Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
Road events
Marathon		men
20 km walk		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Pentathlon				women
Decathlon		men

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.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Allan Wells Great Britain (GBR)	10.25	Silvio Leonard Cuba (CUB)	10.25	Petar Petrov Bulgaria (BUL)	10.42
200 metres	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
10,000 metres	Miruts Yifter Ethiopia (ETH)	27:42.69	Kaarlo Maaninka Finland (FIN)	27:44.28	Mohamed Kedir Ethiopia (ETH)	27:44.64
110 metres hurdles	Thomas Munkelt East Germany (GDR)	13.39	Alejandro Casañas Cuba (CUB)	13.40	Aleksandr Puchkov Soviet Union (URS)	13.44
400 metres hurdles	Volker Beck East Germany (GDR)	48.70	Vasyl Arkhypenko Soviet Union (URS)	48.86	Gary Oakes Great Britain (GBR)	49.11
3000 metres steeplechase	Bronisław Malinowski Poland (POL)	8:09.70	Filbert Bayi Tanzania (TAN)	8:12.48	Eshetu Tura Ethiopia (ETH)	8:13.57
4×100 metres 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 metres relay	Soviet Union (URS) Viktor Markin Remigijus Valiulis Mikhail Linge Nikolay Chernetskiy	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 kilometres 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 kilometres walk	Hartwig Gauder East Germany (GDR)	3:49.24	Jorge Llopart Spain (ESP)	3:51.25	Evgeni Ivchenko Soviet Union (URS)	3:56.32
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
High jump	Gerd Wessig East Germany (GDR)	2.36 m WR	Jacek Wszoła Poland (POL)	2.31 m	Jörg Freimuth East Germany (GDR)	2.31 m
Pole vault	Władysław Kozakiewicz Poland (POL)	5.78 m WR	Konstantin Volkov Soviet Union (URS)  Tadeusz Ślusarski Poland (POL)	5.65 m	none	--
Shot put	Vladimir Kiselyov 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

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 OR	Natalya Bochina Soviet Union (URS)	22.19	Merlene Ottey Jamaica (JAM)	22.20
400 metres	Marita Koch East Germany (GDR)	48.88 OR	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	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 metres hurdles	Vera Komisova Soviet Union (URS)	12.56 OR	Johanna Schaller-Klier East Germany (GDR)	12.63	Lucyna Langer Poland (POL)	12.65
4×100 metres relay	East Germany (GDR) Romy Müller Bärbel Wöckel Ingrid Auerswald Marlies Göhr	41.60 WR	Soviet Union (URS) Vera Komisova Lyudmila Maslakova Vera Anisimova Natalya Bochina	42.10	Great Britain (GBR) Heather Hunte Kathy Smallwood Beverley Goddard Sonia Lannaman	42.43
4×400 metres relay	Soviet Union (URS) Tatyana Prorochenko Tatyana Goyshchik 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 Hartley	3:27.74
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
High jump	Sara Simeoni Italy (ITA)	1.97 m	Urszula Kielan Poland (POL)	1.94 m	Jutta Kirst East Germany (GDR)	1.94 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	Mariya Petkova Bulgaria (BUL)	67.90 m	Tatyana Lesovaya Soviet Union (URS)	67.40 m
Javelin throw	María Caridad Colón 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

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

See also

• 1980 in athletics (track and field)

References

• International Olympic Committee results database
• Athletics Australia