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
Venue	Swimming Pool at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex
Date	26 July
Competitors	25 from 16 nations
Winning time	2:01.93
Medalists
Sándor Wladár  Hungary Zoltán Verrasztó  Hungary Mark Kerry  Australia

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
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	Yugoslavia	2:07.51
18	4	Mihai Mandache	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	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

1. "Games of the XXII Olympiad Moscow 1980 – Volume 3: Participants and Results". Fizkultura i sport. pp. 450, 464. Retrieved 27 December 2018.