Swimming at the Friendship Games explained

Swimming at the Friendship Games took place at the Swimming Pool at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex in Moscow, Soviet Union between 19 August and 25 August 1984. 29 events (15 men's and 14 women's) were contested.

Medal summary

Men's events

100 m freestyle50.2650.3950.58
200 m freestyle1:49.831:50.331:51.09
400 m freestyle3:49.273:50.983:53.34
1500 m freestyle15:03.5115:11.1415:25.56
100 m backstroke55.6755.8856.39
200 metre backstroke1:58.41
(WR)
1:59.542:00.30
100 metre breaststroke1:03.721:03.871:05.16
200 metre breaststroke2:15.70 2:16.972:21.19
100 metre butterfly54.2655.08 55.17
200 metre butterfly1:58.831:59.522:00.34
200 metre individual medley2:02.512:03.332:03.35
400 metre individual medley4:18.29 4:25.194:26.29
4×100 m freestyle relay
Sergey Smiriagin
Sergey Kurbatov
Sergey Krasyuk
Aleksey Markovsky
3:20.19
Dirk Richter
Rene Wanzlik
Sven Lodziewski
Reiner Sternal
3:22.92
Jarmil Proněk
Petr Kladiva
Josef Hladký
Marcel Géry
3:27.31
4×200 m freestyle relay
Dirk Richter
Steffen Liess
Reiner Sternal
Sven Lodziewski
7:20.787:22.317:24.78
4×100 m medley relay3:42.15
Dirk Richter
Sigurd Hanke
Tino Ott
Sven Lodziewski
3:43.233:43.25

Women's events

100 m freestyle55.7555.7956.53
200 m freestyle1:59.482:00.152:00.47
400 m freestyle4:07.66 4:09.704:16.21
800 m freestyle8:24.95 8:33.478:39.57
100 m backstroke1:00.991:02.021:03.67
200 m backstroke2:12.562:13.312:15.16
100 m breaststroke1:08.29
(WR)
1:08.591:09.63
200 metre breaststroke2:29.132:29.622:32.36
100 metre butterfly59.411:00.091:01.33
200 m butterfly2:09.962:11.762:12.41
200 m individual medley2:11.79 2:14.562:15.40
400 m individual medley4:43.784:49.494:52.35
4×100 m freestyle relay
Kristin Otto
Caren König
Heike Friedrich
Birgit Meineke
3:42.41
(WR)

Svitlana Kopchykova
Svetlana Didienko
Tatyana Kurnikova
Yelena Dendeberova
3:44.31
Edit Ormos
Katalin Nagy
Ágnes Fodor
Andrea Orosz
3:55.42
4×100 m medley relay
Ina Kleber
Sylvia Gerasch
Ines Geißler
Birgit Meineke
4:03.69
(WR)

Viktoriya Klochko
Larisa Byelokon
Tatyana Kurnikova
Svitlana Kopchykova
4:08.13
Bistra Gospodinova
Tanya Bogomilova
Radosveta Pironkova
Vanja Argirova
4:16.74

World records broken

Five new world records were set.

Women's

Event Name Nationality Result
align=left Women's 100 m backstroke 1:00.59
align=left Women's 100 m breaststroke 1:08.29
align=left Women's 4×100 m freestyle relay Kristin Otto
Caren König
Heike Friedrich
Birgit Meineke
3:42.41
align=left Women's 4×100 m medley relay 4:03.69

See also

References