Liberty Bell Classic

This article is about Liberty Bell Classic (1980). For other alternate Olympic Games due to boycotts, see Olympic Games scandals and controversies. For the baseball tournament, see Liberty Bell Classic (baseball).

The Liberty Bell Classic (often referred to as Olympic Boycott Games) was an event held at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia on July 16 and 17, 1980, by 29 of the boycotting countries of the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics as an alternative to the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. It began on July 16, shortly before the 1980 Summer Olympics opened on July 19. In some events, the times were better than those in Moscow, such as American Renaldo Nehemiah's time of 13.31 in the 110m hurdles ahead of East German gold medal winner Thomas Munkelt's time of 13.39. Earlier in the year, the United States had previously considered holding other games in Côte d'Ivoire, Italy, Japan, West Germany or China.^[1] A similar event was held in 1984 by boycotting countries of the 1984 Summer Olympics, called the Friendship Games. However, many of the 140 nations that took part in the 1984 Olympics also took part in the Friendship Games. In turn, the Friendship games led to the birth of the Ted Turner financed Goodwill Games in 1986.

Participating countries

29 countries participated in the event, many of them having taken part in the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics, including:

Medal summary

Athletics

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 meters	Mel Lattany United States (USA)	10.31	Harvey Glance United States (USA)	10.31	Willie Gault United States (USA)	10.33
200 meters	James Butler United States (USA)	20.65	Fred Taylor United States (USA)	20.66	Desai Williams Canada (CAN)	20.92
400 meters	Billy Konchellah Kenya (KEN)	45.59	Hassan El Kachief Sudan (SUD)	45.60	Bill Green United States (USA)	45.79
800 meters	Don Paige United States (USA)	1:47.19	Omer Khalifa Sudan (SUD)	1:47.27	Randy Wilson United States (USA)	1:48.03
1500 meters	Steve Scott United States (USA)	3:40.19	Omer Khalifa Sudan (SUD)	3:40.34	Mike Durkin United States (USA)	3:41.40
5000 meters	Kip Rono Kenya (KEN)	13:37.52	Hillary Tuwei Kenya (KEN)	13:45.77	Greg Duhaime Canada (CAN)	13:45.77
110 meter hurdles	Renaldo Nehemiah United States (USA)	13.31	Tonie Campbell United States (USA)	13.68	Hans-Gerd Klein West Germany (FRG)	13.94
400 meter hurdles	James Walker United States (USA)	48.6	David Lee United States (USA)	49.1	Bart Williams United States (USA)	50.0
4×100 meter relay	United States (USA)	38.61	Canada (CAN)	39.54	Thailand (THA)	41.29
4×400 meter relay	United States (USA)	3:03.20	Kenya (KEN)	3:05.72	Sudan (SUD)	3:04.76
High jump	Benn Fields United States (USA)	2.26 m	Nat Page United States (USA)	2.26 m	Dietmar Mögenburg West Germany (FRG) Carlo Thränhardt West Germany (FRG)	2.22 m
Long jump	Larry Myricks United States (USA)	8.20 m	Larry Doubley United States (USA)	7.95 m	Carl Lewis United States (USA)	7.77 m
Triple jump	Zhou Zhenxian China (CHN)	16.90 m	Greg Caldwell United States (USA)	16.75 m	Steve Hanna Bahamas (BAH)	16.42 m
Pole vault	Tom Hintnaus United States (USA)	5.50 m	Steve Lawry United States (USA)	5.33 m	Zhang Cheng China (CHN)	5.18 m
Shot put	Youssef Nagui Asaad Egypt (EGY)	19.69 m	Ian Pyka United States (USA)	19.58 m	only two competitors entered
Discus throw	Ben Plucknett United States (USA)	61.46 m	Al Oerter United States (USA)	60.76 m	Alwin Wagner West Germany (FRG)	59.48 m
Javelin throw	Shen Maomao China (CHN)	89.12 m	Tom Petranoff United States (USA)	84.56 m	Gheorghe Megelea Canada (CAN)	79.24 m
Hammer throw	Scott Neilson Canada (CAN)	72.62 m	Boris Djerassi United States (USA)	71.34 m	Andy Bessette United States (USA)	69.08 m
Decathlon	Bobby Coffman United States (USA)	8058	Lee Palles United States (USA)	8009	Wang Kangqiang China (CHN)	7015

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 meters	Chandra Cheeseborough United States (USA)	11.27	Jeanette Bolden United States (USA)	11.41	Karen Hawkins United States (USA)	11.43
200 meters	Angella Taylor Canada (CAN)	22.77	Chandra Cheeseborough United States (USA)	22.84	Karen Hawkins United States (USA)	23.41
400 meters	Gwen Gardner United States (USA)	52.04	Charmaine Crooks Canada (CAN)	52.33	Roberta Belle United States (USA)	52.34
800 meters	Yvonne Mondesire Canada (CAN)	2:02.34	Robin Campbell United States (USA)	2:02.53	Ann Mackie-Morelli Canada (CAN)	2:02.63
1500 meters	Mary Decker United States (USA)	4:00.87	Julie Brown United States (USA)	4:10.37	Francie Larrieu United States (USA)	4:10.39
100 meter hurdles	Stephanie Hightower United States (USA)	13.08	Benita Fitzgerald United States (USA)	13.17	Esther Rot Israel (ISR)	13.20
4×100 meter relay	United States (USA)	44.57	West Germany (FRG)	45.26	Thailand (THA)	46.90
4×400 meter relay	United States (USA)	3:32.69	Canada (CAN)	3:33.50
High jump	Zheng Dazhen China (CHN)	1.92 m	Brigitte Reid Canada (CAN)	1.84 m	Paula Girven United States (USA)	1.80 m
Long jump	Kathy McMillan United States (USA)	6.65 m	Carol Lewis United States (USA)	6.60 m	Shonel Ferguson Bahamas (BAH)	6.48 m
Shot put	Shen Lijuan China (CHN)	17.09 m (OR)	Ann Turbyne United States (USA)	16.24 m	Lu Cheng China (CHN)	15.98 m
Discus throw	Xie Jianhua China (CHN)	56.56 m	Lucette Moreau Canada (CAN)	55.20 m	Lorna Griffin United States (USA)	53.52 m
Javelin throw	Laurie Kern Canada (CAN)	57.42 m	Tang Guoli China (CHN)	55.30 m	Li Baolian China (CHN)	54.94 m
Pentathlon	Diane Konihowski Canada (CAN)	4640	Marlene Harmon United States (USA)	4346	Linda Waltman United States (USA)	4314

References

↑ Secret US plot to steal Moscow's Olympic flame, Daily Telegraph

External links

Olympic Games scandals and controversies

Boycotts	1936 1956 1964 1976 1980 1984 1988

Alternative competitions	Intercalated Games (1906) People's Olympiad (1936) Games of the New Emerging Forces (1963) Liberty Bell Classic (1980) Friendship Games (1984) Goodwill Games (1986–2001)

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