The men's 100 metre butterfly event at the 1980 Summer Olympics was held on 22 and 23 July at the Swimming Pool at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex.
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
Results Heats Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 5 Pär Arvidsson 55.18 Q 2 5 David López-Zubero 55.54 Q 3 2 Cees Vervoorn 55.76 Q 4 3 Yevgeny Seredin 55.83 Q 5 4 Roger Pyttel 55.99 Q 6 1 Xavier Savin 56.07 Q 7 3 Gary Abraham 56.10 Q 8 1 Guy Goosen 56.15 Q 9 1 David Lowe 56.22 Q 10 5 Philip Hubble 56.30 Q 11 3 Milošlav Roľko 56.36 Q 12 4 Aleksey Markovsky 56.45 Q 13 2 Sergey Kiselyov 56.56 Q 14 5 Fabrizio Rampazzo 56.85 Q 15 4 Gábor Mészáros 56.88 Q 16 4 Bogusław Zychowicz 57.21 Q 17 2 Yulyan Vasilev 57.27 18 1 Rafael Vidal 57.33 19 2 Enrique Ledesma 57.35 20 3 Cláudio Kestener 57.65 21 2 Kurt Dittrich 57.71 22 3 Evangelos Koskinas 57.84 23 4 Paulo Frischknecht 57.94 24 5 Marcus Mattioli 57.96 25 3 Andrey Aguilar 58.35 26 5 David Cummins 58.90 27 1 Djamel Yahiouche 28 5 Nguyễn Ðăng Bình 29 4 Raimundo Franisse 30 1 Ibrahim El-Baba 31 2 Mohamed Abdul Wahab 32 3 Linos Petridis 33 1 Marcos Daniel 34 2 Zoë Andrianifaha 4 Mark Tonelli
Semifinals Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 2 Cees Vervoorn 55.02 Q 2 2 Pär Arvidsson 55.05 Q 3 1 David López-Zubero 55.47 Q 4 2 Gary Abraham 55.53 Q 5 1 Yevgeny Seredin 55.62 Q 6 2 Roger Pyttel 55.63 Q 7 1 Xavier Savin 55.67 Q 8 1 Aleksey Markovsky 55.69 Q 9 2 David Lowe 55.81 10 2 Milošlav Roľko 56.16 11 1 Guy Goosen 56.35 12 1 Philip Hubble 56.51 13 2 Sergey Kiselyov 56.52 14 1 Fabrizio Rampazzo 56.76 15 2 Gábor Mészáros 56.89 16 1 Bogusław Zychowicz 57.43
Final Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Pär Arvidsson 54.92 Roger Pyttel 54.94 David López-Zubero 55.13 4 Cees Vervoorn 55.25 5 Yevgeni Seredin 55.35 6 Gary Abraham 55.42 7 Xavier Savin 55.66 8 Aleksei Markovski 55.70
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