The men's 400 metre freestyle event at the 1980 Summer Olympics was held on 24 July at the Swimming Pool at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex.
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
The following records were established during the competition: Date Event Name Nationality Time Record 24 July Final Vladimir Salnikov 3:51.31
Results Heats Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 5 Vladimir Salnikov 3:54.54 Q 2 3 Andrey Krylov 3:54.79 Q 3 4 Djan Madruga 3:55.69 Q 4 3 Max Metzker 3:56.42 Q 5 2 Ivar Stukolkin 3:56.60 Q 6 2 Ron McKeon 3:56.77 Q 7 1 Sándor Nagy 3:56.91 Q 8 5 Daniel Machek 3:57.02 Q 9 1 Graeme Brewer 3:57.19 10 5 Rainer Strohbach 3:57.22 11 5 Simon Gray 3:57.60 12 4 Detlev Grabs 3:58.21 13 3 Zoltán Wladár 3:58.37 14 5 Rafael Escalas 3:58.45 15 2 Frank Pfütze 3:59.53 16 1 Borut Petrič 3:59.63 17 3 Andrew Astbury 4:00.30 18 4 Thomas Lejdström 4:01.89 19 2 Darjan Petrič 4:03.54 20 4 Marcelo Jucá 4:03.92 21 3 Petr Adamec 4:03.97 22 2 Jean-Marie François 4:04.48 23 3 Petar Kochanov 4:05.28 24 1 Diego Quiroga 4:05.70 25 5 Radek Havel 4:05.71 26 1 Kevin Williamson 4:09.01 27 3 José María Larrañaga 4:11.06 28 2 Mohamed Abdul Wahab 4:37.68 1 Federico Silvestri DNS 1 Mohamed Bendahmane 2 Fernando Lopes 4 Paulo Frischknecht 4 Paolo Revelli 4 István Koczka 5 Abdelhakim Bitat 5 Reda Yadi
Final Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Vladimir Salnikov 3:51.31 OR Andrey Krylov 3:53.24 Ivar Stukolkin 3:53.95 4 Djan Madruga 3:54.15 5 Daniel Machek 3:55.66 6 Sándor Nagy 3:56.83 7 Max Metzker 3:56.87 8 Ron McKeon 3:57.00
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