Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics

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Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics was represented by 38 events. They were held in the Grand Arena of the Central Lenin Stadium at Luzhniki (south-western part of Moscow) between July 24 and August 1. There were a total number of 959 participating athletes from 70 countries.

Contents 1 Medal summary 1.1 Men's events 1.2 Women's events 2 Medal table 3 See also 4 References

[edit] Medal summary

[edit] Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres Details	Allan Wells Great Britain (GBR)	10.25	Silvio Leonard Cuba (CUB)	10.25	Petar Petrov Bulgaria (BUL)	10.42
200 metres Details	Pietro Mennea Italy (ITA)	20.19	Allan Wells Great Britain (GBR)	20.21	Don Quarrie Jamaica (JAM)	20.29
400 metres	Viktor Markin Soviet Union (URS)	44.60	Rick Mitchell Australia (AUS)	44.84	Frank Schaffer East Germany (GDR)	44.87
800 metres	Steve Ovett Great Britain (GBR)	1:45.40	Sebastian Coe Great Britain (GBR)	1:45.85	Nikolay Kirov Soviet Union (URS)	1:45.94
1500 metres	Sebastian Coe Great Britain (GBR)	3:38.40	Jürgen Straub East Germany (GDR)	3:38.80	Steve Ovett Great Britain (GBR)	3:38.99
5000 metres	Miruts Yifter Ethiopia (ETH)	13:20.91	Suleiman Nyambui Tanzania (TAN)	13:21.60	Kaarlo Maaninka Finland (FIN)	13:22.00
10000 metres	Miruts Yifter Ethiopia (ETH)	27:42.69	Kaarlo Maaninka Finland (FIN)	27:44.28	Mohamed Kedir Ethiopia (ETH)	27:44.64
100 metre hurdles	Thomas Munkelt East Germany (GDR)	13.39	Alejandro Casanas Cuba (CUB)	13.40	Aleksandr Puchkov Soviet Union (URS)	13.44
400 metre hurdles	Volker Beck East Germany (GDR)	48.70	Vasili Arkhipenko Soviet Union (URS)	48.86	Gary Oakes Great Britain (GBR)	49.11
3000 metre steeplechase	Bronislaw Malinowski Poland (POL)	8:09.70	Filbert Bayi Tanzania (TAN)	8:12.48	Eshetu Tura Ethiopia (ETH)	8:13.57
4×100 metre relay	Soviet Union (URS) Vladimir Muravyov Nikolay Sidorov Andrey Prokofyev Aleksandr Aksinin	38.26	Poland (POL) Zenon Licznerski Leszek Dunecki Marian Woronin Krzysztof Zwoliński	38.33	France (FRA) Patrick Barre Pascal Barre Hermann Panzo Antoine Richard	38.53
4×400 metre relay	Soviet Union (URS) Viktor Markin Remigijus Valiulis Mikhail Linge Nikolay Chernetsky	3:01.08	East Germany (GDR) Klaus Thiele Andreas Knebel Frank Schaffer Volker Beck	3:01.26	Italy (ITA) Roberto Tozzi Mauro Zuliani Stefano Malinverni Pietro Mennea	3:04.54
Marathon	Waldemar Cierpinski East Germany (GDR)	2:11:03	Gerard Nijboer Netherlands (NED)	2:11:20	Setymkul Dzhumanazarov Soviet Union (URS)	2:11:35
20 km walk	Maurizio Damilano Italy (ITA)	1:23:35.5	Piotr Pochinchuk Soviet Union (URS)	1:25:45.4	Roland Wieser East Germany (GDR)	1:25:58.2
50 km walk	Hartwig Gauder East Germany (GDR)	3:49.24	Jorge Llopart Ribas Spain (ESP)	3:51.25	Evgeni Ivchenko Soviet Union (URS)	3:56.32
High jump	Gerd Wessig East Germany (GDR)	2.36 m WR	Jacek Wszola Poland (POL)	2.31 m	Jörg Freimuth East Germany (GDR)	2.31 m
Long jump	Lutz Dombrowski East Germany (GDR)	8.54 m	Frank Paschek East Germany (GDR)	8.21 m	Valeriy Podluzhniy Soviet Union (URS)	8.18 m
Triple jump	Jaak Uudmäe Soviet Union (URS)	17.35 m	Viktor Saneev Soviet Union (URS)	17.24 m	João Carlos de Oliveira Brazil (BRA)	17.22 m
Pole vault	Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz Poland (POL)	5.78 m WR	Konstantin Volkov Soviet Union (URS)	5.65 m	Tadeusz Slusarski Poland (POL)	5.65 m
Shot put	Vladimir Kiselev Soviet Union (URS)	21.35 m	Aleksandr Baryshnikov Soviet Union (URS)	21.08 m	Udo Beyer East Germany (GDR)	21.06 m
Discus throw	Viktor Rashchupkin Soviet Union (URS)	66.64 m	Imrich Bugár Czechoslovakia (TCH)	66.38 m	Luis Delís Cuba (CUB)	66.32 m
Javelin throw	Dainis Kūla Soviet Union (URS)	91.20 m	Aleksandr Makarov Soviet Union (URS)	89.64 m	Wolfgang Hanisch East Germany (GDR)	86.72 m
Hammer throw	Yuriy Sedykh Soviet Union (URS)	81.80 m WR	Sergey Litvinov Soviet Union (URS)	80.64 m	Jüri Tamm Soviet Union (URS)	78.96 m
Decathlon	Daley Thompson Great Britain (GBR)	8495	Yuriy Kutsenko Soviet Union (URS)	8331	Sergey Zhelanov Soviet Union (URS)	8315

[edit] Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Lyudmila Kondratyeva Soviet Union (URS)	11.06	Marlies Göhr East Germany (GDR)	11.07	Ingrid Auerswald East Germany (GDR)	11.14
200 metres	Bärbel Wöckel East Germany (GDR)	22.03	Natalia Bochina Soviet Union (URS)	22.19	Merlene Ottey Jamaica (JAM)	22.20
400 metres	Marita Koch East Germany (GDR)	48.60	Jarmila Kratochvílová Czechoslovakia (TCH)	49.46	Christina Lathan East Germany (GDR)	49.66
800 metres	Nadezhda Olizarenko Soviet Union (URS)	1:53.43 WR	Olga Mineeva Soviet Union (URS)	1:54.81	Tatyana Providokhina Soviet Union (URS)	1:55.46
1500 metres Details	Tatyana Kazankina Soviet Union (URS)	3:56.56 OR	Christiane Wartenberg East Germany (GDR)	3:57.71	Nadezhda Olizarenko Soviet Union (URS)	3:59.52
100 metre hurdles	Vera Komisova Soviet Union (URS)	12.56	Johanna Schaller-Klier East Germany (GDR)	12.63	Lucyna Langer Poland (POL)	12.65
4×100 metre relay	East Germany (GDR) Romy Müller Bärbel Wöckel Ingrid Auerswald Marlies Göhr	41.60 WR	Soviet Union (URS) Vera Komisova Liudmila Zharkova-Maslakova Vera Anisimova Natalia Bochina	42.10	Great Britain (GBR) Heather Hunte Kathy Smallwood-Cook Beverley Goddard Sonia Lannaman	42.43
4×400 metre relay	Soviet Union (URS) Tatyana Prorochenko Tatyana Goishchik Nina Ziuskova Irina Nazarova	3:20.12	East Germany (GDR) Barbara Krug Gabriele Löwe Christina Lathan Marita Koch	3:20.35	Great Britain (GBR) Linsey MacDonald Michelle Probert Joslyn Hoyte-Smith Donna-Marie Hartley	3:27.74
High jump	Sara Simeoni Italy (ITA)	1.97 m	Urszula Kielan Poland (POL)	1.94 m	Jutta Kirst East Germany (GDR)	1.94 m
Long jump	Tatyana Kolpakova Soviet Union (URS)	7.06 m	Brigitte Wujak East Germany (GDR)	7.04 m	Tatyana Skachko Soviet Union (URS)	7.01 m
Shot put	Ilona Schoknecht-Slupianek East Germany (GDR)	22.41 m (OR)	Svetlana Krachevskaia Soviet Union (URS)	21.42 m	Margitta Droese-Pufe East Germany (GDR)	21.20 m
Discus throw	Evelin Jahl East Germany (GDR)	69.96 m	Maria Vergova-Petkova Bulgaria (BUL)	67.90 m	Tatyana Lesovaya Soviet Union (URS)	67.40 m
Javelin throw	Maria Colon Cuba (CUB)	68.40 m	Saida Gunba Soviet Union (URS)	67.76 m	Ute Hommola East Germany (GDR)	66.56 m
Pentathlon	Nadezhda Tkachenko Soviet Union (URS)	5083 WR	Olga Rukavishnikova Soviet Union (URS)	4937	Olga Kuragina Soviet Union (URS)	4875

[edit] Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	15	14	12	41
2	East Germany (GDR)	11	8	10	29
3	Great Britain (GBR)	4	2	4	10
4	Italy (ITA)	3	0	1	4
5	Poland (POL)	2	4	1	7
6	Ethiopia (ETH)	2	0	2	4
7	Cuba (CUB)	1	2	1	4
8	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	2	0	2
	Tanzania (TAN)	0	2	0	2
10	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	1	1	2
	Finland (FIN)	0	1	1	2
12	Australia (AUS)	0	1	0	1
	Netherlands (NED)	0	1	0	1
	Spain (ESP)	0	1	0	1
15	Jamaica (JAM)	0	0	2	2
16	Brazil (BRA)	0	0	1	1
	France (FRA)	0	0	1	1

[edit] See also

• 1980 in athletics (track and field)

[edit] References

• International Olympic Committee results database
• Athletics Australia

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