The men's 400 metre individual medley event at the 1980 Summer Olympics was held on 27 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 27 July Final Aleksandr Sidorenko 4:22.89
Results Heats Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Zoltán Verrasztó 4:25.57 Q 2 1 Leszek Górski 4:26.02 Q 3 3 András Hargitay 4:27.00 Q 4 4 Aleksandr Sidorenko 4:28.02 Q 5 3 Sergey Fesenko 4:28.18 Q 6 3 Daniel Machek 4:28.66 Q 7 2 Djan Madruga 4:28.77 Q 8 2 Miloslav Roľko 4:29.19 Q 9 2 Simon Gray 4:29.43 10 4 Csaba Sós 4:29.69 11 3 Dariusz Wolny 4:31.28 12 1 Ricardo Prado 4:31.69 13 4 Thomas Lejdström 4:33.05 14 2 Giovanni Franceschi 4:33.66 15 3 Vladimir Shemetov 4:34.01 16 2 Paul Moorfoot 4:34.28 17 4 Stephen Poulter 4:35.21 18 3 Franky de Groote 4:36.99 19 3 Guillermo Zavala 4:37.58 20 1 Evangelos Koskinas 4:39.44 21 2 Gary Andersson 4:41.32 22 1 Andrey Aguilar 4:41.74 23 1 Rafael Escalas 4:42.49 4 Jörg Walter DSQ 2 Antonio Monteiro DNS 4 Jean-Marc Carezic 4 Max Metzker
Final Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Aleksandr Sidorenko 4:22.89 OR Sergey Fesenko 4:23.43 Zoltán Verrasztó 4:24.24 4 András Hargitay 4:24.48 5 Djan Madruga 4:26.81 6 Miloslav Roľko 4:26.99 7 Leszek Górski 4:28.89 8 Daniel Machek 4:29.86
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