Men 1500m Freestyle Swimming Olympic Games 1980 Moskva, Soviet Union - Tuesday, 22nd July - Gold Medal: Vladimir Salnikov, Soviet Union |
Final | | time | gap | L | Y | 1. Vladimir Salnikov | Soviet Union | 14:58.27 | WR | - | 20 | 2. Aleksandr Chayev | Soviet Union | 15:14.30 | +16.03s | - | 18 | 3. Max Metzker | Australia | 15:14.49 | +16.22s | - | 20 | 4. Rainer Strohbach | East Germany | 15:15.29 | +17.02s | - | 22 | 5. Borut Petric | Yugoslavia | 15:21.78 | +23.51s | - | 19 | 6. Rafael Escalas | Spain | 15:21.88 | +23.61s | - | 19 | 7. Zoltan Wladár | Hungary | 15:26.70 | +28.43s | - | 20 | 8. Eduard Petrov | Soviet Union | 15:28.24 | +29.97s | - | 17 |
Standarts: 16:10.68, 15:43.18 |
World and Olympic Record: Brian Goodell, United States 14:58.27 Montreal, Canada 20th July 1976 |
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Heats - Monday, 21st July |
Best 8 times advanced to Final. |
Heat 3 | | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 1. Vladimir Salnikov | Soviet Union | 15:08.25 | | - | 20 | 1. | 2. Rainer Strohbach | East Germany | 15:17.93 | +9.68s | - | 22 | 2. | 3. Simon Gray | Great Britain | 15:43.17 | +34.92s | - | 21 | 11. | 4. Darjan Petric | Yugoslavia | 15:47.49 | +39.24s | - | 15 | 12. | 5. Andy Astbury | Great Britain | 15:54.32 | +46.07s | - | 19 | 13. | 6. Djan Madruga | Brazil | 15:56.20 | +47.95s | - | 21 | 14. | 7. Jose Maria Larranaga | Peru | 16:27.90 | +1:19.65 | - | 17 | 17. | -. Kevin Williamson | Ireland | DNS | | - | 21 | -. |
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Heat 2 | | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 1. Aleksandr Chayev | Soviet Union | 15:20.68 | +12.43s | - | 18 | 3. | 2. Rafael Escalas | Spain | 15:20.99 | +12.74s | - | 19 | 4. | 3. Max Metzker | Australia | 15:21.63 | +13.38s | - | 20 | 5. | 4. Daniel Machek | Czechoslovakia | 15:39.73 | +31.48s | - | 20 | 10. | -. Jean Marie Francois Carezis | Venezuela | DNS | | - | 17 | -. | -. Istvan Koczka | Hungary | DNS | | - | 21 | -. |
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Heat 1 | | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 1. Zoltan Wladár | Hungary | 15:31.06 | +22.81s | - | 20 | 6. | 2. Borut Petric | Yugoslavia | 15:31.53 | +23.28s | - | 19 | 7. | 3. Eduard Petrov | Soviet Union | 15:32.32 | +24.07s | - | 17 | 8. | 4. Sandor Nagy | Hungary | 15:34.84 | +26.59s | - | 19 | 9. | 5. Marcelo Juca | Brazil | 16:01.11 | +52.86s | - | 16 | 15. | 6. Diego Quiroga | Ecuador | 16:01.41 | +53.16s | - | 19 | 16. | -. Abdelhakim Bitat | Algeria | DNS | | - | 16 | -. |
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