Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre freestyle

Women's 100 metre freestyle
at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Women's 100 metre freestyle; at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Venue	Swimming Pool at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex
Date	20 July (heats); 21 July (final)
Competitors	30 from 21 nations
Winning time	54.79 WR
Medalists
	← 1976 1984 →

The women's 100 metre freestyle event at the 1980 Summer Olympics was held on 20 and 21 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	Barbara Krause (GDR)	55.41	East Berlin, East Germany	5 July 1978
Olympic record	Kornelia Ender (GDR)	55.65	Montreal, Canada	19 July 1976

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
20 July	Heat 3	Barbara Krause	East Germany	54.98	WR, OR
21 July	Final	Barbara Krause	East Germany	54.79	WR, OR

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Barbara Krause	East Germany	54.98	Q, WR
2	4	Caren Metschuck	East Germany	55.44	Q
3	2	Ines Diers	East Germany	56.83	Q
4	1	Natalya Strunnikova	Soviet Union	57.43	Q
5	4	Conny van Bentum	Netherlands	57.51	Q
6	1	Olga Klevakina	Soviet Union	57.62	Q
7	4	Agneta Eriksson	Sweden	57.67	Q
8	2	Guylaine Berger	France	57.80	Q
9	3	June Croft	Great Britain	57.88
10	3	Carina Ljungdahl	Sweden	58.05
11	2	Isabel Reuss	Mexico	58.36
12	1	Jacquelene Willmott	Great Britain	58.78
13	3	Michelle Pearson	Australia	58.90
14	1	Carine Verbauwen	Belgium	59.08
15	2	Larisa Tsaryova	Soviet Union	59.12
16	2	Rosemary Brown	Australia	59.35
17	4	Monica Vallarin	Italy	59.43
18	4	Natalia Más	Spain	59.53
19	3	Heidi Koch	Austria	59.73
20	3	Helen Plaschinski	Mexico	59.75
21	2	María Paris	Costa Rica	1:01.08
22	1	Celeste García	Peru	1:02.44
23	2	Lynne Tasker	Zimbabwe	1:03.36
24	3	Olga Loizou	Cyprus	1:06.50
25	4	Bako Ratsifa	Madagascar	1:07.21
26	3	Garnet Charwat	Nicaragua	1:08.98
27	1	Michele Pessoa	Angola	1:09.10
28	2	Nadia Fezzani	Libya	1:09.28
29	4	Chung Thị Thanh Lan	Vietnam	1:12.27
	4	Monique Drost	Netherlands	DSQ
	1	Karen Van de Graaf	Australia	DNS

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Barbara Krause	East Germany	54.79	WR
	Caren Metschuck	East Germany	55.16
	Ines Diers	East Germany	55.65
4	Olga Klevakina	Soviet Union	57.40
5	Conny van Bentum	Netherlands	57.63
6	Natalya Strunnikova	Soviet Union	57.83
7	Guylaine Berger	France	57.88
8	Agneta Eriksson	Sweden	57.90