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

Men's 100 metre breaststroke at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Venue	Swimming Pool at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex
Date	21 July (heats) 22 July (final)
Competitors	26 from 20 nations
Winning time	1:03.34
Medalists
Duncan Goodhew  Great Britain Arsens Miskarovs  Soviet Union Peter Evans  Australia

The men's 100 metre breaststroke event at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow was held on 21 and 22 July at the Swimming Pool at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex.

Records

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

World record	Gerald Mörken (FRG)	1:02.86	Jönköping, Sweden	18 August 1977
Olympic record	John Hencken (USA)	1:03.11	Montreal, Canada	20 July 1976

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Duncan Goodhew	Great Britain	1:03.48	Q
2	3	Aleksandr Fedorovsky	Soviet Union	1:03.86	Q
3	3	Arsens Miskarovs	Soviet Union	1:04.06	Q
4	2	János Dzvonyár	Hungary	1:04.55	Q
4	2	Peter Evans	Australia	1:04.55	Q
6	2	Lindsay Spencer	Australia	1:04.78	Q
7	3	Albán Vermes	Hungary	1:05.23	Q
8	2	Pablo Restrepo	Colombia	1:05.38	Q
9	1	Peter Berggren	Sweden	1:05.43
10	4	Olivier Borios	France	1:05.67
11	4	Jörg Walter	East Germany	1:06.12
12	1	Miguel Santisteban	Mexico	1:06.13
13	1	Robertas Žulpa	Soviet Union	1:06.23
14	4	Leigh Atkinson	Great Britain	1:06.43
15	3	Albert Boonstra	Netherlands	1:06.47
16	3	Sérgio Ribeiro	Brazil	1:06.71
17	1	Gustavo Torrijos	Spain	1:06.77
18	4	Martti Järventaus	Finland	1:06.81
19	3	Helmut Levy	Colombia	1:07.06
20	4	Plamen Alexandrov	Bulgaria	1:07.45
21	2	Nguyễn Mạnh Tuấn	Vietnam	1:10.07
22	1	Djamel Yahiouche	Algeria	1:13.62
23	3	Francisco Santos	Angola	1:18.95
24	1	Zoë Andrianifaha	Madagascar	1:21.42
25	2	Rogerio Silva	Mozambique	1:25.70
	1	Mohamed El-Naser	Libya	DSQ
	2	Andrea Ceccarini	Italy	DNS
	4	Linos Petridis	Cyprus

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Duncan Goodhew	Great Britain	1:03.34
	Arsens Miskarovs	Soviet Union	1:03.82
	Peter Evans	Australia	1:03.96
4	Aleksandr Fedorovsky	Soviet Union	1:04.00
5	János Dzvonyár	Hungary	1:04.67
6	Lindsay Spencer	Australia	1:05.04
7	Pablo Restrepo	Colombia	1:05.91
	Albán Vermes	Hungary	DSQ