Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre backstroke

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 Women's 100 metres Backstroke event at the 1980 Summer Olympics was held in Moscow, Soviet Union, on Wednesday July 23, 1980.

Final

RANK	FINAL	TIME
	Rica Reinisch (GDR)	1:00.86 WR
	Ina Kleber (GDR)	1:02.07
	Petra Riedel (GDR)	1:02.64
4.	Carmen Bunaciu (ROU)	1:03.81
5.	Carine Verbauwen (BEL)	1:03.82
6.	Larisa Gorchakova (URS)	1:03.87
7.	Monique Bosga (NED)	1:04.47
8.	Manuela Carosi (ITA)	1:05.10

Qualifying heats

• Held on Tuesday 1980-07-22

RANK	HEAT 1	TIME
1.	Carmen Bunaciu (ROU)	1:03.25
2.	Yelena Kruglova (URS)	1:04.63
3.	Georgina Parkes (AUS)	1:05.06
4.	Michèle Ricaud (FRA)	1:05.81
5.	Annika Uvehall (SWE)	1:06.33
6.	Soad Fezzani (LBA)	1:16.83

RANK	HEAT 2	TIME
1.	Ina Kleber (GDR)	1:02.15
2.	Manuela Carosi (ITA)	1:04.42
3.	Lisa Forrest (AUS)	1:04.55
4.	Jolanda de Rover (NED)	1:04.79
5.	Joy Beasley (GBR)	1:06.84
6.	María Paris (CRC)	1:09.02
7.	Anabel Drousiotou (CYP)	1:15.85

RANK	HEAT 3	TIME
1.	Petra Riedel (GDR)	1:03.25
2.	Larisa Gorchakova (URS)	1:03.82
3.	Monique Bosga (NED)	1:04.36
4.	Yolande Van der Straeten (BEL)	1:05.10
5.	Marianne Humpelstetter (AUT)	1:07.68
6.	Michele Pessoa (ANG)	1:26.59

RANK	HEAT 4	TIME
1.	Rica Reinisch (GDR)	1:01.50 WR
2.	Carine Verbauwen (BEL)	1:04.37
3.	Teresa Rivera (MEX)	1:04.54
4.	Laura Foralosso (ITA)	1:04.86
5.	Ágnes Fodor (HUN)	1:05.47
6.	Helen Jameson (GBR)	1:05.56
7.	Nguyễn Thị Hồng Bích (VIE)	1:20.34

References

• Results
• sports-reference