The men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay event at the 1980 Summer Olympics was held on 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 Nation Swimmers Time Notes 1 2 Sergey Rusin (1:52.55)Sergey Krasyuk (1:53.09)Yuri Presekin (1:52.21)Ivar Stukolkin (1:51.54) 7:29.39 Q 2 1 Frank Kühne (1:54.18)Detlev Grabs (1:53.68)Frank Pfütze (1:52.46)Rainer Strohbach (1:52.35) 7:32.67 Q 3 2 Jorge Fernandes (1:53.49)Marcus Mattioli (1:52.76)Cyro Delgado (1:53.20)Djan Madruga (1:53.36) 7:32.81 Q 4 2 Mark Tonelli (1:53.99)Max Metzker (1:54.85)Mark Kerry (1:53.47)Graeme Brewer (1:51.75) 7:34.06 Q 5 2 Michael Söderlund (1:53.16)Per-Alvar Magnusson (1:52.77)Anders Rutqvist (1:54.43)Per-Ola Quist (1:53.98) 7:34.34 Q 6 1 Marc Lazzaro (1:54.19)Dominique Petit (1:55.25)Pascal Lagat (1:53.44)Fabien Noël (1:51.93) 7:34.81 Q 7 1 Federico Silvestri (1:56.74)Raffaele Franceschi (1:53.38)Andrea Ceccarini (1:54.15)Paolo Revelli (1:52.70) 7:36.97 Q 8 1 Douglas Campbell (1:53.99)Mark Taylor (1:55.75)Kevin Lee (1:54.27)Andrew Astbury (1:53.35) 7:37.36 Q 9 2 Daniel Machek (1:55.10)Miloslav Rolko (1:56.42)Petr Adamec (1:55.59)Radek Havel (1:55.07) 7:42.18 10 2 David López-Zubero (1:53.50)Ramón Lavín (1:55.10)Juan Carlos Vallejo (1:57.99)Juan Pablo Barro (1:56.10) 7:42.69 11 1 Cees Vervoorn (1:55.16)Peter Drost (1:56.79)Cees Jan Winkel (1:56.94)Fred Eefting (1:53.96) 7:42.85 12 1 Abdelhakim Bitat (2:03.87)Reda Yadi (2:05.35)Mohamed Bendahmane (2:07.81)Mohamed Halimi (2:06.19) 8:23.22 2 Petar KochanovKrasimir TumanovPetar StoyanovTsvetan Golomeev
Final Rank Nation Swimmers Time Notes Sergey Kopliakov (1:50.00)Vladimir Salnikov (1:51.09)Ivar Stukolkin (1:52.04)Andrey Krylov (1:50.37) 7:23.50 Frank Pfütze (1:52.96)Jörg Woithe (1:51.78)Detlev Grabs (1:52.24)Rainer Strohbach (1:51.62) 7:28.60 Jorge Fernandes (1:52.61)Marcus Mattioli (1:52.94)Cyro Delgado (1:52.35)Djan Madruga (1:51.40) 7:29.30 4 Michael Söderlund (1:52.54)Pelle Wikström (1:52.70)Per-Alvar Magnusson (1:53.01)Thomas Lejdström (1:51.85) 7:30.10 5 Paolo Revelli (1:53.14)Raffaele Franceschi (1:51.56)Andrea Ceccarini (1:54.91)Fabrizio Rampazzo (1:50.76) 7:30.37 6 Douglas Campbell (1:53.56)Philip Hubble (1:52.96)Martin Smith (1:52.69)Andrew Astbury (1:51.60) 7:30.81 7 Graeme Brewer (1:52.57)Mark Tonelli (1:53.47)Mark Kerry (1:52.64)Ron McKeon (1:52.14) 7:30.82 8 Fabien Noël (1:52.73)Marc Lazzaro (1:53.79)Dominique Petit (1:54.88)Pascal Lagat (1:54.68) 7:36.08
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