1980 Summer Olympics / Swimming

Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics
information
venue	Moscow
Competition venue	Olimpijski
Nations	41
Athletes	333 (190 , 143 )
date	July 20-27, 1980
decisions	26th
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At the XXII. At the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow , 26 swimming competitions were held, 13 each for men and women. The venue was from 20.-27. July 1980 the indoor swimming pool in the Olimpijski sports complex . In the women's competitions, the dominance of swimmers from the GDR was overwhelming; they won 26 out of 36 possible medals.

Balance sheet

Medal table

Swimming medal table
space	country
1	GDR	12	10	8th	30th
2	Soviet Union	8th	9	5	22nd
3	Sweden	2	2	1	5
4th	Australia	2	-	5	7th
5	Great Britain	1	3	1	5
6th	Hungary	1	2	1	4th
7th	Spain	-	-	1	1
	Brazil	-	-	1	1
	Denmark	-	-	1	1
	Poland	-	-	1	1
	Netherlands	-	-	1	1
total		26th	26th	26th	78

Medalist

Men

discipline	gold	silver	bronze
100 m freestyle	Jörg Woithe ( GDR )	Per Holmertz ( SWE )	Per Johansson ( SWE )
200 m freestyle	Sergei Koplyakov ( URS )	Andrei Krylow ( URS )	Graeme Brewer ( AUS )
400 m freestyle	Vladimir Salnikov ( URS )	Andrei Krylow ( URS )	Ivar Stukolkin ( URS )
1500 m freestyle	Vladimir Salnikov ( URS )	Alexander Tschajew ( URS )	Max Metzker ( AUS )
100 m back	Bengt Baron ( SWE )	Viktor Kuznetsov ( URS )	Vladimir Dolgow ( URS )
200 m back	Sándor Wladár ( HUN )	Zoltán Verrasztó ( HUN )	Mark Kerry ( AUS )
100 m chest	Duncan Goodhew ( GBR )	Arsens Miskarovs ( URS )	Peter Evans ( AUS )
200 m chest	Robertas Žulpa ( URS )	Albán Vermes ( HUN )	Arsens Miskarovs ( URS )
100 m butterfly	Par Arvidsson ( SWE )	Roger Pyttel ( GDR )	David López-Zubero ( ESP )
200 m butterfly	Serhiy Fessenko ( URS )	Duncan Goodhew ( GBR )	Roger Pyttel ( GDR )
400 m layers	Oleksandr Sydorenko ( URS )	Serhiy Fessenko ( URS )	Zoltán Verrasztó ( HUN )
4 × 200 m freestyle	Soviet Union Sergei Kopljakow Vladimir Salnikow Ivar Stukolkin Andrei Krylow Vorlauf: Sergei Rusin , Sergei Krasiuk , Juri Presekin	GDR Frank Pfütze Jörg Woithe Detlev Grabs Rainer Strohbach Vorlauf: Frank Kühne	Brazil Jorge Luiz Fernandes Marcus Mattioli Cyro Delgado Djan Madruga
4 × 100 m layers	Australia Mark Kerry Peter Evans Mark Tonelli Neil Brooks Forward: Glen Patching	Soviet Union Viktor Kuznetsov Arsenic Miskarovs Yevgeny Seredin Sergei Kopljakow Prelim : Shemetov , Fedorowski , Markowski , Krasiuk	Great Britain Gary Abraham Duncan Goodhew David Lowe Martin Smith Preliminaries: Paul Marshall , Mark Taylor

Women

discipline	gold	silver	bronze
100 m freestyle	Barbara Krause ( GDR )	Caren Metschuck ( GDR )	Ines Diers ( GDR )
200 m freestyle	Barbara Krause ( GDR )	Ines Diers ( GDR )	Carmela Schmidt ( GDR )
400 m freestyle	Ines Diers ( GDR )	Petra Schneider ( GDR )	Carmela Schmidt ( GDR )
800 m freestyle	Michelle Ford ( AUS )	Ines Diers ( GDR )	Heike Dähne ( GDR )
100 m back	Rica Reinisch ( GDR )	Ina Kleber ( GDR )	Petra Riedel ( GDR )
200 m back	Rica Reinisch ( GDR )	Cornelia Polit ( GDR )	Birgit Driver ( GDR )
100 m chest	Ute Geweniger ( GDR )	Elwira Wassilkowa ( URS )	Susanne Nilsson ( DEN )
200 m chest	Lina Kačiušytė ( URS )	Svetlana Varganowa ( URS )	Yulia Bogdanova ( URS )
100 m butterfly	Christiane Knacke ( GDR )	Caren Metschuck ( GDR )	Andrea Pollack ( GDR )
200 m butterfly	Ines Geissler ( GDR )	Sybille Schönrock ( GDR )	Michelle Ford ( AUS )
400 m layers	Petra Schneider ( GDR )	Sharron Davies ( GBR )	Agnieszka Czopek ( POL )
4 × 100 m freestyle	GDR Barbara Krause Caren Metschuck Ines Diers Sarina Hülsenbeck Forward: Carmela Schmidt	Sweden Carina Ljungdahl Tina Gustafsson Agneta Mårtensson Agneta Eriksson Prelude: Birgitta Jönsson , Helena Peterson	Netherlands Conny van Bentum Wilma van Velsen Reggie de Jong Annelies Maas
4 × 100 m layers	GDR Rica Reinisch Ute Geweniger Andrea Pollack Caren Metschuck Forward : Sarina Hülsenbeck	Great Britain Helen Jameson Margaret Kelly Ann Osgerby June Croft	Soviet Union Jelena Kruglowa Elwira Wassilkowa Alla Grishchenko Natalja Strunnikowa Prelude : Irina Aksenova , Olga Klewakina

Time schedule

Olimpijski sports complex - a venue for swimming competitions

Competitions and schedule swimming
Day	Morning program 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. CEST	Evening program 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. CEST
Sunday 20th July 1980	Heats 100 m back men heats 200 m butterfly men heats 4 × 100 m medley relay women	Prelims 100 m freestyle women semi-finals 100 m back men final 200 m butterfly men final 4 × 100 m individual medley women
Monday July 21, 1980	Heats 200 m freestyle men heats 1500 m freestyle men heats 200 m butterfly women	Prelims 100 m breaststroke men final 100 m freestyle women final 100 m back men final 200 m butterfly women final 200 m freestyle men
Tuesday July 22nd 1980	Heats 400 m freestyle women heats 100 m back women heats 100 m butterfly men	Semi-finals 100 m back women semi-finals 100 m butterfly men final 1500 m freestyle men final 400 m freestyle women final 100 m chest men
Wednesday July 23, 1980	Heats 4 × 200 m freestyle relay men heats 200 m chest women heats 100 m butterfly women	Final 100 m butterfly men final 100 m back women final 200 m breast women final 4 × 200 m freestyle relay men
Thursday July 24, 1980	Prelims 100 m breaststroke women prelims 400 m freestyle men prelims 200 m freestyle women prelims 4 × 100 m individual medley men	Final 100 m butterfly women final 400 m freestyle men final 200 m freestyle women final 4 × 100 m individual medley men
Friday July 25, 1980	no competitions	no competitions
Saturday July 26th 1980	Heats 100 m freestyle men heats 200 m back men heats 800 m freestyle women heats 200 m chest men heats 400 m medley women	Semi-finals 100 m freestyle men final 100 m breast women final 200 m breast men final 400 m medley women final 200 m back men
Sunday July 27, 1980	Heats 200 m back women heats 400 m medley men heats 4 × 100 m freestyle relay women	Final 800 m freestyle women final 400 m medley men final 200 m back women final 100 m freestyle men final 4 × 100 m freestyle relay women

Men

100 m freestyle

→ Main article : 1980 Summer Olympics / Swimming - 100m Freestyle (Men)

space	country	athlete	Time (s)
1	GDR	Jörg Woithe	50.40
2	SWE	Per Holmertz	50.91
3	SWE	Per Johansson	51.29
4th	URS	Sergei Koplyakov	51.34
5	ITA	Raffaele Franceschi	51.69
6th	URS	Sergei Krasiuk	51.80
7th	FRA	René Écuyer	52.01
8th	OUT	Graeme Brewer	52.22

Participants: 40 swimmers from 27 countries
Final on July 27th
In the semifinals, Jörg Woithe again improved his European record from the run from 50.49 s to 50.21 s.

200 m freestyle

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	URS	Sergei Koplyakov	1: 49.81
2	URS	Andrei Krylov	1: 50.76
3	OUT	Graeme Brewer	1: 51.60
4th	GDR	Jörg Woithe	1: 51.86
5	OUT	Ron McKeon	1: 52.60
6th	ITA	Paolo Revelli	1: 52.76
7th	SWE	Thomas Lejdström	1: 52.94
8th	ITA	Fabrizio Rampazzo	1: 53.25

Participants: 48 swimmers from 24 countries
Final on July 21st

400 m freestyle

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	URS	Vladimir Salnikov	3: 51.31
2	URS	Andrei Krylov	3: 53.24
3	URS	Ivar Stukolkin	3: 53.95
4th	BRA	Djan Madruga	3: 54.15
5	TCH	Daniel Machek	3: 55.66
6th	HUN	Sándor Nagy	3: 56.83
7th	OUT	Max Metzker	3: 56.87
8th	OUT	Ron McKeon	3: 57.00

Participants: 36 swimmers from 20 countries
Final on July 24th

1500 m freestyle

Award ceremony with Salnikow and Metzker (from left).

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	URS	Vladimir Salnikov	14: 58.27
2	URS	Alexander Chayev	15: 14.30
3	OUT	Max Metzker	15: 14.49
4th	GDR	Rainer Strohbach	15: 15.29
5	YUG	Borut Petrič	15: 21.78
6th	ESP	Rafael Escalas	15: 21.88
7th	HUN	Sándor Wladár	15: 26.70
8th	URS	Eduard Petrov	15: 28.24

Participants: 21 swimmers from 14 countries
Final on July 22nd
Vladimir Salnikov was the first swimmer to swim the 1500 meter freestyle in under 15 minutes.

100 m back

space	country	athlete	Time (s)
1	SWE	Bengt Baron	56.53
2	URS	Viktor Kuznetsov	56.99
3	URS	Vladimir Dolgow	57.63
4th	TCH	Miloslav Rolko	57.74
5	HUN	Sándor Wladár	57.84
6th	NED	Fred Eefting	57.95
7th	OUT	Mark Tonelli	57.98
8th	GBR	Gary Abraham	58.38

Participants: 35 swimmers from 23 countries
Final on July 21st

200 m back

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	HUN	Sándor Wladár	2: 01.93
2	HUN	Zoltán Verrasztó	2: 02.40
3	OUT	Mark Kerry	2: 03.14
4th	URS	Vladimir Shemetov	2: 03.48
5	NED	Fred Eefting	2: 03.92
6th	SWE	Michael Söderlund	2: 04.10
7th	GBR	Douglas Campbell	2: 04.23
8th	OUT	Paul Moorfoot	2: 06.15

Participants: 28 swimmers from 18 countries
Final on July 26th

100 m chest

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	GBR	Duncan Goodhew	1: 03.34
2	URS	Arsenic Miskarovs	1: 03.82
3	OUT	Peter Evans	1: 03.96
4th	URS	Alexander Fedorowski	1: 04.00
5	HUN	János Dzvonyár	1: 04.67
6th	OUT	Lindsay Spencer	1: 05.04
7th	COL	Pablo Restrepo	1: 05.91
	HUN	Albán Vermes	DSQ

Participants: 28 swimmers from 22 countries
Final on July 22nd

200 m chest

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	URS	Robertas Žulpa	2: 15.85
2	HUN	Albán Vermes	2: 16.93
3	URS	Arsenic Miskarovs	2: 17.28
4th	URS	Gennady Utenkov	2: 19.64
5	OUT	Lindsay Spencer	2: 19.68
6th	GBR	Duncan Goodhew	2: 20.92
7th	SWE	Peter Berggren	2: 21.39
8th	GDR	Jörg Walter	2: 22.39

Participants: 20 swimmers from 14 countries
Final on July 26th

100 m butterfly

space	country	athlete	Time (s)
1	SWE	Par Arvidsson	54.92
2	GDR	Roger Pyttel	54.94
3	ESP	David López-Zubero	55.13
4th	NED	Cees Vervoorn	55.25
5	URS	Yevgeny Seredin	55.35
6th	GBR	Gary Abraham	55.42
7th	FRA	Xavier Savin	55.66
8th	URS	Alexei Markowski	55.70

Participants: 35 swimmers from 30 countries
Final on July 23rd

200 m butterfly

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	URS	Serhiy Fessenko	1: 59.76
2	GBR	Philip Hubble	2: 01.20
3	GDR	Roger Pyttel	2: 01.39
4th	GBR	Peter Morris	2: 02.27
5	URS	Mikhail Gorelik	2: 02.44
6th	NED	Cees Vervoorn	2: 02.52
7th	SWE	Par Arvidsson	2: 02.61
8th	GBR	Stephen Poulter	2: 02.93

Participants: 27 swimmers from 20 countries
Final on July 20th

400 m layers

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	URS	Oleksandr Sydorenko	4: 22.98
2	URS	Serhiy Fessenko	4: 23.43
3	HUN	Zoltán Verrasztó	4: 24.24
4th	HUN	András Hargitay	4: 24.48
5	BRA	Djan Madruga	4: 26.81
6th	TCH	Miloslav Rolko	4: 26.99
7th	POLE	Leszek Górski	4: 28.89
8th	TCH	Daniel Machek	4: 29.86

Participants: 27 swimmers from 17 countries
Final on July 27th

4 × 200 m freestyle

space	Country (athletes)	Time (min)
1	Soviet Union Sergei Kopljakow Vladimir Salnikow Ivar Stukolkin Andrei Krylow Vorlauf: Sergei Rusin , Sergei Krasiuk , Juri Presekin	7: 23.50 1:50.00 1: 51.09 1: 52.04 1: 50.37
2	GDR Frank Pfütze Jörg Woithe Detlev Grabs Rainer Strohbach Vorlauf: Frank Kühne	7: 28.60 1: 52.96 1: 51.78 1: 52.24 1: 51.62
3	Brazil Jorge Luiz Fernandes Marcus Mattioli Cyro Delgado Djan Madruga	7: 29.30 1: 52.61 1: 52.94 1: 52.35 1: 51.40
4th	Sweden Michael Söderlund Per Wikström Per-Alvar Magnusson Thomas Lejdström Forerunner : Anders Rutqvist , Per-Ola Quist	7: 30.10 1: 52.54 1: 52.70 1: 53.01 1: 51.85
5	Italy Paolo Revelli Raffaele Franceschi Andrea Ceccarini Fabrizio Rampazzo Prelude : Federico Silvestri	7: 30.37 1: 53.14 1: 51.56 1: 54.91 1: 50.76
6th	Great Britain Douglas Campbell Philip Hubble Martin Smith Andrew Astbury Forerunner: Mark Taylor , Kevin Lee	7: 30.81 1: 53.56 1: 52.96 1: 52.69 1: 51.60
7th	Australia Graeme Brewer Mark Tonelli Mark Kerry Ron McKeon Prelude: Max Metzker	7: 30.82 1: 52.57 1: 53.47 1: 52.64 1: 52.14
8th	France Fabien Noël Marc Lazzaro Dominique Petit Pascal Laget	7: 36.08 1: 52.73 1: 53.79 1: 54.88 1: 54.68

Participants: 13 seasons
final on July 23rd

4 × 100 m layers

space	Country (athletes)	time
1	Australia Mark Kerry Peter Evans Mark Tonelli Neil Brooks Forward: Glen Patching	3: 45.70 min 57.89 s 1: 03.01 min 54.94 s 49.86 s
2	Soviet Union Viktor Kuznetsov Arsenic Miskarovs Yevgeny Seredin Sergei Kopljakow Prelim : Shemetov , Fedorowski , Markowski , Krasiuk	3: 45.92 min 56.81 s 1: 03.64 min 54.58 s 50.89 s
3	Great Britain Gary Abraham Duncan Goodhew David Lowe Martin Smith Preliminaries: Paul Marshall , Mark Taylor	3: 47.71 min 57.72 s 1: 03.73 min 55.57 s 50.69 s
4th	GDR Dietmar Göhring Jörg Walter Roger Pyttel Jörg Woithe Vorlauf: Frank Kühne	3: 48.25 min 58.34 s 1: 05.14 min 54.81 s 49.96 s
5	FRA Frédéric Delcourt Olivier Borios Xavier Savin René Écuyer	3: 49.19 min 58.84 s 1: 05.14 min 55.07 s 50.14 s
6th	Hungary Sándor Wladár János Dzvonyár Zoltán Verrasztó Gábor Mészáros	3: 50.29 min 57.30 s 1: 04.12 min 55.72 s 53.15 s
7th	Netherlands Fred Eefting Albert Boonstra Cees Vervoorn Cees Jan Winkel	3: 51.81 min 58.37 s 1: 05.49 min 54.92 s 53.03 s
8th	Brazil Rômulo Arantes Sérgio Ribeiro Cláudio Kestener Jorge Luiz Fernandes Prelude : Cyro Delgado	3: 53.24 min 57.99 s 1: 05.68 min 57.33 s 52.24 s

Participants: 13 seasons
final on July 24th

Women

100 m freestyle

space	country	Athlete	Time (s)
1	GDR	Barbara Krause	54.79
2	GDR	Caren Metschuck	55.16
3	GDR	Ines Diers	55.65
4th	URS	Olga Klewakina	57.40
5	NED	Conny van Bentum	57.63
6th	URS	Natalia Strunnikova	57.83
7th	FRA	Guylaine Berger	57.88
8th	SWE	Agneta Eriksson	57.90

Participants: 31 swimmers from 21 countries
Final on July 21st
Barbara Krause already set a new world record with 54.98 seconds.

200 m freestyle

space	country	Athlete	Time (min)
1	GDR	Barbara Krause	1: 58.33
2	GDR	Ines Diers	1: 59.64
3	GDR	Carmela Schmidt	2: 01.44
4th	URS	Olga Klewakina	2: 02.29
5	NED	Reggie de Jong	2: 02.76
6th	GBR	June Croft	2: 03.15
7th	URS	Natalia Strunnikova	2: 03.74
8th	URS	Irina Aksenova	2: 04.00

Participants: 26 swimmers from 16 countries
Final on July 24th

400 m freestyle

space	country	Athlete	Time (min)
1	GDR	Ines Diers	4: 08.76
2	GDR	Petra Schneider	4: 09.16
3	GDR	Carmela Schmidt	4: 10.86
4th	OUT	Michelle Ford	4: 11.65
5	URS	Irina Aksenova	4: 14.40
6th	NED	Annelies Maas	4: 15.79
7th	NED	Reggie de Jong	4: 15.95
8th	URS	Olga Klewakina	4: 19.18

Participants: 20 swimmers from 13 countries
Final on July 22nd

800 m freestyle

space	country	Athlete	Time (min)
1	OUT	Michelle Ford	8: 28.90
2	GDR	Ines Diers	8: 32.55
3	GDR	Heike Dähne	8: 33.48
4th	URS	Irina Aksenova	8: 38.05
5	URS	Oksana Komissarova	8: 42.04
6th	BEL	Pascale Verbauwen	8: 44.84
7th	GDR	Ines Geissler	8: 45.28
8th	URS	Elena Ivanova	8: 46.45

Participants: 16 swimmers from 11 countries
Final on July 27th
In the preliminary run, Heike Dähne improved the Olympic record to 8: 36.09 min.

100 m back

space	country	Athlete	Time (min)
1	GDR	Rica Reinisch	1: 00.86
2	GDR	Ina Kleber	1: 02.07
3	GDR	Petra Riedel	1: 02.64
4th	ROU	Carmen Bunaciu	1: 03.81
5	BEL	Carine Verbauwen	1: 03.82
6th	URS	Larisa Gorchakova	1: 03.87
7th	NED	Monique Bosga	1: 04.47
8th	ITA	Manuela Carosi	1: 05.10

Participants: 27 swimmers from 18 countries
Final on July 23rd In
the preliminary stages, Rica Reinisch set a new world record with 1: 01.50 minutes.

200 m back

(from left) Polit, Reinisch and Driver.

space	country	Athlete	Time (min)
1	GDR	Rica Reinisch	2: 11.77
2	GDR	Cornelia Polit	2: 13.75
3	GDR	Birgit driver	2: 14.14
4th	ROU	Carmen Bunaciu	2: 15.20
5	BEL	Yolande Van der Straeten	2: 15.58
6th	BEL	Carine Verbauwen	2: 16.66
7th	OUT	Lisa Forrest	2: 16.75
8th	URS	Larisa Gorchakova	2: 17.72

Participants: 24 swimmers from 15 countries.
Final on July 27th. In
the run-up, Rica Reinisch improved the Olympic record to 2: 13.00 min.

100 m chest

space	country	Athlete	Time (min)
1	GDR	Ute Geweniger	1: 10.22
2	URS	Elvira Vasilkova	1: 10.41
3	THE	Susanne Nilsson	1: 11.16
4th	GBR	Margaret Kelly	1: 11.48
5	SWE	Eva-Marie Håkansson	1: 11.72
6th	GBR	Susannah Brownsdon	1: 12.11
7th	URS	Lina Kačiušytė	1: 12.21
8th	ITA	Monica Bonon	1: 12.51

Participants: 26 swimmers from 21 countries
Final on July 26th
In the preliminary run, Ute Geweniger improved her own world record to 1: 10.11 min.

200 m chest

space	country	Athlete	Time (min)
1	URS	Lina Kačiušytė	2: 29.54
2	URS	Svetlana Varganova	2: 29.61
3	URS	Yulia Bogdanova	2: 32.39
4th	THE	Susanne Nilsson	2: 32.75
5	TCH	Irena Fleissnerová	2: 33.23
6th	GDR	Ute Geweniger	2: 34.34
7th	GDR	Bettina Löbel	2: 34.51
8th	GDR	Sylvia Rinka	2: 35.38

Participants: 25 swimmers from 18 countries
Final on July 23rd
In the preliminary run, Svetlana Varganowa improved the Olympic record to 2: 29.77 min.

100 m butterfly

space	country	Athlete	Time (min)
1	GDR	Caren Metschuck	1: 00.42
2	GDR	Andrea Pollack	1: 00.90
3	GDR	Christiane Knacke	1: 01.44
4th	GBR	Ann Osgerby	1: 02.21
5	OUT	Lisa Curry	1: 02.40
6th	SWE	Agneta Mårtensson	1: 02.61
7th	CRC	Miriam Paris	1: 02.89
8th	GBR	Janet Osgerby	1: 02.90

Participants: 25 swimmers from 18 countries
Final on July 24th

200 m butterfly

space	country	Athlete	Time (min)
1	GDR	Ines Geissler	2: 10.44
2	GDR	Sybille Schönrock	2: 10.45
3	OUT	Michelle Ford	2: 11.66
4th	GDR	Andrea Pollack	2: 12.13
5	POLE	Dorota Brzozowska	2: 14.12
6th	GBR	Ann Osgerby	2: 14.83
7th	SWE	Agneta Mårtensson	2: 15.22
8th	URS	Alla Grishchenkova	2: 15.70

Participants: 21 swimmers from 14 countries
Final on July 21st

400 m layers

space	country	Athlete	Time (min)
1	GDR	Petra Schneider	4: 36.29
2	GBR	Sharron Davies	4: 46.83
3	POLE	Agnieszka Czopek	4: 48.17
4th	GDR	Grit Slaby	4: 48.54
5	GDR	Ulrike Tauber	4: 49.18
6th	BUL	Stoianka Dyngalakova	4: 49.25
7th	URS	Olga Klewakina	4: 50.91
8th	POLE	Magdalena Białas	4: 53.30

Participants: 20 swimmers from 13 countries
Final on July 26th

4 × 100 m freestyle

space	Country (athletes)	time
1	GDR Barbara Krause Caren Metschuck Ines Diers Sarina Hülsenbeck Forward: Carmela Schmidt	3: 42.71 min 54.90 s 55.61 s 55.90 s 56.30 s
2	Sweden Carina Ljungdahl Tina Gustafsson Agneta Mårtensson Agneta Eriksson Prelude: Birgitta Jönsson , Helena Peterson	3: 48.93 min 57.61 s 56.82 s 57.93 s 56.57 s
3	Netherlands Conny van Bentum Wilma van Velsen Reggie de Jong Annelies Maas	3: 49.51 min 57.50 s 57.38 s 57.17 s 57.46 s
4th	Great Britain Sharron Davies Kaye Lovatt Jacquelene Willmott June Croft	3: 51.71 min 58.74 s 58.44 s 57.68 s 56.85 s
5	Australia Lisa Curry Karen van de Graaf Rosemary Brown Michelle Pearson	3: 54.16 min 59.13 s 57.79 s 59.38 s 57.86 s
6th	Mexico Isabel Reuss Dagmar Erdman Teresa Rivera Helen Plaschinski	3: 55.41 min 57.99 s 1: 01.17 min 58.60 s 57.65 s
7th	Bulgaria Dobrinka Mintschewa Rumjana Dobrewa Ani Kostowa Stojanka Dyngalakowa	3: 56.34 min 58.90 s 59.79 s 59.72 s 57.93 s
8th	Spain Natalia Más Margarita Armengol Laura Flaque Gloria Casado	3: 58.73 min 58.88 s 1: 00.08 min 1: 00.05 min 59.72 s

Participants: 9 squadrons
final on July 27th
In the run-up, the GDR squadron (Krause, Hülsenbeck, Metschuck and Schmidt) set a new European record with 3: 45.19 minutes.
The season of the Soviet Union was disqualified in the run-up.

4 × 100 m layers

space	Country (athletes)	time
1	GDR Rica Reinisch Ute Geweniger Andrea Pollack Caren Metschuck Forward : Sarina Hülsenbeck	4: 06.67 min 1: 01.51 min 1: 09.46 min 1: 00.14 min 55.56 s
2	Great Britain Helen Jameson Margaret Kelly Ann Osgerby June Croft	4: 12.24 min 1: 04.60 min 1: 09.95 min 1: 01.77 min 55.92 s
3	Soviet Union Jelena Kruglowa Elwira Wassilkowa Alla Grishchenko Natalja Strunnikowa Prelude : Irina Aksenova , Olga Klewakina	4: 13.61 min 1: 04.60 min 1: 10.10 min 1: 02.72 min 56.19 s
4th	Sweden Annika Uvehall Eva-Marie Håkansson Agneta Mårtensson Tina Gustafsson	4: 16.91 min 1: 06.45 min 1: 11.25 min 1: 02.06 min 57.15 s
5	Italy Laura Foralosso Sabrina Seminatore Cinzia Savi Scarponi Monica Vallarin	4: 19.05 min 1: 04.20 min 1: 12.91 min 1: 02.61 min 59.33 s
6th	Australia Lisa Forrest Lisa Curry Karen van de Graaf Rosemary Brown	4: 19.90 min 1: 04.59 min 1: 13.61 min 1: 03.07 min 58.63 s
7th	Romania Carmen Bunaciu Brigitte Prass Mariana Paraschiv Irinel Adela Panulescu	4: 21.27 min 1: 03.37 min 1: 14.23 min 1: 04.46 min 59.21 s
8th	Bulgaria Stojanka Dyngalakowa Tanja Bogomilowa Ani Monewa Dobrinka Mintschewa	4: 22.38 min 1: 06.23 min 1: 12.39 min 1: 04.91 min 58.85 s

Participants: 10 relays
final on July 20th
Rica Reinisch, as the starting swimmer of the GDR individual relay relay , set the world record over 100 meters back for Ulrike Richter with 1: 01.51 min .

See also

• List of swimming world records
• List of European swimming records

literature

• Manfred Seifert: Sport80. A yearbook of GDR sports . Sportverlag Berlin, 1980, ISSN  0232-203X , p. 300-301 .
• New Germany . No. 171-177 . Socialist Unity Party of Germany, 1980, ISSN  0323-3375 .

Web links

1. ↑ Schedule and results of the competitions p. 452–489 (PDF; 27.59 MB)