Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay

The men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay event at the 1980 Summer Olympics was held on 23 July at the Swimming Pool at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex.

Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Venue	Swimming Pool at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex
Dates	23 July
Competitors	62 from 13 nations
Teams	13
Winning time	7:23.50
Medalists
Soviet Union Sergey Kopliakov Vladimir Salnikov Ivar Stukolkin Andrey Krylov Sergey Rusin* Sergey Krasyuk* Yuri Presekin*  East Germany Frank Pfütze Jörg Woithe Detlev Grabs Rainer Strohbach Frank Kühne*  Brazil Jorge Fernandes Marcus Mattioli Cyro Marques Djan Madruga *Indicates the swimmer only competed in the preliminary heats.

Records

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

World record	United States (USA) Rowdy Gaines Bruce Furniss Bill Forrester Bobby Hackett	7:20.82	West Berlin, West Germany	24 August 1978
Olympic record	United States (USA) Mike Bruner Bruce Furniss John Naber Jim Montgomery	7:23.22	Montreal, Canada	21 July 1976

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
1	2	Soviet Union	Sergey Rusin (1:52.55) Sergey Krasyuk (1:53.09) Yuri Presekin (1:52.21) Ivar Stukolkin (1:51.54)	7:29.39	Q
2	1	East Germany	Frank Kühne (1:54.18) Detlev Grabs (1:53.68) Frank Pfütze (1:52.46) Rainer Strohbach (1:52.35)	7:32.67	Q
3	2	Brazil	Jorge Fernandes (1:53.49) Marcus Mattioli (1:52.76) Cyro Delgado (1:53.20) Djan Madruga (1:53.36)	7:32.81	Q
4	2	Australia	Mark Tonelli (1:53.99) Max Metzker (1:54.85) Mark Kerry (1:53.47) Graeme Brewer (1:51.75)	7:34.06	Q
5	2	Sweden	Michael Söderlund (1:53.16) Per-Alvar Magnusson (1:52.77) Anders Rutqvist (1:54.43) Per-Ola Quist (1:53.98)	7:34.34	Q
6	1	France	Marc Lazzaro (1:54.19) Dominique Petit (1:55.25) Pascal Lagat (1:53.44) Fabien Noël (1:51.93)	7:34.81	Q
7	1	Italy	Federico Silvestri (1:56.74) Raffaele Franceschi (1:53.38) Andrea Ceccarini (1:54.15) Paolo Revelli (1:52.70)	7:36.97	Q
8	1	Great Britain	Douglas Campbell (1:53.99) Mark Taylor (1:55.75) Kevin Lee (1:54.27) Andrew Astbury (1:53.35)	7:37.36	Q
9	2	Czechoslovakia	Daniel Machek (1:55.10) Miloslav Rolko (1:56.42) Petr Adamec (1:55.59) Radek Havel (1:55.07)	7:42.18
10	2	Spain	David López-Zubero (1:53.50) Ramón Lavín (1:55.10) Juan Carlos Vallejo (1:57.99) Juan Pablo Barro (1:56.10)	7:42.69
11	1	Netherlands	Cees Vervoorn (1:55.16) Peter Drost (1:56.79) Cees Jan Winkel (1:56.94) Fred Eefting (1:53.96)	7:42.85
12	1	Algeria	Abdelhakim Bitat (2:03.87) Reda Yadi (2:05.35) Mohamed Bendahmane (2:07.81) Mohamed Halimi (2:06.19)	8:23.22
	2	Bulgaria	Petar Kochanov Krasimir Tumanov Petar Stoyanov Tsvetan Golomeev	DSQ

Final

Rank	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
	Soviet Union	Sergey Kopliakov (1:50.00) Vladimir Salnikov (1:51.09) Ivar Stukolkin (1:52.04) Andrey Krylov (1:50.37)	7:23.50
	East Germany	Frank Pfütze (1:52.96) Jörg Woithe (1:51.78) Detlev Grabs (1:52.24) Rainer Strohbach (1:51.62)	7:28.60
	Brazil	Jorge Fernandes (1:52.61) Marcus Mattioli (1:52.94) Cyro Delgado (1:52.35) Djan Madruga (1:51.40)	7:29.30
4	Sweden	Michael Söderlund (1:52.54) Pelle Wikström (1:52.70) Per-Alvar Magnusson (1:53.01) Thomas Lejdström (1:51.85)	7:30.10
5	Italy	Paolo Revelli (1:53.14) Raffaele Franceschi (1:51.56) Andrea Ceccarini (1:54.91) Fabrizio Rampazzo (1:50.76)	7:30.37
6	Great Britain	Douglas Campbell (1:53.56) Philip Hubble (1:52.96) Martin Smith (1:52.69) Andrew Astbury (1:51.60)	7:30.81
7	Australia	Graeme Brewer (1:52.57) Mark Tonelli (1:53.47) Mark Kerry (1:52.64) Ron McKeon (1:52.14)	7:30.82
8	France	Fabien Noël (1:52.73) Marc Lazzaro (1:53.79) Dominique Petit (1:54.88) Pascal Lagat (1:54.68)	7:36.08