1980 Summer Olympics / Athletics

Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics
information
venue	Moscow
Competition venue	Lenin Central Stadium
Nations	70
Athletes	960 (694 , 266 )
date	July 24th to August 1st, 1980
decisions	38
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At the XXII. At the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow , 38 competitions - 24 of them for men and 14 for women - were held in athletics . The venue was the Central Lenin Stadium .

Balance sheet

Medal tables

space	country				total
1	Soviet Union	15th	14th	12	41
2	GDR	11	8th	10	29
3	Great Britain	4th	2	4th	10
4th	Italy	3	-	1	4th
5	Poland	2	4th	1	7th
6th	Ethiopia	2	-	2	4th
7th	Cuba	1	2	1	4th
8th	Czechoslovakia	-	2	-	2
	Tanzania	-	2	-	2
10	Bulgaria	-	1	1	2
	Finland	-	1	1	2
12	Australia	-	1	-	1
	Netherlands	-	1	-	1
	Spain	-	1	-	1
15th	Jamaica	-	-	2	2
16	Brazil	-	-	1	1
	France	-	-	1	1
total		38	39	37	114
Two bronze medals were awarded in the men's pole vault.

Participant and boycott

In numerous previous Olympic Games, too, there had repeatedly been nations that wanted to set an example by refusing to participate. At these games in Moscow, however, the boycott took on an extent never seen before. Detailed information can be found in the general section on the 1980 Olympic Games .

As in many other sports, the boycott meant that numerous favorites and world-class athletes were not at the start. The athletes from the United States were particularly absent, of course. There were also no athletes from the Federal Republic of Germany in Moscow. The fact that some nations are not under their national flag but under a neutral IOC flag is also noticeable in the results overviews. This seems a bit unusual for these countries, but was only the case for these 1980 games.

Stadion

The central Lenin Stadium was built in 1956 and was used for a wide variety of sports such as football, athletics, ice hockey and the like. a. The sports facility was rebuilt and modernized for the 1980s games in order to meet the growing demands. As is now customary, eight lanes were available so that eight participants could take part in the finals. This was also practiced in the throwing disciplines as well as in the long jump and triple jump for the last three finals.

measuring technology

The use of electronic measuring instruments had meanwhile become standard, both for the times of the runners and the distances achieved in jumping and throwing. The running and walking times were officially given in hundredths of a second, except for routes of more than ten kilometers. In the discus , hammer and javelin throw , the distance achieved was rounded to a fifth of a centimeter as before. In the record and best lists, the restriction to purely electronically determined values, which were given with two decimal places, prevailed. That had a very positive effect on a certain mess in the sprint courses .

Competitions

There were two changes to the competition offer: the 50 km walk , which was canceled at the 1976 Olympic Games , was reinstated in the program. As in 1948, there were two walking distances here in Moscow , which were carried out on the street as usual. However, walking was still reserved for men only. The second change concerned the women's pentathlon . There, the 200-meter run was replaced by the 800-meter run in order to emphasize the versatility of this all-around event even more.

In the women's disciplines, there were numerous other additions for the future. Her longest running competition was still the 1,500 meter run . That should change from 1984 . From then on, additional longer distances were gradually added to the Olympic program and also in the jumps, throws, in walking and in all-around competitions, there should be a gradual adjustment to the competition catalog for men.

Sporting successes

The level of performance at these Olympic Games was significantly impaired by the boycott-related absence of numerous top athletes. Nevertheless, six world records were set in six disciplines . The Olympic record was improved twelve times in a further twelve disciplines .

The USA , the most successful nation in all games with the exception of 1972 and 1976, was not there. The host Soviet Union presented itself as the most successful country with fifteen Olympic athletics victories. The GDR was able to record eleven Olympic victories and thus took second place in this category. All other nations followed far behind. Great Britain won four gold medals, Italy three and the athletes from Poland and Ethiopia each had two Olympic champions. For all other nations there was at most one gold medal in athletics.

Three athletes won two gold medals in athletics at these games:

• Miruts Yifter ( Ethiopia ) - Gold: 5000 meter and 10,000 meter run
• Bärbel Wöckel ( GDR ) - Gold: 200-meter run and 4-by-100-meter relay with a world record over 4 × 100 m. She repeated her Olympic victory over 200 meters from the previous Olympic Games - at that time under the name Bärbel Eckert. No other athlete had succeeded before her.
• Victor Markin ( Soviet Union ) - Gold: 400-meter run and 4-by-400-meter relay

There was a gold and a silver medal for the following five athletes:

• Sebastian Coe ( Great Britain ) - Gold: 1500-meter run and Silver: 800-meter run
• Allan Wells ( Great Britain ) - Gold: 100-meter run and Silver: 200-meter run . He also reached fourth place with the British 4 x 100 meter relay .
• Marita Koch ( GDR ) - Gold: 400-meter run and silver: 4 x 400-meter relay
• Marlies Göhr ( GDR ) - Gold: 4 x 100 meter relay and silver: 100 meter run
• Vera Komissowa ( Soviet Union ) - Gold: 100-meter hurdles and silver: 4-by-100-meter relay

Three other athletes won a gold and a bronze medal each:

• Nadija Olisarenko ( Soviet Union ) - Gold: 800-meter run and Bronze: 1500-meter run
• Steve Ovett ( Great Britain ) - Gold: 800-meter run and Bronze: 1500-meter run
• Ingrid Auerswald ( GDR ) - Gold: 4 x 100 meter relay and bronze: 100 meter run

In addition, other services deserve special mention:

• The Soviet triple jumper Viktor Saneyev added a silver triple jump to his three gold medals from 1968 to 1976.
• Waldemar Cierpinski ( GDR ) repeated his Olympic victory in the marathon . Before him, only the Ethiopian Abebe Bikila had succeeded, who won this longest running competition in 1960 and 1964 .

Results men

100 m

→ Main article : 1980 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 100 m (men)

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Allan Wells	GBR	10.25
2	Silvio Leonard	CUB	10.25
3	Petar Petrov	BUL	10.39
4th	Alexandr Aksinin	URS	10.42
5	Osvaldo Lara	CUB	10.43
6th	Vladimir Muravyov	URS	10.44
7th	Marian Voronin	POLE	10.46
8th	Hermann Panzo	FRA	10.49

Final on July 25th

200 m

→ Main article : 1980 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 200 m (men)

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Pietro Mennea	ITA	20.19
2	Allan Wells	GBR	20.21
3	Donald Quarrie	JAM	20.29
4th	Silvio Leonard	CUB	20.30
5	Bernhard Hoff	GDR	20.50
6th	Leszek Dunecki	POLE	20.68
7th	Marian Voronin	POLE	20.81
8th	Osvaldo Lara	CUB	21.19

Final on July 28th

400 m

→ Main article : 1980 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 400 m (men)

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Viktor Markin	URS	44.60
2	Rick Mitchell	OUT	44.84
3	Frank Schaffer	GDR	44.87
4th	Alberto Juantorena	CUB	45.09
5	Alfons Brijdenbach	BEL	45.10
6th	Mike Solomon	TTO	45.55
7th	David Jenkins	GBR	45.56
8th	Joseph Coombs	TTO	46.33

Final on July 30th

800 m

→ Main article : 1980 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 800 m (men)

space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Steve Ovett	GBR	1: 45.40
2	Sebastian Coe	GBR	1: 45.85
3	Mikalaj Kirau	URS	1: 45.94
4th	Agberto Guimarães	BRA	1: 46.20
5	Andreas Busse	GDR	1: 46.81
6th	Detlef Wagenknecht	GDR	1: 46.91
7th	José Marajo	FRA	1: 47.26
8th	David Warren	GBR	1: 49.25

Final on July 26th

1500 m

→ Main article : 1980 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 1500 m (men)

space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Sebastian Coe	GBR	3: 38.40
2	Jürgen Straub	GDR	3: 38.80
3	Steve Ovett	GBR	3: 38.99
4th	Andreas Busse	GDR	3: 40.17
5	Vittorio Fontanella	ITA	3: 40.37
6th	Jozef Plachý	TCH	3: 40.66
7th	José Marajo	FRA	3: 41.48
8th	Steve Cram	GBR	3: 41.98

Final on August 1st

5000 m

→ Main article : 1980 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 5000 m (men)

space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Miruts Yifter	ETH	13: 20.91
2	Suleiman Nyambui	TAN	13: 21.60
3	Kaarlo Maaninka	FIN	13: 22.00
4th	Eamonn Coghlan	IRL	13: 22.74
5	Markus Ryffel	SUI	13: 23.03
6th	Dietmar Millonig	AUT	13: 23.25
7th	John Treacy	IRL	13: 23.62
8th	Alyaksandr Fjadotkin	URS	13: 24.10

Final on August 1st

10,000 m

→ Main article : 1980 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 10,000 m (men)

space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Miruts Yifter	ETH	27: 42.69
2	Kaarlo Maaninka	FIN	27: 44.28
3	Mohamed Kedir	ETH	27: 44.64
4th	Tolossa Kotu	ETH	27: 46.47
5	Let Virén	FIN	27: 50.46
6th	Jörg Peter	GDR	28: 05.53
7th	Werner Schildhauer	GDR	28: 10.91
8th	Enn Sellik	URS	28: 13.72

Final on July 27th

marathon

→ Main article : 1980 Summer Olympics / Athletics - marathon (men)

space	athlete	country	Time (h)
1	Waldemar Cierpinski	GDR	2:11:03
2	Gerard Nijboer	NED	2:11:20
3	Satymkul Jumanasarov	URS	2:11:35
4th	Uladsimir Kowtow	URS	2:12:05
5	Leonid Mossejew	URS	2:12:14
6th	Rodolfo Gomez	MEX	2:12:39
7th	Dereje Nedi	ETH	2:12:44
8th	Massimo Magnani	ITA	2:13:12

August 1st

110 m hurdles

→ Main article : 1980 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 110 m hurdles (men)

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Thomas Munkelt	GDR	13.39
2	Alejandro Casañas	CUB	13.40
3	Alexander Putschkov	URS	13.44
4th	Andrei Prokofiev	URS	13.49
5	Jan Pusty	POLE	13.68
6th	Arto Bryggare	FIN	13.76
7th	Javier Moracho	ESP	13.78
8th	Yuri Chervanyov	URS	15.80

Final on July 27th

400 m hurdles

→ Main article : 1980 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 400 m hurdles (men)

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Volker Beck	GDR	48.70
2	Wassyl Archypenko	URS	48.86
3	Gary Oakes	GBR	49.11
4th	Mykola Vasyliev	URS	49.34
5	Rok Kopitar	YUG	49.67
6th	Horia Toboc	ROME	49.84
7th	Franz Meier	SUI	50.00
8th	Janko Bratanow	BUL	56.35

Final on July 26th

3000 m obstacle

→ Main article : 1980 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 3000 m obstacle (men)

space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Bronislaw Malinowski	POLE	8: 09.70
2	Filbert Bayi	TAN	8: 12.48
3	Eshetu Tura	ETH	8: 13.57
4th	Domingo Ramón	ESP	8: 15.74
5	Francisco Sánchez	ESP	8: 17.93
6th	Giuseppe Gerbi	ITA	8: 18.47
7th	Bogusław Mamiński	POLE	8: 19.43
8th	Anatoly Dimov	URS	8: 19.75

Final on July 31st

4 × 100 m relay

→ Main article : 1980 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 4 × 100 m (men)

space	country	Athletes	Time (s)
1	Soviet Union	Vladimir Muravyov Nikolai Sidorow Alexandr Aksinin Andrei Prokofiev	38.26
2	Poland	Krzysztof Zwoliński Zenon Licznerski Leszek Dunecki Marian Voronin	38.33
3	France	Antoine Richard Pascal Barré Patrick Barré Hermann Panzo	38.53
4th	Great Britain	Mike McFarlane Allan Wells Cameron Sharp Drew McMaster	38.62
5	GDR	Sören Schlegel Eugen Ray Bernhard Hoff Thomas Munkelt	38.73
6th	Bulgaria	Pavel Pavlov Vladimir Ivanov Ivajlo Karanyotov Petar Petrov	38.99
7th	Nigeria	Hammed Adio Kayode Elegbede Samson Oyeledun Peter Okodogbe	39.12
8th	Brazil	Milton de Castro Nelson dos Santos Katsuhiko Nakaya Altevir de Araújo	39.54

Final on August 1st

4 × 400 m relay

→ Main article : 1980 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 4 × 400 m (men)

space	country	Athletes	Time (min)
1	Soviet Union	Remigijus Valiulis Michail Linge Nikolai Chernetsky Viktor Markin	3: 01.08
2	GDR	Klaus Thiele Andreas Knebel Frank Schaffer Volker Beck	3: 01.26
3	Italy	Stefano Malinverni Mauro Zuliani Roberto Tozzi Pietro Mennea	3: 04.3
4th	France	Jacques Fellice Robert Froissart Didier Dubois Francis Demarthon	3: 04.8
5	Brazil	Paulo Correia Antônio Dias Ferreira Agberto Guimarães Geraldo Pegado	3: 05.9
6th	Trinidad and Tobago	Joseph Coombs Charles Joseph Rafer Mohammed Mike Solomon	3: 06.6
7th	Czechoslovakia	Josef Lomický Dušan Malovec František Břečka Karel Kolář	3: 07.0
DNF	Great Britain	Alan Bell Terry Whitehead Rod Milne Glen Cohen

Final on August 1st

20 km walking

→ Main article : 1980 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 20 km walk (men)

space	athlete	country	Time (h)
1	Maurizio Damilano	ITA	1: 23: 35.5 OR
2	Pyotr Pochinchuk	URS	1: 24: 45.4
3	Roland Wieser	GDR	1: 25: 58.2
4th	Yevgeny Jewsjukov	URS	1: 26: 28.3
5	José Marín	ESP	1: 26: 45.6
6th	Raúl González	MEX	1: 27: 48.6
7th	Bohdan Bułakowski	POLE	1: 28: 36.3
8th	Karl-Heinz Stadtmüller	GDR	1: 29: 21.7

24th July

25 of the 34 starters reached the finish. Seven walkers were disqualified, three of them in a promising position: the 1976 Olympic champion Daniel Bautista from Mexico , his compatriot Domingo Colin and Anatolij Solomin from the Soviet Union. Two participants gave up the competition.

50 km of walking

→ Main article : 1980 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 50 km walk (men)

space	athlete	country	Time (h)
1	Hartwig Gauder	GDR	3:49:24 OR
2	Jorge Llopart	ESP	3:51:25
3	Yevgeny Ivchenko	URS	3:56:32
4th	Bengt Simonsen	SWE	3:57:08
5	Vyacheslav Fursov	URS	3:58:32
6th	José Marín	ESP	4:03:08
7th	Stanislaw Rola	POLE	4:07:07
8th	Willi Sawall	OUT	4:08:25

30th July

high jump

→ Main article : 1980 Summer Olympics / Athletics - high jump (men)

space	athlete	country	Height (m)
1	Gerd Wessig	GDR	2.36 WR
2	Jacek Wszoła	POLE	2.31
3	Jörg Freimuth	GDR	2.31
4th	Henry Lauterbach	GDR	2.29
5	Roland Dalhauser	SUI	2.24
6th	Vaso Komnenić	YUG	2.24
7th	Adrian Proteasa	ROME	2.21
8th	Aljaksandr Hryhorjeu	URS	2.21

Final on August 1st

Pole vault

→ Main article : 1980 Summer Olympics / Athletics - pole vault (men)

space	athlete	country	Height (m)
1	Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz	POLE	5.78 WR
2	Konstantin Volkov	URS	5.65
	Tadeusz Ślusarski	POLE	5.65
4th	Philippe Houvion	FRA	5.65
5	Jean-Michel Bellot	FRA	5.60
6th	Mariusz Klimczyk	POLE	5.55
7th	Thierry Vigneron	FRA	5.45
8th	Sergei Kulibaba	URS	5.45

Final on July 30th

Long jump

→ Main article : 1980 Summer Olympics / Athletics - long jump (men)

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Lutz Dombrowski	GDR	8.54
2	Frank Paschek	GDR	8.21
3	Valery Pidluschnyj	URS	8.18
4th	László Szalma	HUN	8.13
5	Stanisław Jaskułka	POLE	8.13
6th	Wiktar Belski	URS	8.10
7th	Antonio Corgos	ESP	8.09
8th	Jordan Janew	BUL	8.02

Final on July 28th

Triple jump

→ Main article : 1980 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Triple Jump (Men)

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Jaak Uudmäe	URS	17.35
2	Viktor Saneyev	URS	17.24
3	João Carlos de Oliveira	BRA	17.22
4th	Keith Connor	GBR	16.87
5	Ian Campbell	OUT	16.72
6th	Atanas Chochev	BUL	16.56
7th	Béla Bakosi	HUN	16.47
8th	Ken Lorraway	OUT	16.44

Final on July 25th

Shot put

→ Main article : 1980 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Shot Put (Men)

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Vladimir Kisselev	URS	21.35 OR
2	Alexander Baryshnikov	URS	21.08
3	Udo Beyer	GDR	21.06
4th	Reijo Ståhlberg	FIN	20.82
5	Geoff Capes	GBR	20.50
6th	Hans-Jürgen Jacobi	GDR	20.32
7th	Jaromír Vlk	TCH	20.24
8th	Vladimir Milic	YUG	20.07

Final on July 30th

Discus throw

→ Main article : 1980 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Discus throw (men)

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Viktor Rashchupkin	URS	66.64
2	Imrich Bugár	TCH	66.38
3	Luis Delís	CUB	66.32
4th	Wolfgang Schmidt	GDR	65.64
5	Yuri Dumchev	URS	65.58
6th	Ihor Duhinez	URS	64.04
7th	Emil Vladimirov	BUL	63.18
8th	Welko Welew	BUL	63.04

Final on July 28th

Hammer throw

→ Main article : 1980 Summer Olympics / Athletics - hammer throw (men)

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Yuri Sedych	URS	81.80 WR
2	Sergei Litvinov	URS	80.64
3	Jüri Tamm	URS	78.96
4th	Roland Steuk	GDR	77.54
5	Detlef Gerstenberg	GDR	74.60
6th	Emanuil Djulgerov	BUL	74.04
7th	Giampaolo Urlando	ITA	73.90
8th	Ireneusz Golda	POLE	73.74

Final on July 31st

Javelin throw

→ Main article : 1980 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Javelin Throw (Men)

Dainis Kūlas gold medal from 1980

space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Dainis Kūla	URS	91.20
2	Alexandr Makarov	URS	89.64
3	Wolfgang Hanisch	GDR	86.72
4th	Heino Puuste	URS	86.10
5	Antero puranes	FIN	85.12
6th	Pentti Sinersaari	FIN	84.34
7th	Detlef Fuhrmann	GDR	83.50
8th	Miklós Németh	HUN	82.40

Final on July 27th

Decathlon

→ Main article : 1980 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Decathlon (men)

space	athlete	country	P - official value.	P - 85 value.
1	Daley Thompson	GBR	8495	8522
2	Yuri Kuzenko	URS	8331	8369
3	Sergei Shelanov	URS	8135	8135
4th	Georg Werthner	AUT	8050	8084
5	Sepp Zeilbauer	AUT	8007	7989
6th	Dariusz Ludwig	POLE	7978	7972
7th	Atanas Andonow	BUL	7927	7858
8th	Steffen Grummt	GDR	7892	7840

July 25th and 26th

Scoring was based on a point table modified in 1977. For a better classification of the performance, in addition to the official points according to the rating table from 1977, the number of points converted according to the current rating system from 1985 is also given. According to this table that is valid today, there would have been no changes to the top eight. But these comparisons are of course only indicative, because the different standards of the time must apply as a basis.

Results women

100 m

→ Main article : 1980 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 100 m (women)

space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Lyudmila Kondratyeva	URS	11.06
2	Marlies Goehr	GDR	11.07
3	Ingrid Auerswald	GDR	11.14
4th	Linda Haglund	SWE	11.16
5	Romy Müller	GDR	11.16
6th	Kathy Smallwood	GBR	11.28
7th	Chantal Rega	FRA	11.32
8th	Heather Hunte	GBR	11.34

Final on July 26th

200 m

→ Main article : 1980 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 200 m (women)

space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Bärbel Wöckel	GDR	22.03 OR
2	Natalia Botschina	URS	22.19
3	Merlene Ottey	JAM	22.20
4th	Romy Müller	GDR	22.47
5	Kathy Smallwood	GBR	22.61
6th	Beverley Goddard	GBR	22.72
7th	Denise Boyd	OUT	22.76
8th	Sonia Lannaman	GBR	22.80

Final on July 30th

400 m

→ Main article : 1980 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 400 m (women)

space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Marita Koch	GDR	48.88 OR
2	Jarmila Kratochvílová	TCH	49.46
3	Christina Lathan	GDR	49.66
4th	Irina Nazarova	URS	50.07
5	Nina Syuskova	URS	50.17
6th	Gabriele Lion	GDR	51.33
7th	Pirjo Haggman	FIN	51.35
8th	Linsey Macdonald	GBR	52.40

Final on July 28th

800 m

→ Main article : 1980 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 800 m (women)

space	Athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Nadia Olisarenko	URS	1: 53.43 WR
2	Olga Mineeva	URS	1: 54.81
3	Tatiana Prowidochina	URS	1: 55.46
4th	Martina Kämpfert	GDR	1: 56.21
5	Hildegard Ullrich	GDR	1: 57.20
6th	Jolanta Januchta	POLE	1: 58.25
7th	Nikolina Shtereva	BUL	1: 58.71
8th	Gabriella Dorio	ITA	1: 59.12

Final on July 27th

1500 m

→ Main article : 1980 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 1,500 m (women)

space	Athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Tatiana Kasankina	URS	3: 56.56 OR
2	Christiane Wartenberg	GDR	3: 57.71
3	Nadia Olisarenko	URS	3: 59.52
4th	Gabriella Dorio	ITA	4: 00.30
5	Ulrike Bruns	GDR	4: 00.62
6th	Lyubov Smolka	URS	4: 01.25
7th	Maricica Puică	ROME	4: 01.26
8th	Ileana Silai	ROME	4: 02.98

Final on August 1st

100 m hurdles

→ Main article : 1980 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 100m hurdles (women)

space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Vera Komissova	URS	12.56 OR
2	Johanna Klier	GDR	12.63
3	Lucyna Langer	POLE	12.65
4th	Kerstin Claus	GDR	12.66
5	Grażyna Rabsztyn	POLE	12.74
6th	Irina Litovchenko	URS	12.84
7th	Bettine Gärtz	GDR	12.93
8th	Zofia Bielczyk	POLE	13.08

Final on July 28th

4 × 100 m relay

→ Main article : 1980 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 4 × 100 m (women)

space	country	Athletes	Time (s)
1	GDR	Romy Müller Bärbel Wöckel Ingrid Auerswald Marlies Göhr	41.60 WR
2	Soviet Union	Vera Komissowa Lyudmila Maslakowa Vera Anissimowa Natalja Botschina	42.10
3	Great Britain	Heather Hunte Kathy Smallwood Beverley Goddard Sonia Lannaman	42.43
4th	Bulgaria	Sofka Popowa Liliana Panayotova Marija Schischkowa Galina Penkowa	42.67
5	France	Véronique Grandrieux Chantal Réga Raymonde Naigre Emma Sulter	42.84
6th	Jamaica	Leleith Hodges Jacqueline Pusey Rosie Allwood Merlene Ottey	43.19
7th	Poland	Lucyna Langer Elżbieta Stachurska Zofia Bielczyk Grażyna Rabsztyn	43.59
DNF	Sweden	Linda Haglund Lena Möller Ann-Louise Skoglund Helena Pihl

Final on August 1st

4 × 400 m relay

→ Main article : 1980 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 4 × 400 m (women)

space	country	Athletes	Time (min)
1	Soviet Union	Tetiana Prorotschenko Tatiana Goishchik Nina Sjuskowa Irina Nasarowa	3: 20.12
2	GDR	Gabriele Löwe Barbara Krug Christina Lathan Marita Koch	3: 20.35
3	Great Britain	Linsey Macdonald Michelle Probert Joslyn Hoyte-Smith Donna Hartley	3: 27.5
4th	Romania	Ibolya Korodi Niculina Lazarciuc Maria Samungi Elena Tarita	3: 27.74
5	Hungary	Irén Orosz Judit Forgács Éva Tóth Ilona Pál	3: 27.86
6th	Poland	Grażyna Oliszewska Elżbieta Katolik Jolanta Januchta Małgorzata Dunecka	3: 27.9
7th	Belgium	Lea Alaerts Regine Berg Anne Michel Rosine Wallez	3: 31.6
DNF	Bulgaria	Swobodka Damjanowa Rossiza Stamenowa Milena Andonowa Bonka Dimowa

Final on August 1st

high jump

→ Main article : 1980 Summer Olympics / Athletics - high jump (women)

space	Athlete	country	Height (m)
1	Sara Simeoni	ITA	1.97 OR
2	Urszula Kielan	POLE	1.94
3	Jutta Kirst	GDR	1.94
4th	Rosemarie Ackermann	GDR	1.91
5	Marina Syssoyeva	URS	1.91
6th	Christine Stanton	OUT	1.91
	Andrea Reichstein	GDR
8th	Cornelia Popa	ROME	1.88

Final on July 26th

Long jump

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space	Athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Tatiana Kolpakova	URS	7.06 OR
2	Brigitte Wujak	GDR	7.04
3	Tetjana Skachko	URS	7.01
4th	Anna Włodarczyk	POLE	6.95
5	Sigrun Siegl	GDR	6.87
6th	Jarmila Nygrýnová	TCH	6.83
7th	Sigrid Heimann	GDR	6.71
8th	Lidija Alfeyeva	URS	6.71

Final on July 31st

Shot put

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space	Athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Ilona Slupianek	GDR	22.41 OR
2	Svetlana Krachevskaya	URS	21.42
3	Margitta Pufe	GDR	21.20
4th	Nunu Abashydze	URS	21.15
5	Vershinia Veselinova	BUL	20.72
6th	Elena Stoyanova	BUL	20.22
7th	Natalia Achrimenko	URS	19.74
8th	Ines Reichenbach	GDR	19.66

Final on July 24th

Discus throw

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space	Athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Evelin Jahl	GDR	69.96 OR
2	Maria Petkova	BUL	67.90
3	Tatiana Lessovaya	URS	67.40
4th	Gisela Beyer	GDR	67.08
5	Margitta Pufe	GDR	66.12
6th	Florența Tacu	ROME	64.38
7th	Galina Murašova	URS	63.84
8th	Svetla Boschkowa	BUL	63.14

Final on August 1st

Javelin throw

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space	Athlete	country	Width (m)
1	María Caridad Colón	CUB	68.40 OR
2	Saida Gunba	URS	67.76
3	Ute Hommola	GDR	66.56
4th	Ute Richter	GDR	66.54
5	Ivanka Wantschewa	BUL	65.38
6th	Tatyana Birjulina	URS	65.08
7th	Éva Ráduly-Zörgő	ROME	64.08
8th	Ruth Fuchs	GDR	63.94

Final on July 25th

Pentathlon

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space	Athlete	country	P - official value.	P - 80 value.
1	Nadia Tkachenko	URS	5083 WR	5213
2	Olga Rukavischnikowa	URS	4937	5051
3	Olga Kuragina	URS	4875	4964
4th	Ramona Neubert	GDR	4698	4750
5	Margit Papp	HUN	4562	4584
6th	Burglinde Pollak	GDR	4553	4545
7th	Valentina Dimitrova	BUL	4458	4439
8th	Emilija Kunova	BUL	4431	4409

24th July

The rating was based on the point table introduced in 1977. The new scoring system had become necessary because the earlier the pentathlon owned 200 Meters by 800 Meters had been replaced. The reason for this was to emphasize the versatility character of this all-around competition. For a better classification performance in addition to official points after the table of 1971, according to today in are Heptathlon valid scoring system from 1980 converted scores with specified. According to this table, there would have been no change in the order. These comparisons are of course only indicative, because the different standards of the time must apply as a basis.

Web links

• Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 17 (schedule), p. 24–95 (the individual competitions), English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 23, 2017
• Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics from Sports-Reference.com database , accessed December 23, 2017
• IOC's 1980 Olympic Games Athletics website from olympic.org, accessed December 23, 2017
• Moscow 1980: The boycott games on rio.sportschau.de, accessed on December 23, 2017
• Even the lawns were swept , Der Spiegel July 28, 1980, H. 31/1980, accessed on December 23, 2017
• A Lada for Helmut Schmidt , Der Spiegel February 10, 2014, H. 7/2014, accessed on December 23, 2017
• Fight against the bucks , Der Spiegel 28 September 1981, H. 40/1981, accessed on 23 December 2017
• Breakdowns not on schedule , Der Spiegel August 4, 1980, H. 32/1980, accessed on December 23, 2017
• Olympia 1980: Twenty years after the boycott of the Games in Moscow: three athletes remember , tagesspiegel.de July 18, 2000, accessed on December 23, 2017
• Knowledge pool. Olympic games. Background: Cold War - Terrorism - Human Rights on planet-schule.de, accessed on December 23, 2017
• No day like any other: The Moscow Olympic boycott on eurosport.de, accessed on December 23, 2017
• Buildings of the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow - then and now , moskultinfo.wordpress.com November 21, 2013, accessed on December 23, 2017

Videos

• Oh sport! You Are Peace! 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics Official Film, 1981: Moscow, USSR on youtube.com, published January 7, 2013, accessed December 23, 2017
• Video: Review of the year 1980 - Olympic Games in Moscow on tagesschau.de, accessed on December 23, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ^ Sports facilities of the 1980 Olympics in Moscow: Strangers from the Past , Russia Beyond, History, March 25, 2015, accessed on December 9, 2017