Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

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		men		women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m				women
4×200 m		men
Medley relay
4×100 m		men		women

The final of the Men's 200 metres Breaststroke event at the 1980 Summer Olympics was held in Moscow, Soviet Union, on Saturday July 26, 1980.

Final

RANK	FINAL	TIME
	Robertas Žulpa (URS)	2:15.85
	Albán Vermes (HUN)	2:16.93
	Arsens Miskarovs (URS)	2:17.28
4.	Gennady Utenkov (URS)	2:19.64
5.	Lindsay Spencer (AUS)	2:19.68
6.	Duncan Goodhew (GBR)	2:20.92
–	Peter Berggren (SWE)	2:21.39
8.	Jörg Walter (GDR)	2:22.39

Qualifying heats

RANK	HEAT 1	TIME
1.	Arsens Miskarovs (URS)	2:19.57
2.	Jörg Walter (GDR)	2:23.19
3.	Glen Christiansen (SWE)	2:26.00
4.	Peter Evans (AUS)	2:26.62
5.	Gustavo Torrijos (ESP)	2:26.96
6.	Albert Boonstra (NED)	2:27.21

RANK	HEAT 2	TIME
1.	Albán Vermes (HUN)	2:20.62
2.	Lindsay Spencer (AUS)	2:21.08
3.	Gennady Utenkov (URS)	2:21.17
4.	Pablo Restrepo (COL)	2:23.74
5.	Andrey Aguilar (CRC)	2:33.19
6.	Trần Dương Tài (VIE)	2:38.52
–	Miguel Santisteban (MEX)	DSQ

RANK	HEAT 3	TIME
1.	Robertas Žulpa (URS)	2:17.83
2.	Duncan Goodhew (GBR)	2:21.25
3.	Peter Berggren (SWE)	2:22.09
4.	János Dzvonyár (HUN)	2:24.43
5.	Helmut Levy (COL)	2:27.94
6.	Martii Järventaus (FIN)	2:28.04
7.	Djamel Yahiouche (ALG)	2:41.65

References

• Results
• sports-reference