Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metre freestyle

Men's 400 metre freestyle
at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Men's 400 metre freestyle; at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Venue	Swimming Pool at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex
Date	24 July
Competitors	28 from 16 nations
Winning time	3:51.31 OR
Medalists
	← 1976 1984 →

The men's 400 metre freestyle event at the 1980 Summer Olympics was held on 24 July at the Swimming Pool at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex.^[1]

Records

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

World record	Vladimir Salnikov (URS)	3:51.20	Potsdam, East Germany	29 February 1980
Olympic record	Brian Goodell (USA)	3:51.93	Montreal, Canada	22 July 1976

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
24 July	Final	Vladimir Salnikov	Soviet Union	3:51.31	OR

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Vladimir Salnikov	Soviet Union	3:54.54	Q
2	3	Andrey Krylov	Soviet Union	3:54.79	Q
3	4	Djan Madruga	Brazil	3:55.69	Q
4	3	Max Metzker	Australia	3:56.42	Q
5	2	Ivar Stukolkin	Soviet Union	3:56.60	Q
6	2	Ron McKeon	Australia	3:56.77	Q
7	1	Sándor Nagy	Hungary	3:56.91	Q
8	5	Daniel Machek	Czechoslovakia	3:57.02	Q
9	1	Graeme Brewer	Australia	3:57.19
10	5	Rainer Strohbach	East Germany	3:57.22
11	5	Simon Gray	Great Britain	3:57.60
12	4	Detlev Grabs	East Germany	3:58.21
13	3	Zoltán Wladár	Hungary	3:58.37
14	5	Rafael Escalas	Spain	3:58.45
15	2	Frank Pfütze	East Germany	3:59.53
16	1	Borut Petrič	Yugoslavia	3:59.63
17	3	Andrew Astbury	Great Britain	4:00.30
18	4	Thomas Lejdström	Sweden	4:01.89
19	2	Darjan Petrič	Yugoslavia	4:03.54
20	4	Marcelo Jucá	Brazil	4:03.92
21	3	Petr Adamec	Czechoslovakia	4:03.97
22	2	Jean-Marie François	Venezuela	4:04.48
23	3	Petar Kochanov	Bulgaria	4:05.28
24	1	Diego Quiroga	Ecuador	4:05.70
25	5	Radek Havel	Czechoslovakia	4:05.71
26	1	Kevin Williamson	Ireland	4:09.01
27	3	José María Larrañaga	Peru	4:11.06
28	2	Mohamed Abdul Wahab	Kuwait	4:37.68
	1	Federico Silvestri	Italy	DNS
	1	Mohamed Bendahmane	Algeria
	2	Fernando Lopes	Angola
	4	Paulo Frischknecht	Portugal
	4	Paolo Revelli	Italy
	4	István Koczka	Hungary
	5	Abdelhakim Bitat	Algeria
	5	Reda Yadi	Algeria

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Vladimir Salnikov	Soviet Union	3:51.31	OR
	Andrey Krylov	Soviet Union	3:53.24
	Ivar Stukolkin	Soviet Union	3:53.95
4	Djan Madruga	Brazil	3:54.15
5	Daniel Machek	Czechoslovakia	3:55.66
6	Sándor Nagy	Hungary	3:56.83
7	Max Metzker	Australia	3:56.87
8	Ron McKeon	Australia	3:57.00