Swimming_at_the_1980_Summer_Olympics_–_Men's_100_metre_backstroke

Men's 100 metre backstroke
at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Men's 100 metre backstroke; at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Venue	Swimming Pool at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex
Date	20 July (heats, semifinals); 21 July (final)
Competitors	33 from 22 nations
Winning time	56.53
Medalists
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Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre backstroke

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The men's 100 metre backstroke event at the 1980 Summer Olympics was held on 20 and 21 July at the Swimming Pool at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex.^[1]

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World record	John Naber (USA)	55.49	Montreal, Canada	19 July 1976
Olympic record	John Naber (USA)	55.49	Montreal, Canada	19 July 1976

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Michael Söderlund	Sweden	57.75	Q
2	1	Vladimir Dolgov	Soviet Union	57.87	Q
3	3	Rômulo Arantes	Brazil	57.90	Q
4	5	Zoltán Verrasztó	Hungary	57.92	Q
5	1	Dietmar Göhring	East Germany	58.02	Q
6	5	Sándor Wladár	Hungary	58.07	Q
7	5	Mark Kerry	Australia	58.08	Q
8	1	Miloslav Roľko	Czechoslovakia	58.15	Q
9	4	Glenn Patching	Australia	58.30	Q
10	4	Paul Marshall	Great Britain	58.35	Q
11	5	Bengt Baron	Sweden	58.46	Q
12	4	Viktor Kuznetsov	Soviet Union	58.47	Q
13	3	Fred Eefting	Netherlands	58.59	Q
14	2	Mark Tonelli	Australia	58.66	Q
15	3	Douglas Campbell	Great Britain	58.75	Q
16	2	Gary Abraham	Great Britain	58.79	Q
17	2	Jörg Stingl	East Germany	58.98
18	4	Vladimir Shemetov	Soviet Union	59.01
19	2	Frédéric Delcourt	France	59.16
20	2	Herwig Bayer	Austria	1:00.04
21	1	Branimir Popov	Bulgaria	1:00.06
22	5	Mihai Mandache	Romania	1:00.26
23	4	Franky De Groote	Belgium	1:00.35
24	1	Nenad Miloš	Yugoslavia	1:00.41
25	3	Rui Abreu	Portugal	1:00.62
26	1	Róbert Rudolf	Hungary	1:00.85
27	5	Moisés Gosálvez	Spain	1:00.90
28	2	Ricardo Prado	Brazil	1:01.03
29	1	Daniel Ayora	Peru	1:03.93
30	5	Lâm Văn Hoành	Vietnam	1:07.29
31	2	Lakis Fylaktou	Cyprus	1:08.92
32	4	Jorge Lima	Angola	1:14.33
33	3	Pedro Cruz	Mozambique	1:15.25
	3	David Cummins	Ireland	DNS
	4	Alberto Mestre	Venezuela	DNS

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Viktor Kuznetsov	Soviet Union	56.75	Q
2	2	Bengt Baron	Sweden	57.51	Q
3	1	Mark Tonelli	Australia	57.89	Q
4	1	Gary Abraham	Great Britain	57.90	Q
5	2	Fred Eefting	Netherlands	57.91	Q
6	1	Miloslav Roľko	Czechoslovakia	57.97	Q
7	1	Vladimir Dolgov	Soviet Union	58.04	Q
8	1	Sándor Wladár	Hungary	58.05	Q
9	2	Mark Kerry	Australia	58.07
10	2	Michael Söderlund	Sweden	58.20
11	2	Rômulo Arantes	Brazil	58.21
12	1	Zoltán Verrasztó	Hungary	58.57
13	2	Douglas Campbell	Great Britain	58.61
14	1	Paul Marshall	Great Britain	58.82
15	2	Dietmar Göhring	East Germany	58.85
16	2	Glenn Patching	Australia	1:00.31

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Bengt Baron	Sweden	56.53
	Viktor Kuznetsov	Soviet Union	56.99
	Vladimir Dolgov	Soviet Union	57.63
4	Miloslav Roľko	Czechoslovakia	57.74
5	Sándor Wladár	Hungary	57.84
6	Fred Eefting	Netherlands	57.95
7	Mark Tonelli	Australia	57.98
8	Gary Abraham	Great Britain	58.38

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