Women's 400 metre individual medley at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Venue	Swimming Pool at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex
Date	26 July
Competitors	16 from 11 nations
Winning time	4:36.29 WR
Medalists
Petra Schneider  East Germany Sharron Davies  Great Britain Agnieszka Czopek  Poland
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Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics
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
v t e

The women's 400 metre individual medley event at the 1980 Summer Olympics was held on 26 July at the Swimming Pool at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex.^[1]

The eventual gold medal winner, Petra Schneider, later admitted that her performance was aided by the use of steroids as part of the East German state-run doping programme.^[2]

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

World record	Tracy Caulkins (USA)	4:40.83	West Berlin, West Germany	23 August 1978
Olympic record	Ulrike Tauber (GDR)	4:42.77	Montreal, Canada	24 July 1976

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
26 July	Final	Petra Schneider	East Germany	4:36.29	WR

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Petra Schneider	East Germany	4:46.53	Q
2	3	Agnieszka Czopek	Poland	4:49.04	Q
3	3	Magdalena Białas	Poland	4:51.59	Q
4	2	Ulrike Tauber	East Germany	4:51.97	Q
5	2	Grit Slaby	East Germany	4:52.01	Q
6	1	Sharron Davies	Great Britain	4:52.38	Q
7	1	Olga Klevakina	Soviet Union	4:55.99	Q
8	2	Sonya Dangalakova	Bulgaria	4:56.26	Q
9	2	Christel Fechner	Belgium	4:56.92
10	3	Ann-Sofi Roos	Sweden	4:57.13
11	3	Lisa Curry	Australia	5:01.58
12	1	Sarah Kerswell	Great Britain	5:03.75
13	1	Mariana Paraschiv	Romania	5:04.56
14	3	Irinel Panulescu	Romania	5:07.74
15	3	Catherine Bohan	Ireland	5:21.82
16	1	Maria Pia Ayora	Peru	5:27.19
	1	Klára Gulyás	Hungary	DNS
	2	Michelle Ford	Australia
	2	Lisa Forrest	Australia
	2	Susanne Nielsson	Denmark

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Petra Schneider	East Germany	4:36.29	WR
	Sharron Davies	Great Britain	4:46.83
	Agnieszka Czopek	Poland	4:48.17
4	Grit Slaby	East Germany	4:48.54
5	Ulrike Tauber	East Germany	4:49.18
6	Sonya Dangalakova	Bulgaria	4:49.25
7	Olga Klevakina	Soviet Union	4:50.91
8	Magdalena Białas	Poland	4:53.30