| Men 100m Backstroke Swimming Olympic Games 1980 Moskva, Soviet Union - Monday, 21st July - Gold Medal: Bengt Baron, Sweden | 
| | Final |  | time | gap | L | Y |  | 1. Bengt Baron |  Sweden | 56.53s |  | - | 18 |  | 2. Viktor Kuznetsov |  Soviet Union | 56.99s | +0.46s | - | 19 |  | 3. Vladimir Dolgov |  Soviet Union | 57.63s | +1.10s | - | 20 |  | 4. Miloslav Rolko |  Czechoslovakia | 57.74s | +1.21s | - | 19 |  | 5. Sándor Wladár |  Hungary | 57.84s | +1.31s | - | 17 |  | 6. Fred Eefting |  Netherlands | 57.95s | +1.42s | - | 21 |  | 7. Mark Tonelli |  Australia | 57.98s | +1.45s | - | 23 |  | 8. Gary Abraham |  Great Britain | 58.38s | +1.85s | - | 21 | 
 | World and Olympic Record: John Naber, United States 55.49s Montreal, Canada 19th July 1976 | 
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| Best 8 times advanced to Final. | 
| | Heat S1 |  | time | gap | L | Y | Rk |  | 1. Viktor Kuznetsov |  Soviet Union | 56.75s |  | - | 19 | 1. |  | 2. Mark Tonelli |  Australia | 57.89s | +1.14s | - | 23 | 3. |  | 3. Gary Abraham |  Great Britain | 57.90s | +1.15s | - | 21 | 4. |  | 4. Miloslav Rolko |  Czechoslovakia | 57.97s | +1.22s | - | 19 | 6. |  | 5. Vladimir Dolgov |  Soviet Union | 58.04s | +1.29s | - | 20 | 7. |  | 6. Sándor Wladár |  Hungary | 58.05s | +1.30s | - | 17 | 8. |  | 7. Zoltan Verraszto |  Hungary | 58.57s | +1.82s | - | 24 | 12. |  | 8. Paul Marshall |  Great Britain | 58.82s | +2.07s | - | 19 | 14. | 
 |  | | Heat S2 |  | time | gap | L | Y | Rk |  | 1. Bengt Baron |  Sweden | 57.51s | +0.76s | - | 18 | 2. |  | 2. Fred Eefting |  Netherlands | 57.91s | +1.16s | - | 21 | 5. |  | 3. Mark Kerry |  Australia | 58.07s | +1.32s | - | 20 | 9. |  | 4. Michael Söderlund |  Sweden | 58.20s | +1.45s | - | 18 | 10. |  | 5. Romulo Arantes Filho |  Brazil | 58.21s | +1.46s | - | 23 | 11. |  | 6. Douglas Campbell |  Great Britain | 58.61s | +1.86s | - | 19 | 13. |  | 7. Dietmar Gohring |  East Germany | 58.85s | +2.10s | - | 20 | 15. |  | 8. Glenn Patching |  Australia | 1:00.31 | +3.56s | - | 22 | 16. | 
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| | Heat 5 |  | time | gap | L | Y | Rk |  | 1. Zoltan Verraszto |  Hungary | 57.92s | +0.17s | - | 24 | 4. |  | 2. Sándor Wladár |  Hungary | 58.07s | +0.32s | - | 17 | 6. |  | 3. Mark Kerry |  Australia | 58.08s | +0.33s | - | 20 | 7. |  | 4. Bengt Baron |  Sweden | 58.46s | +0.71s | - | 18 | 11. |  | 5. Mihai Mandache |  Romania | 1:00.26 | +2.51s | - | 19 | 22. |  | 6. Moises Gosalvez |  Spain | 1:00.90 | +3.15s | - | 20 | 27. |  | 7. Van Hoanh Lam |  Vietnam | 1:07.29 | +9.54s | - | 16 | 30. | 
 |  | | Heat 4 |  | time | gap | L | Y | Rk |  | 1. Glenn Patching |  Australia | 58.30s | +0.55s | - | 22 | 9. |  | 2. Paul Marshall |  Great Britain | 58.35s | +0.60s | - | 19 | 10. |  | 3. Viktor Kuznetsov |  Soviet Union | 58.47s | +0.72s | - | 19 | 12. |  | 4. Vladimir Shemetov |  Soviet Union | 59.01s | +1.26s | - | 16 | 18. |  | 5. Franky De Groote |  Belgium | 1:00.35 | +2.60s | - | 21 | 23. |  | 6. Jorge Lima |  Angola | 1:14.33 | +16.42s | - | 13 | 32. |  | -. Alberto Mestre |  Venezuela | DNS |  | - | 15 | -. | 
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| | Heat 3 |  | time | gap | L | Y | Rk |  | 1. Michael Söderlund |  Sweden | 57.75s |  | - | 18 | 1. |  | 2. Romulo Arantes Filho |  Brazil | 57.90s | +0.15s | - | 23 | 3. |  | 3. Fred Eefting |  Netherlands | 58.59s | +0.84s | - | 21 | 13. |  | 4. Douglas Campbell |  Great Britain | 58.75s | +1.00s | - | 19 | 15. |  | 5. Rui Abreu |  Portugal | 1:00.62 | +2.87s | - | 19 | 25. |  | 6. Pedro Joaquim Cruz |  Mozambique | 1:15.25 | +17.50s | - | 13 | 33. |  | -. David Cummins |  Ireland | DNS |  | - | 18 | -. | 
 |  | | Heat 2 |  | time | gap | L | Y | Rk |  | 2. Mark Tonelli |  Australia | 58.66s | +0.91s | - | 23 | 14. |  | 3. Gary Abraham |  Great Britain | 58.79s | +1.04s | - | 21 | 16. |  | 4. Jorg Stingl |  East Germany | 58.98s | +1.23s | - | 19 | 17. |  | 5. Frederic Delcourt |  France | 59.16s | +1.41s | - | 16 | 19. |  | 6. Herwig Bayer |  Austria | 1:00.04 | +2.29s | - | 17 | 20. |  | 7. Ricardo Prado |  Brazil | 1:01.03 | +3.28s | - | 15 | 28. |  | 8. Laris Phylactou |  Cyprus | 1:08.92 | +11.17s | - | 16 | 31. | 
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| | Heat 1 |  | time | gap | L | Y | Rk |  | 1. Vladimir Dolgov |  Soviet Union | 57.87s | +0.12s | - | 20 | 2. |  | 2. Dietmar Gohring |  East Germany | 58.02s | +0.27s | - | 20 | 5. |  | 3. Miloslav Rolko |  Czechoslovakia | 58.15s | +0.40s | - | 19 | 8. |  | 4. Branimir Popov |  Bulgaria | 1:00.06 | +2.31s | - | 18 | 21. |  | 5. Nenad Milos |  Yugoslavia | 1:00.41 | +2.66s | - | 25 | 24. |  | 6. Robert Rudolf |  Hungary | 1:00.85 | +3.10s | - | 23 | 26. |  | 7. Daniel Ayora |  Peru | 1:03.93 | +6.18s | - | 16 | 29. | 
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