Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's 1500 metre freestyle

Men's 1500 metre freestyle at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Medalists
Vladimir Salnikov   Soviet Union   Aleksandr Chayev   Soviet Union   Max Metzker   Australia

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 1.500 metres Freestyle event at the 1980 Summer Olympics was held in Moscow, Soviet Union, on Tuesday July 22, 1980.

Final

RANK	FINAL	TIME
	Vladimir Salnikov (URS)	14:58.27
	Aleksandr Chayev (URS)	15:14.30
	Max Metzker (AUS)	15:14.49
4.	Rainer Strohbach (GDR)	15:15.29
5.	Borut Petrič (YUG)	15:21.78
6.	Rafael Escalas (ESP)	15:21.88
7.	Zoltán Wladár (HUN)	15:26.70
8.	Eduard Petrov (URS)	15:28.24

Qualifying heats

Three heats took place at the Olympic Swimming Pool on 21 July 1980. The fastest 8 swimmers, irrespective of heat, qualified for the final the following day.

RANK	HEAT 1	TIME
1.	Zoltán Wladár (HUN)	15:31.06
2.	Borut Petrič (YUG)	15:31.53
3.	Eduard Petrov (URS)	15:32.32
4.	Sándor Nagy (HUN)	15:34.84
5.	Marcelo Jucá (BRA)	16:01.11
6.	Diego Quiroga (ECU)	16:01.41

RANK	HEAT 2	TIME
1.	Aleksandr Chayev (URS)	15:20.68
2.	Rafael Escalas (ESP)	15:20.99
3.	Max Metzker (AUS)	15:21.63
4.	Daniel Machek (TCH)	15:39.73

RANK	HEAT 3	TIME
1.	Vladimir Salnikov (URS)	15:08.25
2.	Rainer Strohbach (GDR)	15:17.93
3.	Simon Gray (GBR)	15:43.17
4.	Darjan Petrič (YUG)	15:47.49
5.	Andrew Astbury (GBR)	15:54.32
6.	Djan Madruga (BRA)	15:56.20
7.	José María Larrañaga (PER)	16:27.90

References

• Results