Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre backstroke

Women's 100 metre backstroke
at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Women's 100 metre backstroke; at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Venue	Swimming Pool at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex
Date	22 July (heats); 23 July (final)
Competitors	26 from 18 nations
Winning time	1:00.86 WR
Medalists
	← 1976 1984 →

The women's 100 metre backstroke event at the 1980 Summer Olympics was held on 22 and 23 July at the Swimming Pool at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex.^[1]^[2]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	Ulrike Richter (GDR) Rica Reinisch (GDR)	1:01.51	East Berlin, East Germany Moscow, Soviet Union	5 June 1976 20 July 1980
Olympic record	Ulrike Richter (GDR)	1:01.83	Montreal, Canada	21 July 1976

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
22 July	Heat 4	Rica Reinisch	East Germany	1:01.50	WR, OR
23 July	Final	Rica Reinisch	East Germany	1:00.86	WR, OR

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Rica Reinisch	East Germany	1:01.50	Q, WR
2	2	Ina Kleber	East Germany	1:02.15	Q
3	1	Carmen Bunaciu	Romania	1:03.25	Q
3	3	Petra Riedel	East Germany	1:03.25	Q
5	3	Larisa Gorchakova	Soviet Union	1:03.82	Q
6	3	Monique Bosga	Netherlands	1:04.36	Q
7	4	Carine Verbauwen	Belgium	1:04.37	Q
8	2	Manuela Carosi	Italy	1:04.42	Q
9	4	Teresa Rivera	Mexico	1:04.54
10	2	Lisa Forrest	Australia	1:04.55
11	1	Yelena Kruglova	Soviet Union	1:04.63
12	2	Jolanda de Rover	Netherlands	1:04.79
13	4	Laura Foralosso	Italy	1:04.86
14	1	Georgina Parkes	Australia	1:05.06
15	3	Yolande Van Der Straeten	Belgium	1:05.10
16	4	Ágnes Fodor	Hungary	1:05.47
17	4	Helen Jameson	Great Britain	1:05.56
18	1	Michèle Ricaud	France	1:05.81
19	1	Annika Uvehall	Sweden	1:06.33
20	2	Joy Beasley	Great Britain	1:06.84
21	3	Marianne Humpelstetter	Austria	1:07.68
22	2	María Paris	Costa Rica	1:09.02
23	2	Anabel Drousiotou	Cyprus	1:15.85
24	1	Soad Fezzani	Libya	1:16.83
25	4	Nguyễn Thị Hồng Bích	Vietnam	1:20.34
26	3	Michele Pessoa	Angola	1:26.59
	3	Andrea Kálmán	Hungary	DNS

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Rica Reinisch	East Germany	1:00.86	WR
	Ina Kleber	East Germany	1:02.07
	Petra Riedel	East Germany	1:02.64
4	Carmen Bunaciu	Romania	1:03.81
5	Carine Verbauwen	Belgium	1:03.82
6	Larisa Gorchakova	Soviet Union	1:03.87
7	Monique Bosga	Netherlands	1:04.47
8	Manuela Carosi	Italy	1:05.10