Editing 1980 Summer Olympics (section)

===Swimming===
{{Main|Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics}}
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-W0727-138, Moskau, Olympiade, Siegerinnen über 200 m Rücken.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Rica Reinisch]] with her gold medal in 200 m swimming.]]
* [[Vladimir Salnikov]] (USSR) won three gold medals in swimming. He became the first man in history to break the 15-minute barrier in the 1500 metre freestyle, swimming's equivalent of breaking the four-minute mile. He missed the 1984 Games because of the boycott but won gold again in this event at Seoul 1988.
* Salnikov also won gold in the 4 × 200 m relay and the 400m freestyle. In the 400m freestyle, he set a new Olympic record which was just eleven-hundredths of a second outside his own world record.
* In the Montreal final of the 400m freestyle, the seventh and eighth place finalists finished in over four minutes. In Moscow sixteen swimmers finished in under four minutes and eight of them did not make the final.
* [[Duncan Goodhew]] of Great Britain won the 100 metres breaststroke.
* Sweden's [[Bengt Baron]] won gold in the 100 meter backstroke.
* In the men's 4 × 100 metres medley relay, each of the eight teams taking part in the final broke its country's national record.
* The first Australian gold since 1972 came in the 4 × 100 men's medley relay,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://aso.gov.au/titles/spoken-word/gold-gold-gold-4-x-100-metres/|title=Norman May on australianscreen online|access-date=3 March 2011}}</ref> with [[Neil Brooks]] swimming the final leg, the Australians swam the second-fastest time in history.
* East German women dominated the swimming events, winning nine of eleven individual titles, both the relays and setting 6 world records. They also won all three medals in six different races. In total they won 26 of the available 35 medals. As it was revealed later, their results were aided by the [[Doping in sport#East Germany (the GDR)|state-sponsored doping system]].
* [[Barbara Krause]] (East Germany) became the first woman to go under 55 seconds for the 100 m freestyle.
* Backstroker [[Rica Reinisch]] (East Germany) was 20th in the world rankings for 100m in 1979 and not in the top 100 for the 200 m. At the Olympics she broke the world records in both distances winning golds.
* In the 100m butterfly, [[Caren Metschuck]] (East Germany) beats her more experienced teammate [[Andrea Pollack]] to win gold.
* [[Petra Schneider]] (East Germany) shaved three seconds off the world record in the 400m medley.
* As in Montreal, the Soviet women made a clean sweep of the medals in the 200m breaststroke. The title in this event was won by [[Lina Kačiušytė]].
* [[Michelle Ford]] (Australia) won the 800m freestyle more than four seconds ahead of her East German rivals.
* In swimming, 230 national, 22 Olympic and ten World records were set.
* The youngest male gold medallist of these Olympics was Hungarian backstroke swimmer [[Sándor Wladár]] at 17 years old.