Home / Select a different event
Date: 26 July 1980 / 26 July 1980
Heats
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Robertas Zhulpa | URS | 2:15.85 |
| 2 | Alban Vermes | HUN | 2:16.93 |
| 3 | Arsen Miskarov | URS | 2:17.28 |
| 4 | Gennadi Utenkov | URS | 2:19.64 |
| 5 | Lindsay Spencer | AUS | 2:19.68 |
| 6 | Duncan Goodhew | GBR | 2:20.92 |
| 7 | Peter Berggren | SWE | 2:21.39 |
| 8 | Joerg Walter | GDR | 2:22.39 |
| Heats | |||
| 9 | Pablo Restrepo | COL | 2:23.74 |
| 10 | Janos Dzvonyar | HUN | 2:24.43 |
| 11 | Glen Christiansen | SWE | 2:26.00 |
| 12 | Peter Evans | AUS | 2:26.62 |
| 13 | Gustavo Torrijos | ESP | 2:26.96 |
| 14 | Albert Boonstra | NED | 2:27.21 |
| 15 | Helmunt Levy | COL | 2:27.94 |
| 16 | Martti Jarventaus | FIN | 2:28.04 |
| 17 | Andrey Aguilar | CRC | 2:33.19 |
| 18 | Doung Tai Tran | VIE | 2:38.52 |
| 19 | Djamel Yahiouche | ALG | 2:41.65 |
| Disqualified | |||
| Miguel Santisteban | MEX | ||