1980 Summer Olympics / Swimming - 100m Freestyle (Men)

sport	swim
discipline	100 m freestyle
gender	Men
Attendees	39 athletes from 26 countries
Competition location	Olimpijski
Competition phase	July 26, 1980 (preliminary, semi-finals) July 27, 1980 (final)
Winning time	50.40 s
Medalist  Jörg Woithe ( GDR )  Per Holmertz ( SWE )  Per Johansson ( SWE )

Swimming competitions at the 1980 Olympic Games
100 m freestyle	Men	Women
200 m freestyle	Men	Women
400 m freestyle	Men	Women
800 m freestyle		Women
1500 m freestyle	Men
100 m back	Men	Women
200 m back	Men	Women
100 m chest	Men	Women
200 m chest	Men	Women
100 m butterfly	Men	Women
200 m butterfly	Men	Women
400 m layers	Men	Women
4 × 100 m freestyle		Women
4 × 200 m freestyle	Men
4 × 100 m layers	Men	Women

The men's 100 meter freestyle swimming competition at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow was held on September 26th and 27th. Jörg Woithe from the GDR became Olympic champion. Silver went to Per Holmertz from Sweden and bronze to his compatriot Per Johansson .

Records

Before the start of the Olympic Games, the following records were valid.

World record	49.44 s	Jonty Skinner	Philadelphia , United States	August 14, 1976
Olympic record	49.99 s	Jim Montgomery	Montreal , Canada	July 25, 1976

No new records have been set.

Results

Prelims

rank	Run	athlete	nation	time	Note
1	5	Jörg Woithe	GDR	50.49 s	Q
2	5	Martin Smith	Great Britain	51.88 s	Q
3	4th	Per Holmertz	Sweden	52.01 s	Q
4th	5	Mark Tonelli	Australia	52.04 s	Q
5	1	Sergei Krasiuk	Soviet Union	52.08 s	Q
5	2	Sergei Koplyakov	Soviet Union	52.08 s	Q
7th	4th	René Écuyer	France	52.09 s	Q
8th	3	Per Johansson	Sweden	52.11 s	Q
8th	3	Neil Brooks	Australia	52.11 s	Q
10	4th	Sergei Smiryagin	Soviet Union	52.21 s	Q
11	3	Raffaele Franceschi	Italy	52.26 s	Q
12	1	Per Wikström	Sweden	52.29 s	Q
13	2	David López-Zubero	Spain	52.43 s	Q
14th	4th	Jorge Fernandes	Brazil	52.51 s	Q
15th	5	Cees Vervoorn	Netherlands	52.57 s	Q
16	3	Graeme Brewer	Australia	52.59 s	Q
17th	4th	Alberto Mestre	Venezuela	52.62 s
18th	2	Mark Taylor	Great Britain	52.65 s
19th	1	Stéfan Voléry	Switzerland	52.68 s
20th	1	Fabrizio Rampazzo	Italy	52.71 s
21st	2	Paolo Revelli	Italy	52.74 s
22nd	5	Herwig Bayer	Austria	52.79 s
23	1	Rui Abreu	Portugal	52.85 s
24	2	Guy Goosen	Zimbabwe	52.87 s
25th	5	Frank Kuehne	GDR	52.93 s
26th	4th	Cyro Delgado	Brazil	53.00 s
27	3	Ramón Lavín	Spain	53.45 s
28	3	Tsvetan Golomeev	Bulgaria	53.50 s
29	2	Yulian Vasilev	Bulgaria	53.61 s
30th	1	Gábor Mészáros	Hungary	54.41 s
31	3	Mohamed Halimi	Algeria	55.16 s
32	5	Tô Văn Vệ	Vietnam	56.75 s
33	2	Lakis Fylaktou	Cyprus	57.41 s
34	4th	Adham Shirtan	Kuwait	58.33 s
35	2	Jorge Barata Lima	Angola	59.39 s
36	1	Abdulwahab Werfeli	Libya	1: 01.55 min
37	1	Bilall Yamouth	Lebanon	1: 03.48 min
38	3	Zoë Andrianifaha	Madagascar	1: 04.92 min
39	5	Edgar Martins	Mozambique	1: 06.17 min
	4th	David Cummins	Ireland	DNS

Semifinals

rank	Run	athlete	nation	time	Note
1	2	Jörg Woithe	GDR	50.21 s	Q
2	2	Per Holmertz	Sweden	51.19 s	Q
3	1	Per Johansson	Sweden	51.42 s	Q
4th	2	Sergei Koplyakov	Soviet Union	51.51 s	Q
5	2	René Écuyer	France	51.62 s	Q
6th	1	Sergei Krasiuk	Soviet Union	51.81 s	Q
7th	2	Raffaele Franceschi	Italy	51.87 s	Q
8th	1	Graeme Brewer	Australia	51.91 s	Q
9	1	Per Wikström	Sweden	52.15 s
10	1	Mark Tonelli	Australia	52.17 s
11	1	Sergei Smiryagin	Soviet Union	52.18 s
11	2	David López-Zubero	Spain	52.18 s
13	1	Martin Smith	Great Britain	52.41 s
14th	2	Neil Brooks	Australia	52.70 s
15th	2	Cees Vervoorn	Netherlands	52.73 s
16	1	Jorge Fernandes	Brazil	52.91 s

final

rank	athlete	nation	time
1	Jörg Woithe	GDR	50.40 s
2	Per Holmertz	Sweden	50.91 s
3	Per Johansson	Sweden	51.29 s
4th	Sergei Koplyakov	Soviet Union	51.34 s
5	Raffaele Franceschi	Italy	51.69 s
6th	Sergei Krasiuk	Soviet Union	51.80 s
7th	René Écuyer	France	52.01 s
8th	Graeme Brewer	Australia	52.22 s

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