Swimming at the Friendship Games

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

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Men's events

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 m freestyle   Sergey Smiriagin (URS) 50.26   Aleksey Markovsky (URS) 50.39   Sven Lodziewski (GDR) 50.58
200 m freestyle   Sven Lodziewski (GDR) 1:49.83   Vladimir Shemetov (URS) 1:50.33   Sergey Krasyuk (URS) 1:51.09
400 m freestyle   Vladimir Salnikov (URS) 3:49.27   Sven Lodziewski (GDR) 3:50.98   Sviatoslav Semenov (URS) 3:53.34
1500 m freestyle   Vladimir Salnikov (URS) 15:03.51   Uwe Dassler (GDR) 15:11.14   Sviatoslav Semenov (URS) 15:25.56
100 m backstroke   Dirk Richter (GDR) 55.67   Vladimir Shemetov (URS) 55.88   Frank Baltrusch (GDR) 56.39
200 metre backstroke   Sergei Zabolotnov (URS) 1:58.41
(WR)
  Vladimir Shemetov (URS) 1:59.54   Dirk Richter (GDR) 2:00.30
100 metre breaststroke   Dmitry Volkov (URS) 1:03.72   Robertas Žulpa (URS) 1:03.87   Sigurd Hanke (GDR) 1:05.16
200 metre breaststroke   Robertas Žulpa (URS) 2:15.70   Dmitry Volkov (URS) 2:16.97   Albán Vermes (HUN) 2:21.19
100 metre butterfly   Aleksey Markovsky (URS) 54.26   Alexandr Prigoda (URS) 55.08   Marcel Géry (TCH) 55.17
200 metre butterfly   Alexandr Prigoda (URS) 1:58.83   Sergey Fesenko, Sr. (URS) 1:59.52   Marcel Géry (TCH) 2:00.34
200 metre individual medley   Jens-Peter Berndt (GDR) 2:02.51   Josef Hladký (TCH) 2:03.33   Aleksandr Sidorenko (URS) 2:03.35
400 metre individual medley   Jens-Peter Berndt (GDR) 4:18.29   Sergey Pichugin (URS) 4:25.19   Josef Hladký (TCH) 4:26.29
4×100 m freestyle relay   Soviet Union (URS)
Sergey Smiriagin
Sergey Kurbatov
Sergey Krasyuk
Aleksey Markovsky
3:20.19   East Germany (GDR)
Dirk Richter
Rene Wanzlik
Sven Lodziewski
Reiner Sternal
3:22.92   Czechoslovakia (TCH)
Jarmil Proněk
Petr Kladiva
Josef Hladký
Marcel Géry
3:27.31
4×200 m freestyle relay   East Germany (GDR)
Dirk Richter
Steffen Liess
Reiner Sternal
Sven Lodziewski
7:20.78   Soviet Union (URS)
Vladimir Shemetov
Andrei Liashenko
Vladimir Salnikov
Sergey Krasyuk
7:22.31   Czechoslovakia (TCH)
Martin Dvořák
Petr Kladiva
Josef Hladký
Marcel Géry
7:24.78
4×100 m medley relay   Soviet Union (URS)
Vladimir Shemetov
Dmitry Volkov
Aleksey Markovsky
Sergey Smiriagin
3:42.15   East Germany (GDR)
Dirk Richter
Sigurd Hanke
Tino Ott
Sven Lodziewski
3:43.23   Czechoslovakia (TCH)
Josef Hladký
Petr Matoušek
Petr Kladiva
Marcel Géry
3:43.25

Women's events

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 m freestyle   Kristin Otto (GDR) 55.75   Birgit Meineke (GDR) 55.79   Svitlana Kopchykova (URS) 56.53
200 m freestyle   Kristin Otto (GDR) 1:59.48   Birgit Meineke (GDR) 2:00.15   Svitlana Kopchykova (URS) 2:00.47
400 m freestyle   Astrid Strauss (GDR) 4:07.66   Irina Laricheva (URS) 4:09.70   Anke Sonnenbrodt (GDR) 4:16.21
800 m freestyle   Astrid Strauss (GDR) 8:24.95   Grit Richter (GDR) 8:33.47   Irina Laricheva (URS) 8:39.57
100 m backstroke   Ina Kleber (GDR) 1:00.99   Kristin Otto (GDR) 1:02.02   Viktoriya Klochko (URS) 1:03.67
200 m backstroke   Katrin Zimmermann (GDR) 2:12.56   Yelena Dendeberova (URS) 2:13.31   Kristin Otto (GDR) 2:15.16
100 m breaststroke   Sylvia Gerasch (GDR) 1:08.29
(WR)
  Ute Geweniger (GDR) 1:08.59   Larisa Byelokon (URS) 1:09.63
200 metre breaststroke   Larisa Byelokon (URS) 2:29.13   Sylvia Gerasch (GDR) 2:29.62   Yelena Volkova (URS) 2:32.36
100 metre butterfly   Tatyana Kurnikova (URS) 59.41   Ines Geißler (GDR) 1:00.09   Yelena Osadchuk (URS) 1:01.33
200 m butterfly   Ines Geißler (GDR) 2:09.96   Yelena Osadchuk (URS) 2:11.76   Tatyana Kurnikova (URS) 2:12.41
200 m individual medley   Ute Geweniger (GDR) 2:11.79   Yelena Dendeberova (URS) 2:14.56   Svitlana Kopchykova (URS) 2:15.40
400 m individual medley   Yelena Dendeberova (URS) 4:43.78   Kathleen Nord (GDR) 4:49.49   Sonia Blagova (BUL) 4:52.35
4×100 m freestyle relay   East Germany (GDR)
Kristin Otto
Caren König
Heike Friedrich
Birgit Meineke
3:42.41
(WR)
  Soviet Union (URS)
Svitlana Kopchykova
Svetlana Didienko
Tatyana Kurnikova
Yelena Dendeberova
3:44.31   Hungary (HUN)
Edit Ormos
Katalin Nagy
Ágnes Fodor
Andrea Orosz
3:55.42
4×100 m medley relay   East Germany (GDR)
Ina Kleber
Sylvia Gerasch
Ines Geißler
Birgit Meineke
4:03.69
(WR)
  Soviet Union (URS)
Viktoriya Klochko
Larisa Byelokon
Tatyana Kurnikova
Svitlana Kopchykova
4:08.13   Bulgaria (BUL)
Bistra Gospodinova
Tanya Bogomilova
Radosveta Pironkova
Vanja Argirova
4:16.74

World records broken

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Five new world records were set.

Men's

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Event Name Nationality Result
Men's 200 metre backstroke Sergei Zabolotnov   Soviet Union 1:58.41

Women's

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Event Name Nationality Result
Women's 100 m backstroke Ina Kleber   East Germany 1:00.59
Women's 100 m breaststroke Sylvia Gerasch   East Germany 1:08.29
Women's 4×100 m freestyle relay Kristin Otto
Caren König
Heike Friedrich
Birgit Meineke
  East Germany 3:42.41
Women's 4×100 m medley relay Ina Kleber
Sylvia Gerasch
Ines Geißler
Birgit Meineke
  East Germany 4:03.69

Medal table

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  *   Host nation (Soviet Union)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  East Germany (GDR)1612634
2  Soviet Union (URS)*13161342
3  Czechoslovakia (TCH)0167
4  Bulgaria (BUL)0022
  Hungary (HUN)0022
Totals (5 entries)29292987

See also

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References

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  • Chmielewski, Zbigniew; et al. (1987). Na olimpijskim szlaku 1984. Sarajewo, Los Angeles (in Polish). Warsaw: Sport i Turystyka. pp. 173–174, 216–218. ISBN 83-217-2610-0.
  • Trzciński, Tomasz; et al. (1985). Gwiazdy sportu '84 (in Polish). Warsaw: Krajowa Agencja Wydawnicza. pp. 89–91. ISBN 83-03-01177-4.