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

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Men's 200 metre freestyle
at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
The pool at Olimpiysky Sports Complex
VenueSwimming Pool at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex
Date21 July
Competitors42 from 24 nations
Winning time1:49.81 OR
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Sergey Koplyakov  Soviet Union
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Andrey Krylov  Soviet Union
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Graeme Brewer  Australia
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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] There were 42 competitors from 24 nations, with each nation having up to three swimmers.[2] The event was won by Sergey Koplyakov of the Soviet Union, with his countryman Andrey Krylov finishing second. The medals were the first for the Soviet Union in the men's 200 metre freestyle. Graeme Brewer of Australia won that nation's first medal in the event since 1968 with his bronze.

Background

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This was the sixth appearance of the 200 metre freestyle event. It was first contested in 1900. It would be contested a second time, though at 220 yards, in 1904. After that, the event did not return until 1968; since then, it has been on the programme at every Summer Games.[2]

One of the 8 finalists from the 1976 Games returned: fourth-place finisher Andrey Krylov of the Soviet Union. The American-led boycott severely impacted swimming in 1980; the United States had swept this event in 1976. The 1978 World Aquatics Championships winner and runner-up were Americans; neither Bill Forrester nor Rowdy Gaines (who also held the world record) could compete. World bronze medalist Sergey Koplyakov of the Soviet Union was the favourite in their absence.[2]

Algeria, Angola, Czechoslovakia, Lebanon, Mozambique, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe each made their debut in the event. Australia made its sixth appearance, the only nation to have competed in all prior editions of the event other than the absent United States.

Competition format

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The competition used a two-round (heats, final) format. The advancement rule followed the format introduced in 1952. A swimmer's place in the heat was not used to determine advancement; instead, the fastest times from across all heats in a round were used. There were 8 heats of up to 8 swimmers each. The top 8 swimmers advanced to the final. Swim-offs were used as necessary to break ties.

This swimming event used freestyle swimming, which means that the method of the stroke is not regulated (unlike backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly events). Nearly all swimmers use the front crawl or a variant of that stroke. Because an Olympic-size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of four lengths of the pool.

Records

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

World record  Rowdy Gaines (USA) 1:49.16 Austin, United States 11 April 1980
Olympic record  Bruce Furniss (USA) 1:50.29 Montreal, Canada 19 July 1976

The following records were established during the competition:

Date Event Swimmer Nation Time Record
21 July Final Sergey Koplyakov  Soviet Union 1:49.81 OR

Schedule

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All times are Moscow Time (UTC+3)

Date Time Round
Monday, 21 July 1980 10:00
20:00
Heats
Final

Results

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Heats

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Rank Heat Swimmer Nation Time Notes
1 6 Sergey Koplyakov  Soviet Union 1:51.04 Q
2 5 Andrey Krylov  Soviet Union 1:51.21 Q
3 6 Graeme Brewer  Australia 1:51.92 Q
4 4 Jörg Woithe  East Germany 1:52.33 Q
5 1 Paolo Revelli  Italy 1:52.56 Q
6 2 Fabrizio Rampazzo  Italy 1:52.62 Q
7 4 Ron McKeon  Australia 1:52.66 Q
8 4 Thomas Lejdström  Sweden 1:53.04 Q
9 3 David López-Zubero  Spain 1:53.22
10 2 Fabien Noël  France 1:53.25
11 5 Detlev Grabs  East Germany 1:53.38
12 3 Ivar Stukolkin  Soviet Union 1:53.44
13 1 Per Wikström  Sweden 1:53.59
14 6 Frank Kühne  East Germany 1:53.63
15 4 Martin Smith  Great Britain 1:54.17
16 3 Jorge Fernandes  Brazil 1:54.32
17 5 Marcus Mattioli  Brazil 1:54.39
18 6 Petar Kochanov  Bulgaria 1:54.45
19 4 Cyro Delgado  Brazil 1:54.59
20 6 Jean-Marie François  Venezuela 1:54.76
21 1 Paulo Frischknecht  Portugal 1:55.06
22 6 Radek Havel  Czechoslovakia 1:55.07
23 1 Rui Abreu  Portugal 1:55.25
24 2 Peter Drost  Netherlands 1:55.41
25 2 Per-Ola Quist  Sweden 1:55.38
26 2 Kevin Lee  Great Britain 1:55.63
27 3 Alberto Mestre  Venezuela 1:55.69
28 5 Petr Adamec  Czechoslovakia 1:55.84
29 6 Tsvetan Golomeev  Bulgaria 1:55.88
30 1 Dominique Petit  France 1:56.01
31 4 Cees Jan Winkel  Netherlands 1:56.48
32 2 Borut Petrič  Yugoslavia 1:56.51
33 1 Guy Goosen  Zimbabwe 1:56.58
34 3 Ramón Lavín  Spain 1:56.99
35 3 Kevin Williamson  Ireland 1:57.37
36 5 Stéfan Voléry  Switzerland 1:57.69
37 2 Reda Yadi  Algeria 2:06.26
38 4 Adham Hemdan  Kuwait 2:07.51
39 3 Tô Văn Vệ  Vietnam 2:11.51
40 2 Jorge Lima  Angola 2:14.37
41 1 Bilall Yamouth  Lebanon 2:27.94
42 4 Ntewane Machel  Mozambique 2:35.45
1 Mohamed Bendahmane  Algeria DNS
3 Mark Lazzaro  France
5 Mark Tonelli  Australia
5 Rafael Vidal  Venezuela
5 Mohamed Halimi  Algeria
6 David Cummins  Ireland

Final

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Rank Swimmer Nation Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Sergey Koplyakov  Soviet Union 1:49.81 OR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Andrey Krylov  Soviet Union 1:50.76
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Graeme Brewer  Australia 1:51.60
4 Jörg Woithe  East Germany 1:51.86
5 Ron McKeon  Australia 1:52.60
6 Paolo Revelli  Italy 1:52.76
7 Thomas Lejdström  Sweden 1:52.94
8 Fabrizio Rampazzo  Italy 1:53.25

References

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  1. ^ "Games of the XXII Olympiad Moscow 1980 – Volume 3: Participants and Results". Fizkultura i sport. pp. 451, 460. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
  2. ^ a b c "200 metres Freestyle, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 19 June 2021.