Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metre individual medley
Appearance
Men's 400 metre individual medley at the Games of the XXII Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Swimming Pool at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex | ||||||||||||
Date | 27 July | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 24 from 15 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 4:22.89 OR | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics | ||
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Freestyle | ||
100 m | men | women |
200 m | men | women |
400 m | men | women |
800 m | women | |
1500 m | men | |
Backstroke | ||
100 m | men | women |
200 m | men | women |
Breaststroke | ||
100 m | men | women |
200 m | men | women |
Butterfly | ||
100 m | men | women |
200 m | men | women |
Individual medley | ||
400 m | men | women |
Freestyle relay | ||
4 × 100 m | women | |
4 × 200 m | men | |
Medley relay | ||
4 × 100 m | men | women |
The men's 400 metre individual medley event at the 1980 Summer Olympics was held on 27 July at the Swimming Pool at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex.[1]
Records
[edit]Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
World record | Jesse Vassallo (USA) | 4:20.05 | West Berlin, West Germany | 28 August 1978 |
Olympic record | Rod Strachan (USA) | 4:23.68 | Montreal, Canada | 25 July 1976 |
The following records were established during the competition:
Date | Event | Name | Nationality | Time | Record |
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27 July | Final | Aleksandr Sidorenko | Soviet Union | 4:22.89 | OR |
Results
[edit]Heats
[edit]Final
[edit]Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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Aleksandr Sidorenko | Soviet Union | 4:22.89 | OR | |
Sergey Fesenko | Soviet Union | 4:23.43 | ||
Zoltán Verrasztó | Hungary | 4:24.24 | ||
4 | András Hargitay | Hungary | 4:24.48 | |
5 | Djan Madruga | Brazil | 4:26.81 | |
6 | Miloslav Roľko | Czechoslovakia | 4:26.99 | |
7 | Leszek Górski | Poland | 4:28.89 | |
8 | Daniel Machek | Czechoslovakia | 4:29.86 |
References
[edit]- ^ "Games of the XXII Olympiad Moscow 1980 – Volume 3: Participants and Results". Fizkultura i sport. pp. 450, 470. Retrieved 28 November 2018.