Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre backstroke

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

The final of the Women's 100 metres Backstroke event at the 1980 Summer Olympics was held in Moscow, Soviet Union, on Wednesday 23 July 1980.^[1]

Final

RANK	FINAL	TIME
	Rica Reinisch (GDR)	1:00.86 WR
	Ina Kleber (GDR)	1:02.07
	Petra Riedel (GDR)	1:02.64
4.	Carmen Bunaciu (ROU)	1:03.81
5.	Carine Verbauwen (BEL)	1:03.82
6.	Larisa Gorchakova (URS)	1:03.87
7.	Monique Bosga (NED)	1:04.47
8.	Manuela Carosi (ITA)	1:05.10

Qualifying heats

• Held on Tuesday 1980-07-22

RANK	HEAT 1	TIME
1.	Carmen Bunaciu (ROU)	1:03.25
2.	Yelena Kruglova (URS)	1:04.63
3.	Georgina Parkes (AUS)	1:05.06
4.	Michèle Ricaud (FRA)	1:05.81
5.	Annika Uvehall (SWE)	1:06.33
6.	Soad Fezzani (LBA)	1:16.83

RANK	HEAT 2	TIME
1.	Ina Kleber (GDR)	1:02.15
2.	Manuela Carosi (ITA)	1:04.42
3.	Lisa Forrest (AUS)	1:04.55
4.	Jolanda de Rover (NED)	1:04.79
5.	Joy Beasley (GBR)	1:06.84
6.	María Paris (CRC)	1:09.02
7.	Anabel Drousiotou (CYP)	1:15.85

RANK	HEAT 3	TIME
1.	Petra Riedel (GDR)	1:03.25
2.	Larisa Gorchakova (URS)	1:03.82
3.	Monique Bosga (NED)	1:04.36
4.	Yolande Van Der Straeten (BEL)	1:05.10
5.	Marianne Humpelstetter (AUT)	1:07.68
6.	Michele Pessoa (ANG)	1:26.59

RANK	HEAT 4	TIME
1.	Rica Reinisch (GDR)	1:01.50 WR
2.	Carine Verbauwen (BEL)	1:04.37
3.	Teresa Rivera (MEX)	1:04.54
4.	Laura Foralosso (ITA)	1:04.86
5.	Ágnes Fodor (HUN)	1:05.47
6.	Helen Jameson (GBR)	1:05.56
7.	Nguyễn Thị Hồng Bích (VIE)	1:20.34

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