| Men 200m Backstroke Swimming Olympic Games 1980 Moskva, Soviet Union - Saturday, 26th July - Gold Medal: Sándor Wladár  | 
| Final 20:00 |   | time | gap | L | Y |  | 1. Sándor Wladár |   Hungary | 2:01.93 |   | - | 17 |  | 2. Zoltan Verraszto |   Hungary | 2:02.40 | +0.47s | - | 24 |  | 3. Mark Kerry |   Australia | 2:03.14 | +1.21s | - | 20 |  | 4. Vladimir Shemetov |   Soviet Union | 2:03.48 | +1.55s | - | 16 |  | 5. Fred Eefting |   Netherlands | 2:03.92 | +1.99s | - | 21 |  | 6. Michael Söderlund |   Sweden | 2:04.10 | +2.17s | - | 18 |  | 7. Douglas Campbell |   Great Britain | 2:04.23 | +2.30s | - | 19 |  | 8. Paul Moorfoot |   Australia | 2:06.15 | +4.22s | - | 20 |   
| Standarts: 2:09.07, 2:06.59 |   
| World and Olympic Record: John Naber, United States 1:59.19 Montreal, Canada 24th July 1976 |   
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Heats - Saturday, 26th July 10:00 | 
| Best 8 times advanced to Final. | 
| Heat 4 |   | time | gap | L | Y | Rk |  | 1. Sándor Wladár |   Hungary | 2:02.62 |   | - | 17 | 1. |  | 2. Zoltan Verraszto |   Hungary | 2:03.08 | +0.46s | - | 24 | 2. |  | 3. Mark Tonelli |   Australia | 2:07.04 | +4.42s | - | 23 | 15. |  | 4. Bengt Baron |   Sweden | 2:07.13 | +4.51s | - | 18 | 16. |  | 5. Nenad Milos |   Yugoslavia | 2:07.51 | +4.89s | - | 25 | 17. |  | 6. Mihai Mandache |   Romania | 2:07.97 | +5.35s | - | 19 | 18. |  | 7. Zbigniew Januszkiewicz |   Poland | 2:08.11 | +5.49s | - | 17 | 19. |   
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| Heat 3 |   | time | gap | L | Y | Rk |  | 1. Mark Kerry |   Australia | 2:03.60 | +0.98s | - | 20 | 3. |  | 2. Michael Söderlund |   Sweden | 2:04.67 | +2.05s | - | 18 | 5. |  | 3. Jorg Stingl |   East Germany | 2:05.19 | +2.57s | - | 19 | 12. |  | 4. Robert Rudolf |   Hungary | 2:08.13 | +5.51s | - | 23 | 20. |  | 5. Dietmar Gohring |   East Germany | 2:14.11 | +11.49s | - | 20 | 23. |  | 6. Daniel Ayora |   Peru | 2:17.12 | +14.50s | - | 16 | 24. |  | -. Romulo Arantes Filho |   Brazil | DNS |   | - | 23 | -. |   
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| Heat 2 |   | time | gap | L | Y | Rk |  | 1. Paul Moorfoot |   Australia | 2:04.87 | +2.25s | - | 20 | 8. |  | 2. Miloslav Rolko |   Czechoslovakia | 2:05.13 | +2.51s | - | 19 | 10. |  | 3. Viktor Kuznetsov |   Soviet Union | 2:05.14 | +2.52s | - | 19 | 11. |  | 4. Frederic Delcourt |   France | 2:05.20 | +2.58s | - | 16 | 13. |  | 5. Franky De Groote |   Belgium | 2:06.97 | +4.35s | - | 21 | 14. |  | 6. Ngoc Thanh Pham |   Vietnam | 2:28.40 | +25.78s | - | 21 | 25. |  | -. Djan Madruga |   Brazil | DNS |   | - | 21 | -. |   
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| Heat 1 |   | time | gap | L | Y | Rk |  | 1. Vladimir Shemetov |   Soviet Union | 2:04.20 | +1.58s | - | 16 | 4. |  | 2. Douglas Campbell |   Great Britain | 2:04.78 | +2.16s | - | 19 | 6. |  | 3. Fred Eefting |   Netherlands | 2:04.84 | +2.22s | - | 21 | 7. |  | 4. Vladimir Dolgov |   Soviet Union | 2:05.11 | +2.49s | - | 20 | 9. |  | 5. Jim Carter |   Great Britain | 2:09.94 | +7.32s | - | 23 | 21. |  | 6. David Cummins |   Ireland | 2:12.45 | +9.83s | - | 18 | 22. |  | -. Rui Abreu |   Portugal | DNS |   | - | 19 | -. |   
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