| 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 | -. | 
 |  | | 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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