Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Women's 400 metre freestyle

Women's 400 metre freestyle at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Medalists
Ines Diers   East Germany   Petra Schneider   East Germany   Carmela Schmidt   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 400 metres Freestyle event at the 1980 Summer Olympics was held in Moscow, Soviet Union, on Tuesday July 22, 1980.

Final

RANK	FINAL	TIME
	Ines Diers (GDR)	4:08.76 OR
	Petra Schneider (GDR)	4:09.16
	Carmela Schmidt (GDR)	4:10.86
4.	Michelle Ford (AUS)	4:11.65
5.	Irina Aksenova (URS)	4:14.40
6.	Annelies Maas (NED)	4:15.79
7.	Reggie de Jong (NED)	4:15.95
8.	Olga Klevakina (URS)	4:19.18

Qualifying heats

The qualifying heats took places at the Olympic Swimming Pool on Tuesday 22 July 1980. The fastest 8 competitors qualified for the final.

RANK	HEAT 1	TIME
1.	Carmela Schmidt (GDR)	4:13.01
2.	Annelies Maas (NED)	4:13.12
3.	Pascale Verbauwen (BEL)	4:18.98
4.	Sharron Davies (GBR)	4:19.99
5.	Sofia Dara (GRE)	4:20.32
6.	Rosemary Brown (AUS)	4:21.36

RANK	HEAT 2	TIME
1.	Ines Diers (GDR)	4:13.98
2.	Irina Aksyonova (URS)	4:14.39
3.	Reggie de Jong (NED)	4:15.07
4.	Olga Klevakina (URS)	4:18.13
5.	Nikole Schrepfer (SUI)	4:28.40
6.	Natalia Más (ESP)	4:29.81
7.	Soad Fezzani (LBA)	5:16.17

RANK	HEAT 3	TIME
1.	Michelle Ford (AUS)	4:13.90
2.	Petra Schneider (GDR)	4:14.49
3.	Oksana Komissarova (URS)	4:18.61
4.	Roberta Felotti (ITA)	4:21.94
5.	Jacquelene Willmott (GBR)	4:22.32
6.	María Pia Ayora (PER)	4:46.90

References

• Results