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.

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

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