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

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.

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
Vladimir Salnikov  Soviet Union Andrey Krylov  Soviet Union Ivar Stukolkin  Soviet Union

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

Results

Heats

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

Final

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