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

Women's 400 metre freestyle
at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Women's 400 metre freestyle; at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Venue	Swimming Pool at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex
Date	22 July
Competitors	19 from 12 nations
Winning time	4:08.76 OR
Medalists
	← 1976 1984 →

The women's 400 metre freestyle event at the 1980 Summer Olympics was held on 22 July at the Swimming Pool at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex.^[1]

Records

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

World record	Tracey Wickham (AUS)	4:06.28	West Berlin, West Germany	24 August 1978
Olympic record	Petra Thümer (GDR)	4:09.89	Montreal, Canada	20 July 1976

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
22 July	Final	Ines Diers	East Germany	4:08.76	OR

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Carmela Schmidt	East Germany	4:13.01	Q
2	1	Annelies Maas	Netherlands	4:13.12	Q
3	3	Michelle Ford	Australia	4:13.90	Q
4	2	Ines Diers	East Germany	4:13.98	Q
5	2	Irina Aksyonova	Soviet Union	4:14.39	Q
6	3	Petra Schneider	East Germany	4:14.49	Q
7	2	Reggie de Jong	Netherlands	4:15.07	Q
8	2	Olga Klevakina	Soviet Union	4:18.13	Q
9	3	Oksana Komissarova	Soviet Union	4:18.61
10	1	Pascale Verbauwen	Belgium	4:18.98
11	1	Sharron Davies	Great Britain	4:19.99
12	1	Sofia Dara	Greece	4:20.32
13	1	Rosemary Brown	Australia	4:21.36
14	3	Roberta Felotti	Italy	4:21.94
15	3	Jacquelene Willmott	Great Britain	4:22.32
16	2	Nikole Schrepfer	Switzerland	4:28.40
17	2	Natalia Más	Spain	4:29.81
18	3	María Pia Ayora	Peru	4:46.90
19	2	Soad Fezzani	Libya	5:16.17
	1	Klára Gulyás	Hungary	DNS

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Ines Diers	East Germany	4:08.76	OR
	Petra Schneider	East Germany	4:09.16
	Carmela Schmidt	East Germany	4:10.86
4	Michelle Ford	Australia	4:11.65
5	Irina Aksyonova	Soviet Union	4:14.40
6	Annelies Maas	Netherlands	4:15.79
7	Reggie de Jong	Netherlands	4:15.95
8	Olga Klevakina	Soviet Union	4:19.18