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

The men's 200 metre butterfly event at the 1980 Summer Olympics was held on 20 July at the Swimming Pool at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex.^[1]

Men's 200 metre butterfly at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Venue	Swimming Pool at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex
Date	20 July
Competitors	25 from 19 nations
Winning time	1:59.76
Medalists
Sergey Fesenko  Soviet Union Philip Hubble  Great Britain Roger Pyttel  East Germany
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Records

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

World record	Craig Beardsley (USA)	1:58.21	Irvine, United States	30 July 1980
Olympic record	Mike Bruner (USA)	1:59.23	Montreal, Canada	18 July 1976

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Sergey Fesenko	Soviet Union	2:00.20	Q
2	4	Philip Hubble	Great Britain	2:00.75	Q
3	2	Roger Pyttel	East Germany	2:02.07	Q
4	4	Steve Poulter	Great Britain	2:02.18	Q
5	2	Cees Vervoorn	Netherlands	2:02.21	Q
6	3	Peter Morris	Great Britain	2:02.72	Q
7	3	Pär Arvidsson	Sweden	2:03.14	Q
8	1	Mikhail Gorelik	Soviet Union	2:03.15	Q
9	1	Paolo Revelli	Italy	2:03.44
10	3	Aleksandr Buchenkov	Soviet Union	2:03.98
11	3	Rafael Vidal	Venezuela	2:04.23
12	2	Bogusław Zychowicz	Poland	2:04.33
13	2	Ove Nylén	Sweden	2:04.64
14	4	Gábor Mészáros	Hungary	2:05.01
15	4	Paul Moorfoot	Australia	2:05.69
16	4	David Cummins	Ireland	2:06.47
17	3	Evangelos Koskinas	Greece	2:06.80
18	1	Marcus Mattioli	Brazil	2:06.87
19	2	Andrés Aguilar	Costa Rica	2:07.57
20	3	Cláudio Kestener	Brazil	2:08.65
21	1	Enrique Ledesma	Ecuador	2:11.40
22	3	Djamel Yahiouche	Algeria	2:12.65
23	1	Trương Ngọc Tơn	Vietnam	2:23.58
24	2	Raimundo Franisse	Mozambique	2:25.55
25	4	Saleh Marzouk	Kuwait	2:36.53
	1	Djan Madruga	Brazil	DNS
	2	César Ribeiro	Angola

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Sergey Fesenko	Soviet Union	1:59.76
	Philip Hubble	Great Britain	2:01.20
	Roger Pyttel	East Germany	2:01.39
4	Peter Morris	Great Britain	2:02.27
5	Mikhail Gorelik	Soviet Union	2:02.44
6	Cees Vervoorn	Netherlands	2:02.52
7	Pär Arvidsson	Sweden	2:02.61
8	Steve Poulter	Great Britain	2:02.93

References

1. "Games of the XXII Olympiad Moscow 1980 – Volume 3: Participants and Results". Fizkultura i sport. pp. 451, 468. Retrieved 30 November 2018.