Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metre individual medley

Men's 400 metre individual medley at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Venue	Swimming Pool at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex
Date	27 July
Competitors	24 from 15 nations
Winning time	4:22.89 OR
Medalists
Aleksandr Sidorenko  Soviet Union Sergey Fesenko  Soviet Union Zoltán Verrasztó  Hungary

Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m		women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
400 m		women
Freestyle relay
4 × 100 m		women
4 × 200 m	men
Medley relay
4 × 100 m	men	women

The men's 400 metre individual medley event at the 1980 Summer Olympics was held on 27 July at the Swimming Pool at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex.^[1]

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

World record	Jesse Vassallo (USA)	4:20.05	West Berlin, West Germany	28 August 1978
Olympic record	Rod Strachan (USA)	4:23.68	Montreal, Canada	25 July 1976

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
27 July	Final	Aleksandr Sidorenko	Soviet Union	4:22.89	OR

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Zoltán Verrasztó	Hungary	4:25.57	Q
2	1	Leszek Górski	Poland	4:26.02	Q
3	3	András Hargitay	Hungary	4:27.00	Q
4	4	Aleksandr Sidorenko	Soviet Union	4:28.02	Q
5	3	Sergey Fesenko	Soviet Union	4:28.18	Q
6	3	Daniel Machek	Czechoslovakia	4:28.66	Q
7	2	Djan Madruga	Brazil	4:28.77	Q
8	2	Miloslav Roľko	Czechoslovakia	4:29.19	Q
9	2	Simon Gray	Great Britain	4:29.43
10	4	Csaba Sós	Hungary	4:29.69
11	3	Dariusz Wolny	Poland	4:31.28
12	1	Ricardo Prado	Brazil	4:31.69
13	4	Thomas Lejdström	Sweden	4:33.05
14	2	Giovanni Franceschi	Italy	4:33.66
15	3	Vladimir Shemetov	Soviet Union	4:34.01
16	2	Paul Moorfoot	Australia	4:34.28
17	4	Stephen Poulter	Great Britain	4:35.21
18	3	Franky de Groote	Belgium	4:36.99
19	3	Guillermo Zavala	Mexico	4:37.58
20	1	Evangelos Koskinas	Greece	4:39.44
21	2	Gary Andersson	Sweden	4:41.32
22	1	Andrey Aguilar	Costa Rica	4:41.74
23	1	Rafael Escalas	Spain	4:42.49
	4	Jörg Walter	East Germany	DSQ
	2	Antonio Monteiro	Spain	DNS
	4	Jean-Marc Carezic	Venezuela
	4	Max Metzker	Australia

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Aleksandr Sidorenko	Soviet Union	4:22.89	OR
	Sergey Fesenko	Soviet Union	4:23.43
	Zoltán Verrasztó	Hungary	4:24.24
4	András Hargitay	Hungary	4:24.48
5	Djan Madruga	Brazil	4:26.81
6	Miloslav Roľko	Czechoslovakia	4:26.99
7	Leszek Górski	Poland	4:28.89
8	Daniel Machek	Czechoslovakia	4:29.86