Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Women's 800 metre freestyle

Women's 800 metre freestyle at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Medalists
Michelle Ford   Australia   Ines Diers   East Germany   Heike Dähne   East Germany

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 800 metres Freestyle event at the 1980 Summer Olympics was held in Moscow, Soviet Union, on Saturday July 26, 1980.

Final

RANK	FINAL	TIME
	Michelle Ford (AUS)	8:28.90 OR
	Ines Diers (GDR)	8:32.55
	Heike Dähne (GDR)	8:33.48
4.	Irina Aksenova (URS)	8:38.05
5.	Oksana Komissarova (URS)	8:42:04
6.	Pascale Verbauwen (BEL)	8:44.84
7.	Ines Geißler (GDR)	8:45.28
8.	Yelena Ivanova (URS)	8:46.45

Qualifying heats

The qualifying heats were held on Saturday 26 July 1980 in the Olympic Swimming Pool. The fastest 8 swimmers qualified for the final.

RANK	HEAT 1	TIME
1.	Heike Dähne (GDR)	8:36.09 OR
2.	Irina Aksyonova (URS)	8:44.42
3.	Pascale Verbauwen (BEL)	8:45.12
4.	Oksana Komissarova (URS)	8:45.80
5.	Yelena Ivanova (URS)	8:47.33
6.	Roberta Felotti (ITA)	8:58.54

RANK	HEAT 2	TIME
1.	Ines Diers (GDR)	8:40.29
2.	Michelle Ford (AUS)	8:42.36
3.	Ines Geißler (GDR)	8:46.96
4.	Rosemary Brown (AUS)	8:49.47
5.	Jacquelene Willmott (GBR)	8:50.51
6.	Reggie de Jong (NED)	8:54.49
7.	Sofia Dara (GRE)	9:02.37
8.	Nikole Schrepfer (SUI)	9:15.11

References

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