| Men 400m Freestyle Swimming Olympic Games 1980 Moskva, Soviet Union - Thursday, 24th July - Gold Medal: Vladimir Salnikov, Soviet Union | 
| | Final |  | time | gap | L | Y |  | 1. Vladimir Salnikov |  Soviet Union | 3:51.31 | OR | - | 20 |  | 2. Andrey Krylov |  Soviet Union | 3:53.24 | +1.93s | - | 24 |  | 3. Ivar Stukolkin |  Soviet Union | 3:53.95 | +2.64s | - | 19 |  | 4. Djan Madruga |  Brazil | 3:54.15 | +2.84s | - | 21 |  | 5. Daniel Machek |  Czechoslovakia | 3:55.66 | +4.35s | - | 20 |  | 6. Sandor Nagy |  Hungary | 3:56.83 | +5.52s | - | 19 |  | 7. Max Metzker |  Australia | 3:56.87 | +5.56s | - | 20 |  | 8. Ron McKeon |  Australia | 3:57.00 | +5.69s | - | 19 | 
 | Standarts: 4:03.97, 3:59.28 | 
 | World Record: Vladimir Salnikov, Soviet Union 3:51.20 Potsdam, East Germany 29th February 1980 |  | Olympic Record: Brian Goodell, United States 3:51.93 Montreal, Canada 22nd July 1976 | 
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| Heats - Thursday, 24nd July | 
| Best 8 times advanced to Final. | 
| | Heat 5 |  | time | gap | L | Y | Rk |  | 1. Djan Madruga |  Brazil | 3:55.69 | +1.15s | - | 21 | 2. |  | 2. Detlev Grabs |  East Germany | 3:58.21 | +3.67s | - | 19 | 12. |  | 3. Thomas Lejdstrom |  Sweden | 4:01.89 | +7.35s | - | 18 | 18. |  | 4. Marcelo Juca |  Brazil | 4:03.92 | +9.38s | - | 16 | 20. |  | -. Paulo Frischknecht |  Portugal | DNS |  | - | 19 | -. |  | -. Istvan Koczka |  Hungary | DNS |  | - | 22 | -. |  | -. Paolo Revelli |  Italy | DNS |  | - | 21 | -. | 
 |  | | Heat 4 |  | time | gap | L | Y | Rk |  | 1. Djan Madruga |  Brazil | 3:55.69 | +1.15s | - | 21 | 2. |  | 2. Detlev Grabs |  East Germany | 3:58.21 | +3.67s | - | 19 | 12. |  | 3. Thomas Lejdstrom |  Sweden | 4:01.89 | +7.35s | - | 18 | 18. |  | 4. Marcelo Juca |  Brazil | 4:03.92 | +9.38s | - | 16 | 20. |  | -. Paulo Frischknecht |  Portugal | DNS |  | - | 19 | -. |  | -. Istvan Koczka |  Hungary | DNS |  | - | 22 | -. |  | -. Paolo Revelli |  Italy | DNS |  | - | 21 | -. | 
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| | Heat 3 |  | time | gap | L | Y | Rk |  | 1. Andrey Krylov |  Soviet Union | 3:54.79 | +0.25s | - | 24 | 2. |  | 2. Max Metzker |  Australia | 3:54.79 | +0.25s | - | 20 | 4. |  | 3. Zoltan Wladár |  Hungary | 3:58.37 | +3.83s | - | 20 | 13. |  | 4. Andrew Astbury |  Great Britain | 4:00.30 | +5.76s | - | 19 | 17. |  | 5. Petr Adamec |  Czechoslovakia | 4:03.97 | +9.43s | - | 20 | 21. |  | 6. Petar Kochanov |  Bulgaria | 4:05.28 | +10.74s | - | 17 | 23. |  | 7. Jose Maria Larranaga |  Peru | 4:11.06 | +16.52s | - | 17 | 27. | 
 |  | | Heat 2 |  | time | gap | L | Y | Rk |  | 1. Ivar Stukolkin |  Soviet Union | 3:56.60 | +2.06s | - | 19 | 5. |  | 2. Ron McKeon |  Australia | 3:56.77 | +2.23s | - | 19 | 6. |  | 3. Frank Pfutze |  East Germany | 3:59.53 | +4.99s | - | 21 | 15. |  | 4. Darjan Petric |  Yugoslavia | 4:03.54 | +9.00s | - | 15 | 19. |  | 5. Jean Marie Francois Carezis |  Venezuela | 4:04.48 | +9.94s | - | 17 | 22. |  | 6. Mohamed Al-Saleh |  Kuwait | 4:37.68 | +43.14s | - | 21 | 28. |  | -. Fernando Lopes |  Angola | DNS |  | - | 15 | -. | 
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| | Heat 1 |  | time | gap | L | Y | Rk |  | 1. Sandor Nagy |  Hungary | 3:56.91 | +2.37s | - | 19 | 7. |  | 2. Graeme Brewer |  Australia | 3:57.19 | +2.65s | - | 21 | 9. |  | 3. Borut Petric |  Yugoslavia | 3:59.63 | +5.09s | - | 19 | 16. |  | 4. Diego Quiroga |  Ecuador | 4:05.70 | +11.16s | - | 19 | 24. |  | 5. Kevin Williamson |  Ireland | 4:09.01 | +14.47s | - | 21 | 26. |  | -. Mohamed Bendahmane |  Algeria | DNF |  | - | 22 | -. |  | -. Federico Silvestri |  Italy | DNS |  | - | 17 | -. | 
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