| Women 100m Backstroke Swimming Olympic Games 1980 Moskva, Soviet Union - Wednesday, 23rd July - Gold Medal: Rica Reinisch, East Germany | 
| | Final |  | time | gap | L | Y |  | 1. Rica Reinisch |  East Germany | 1:00.86 | WR | - | 15 |  | 2. Ina Kleber |  East Germany | 1:02.07 | +1.21s | - | 15 |  | 3. Petra Riedel |  East Germany | 1:02.64 | +1.78s | - | 15 |  | 4. Carmen Bunaciu |  Romania | 1:03.81 | +2.95s | - | 18 |  | 5. Carine Verbauwen |  Belgium | 1:03.82 | +2.96s | - | 18 |  | 6. Larisa Gorchakova |  Soviet Union | 1:03.87 | +3.01s | - | 16 |  | 7. Monique Bosga |  Netherlands | 1:04.47 | +3.61s | - | 19 |  | 8. Manuela Carosi |  Italy | 1:05.10 | +4.24s | - | 15 | 
 | Standarts: 1:06.13, 1:04.86 | 
 | World Record: Ulrike Richter, East Germany 1:01.51 East Berlin, East Germany 5th June 1976 |  | World Record: Rica Reinisch, East Germnay 1:01.51 Moscow, Soviet Union 20th July 1980 |  | Olympic Record: Ulrike Richter, East Germany 1:01.83 Montreal, Canada 21st July 1976 | 
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| Heats - Tuesday, 22nd July | 
| Best 8 times advanced to Final. | 
| | Heat 4 |  | time | gap | L | Y | Rk |  | 1. Rica Reinisch |  East Germany | 1:01.50 | WR | - | 15 | 1. |  | 2. Carine Verbauwen |  Belgium | 1:04.37 | +2.87s | - | 18 | 7. |  | 3. Teresa Rivera |  Mexico | 1:04.54 | +3.04s | - | 14 | 9. |  | 4. Laura Foralosso |  Italy | 1:04.86 | +3.36s | - | 14 | 13. |  | 5. Agnes Fodor |  Hungary | 1:05.47 | +3.97s | - | 16 | 16. |  | 6. Helen Jameson |  Great Britain | 1:05.56 | +4.06s | - | 16 | 17. |  | 7. Thi Hong Bich Nguyen |  Vietnam | 1:20.34 | +18.84s | - | 16 | 25. | 
 |  | | Heat 3 |  | time | gap | L | Y | Rk |  | 1. Petra Riedel |  East Germany | 1:03.25 | +1.75s | - | 15 | 3. |  | 2. Larisa Gorchakova |  Soviet Union | 1:03.82 | +2.32s | - | 16 | 5. |  | 3. Monique Bosga |  Netherlands | 1:04.36 | +2.86s | - | 19 | 6. |  | 4. Yolande van der Straeten |  Belgium | 1:05.10 | +3.60s | - | 14 | 15. |  | 5. Marianne Humpelstetter |  Austria | 1:07.68 | +6.18s | - | 15 | 21. |  | 6. Michele Pessoa |  Angola | 1:26.59 | +25.09s | - | 17 | 26. |  | -. Andrea Kalman |  Hungary | DNS |  | - | 14 | -. | 
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| | Heat 2 |  | time | gap | L | Y | Rk |  | 1. Ina Kleber |  East Germany | 1:02.15 | +0.65s | - | 15 | 2. |  | 2. Manuela Carosi |  Italy | 1:04.42 | +2.92s | - | 15 | 8. |  | 3. Lisa Forrest |  Australia | 1:04.55 | +3.05s | - | 16 | 10. |  | 4. Jolanda de Rover |  Netherlands | 1:04.79 | +3.29s | - | 16 | 12. |  | 5. Joy Beasley |  Great Britain | 1:06.84 | +5.34s | - | 17 | 20. |  | 6. Maria Paris |  Costa Rica | 1:09.02 | +7.52s | - | 19 | 22. |  | 7. Annabel Drousiotou |  Cyprus | 1:15.85 | +14.35s | - | 14 | 23. | 
 |  | | Heat 1 |  | time | gap | L | Y | Rk |  | 1. Carmen Bunaciu |  Romania | 1:03.25 | +1.75s | - | 18 | 3. |  | 2. Yelena Kruglova |  Soviet Union | 1:04.63 | +3.13s | - | 18 | 11. |  | 3. Georgina Parkes |  Australia | 1:05.06 | +3.56s | - | 15 | 14. |  | 4. Michelle Ricaud |  France | 1:05.81 | +4.31s | - | 19 | 18. |  | 5. Annika Uvehall |  Sweden | 1:06.33 | +4.83s | - | 15 | 19. |  | 6. Soad Fezzani |  Libya | 1:16.83 | +15.33s | - | _ | 24. | 
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