonyár  Hungary 1:04.55 Q
4 2 Peter Evans  Australia 1:04.55 Q
6 2 Lindsay Spencer  Australia 1:04.78 Q
7 3 Albán Vermes  Hungary 1:05.23 Q
8 2 Pablo Restrepo  Colombia 1:05.38 Q
9 1 Peter Berggren  Sweden 1:05.43
10 4 Olivier Borios  France 1:05.67
11 4 Jörg Walter  East Germany 1:06.12
12 1 Miguel Santisteban  Mexico 1:06.13
13 1 Robertas Žulpa  Soviet Union 1:06.23
14 4 Leigh Atkinson  Great Britain 1:06.43
15 3 Albert Boonstra  Netherlands 1:06.47
16 3 Sérgio Ribeiro  Brazil 1:06.71
17 1 Gustavo Torrijos  Spain 1:06.77
18 4 Martti Järventaus  Finland 1:06.81
19 3 Helmut Levy  Colombia 1:07.06
20 4 Plamen Alexandrov  Bulgaria 1:07.45
21 2 Nguyễn Mạnh Tuấn  Vietnam 1:10.07
22 1 Djamel Yahiouche  Algeria 1:13.62
23 3 Francisco Santos  Angola 1:18.95
24 1 Zoë Andrianifaha  Madagascar 1:21.42
25 2 Rogerio Silva  Mozambique 1:25.70
1 Mohamed El-Naser  Libya DSQ
2 Andrea Ceccarini  Italy DNS
4 Linos Petridis  Cyprus

Final

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Duncan Goodhew  Great Britain 1:03.34
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Arsens Miskarovs  Soviet Union 1:03.82
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Peter Evans  Australia 1:03.96
4 Aleksandr Fedorovsky  Soviet Union 1:04.00
5 János Dzvonyár  Hungary 1:04.67
6 Lindsay Spencer  Australia 1:05.04
7 Pablo Restrepo  Colombia 1:05.91
Albán Vermes  Hungary DSQ

References

  1. ^ "Games of the XXII Olympiad Moscow 1980 – Volume 3: Participants and Results". Fizkultura i sport. pp. 450, 466. Retrieved 27 December 2018.