| Women 100m Freestyle Swimming Olympic Games 1980 Moskva, Soviet Union - Monday, 21st July - Gold Medal: Barbara Krause, East Germany | 
| | Final |  | time | gap | L | Y |  | 1. Barbara Krause |  East Germany | 54.79s | WR | - | 21 |  | 2. Caren Metschuck |  East Germany | 55.16s | +0.37s | - | 16 |  | 3. Ines Diers |  East Germany | 55.65s | +0.86s | - | 16 |  | 4. Olga Klevakina |  Soviet Union | 57.40s | +2.61s | - | 18 |  | 5. Conny Van Bentum |  Netherlands | 57.63s | +2.84s | - | 14 |  | 6. Nataliya Strunnikova |  Soviet Union | 57.83s | +3.04s | - | 16 |  | 7. Guylaine Berger |  France | 57.88s | +3.09s | - | 24 |  | 8. Agneta Eriksson |  Sweden | 57.90s | +3.11s | - | 15 | 
 | Standarts: 59.10s, 57.96s | 
 | World Record: Barbara Krause, East Germany 55.41s East Berlin, East Germany 5th July 1978 |  | Olympic Record: Kornelia Ender, East Germany 55.65s Montreal, Canada 19th July 1976 | 
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| Heats - Sunday, 20th July | 
| Best 8 times advanced to Final. | 
| | Heat 4 |  | time | gap | L | Y | Rk |  | 1. Caren Metschuck |  East Germany | 55.44s | +0.46s | - | 16 | 2. |  | 2. Conny Van Bentum |  Netherlands | 57.51s | +2.53s | - | 14 | 5. |  | 3. Agneta Eriksson |  Sweden | 57.67s | +2.69s | - | 15 | 7. |  | 4. Monica Vallarin |  Italy | 59.43s | +4.45s | - | 15 | 17. |  | 5. Natalia Mas |  Spain | 59.53s | +4.55s | - | 16 | 18. |  | 6. Bako Ratsifa |  Madagascar | 1:07.21 | +12.23s | - | 16 | 25. |  | 7. Thi Thanh Lan Chung |  Vietnam | 1:12.27 | +17.29s | - | 18 | 29. |  | 7. Monique Drost |  Netherlands | DSQ |  | - | 15 |  | 
 |  | | Heat 3 |  | time | gap | L | Y | Rk |  | 1. Barbara Krause |  East Germany | 54.98s | WR | - | 21 | 1. |  | 2. June Croft |  Great Britain | 57.88s | +2.90s | - | 17 | 9. |  | 3. Carina Ljungdahl |  Sweden | 58.05s | +3.07s | - | 15 | 10. |  | 4. Michelle Pearson |  Australia | 58.90s | +3.92s | - | 18 | 13. |  | 5. Heidi Koch |  Austria | 59.73s | +4.75s | - | 18 | 19. |  | 6. Hellen Plaschinski |  Mexico | 59.75s | +4.77s | - | 17 | 20. |  | 7. Olga Loizou |  Cyprus | 1:06.50 | +11.52s | - | 18 | 24. |  | 8. Garnet Charwat |  Nicaragua | 1:08.98 | +14.00s | - | 13 | 26. | 
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| | Heat 2 |  | time | gap | L | Y | Rk |  | 1. Ines Diers |  East Germany | 56.83s | +1.85s | - | 16 | 3. |  | 2. Guylaine Berger |  France | 57.80s | +2.82s | - | 24 | 8. |  | 3. Isabel Reuss |  Mexico | 58.36s | +3.38s | - | 18 | 11. |  | 4. Larisa Tsaryova |  Soviet Union | 59.12s | +4.14s | - | 21 | 15. |  | 5. Rosemary Brown |  Australia | 59.35s | +4.37s | - | 19 | 16. |  | 6. Maria Paris |  Costa Rica | 1:01.08 | +6.10s | - | 19 | 21. |  | 7. Lynne Tasker |  Zimbabwe | 1:03.36 | +8.38s | - | 16 | 23. |  | 8. Nadia Fezzani |  Libya | 1:09.28 | +14.30s | - | _ | 28. | 
 |  | | Heat 1 |  | time | gap | L | Y | Rk |  | 1. Nataliya Strunnikova |  Soviet Union | 57.43s | +2.45s | - | 16 | 4. |  | 2. Olga Klevakina |  Soviet Union | 57.62s | +2.64s | - | 18 | 6. |  | 3. Jacqueline Willmott |  Great Britain | 58.78s | +3.80s | - | 15 | 12. |  | 4. Carine Verbauwen |  Belgium | 59.08s | +4.10s | - | 18 | 14. |  | 5. Celeste Garcia |  Peru | 1:02.44 | +7.46s | - | 15 | 22. |  | 6. Michele Pessoa |  Angola | 1:09.10 | +14.12s | - | 17 | 27. |  | -. Karen van de Graaf |  Australia | DNS |  | - | 17 |  | 
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