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

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

The final of the Men's 200 metres Backstroke event at the 1980 Summer Olympics was held in Moscow, Soviet Union, on Saturday July 26, 1980.

Final

RANK	FINAL	TIME
	Sándor Wladár (HUN)	2:01.93
	Zoltán Verrasztó (HUN)	2:02.40
	Mark Kerry (AUS)	2:03.14
4.	Vladimir Shemetov (URS)	2:03.48
5.	Fred Eefting (NED)	2:03.92
6.	Michael Söderlund (SWE)	2:04.10
7.	Douglas Campbell (GBR)	2:04.23
8.	Paul Moorfoot (AUS)	2:06.15

Qualifying heats

The heats for the Men's 200m Backstroke, took place on Saturday 26 July 1980 at the Olympic Swimming Pool. The fastest 8 swimmers, irrespective of heat, qualified for the final later that day.

RANK	HEAT 1	TIME
1.	Vladimir Shemetov (URS)	2:04.20
2.	Douglas Campbell (GBR)	2:04.78
3.	Fred Eefting (NED)	2:04.84
4.	Vladimir Dolgov (URS)	2:05.11
5.	Jim Carter (GBR)	2:09.94
6.	David Cummins (IRL)	2:12.45

RANK	HEAT 2	TIME
1.	Paul Moorfoot (AUS)	2:04.87
2.	Milošlav Roľko (TCH)	2:05.13
3.	Viktor Kuznetsov (URS)	2:05.14
4.	Frédéric Delcourt (FRA)	2:05.20
5.	Franky De Groote (BEL)	2:06.97
6.	Phạm Văn Thành (VIE)	2:28.40

RANK	HEAT 3	TIME
1.	Mark Kerry (AUS)	2:03.60
2.	Michael Söderlund (SWE)	2:04.67
3.	Jörg Stingl (GDR)	2:05.19
4.	Róbert Rudolf (HUN)	2:08.23
5.	Dietmar Göhring (GDR)	2:14.11
6.	Daniel Ayora (PER)	2:17.12

RANK	HEAT 4	TIME
1.	Sándor Wladár (HUN)	2:02.62
2.	Zoltán Verrasztó (HUN)	2:03.08
3.	Mark Tonelli (AUS)	2:07.04
4.	Bengt Baron (SWE)	2:07.13
5.	Nenad Miloš (YUG)	2:07.51
6.	Mihai Mandache (ROU)	2:07.97
7.	Zbigniew Januszkiewicz (POL)	2:08.11

References

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