| Men 200m Freestyle Swimming Olympic Games 1980 Moskva, Soviet Union - Monday, 21st July - Gold Medal: Sergey Koplyakov, Soviet Union | 
| | Final 20:00 |  | time | gap | L | Y |  | 1. Sergei Kopliakov |  Soviet Union | 1:49.81 | OR | - | 21 |  | 2. Andrey Krylov |  Soviet Union | 1:50.76 | +0.95s | - | 24 |  | 3. Graeme Brewer |  Australia | 1:51.60 | +1.79s | - | 21 |  | 4. Jörg Woithe |  East Germany | 1:51.86 | +2.05s | - | 17 |  | 5. Ron McKeon |  Australia | 1:52.60 | +2.79s | - | 19 |  | 6. Paolo Revelli |  Italy | 1:52.76 | +2.95s | - | 21 |  | 7. Thomas Lejdstrom |  Sweden | 1:52.94 | +3.13s | - | 18 |  | 8. Fabrizio Rampazzo |  Italy | 1:53.25 | +3.44s | - | 17 | 
 | Standarts: 1:56.38, 1:54.14 | 
 | World Record: Rowdy Gaines, United States 1:49.16 Austin, United States 11th April 1980 |  | Olympic Record: Bruce Furniss, United States 1:50.29 Montreal, Canada 19th July 1976 | 
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| Heats - Monday, 21st July 10:00 | 
| Best 8 times advanced to Final. | 
| | Heat 6 |  | time | gap | L | Y | Rk |  | 1. Sergei Kopliakov |  Soviet Union | 1:51.04 |  | - | 21 | 1. |  | 2. Graeme Brewer |  Australia | 1:51.92 | +0.88s | - | 21 | 3. |  | 3. Frank Kuhne |  East Germany | 1:53.63 | +2.59s | - | 18 | 14. |  | 4. Petar Kochanov |  Bulgaria | 1:54.45 | +3.41s | - | 17 | 18. |  | 5. Jean Marie Francois Carezis |  Venezuela | 1:54.76 | +3.72s | - | 17 | 20. |  | 6. Radek Havel |  Czechoslovakia | 1:55.07 | +4.03s | - | 19 | 22. |  | 7. Tzvetan Golomeev |  Bulgaria | 1:55.88 | +4.84s | - | 19 | 29. |  | -. David Cummins |  Ireland | DNS |  | - | 18 | -. | 
 |  | | Heat 5 |  | time | gap | L | Y | Rk |  | 1. Andrey Krylov |  Soviet Union | 1:51.21 | +0.17s | - | 24 | 2. |  | 2. Detlev Grabs |  East Germany | 1:53.38 | +2.34s | - | 19 | 11. |  | 3. Petr Adamec |  Czechoslovakia | 1:55.84 | +4.80s | - | 20 | 28. |  | 4. Stefan Volery |  Switzerland | 1:57.69 | +6.65s | - | 18 | 36. |  | -. Mark Tonelli |  Australia | DNS |  | - | 23 | -. |  | -. Rafael Vidal-Castro |  Venezuela | DNS |  | - | 16 | -. |  | -. Mohamed Halimi |  Algeria | DNS |  | - | 22 | -. | 
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| | Heat 4 |  | time | gap | L | Y | Rk |  | 1. Jörg Woithe |  East Germany | 1:52.33 | +1.29s | - | 17 | 4. |  | 2. Ron McKeon |  Australia | 1:52.66 | +1.62s | - | 19 | 7. |  | 3. Thomas Lejdstrom |  Sweden | 1:53.04 | +2.00s | - | 18 | 8. |  | 4. Martin Smith |  Great Britain | 1:54.17 | +3.13s | - | 22 | 15. |  | 3. Marcus Mattioli |  Brazil | 1:54.39 | +3.35s | - | 19 | 17. |  | 5. Cyro Delgado |  Brazil | 1:54.59 | +3.55s | - | 19 | 19. |  | 6. Cees Jan Winkel |  Netherlands | 1:56.48 | +5.44s | - | 18 | 31. |  | 7. Adham Hemdan |  Kuwait | 2:07.51 | +16.47s | - | 20 | 38. |  | 8. Ntewane Machel |  Mozambique | 2:35.45 | +44.41s | - | _ | 42. | 
 |  | | Heat 3 |  | time | gap | L | Y | Rk |  | 1. David Lopez-Zubero |  Spain | 1:53.22 | +2.18s | - | 21 | 9. |  | 2. Ivar Stukolkin |  Soviet Union | 1:53.44 | +2.40s | - | 19 | 12. |  | 3. Jorge Fernandes |  Brazil | 1:54.32 | +3.28s | - | 18 | 16. |  | 4. Alberto Mestre |  Venezuela | 1:55.69 | +4.65s | - | 15 | 27. |  | 5. Ramon Lavin |  Spain | 1:56.99 | +5.95s | - | 18 | 34. |  | 6. Kevin Williamson |  Ireland | 1:57.37 | +6.33s | - | 21 | 35. |  | 7. Van Ve To |  Vietnam | 2:11.51 | +20.47s | - | 23 | 39. |  | -. Marc Lazzaro |  France | DNS |  | - | 24 | -. | 
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