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

Women's 100 metre breaststroke
at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Women's 100 metre breaststroke; at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Venue	Swimming Pool at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex
Date	24 July (heats); 26 July (final)
Competitors	25 from 19 nations
Winning time	1:10.22
Medalists
	← 1976 1984 →

The women's 100 metre breaststroke event at the 1980 Summer Olympics was held on 24 and 26 July at the Swimming Pool at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Records

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

World record	Ute Geweniger (GDR)	1:10.20	Magdeburg, East Germany	26 May 1980
Olympic record	Hannelore Anke (GDR)	1:10.86	Montreal, Canada	22 July 1976

The following record was established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
24 July	Heat 4	Ute Geweniger	East Germany	1:10.11	WR

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Ute Geweniger	East Germany	1:10.11	Q, WR
2	1	Elvira Vasilkova	Soviet Union	1:11.03	Q
3	4	Susanne Nielsson	Denmark	1:11.58	Q
4	2	Eva-Marie Håkansson	Sweden	1:12.26	Q
5	3	Monica Bonon	Italy	1:12.36	Q
6	4	Margaret Kelly	Great Britain	1:12.38	Q
7	2	Lina Kačiušytė	Soviet Union	1:12.71	Q
8	2	Suki Brownsdon	Great Britain	1:12.83	Q
9	3	Silvia Rinka	East Germany	1:12.88
10	1	Catherine Poirot	France	1:12.94
11	2	Irena Fleissnerová	Czechoslovakia	1:13.35
12	4	Tanya Bogomilova	Bulgaria	1:13.52
13	1	Sabrina Seminatore	Italy	1:13.76
14	4	Bettina Löbel	East Germany	1:14.32
15	3	Gabriella Kindl	Hungary	1:14.33
16	3	Yuliya Bogdanova	Soviet Union	1:15.04
17	3	Brigitte Prass	Romania	1:15.10
18	4	Elke Holtz	Mexico	1:15.89
19	1	Brigitte Bosmans	Belgium	1:16.68
20	3	Catherine Bohan	Ireland	1:16.84
21	2	Lynne Tasker	Zimbabwe	1:18.81
22	4	María Pia Ayora	Peru	1:20.46
23	3	Phạm Thị Phú	Vietnam	1:22.73
24	2	Nicole Rajoharison	Madagascar	1:24.83
25	1	Garnet Charwat	Nicaragua	1:28.88
	1	Lisa Curry	Australia	DNS

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Ute Geweniger	East Germany	1:10.22
	Elvira Vasilkova	Soviet Union	1:10.41
	Susanne Nielsson	Denmark	1:11.16
4	Margaret Kelly	Great Britain	1:11.48
5	Eva-Marie Håkansson	Sweden	1:11.72
6	Suki Brownsdon	Great Britain	1:12.11
7	Lina Kačiušytė	Soviet Union	1:12.21
8	Monica Bonon	Italy	1:12.51