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100 metres Butterfly, Men

Date22 – 23 July 1980
StatusOlympic
LocationPlavatelny basseyn, Sportivny kompleks Olimpiysky, Moskva
Participants34 from 29 countries

Earlier in 1980 Sweden’s Pär Arvidsson had set the world record in the 100 fly with 54.15 at a meet in Austin, Texas. In Moscow it was rumored that he was feeling below par with a virus, but he still managed to win gold in the event, though his time of 54.92 did not approach his world record. Arvidsson had been bronze medalist in the 100 fly at the 1978 World Championships and a silver medalist at the 1977 Europeans. He graduated from U Cal Berkeley with a degree in economics and later attended Harvard Business School. The day before this final, West German Michael Groß swam 54.69 at a meet in Canada, and 10 days after the final, at the US Nationals, William Paulus won in 54.34, followed by Matt Gribble in 54.51.

PosSwimmerNOCR1SFFinal
1Pär ArvidssonSWE55.18 (1 h5)55.05 (2 h2)54.92 (1)Gold
2Roger PyttelGDR55.99 (1 h4)55.63 (4 h2)54.94 (2)Silver
3David López-ZuberoESP55.54 (2 h5)55.47 (1 h1)55.13 (3)Bronze
4Cees VervoornNED55.76 (1 h2)55.02 (1 h2)55.25 (4)
5Yevgeny SeredinURS55.83 (1 h3)55.62 (2 h1)55.35 (5)
6Gary AbrahamGBR56.10 (2 h3)55.53 (3 h2)55.42 (6)
7Xavier SavinFRA56.07 (1 h1)55.67 (3 h1)55.66 (7)
8Aleksey MarkovskyURS56.45 (2 h4)55.69 (4 h1)55.70 (8)
9David LoweGBR56.22 (3 h1)55.81 (5 h2)
10Miloslav RoľkoTCH56.36 (3 h3)56.16 (6 h2)
11Guy GoosenZIM56.15 (2 h1)56.35 (5 h1)
12Philip HubbleGBR56.30 (3 h5)56.51 (6 h1)
13Sergey KiselyovURS56.56 (2 h2)56.52 (7 h2)
14Fabrizio RampazzoITA56.85 (4 h5)56.76 (7 h1)
15Gábor MészárosHUN56.88 (3 h4)56.89 (8 h2)
16Bogusław ZychowiczPOL57.21 (4 h4)57.43 (8 h1)
17Yuliyan VasilevBUL57.27 (3 h2)
18Rafael VidalVEN57.33 (4 h1)
19Enrique LedesmaECU57.35 (4 h2)
20Cláudio KestenerBRA57.65 (4 h3)
21Kurt DittrichAUT57.71 (5 h2)
22Vangelis KoskinasGRE57.84 (5 h3)
23Paulo FrischknechtPOR57.94 (5 h4)
24Marcus MattioliBRA57.96 (5 h5)
25Andrey AguilarCRC58.35 (6 h3)
26David CumminsIRL58.90 (6 h5)
27Djamel YahioucheALG1:00.01 (5 h1)
28Nguyễn Ðăng BìnhVIE1:00.74 (7 h5)
29Raimundo FranisseMOZ1:01.83 (6 h4)
30Ibrahim El-BabaLBN1:05.20 (6 h1)
31Mohamed Abdul WahabKUW1:06.35 (6 h2)
32Linos PetridisCYP1:06.61 (7 h3)
33Marcos DanielANG1:07.46 (7 h1)
34Zoë AndrianifahaMAD1:14.72 (7 h2)
DNSMark TonelliAUS– (DNS h4)

Round One (22 July 1980 — 11:00)

Fastest 16 advanced to the semi-finals.

Heat One

PosLaneSwimmerNOCTime
13Xavier SavinFRA56.07Q
24Guy GoosenZIM56.15Q
35David LoweGBR56.22Q
46Rafael VidalVEN57.33
57Djamel YahioucheALG1:00.01
61Ibrahim El-BabaLBN1:05.20
72Marcos DanielANG1:07.46

Heat Two

PosLaneSwimmerNOCTime
14Cees VervoornNED55.76Q
25Sergey KiselyovURS56.56Q
31Yuliyan VasilevBUL57.27
46Enrique LedesmaECU57.35
53Kurt DittrichAUT57.71
67Mohamed Abdul WahabKUW1:06.35
72Zoë AndrianifahaMAD1:14.72

Heat Three

PosLaneSwimmerNOCTime
14Yevgeny SeredinURS55.83Q
25Gary AbrahamGBR56.10Q
33Miloslav RoľkoTCH56.36Q
46Cláudio KestenerBRA57.651
51Vangelis KoskinasGRE57.84
62Andrey AguilarCRC58.35
77Linos PetridisCYP1:06.61

Heat Four

PosLaneSwimmerNOCTime
14Roger PyttelGDR55.99Q
25Aleksey MarkovskyURS56.45Q
32Gábor MészárosHUN56.88Q
46Bogusław ZychowiczPOL57.21Q
51Paulo FrischknechtPOR57.94
67Raimundo FranisseMOZ1:01.83
DNS3Mark TonelliAUS

Heat Five

PosLaneSwimmerNOCTime
14Pär ArvidssonSWE55.18Q
23David López-ZuberoESP55.54Q
35Philip HubbleGBR56.30Q
46Fabrizio RampazzoITA56.85Q
52Marcus MattioliBRA57.96
61David CumminsIRL58.90
77Nguyễn Ðăng BìnhVIE1:00.74

Semi-Finals (22 July 1980 — 19:00)

Fastest eight advanced to the final.

Heat One

PosLaneSwimmerNOCTime
14David López-ZuberoESP55.47Q
25Yevgeny SeredinURS55.62Q
33Xavier SavinFRA55.67Q
47Aleksey MarkovskyURS55.69Q
56Guy GoosenZIM56.35
62Philip HubbleGBR56.51
71Fabrizio RampazzoITA56.76
88Bogusław ZychowiczPOL57.43

Heat Two

PosLaneSwimmerNOCTime
15Cees VervoornNED55.02Q
24Pär ArvidssonSWE55.05Q
36Gary AbrahamGBR55.53Q
43Roger PyttelGDR55.63Q
52David LoweGBR55.81
67Miloslav RoľkoTCH56.16
71Sergey KiselyovURS56.52
88Gábor MészárosHUN56.89

Final (23 July 1980 — 18:30)

PosLaneSwimmerNOCTime
15Pär ArvidssonSWE54.92
27Roger PyttelGDR54.94
33David López-ZuberoESP55.13
44Cees VervoornNED55.25
52Yevgeny SeredinURS55.35
66Gary AbrahamGBR55.42
71Xavier SavinFRA55.66
88Aleksey MarkovskyURS55.70