Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre freestyle

The men's 200 metre freestyle event at the 1980 Summer Olympics was held on 21 July at the Swimming Pool at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex.[1]

Men's 200 metre freestyle
at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
VenueSwimming Pool at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex
Date21 July
Competitors42 from 24 nations
Winning time1:49.81 OR
Medalists
Sergey Koplyakov  Soviet Union
Andrey Krylov  Soviet Union
Graeme Brewer  Australia
Swimming at the
1980 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
800 mwomen
1500 mmen
Backstroke
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Breaststroke
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Butterfly
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Individual medley
400 mmenwomen
Freestyle relay
4×100 mwomen
4×200 mmen
Medley relay
4×100 mmenwomen

Records

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

World record Rowdy Gaines (USA)1:49.16Austin, United States11 April 1980
Olympic record Bruce Furniss (USA)1:50.29Montreal, Canada19 July 1976

The following records were established during the competition:

DateEventNameNationalityTimeRecord
21 JulyFinalSergey Koplyakov Soviet Union1:49.81OR

Results

Heats
RankHeatNameNationalityTimeNotes
16Sergey Koplyakov Soviet Union1:51.04Q
25Andrey Krylov Soviet Union1:51.21Q
36Graeme Brewer Australia1:51.92Q
44Jörg Woithe East Germany1:52.33Q
51Paolo Revelli Italy1:52.56Q
62Fabrizio Rampazzo Italy1:52.62Q
74Ron McKeon Australia1:52.66Q
84Thomas Lejdström Sweden1:53.04Q
93David López-Zubero Spain1:53.22
102Fabien Noël France1:53.25
115Detlev Grabs East Germany1:53.38
123Ivar Stukolkin Soviet Union1:53.44
131Per Wikström Sweden1:53.59
146Frank Kühne East Germany1:53.63
154Martin Smith Great Britain1:54.17
163Jorge Fernandes Brazil1:54.32
175Marcus Mattioli Brazil1:54.39
186Petar Kochanov Bulgaria1:54.45
194Cyro Delgado Brazil1:54.59
206Jean-Marie François Venezuela1:54.76
211Paulo Frischknecht Portugal1:55.06
226Radek Havel Czechoslovakia1:55.07
231Rui Abreu Portugal1:55.25
242Peter Drost Netherlands1:55.41
252Per-Ola Quist Sweden1:55.38
262Kevin Lee Great Britain1:55.63
273Alberto Mestre Venezuela1:55.69
285Petr Adamec Czechoslovakia1:55.84
296Tsvetan Golomeev Bulgaria1:55.88
301Dominique Petit France1:56.01
314Cees Jan Winkel Netherlands1:56.48
322Borut Petrič Yugoslavia1:56.51
331Guy Goosen Zimbabwe1:56.58
343Ramón Lavín Spain1:56.99
353Kevin Williamson Ireland1:57.37
365Stéfan Voléry Switzerland1:57.69
372Reda Yadi Algeria2:06.26
384Adham Hemdan Kuwait2:07.51
393Tô Văn Vệ Vietnam2:11.51
402Jorge Lima Angola2:14.37
411Bilall Yamouth Lebanon2:27.94
424Ntewane Machel Mozambique2:35.45
1Mohamed Bendahmane AlgeriaDNS
3Mark Lazzaro France
5Mark Tonelli Australia
5Rafael Vidal Venezuela
5Mohamed Halimi Algeria
6David Cummins Ireland

Final
RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
Sergey Koplyakov Soviet Union1:49.81OR
Andrey Krylov Soviet Union1:50.76
Graeme Brewer Australia1:51.60
4Jörg Woithe East Germany1:51.86
5Ron McKeon Australia1:52.60
6Paolo Revelli Italy1:52.76
7Thomas Lejdström Sweden1:52.94
8Fabrizio Rampazzo Italy1:53.25

References
  1. "Games of the XXII Olympiad Moscow 1980 – Volume 3: Participants and Results". Fizkultura i sport. pp. 451, 460. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
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