Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre butterfly

Men's 100 metre butterfly

at the Games of the XXII Olympiad

Venue

Date

22 July (heats, semifinals)
23 July (final)

Competitors

34 from 29 nations

Winning time

54.92

Medalists

← 1976

1984 →

Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics

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
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The men's 100 metre butterfly event at the 1980 Summer Olympics was held on 22 and 23 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	Pär Arvidsson (SWE)	54.15	Austin, United States	11 April 1980
Olympic record	Mark Spitz (USA)	54.27	Munich, West Germany	31 August 1972

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Pär Arvidsson	Sweden	55.18	Q
2	5	David López-Zubero	Spain	55.54	Q
3	2	Cees Vervoorn	Netherlands	55.76	Q
4	3	Yevgeny Seredin	Soviet Union	55.83	Q
5	4	Roger Pyttel	East Germany	55.99	Q
6	1	Xavier Savin	France	56.07	Q
7	3	Gary Abraham	Great Britain	56.10	Q
8	1	Guy Goosen	Zimbabwe	56.15	Q
9	1	David Lowe	Great Britain	56.22	Q
10	5	Philip Hubble	Great Britain	56.30	Q
11	3	Milošlav Roľko	Czechoslovakia	56.36	Q
12	4	Aleksey Markovsky	Soviet Union	56.45	Q
13	2	Sergey Kiselyov	Soviet Union	56.56	Q
14	5	Fabrizio Rampazzo	Italy	56.85	Q
15	4	Gábor Mészáros	Hungary	56.88	Q
16	4	Bogusław Zychowicz	Poland	57.21	Q
17	2	Yulyan Vasilev	Bulgaria	57.27
18	1	Rafael Vidal	Venezuela	57.33
19	2	Enrique Ledesma	Ecuador	57.35
20	3	Cláudio Kestener	Brazil	57.65
21	2	Kurt Dittrich	Austria	57.71
22	3	Evangelos Koskinas	Greece	57.84
23	4	Paulo Frischknecht	Portugal	57.94
24	5	Marcus Mattioli	Brazil	57.96
25	3	Andrés Aguilar	Costa Rica	58.35
26	5	David Cummins	Ireland	58.90
27	1	Djamel Yahiouche	Algeria	1:00.01
28	5	Nguyễn Ðăng Bình	Vietnam	1:00.74
29	4	Raimundo Franisse	Mozambique	1:01.83
30	1	Ibrahim El-Baba	Lebanon	1:05.20
31	2	Mohamed Abdul Wahab	Kuwait	1:06.35
32	3	Linos Petridis	Cyprus	1:06.61
33	1	Marcos Daniel	Angola	1:07.46
34	2	Zoë Andrianifaha	Madagascar	1:14.72
	4	Mark Tonelli	Australia	DNS

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Cees Vervoorn	Netherlands	55.02	Q
2	2	Pär Arvidsson	Sweden	55.05	Q
3	1	David López-Zubero	Spain	55.47	Q
4	2	Gary Abraham	Great Britain	55.53	Q
5	1	Yevgeny Seredin	Soviet Union	55.62	Q
6	2	Roger Pyttel	East Germany	55.63	Q
7	1	Xavier Savin	France	55.67	Q
8	1	Aleksey Markovsky	Soviet Union	55.69	Q
9	2	David Lowe	Great Britain	55.81
10	2	Milošlav Roľko	Czechoslovakia	56.16
11	1	Guy Goosen	Zimbabwe	56.35
12	1	Philip Hubble	Great Britain	56.51
13	2	Sergey Kiselyov	Soviet Union	56.52
14	1	Fabrizio Rampazzo	Italy	56.76
15	2	Gábor Mészáros	Hungary	56.89
16	1	Bogusław Zychowicz	Poland	57.43

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Pär Arvidsson	Sweden	54.92
	Roger Pyttel	East Germany	54.94
	David López-Zubero	Spain	55.13
4	Cees Vervoorn	Netherlands	55.25
5	Yevgeni Seredin	Soviet Union	55.35
6	Gary Abraham	Great Britain	55.42
7	Xavier Savin	France	55.66
8	Aleksei Markovski	Soviet Union	55.70

v t e Olympic champions in men's 100 m butterfly
1968: Doug Russell (USA) 1972: Mark Spitz (USA) 1976: Matt Vogel (USA) 1980: Pär Arvidsson (SWE) 1984: Michael Gross (FRG) 1988: Anthony Nesty (SUR) 1992: Pablo Morales (USA) 1996: Denis Pankratov (RUS) 2000: Lars Frölander (SWE) 2004: Michael Phelps (USA) 2008: Michael Phelps (USA) 2012: Michael Phelps (USA) 2016: Joseph Schooling (SIN) 2020: Caeleb Dressel (USA)

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