1980 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 200 m (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	200 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	63 athletes from 40 countries
Competition location	Luzhniki Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 27, 1980 (preliminary round / quarter-finals) July 28, 1980 (semi-finals / final)
Medalist Pietro Mennea ( ITA )   Allan Wells ( GBR )   Donald Quarrie ( JAM )

The men's 200-meter run at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow was held on July 27 and 28, 1980 in the Luzhniki Olympic Stadium. 63 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was the Italian Pietro Mennea . He won ahead of the British Allan Wells and the Jamaican Donald Quarrie .

The GDR was represented by Bernhard Hoff and Olaf Prenzler . Prenzler was eliminated in the semifinals. Hoff reached the finals and finished fifth.
Runners from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part. Athletes from the Federal Republic of Germany were also not there because of the Olympic boycott.

Existing records

World record	19.72 s	Pietro Mennea ( Italy )	Mexico City , Mexico	September 12, 1979
Olympic record	19.83 s	Tommie Smith ( USA )	Mexico City Final , Mexico	October 16, 1968

Conducting the competition

The athletes competed in nine heats on July 27th. The three best runners and the following five best times made it to the quarter-finals on the same day. From this, the four best runners reached the semi-finals on July 28th. From this, the four best runners qualified for the final, which took place on the same day.

Time schedule

July 27th, 10.30
a.m .: Preliminaries July 27th, 6.25 p.m .: quarter-finals
July 28th , 5.20 p.m . : semi-finals
July 28th, 8.10 p.m .: final

Note: All times are local time Moscow ( UTC + 3 )

The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the others in light green.

Preliminary round

Date: July 27, 1980, from 10.30 a.m.

Forward 1

Wind: +0.98 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Cameron Sharp	Great Britain	21.51 s
2	Tomás González	Cuba	21.64 s
3	Pavel Pavlov	Bulgaria	21.78 s
4th	Nikolaos Angelopoulos	Greece	21.98 s
5	Grégoire Illorson	Cameroon	22.21 s
6th	Rubén Inacio	Angola	22.52 s
7th	Casimir Pereira	Seychelles	22.59 s

Forward 2

Wind: +1.58 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Pietro Mennea	Italy	21.26 s
2	Ferenc Kiss	Hungary	21.34 s
3	Olaf Prenzler	GDR	21.35 s
4th	Mike McFarlane	Great Britain	21.43 s
5	Nabil Nahri	Syria	22.14 s
6th	Ahmed Mohamed Sallouma	Libya	22.88 s
DNS	Abdul Majeed Al-Mosawi	Kuwait

Forward 3

The Dutchman Henk Brouwer finished sixth and was eliminated

Wind: −0.01 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Donald Quarrie	Jamaica	20.87 s
2	Joseph Arame	France	21.24 s
3	Peter Okodogbe	Nigeria	21.42 s
4th	Altevir de Araújo	Brazil	21.49 s
5	Cheikh Touradou Diouf	Senegal	21.89 s
6th	Henk Brouwer	Netherlands	21.96 s
7th	Paul Haba	Guinea	22.70 s

Forward 4

Wind: +1.07 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Marian Voronin	Poland	21.63 s
2	Istvan Nagy	Hungary	21.80 s
3	Gerardo Suero	Dominican Republic	22.16 s
DNF	Alexander Stassewitsch	Soviet Union
DNS	Emmanuel Bitanga	Cameroon
	José Luis Elías	Peru
	Théophile Nkounkou	People's Republic of the Congo

Forward 5

Wind: +2.20 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Colin Bradford	Jamaica	21.17 s
2	Leszek Dunecki	Poland	21.30 s
3	Petar Petrov	Bulgaria	21.59 s
4th	David Lukuba	Tanzania	21.76 s
5	Pascal Aho	Benin	22.09 s
6th	Roland Dagher	Lebanon	22.27 s
7th	Walter During	Sierra Leone	23.12 s

Forward 6

Wind: +0.93 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Andrew Bruce	Trinidad and Tobago	21.36 s
2	Allan Wells	Great Britain	21.57 s
3	Aleksandar Popović	Yugoslavia	21.65 s
4th	Hammed Adio	Nigeria	21.79 s
5	Subramanian Perumal	India	22.39 s
6th	Rudolph George	Sierra Leone	23.20 s
DNS	Vladimir Muravyov	Soviet Union

Forward 7

Wind: +1.45 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	James Gilkes	Guyana	21.07 s
2	František Břečka	Czechoslovakia	21.49 s
3	Bernhard Hoff	GDR	21.53 s
4th	Boubacar Diallo	Senegal	21.56 s
5	Joseph Letseka	Lesotho	22.31 s
6th	Lucien Josiah	Botswana	22.45 s
DNS	Constantino Reis	Mozambique

Forward 8

Wind: +0.96 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Osvaldo Lara	Cuba	21.03 s
2	Christopher Brathwaite	Trinidad and Tobago	21.13 s
3	Nikolai Sidorov	Soviet Union	21.15 s
4th	Vladimir Ivanov	Bulgaria	21.28 s
5	Alston Muziyo	Zambia	22.47 s
6th	Besha Tuffa	Ethiopia	23.18 s
DNS	Pascal Barré	France

Forward 9

Wind: +0.04 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Silvio Leonard	Cuba	20.95 s
2	Bernard Petitbois	France	21.16 s
3	Paulo Roberto Correia	Brazil	21.27 s
4th	Zenon Licznerski	Poland	21.36 s
5	Mwalimu Ally	Tanzania	21.83 s
6th	Sheku Boima	Sierra Leone	22.93 s
7th	Sitthixay Sacpraseuth	Laos	24.28 s

Quarter finals

Date: July 27, 1980, from 6:25 p.m.

Run 1

Wind: +1.08 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Donald Quarrie	Jamaica	20.89 s
2	Marian Voronin	Poland	20.97 s
3	Osvaldo Lara	Cuba	21.01 s
4th	Ferenc Kiss	Hungary	21.24 s
5	Bernard Petitbois	France	21.32 s
6th	Mike McFarlane	Great Britain	21.33 s
7th	Aleksandar Popović	Yugoslavia	21.66 s
8th	Petar Petrov	Bulgaria	21.89 s

Run 2

Wind: +0.31 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Silvio Leonard	Cuba	20.93 s
2	Joseph Arame	France	20.95 s
3	Bernhard Hoff	GDR	20.96 s
4th	Cameron Sharp	Great Britain	21.16 s
5	Zenon Licznerski	Poland	21.22 s
6th	Istvan Nagy	Hungary	21.38 s
7th	František Břečka	Czechoslovakia	21.47 s
8th	Gerardo Suero	Dominican Republic	21.75 s

Run 3

Far left Olaf Prenzler from the GDR, who made it to the semi-finals

Wind: +0.68 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Allan Wells	Great Britain	20.59 s
2	James Gilkes	Guyana	20.83 s
3	Peter Okodogbe	Nigeria	20.89 s
4th	Olaf Prenzler	GDR	20.89 s
5	Christopher Brathwaite	Trinidad and Tobago	21.02 s
6th	Colin Bradford	Jamaica	21.04 s
7th	Altevir de Araújo	Brazil	21.22 s
8th	Pavel Pavlov	Bulgaria	21.35 s

Run 4

Wind: +1.83 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Pietro Mennea	Italy	20.60 s
2	Nikolai Sidorov	Soviet Union	20.83 s
3	Leszek Dunecki	Poland	20.87 s
4th	Andrew Bruce	Trinidad and Tobago	20.94 s
5	Vladimir Ivanov	Bulgaria	20.96 s
6th	Paulo Roberto Correia	Brazil	21.01 s
7th	Boubacar Diallo	Senegal	21.10 s
8th	Tomás González	Cuba	21.19 s

Semifinals

Date: July 28, 1980, from 5:20 p.m.

Run 1

Wind: -2.30 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Silvio Leonard	Cuba	20.61 s
2	Bernhard Hoff	GDR	20.69 s
3	Marian Voronin	Poland	20.75 s
4th	Allan Wells	Great Britain	20.75 s
5	James Gilkes	Guyana	20.87 s
6th	Peter Okodogbe	Nigeria	21.03 s
7th	Andrew Bruce	Trinidad and Tobago	21.16 s
8th	Ferenc Kiss	Hungary	21.17 s

Run 2

Wind: +0.34 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Pietro Mennea	Italy	20.70 s
2	Donald Quarrie	Jamaica	20.76 s
3	Leszek Dunecki	Poland	20.82 s
4th	Osvaldo Lara	Cuba	20.93 s
5	Olaf Prenzler	GDR	21.00 s
6th	Joseph Arame	France	21.05 s
7th	Nikolai Sidorov	Soviet Union	21.17 s
8th	Cameron Sharp	Great Britain	21.24 s

final

Olympic Champion Pietro Mennea, Italy (here in 2016)

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Pietro Mennea	Italy	20.19 s
2	Allan Wells	Great Britain	20.21 s
3	Donald Quarrie	Jamaica	20.29 s
4th	Silvio Leonard	Cuba	20.30 s
5	Bernhard Hoff	GDR	20.50 s
6th	Leszek Dunecki	Poland	20.68 s
7th	Marian Voronin	Poland	20.81 s
8th	Osvaldo Lara	Cuba	21.19 s

Date: July 28, 1980, 8:10 p.m.

Wind: +0.88 m / s

Because of the Olympic boycott, the Americans were not there, which certainly diminished this competition from the start. But at the start was the Italian world record holder Pietro Mennea, two-time European champion in 1974 and 1978 . Other favorites were Britain's Allan Wells, who had previously won the 100 meters , and the 1976 Jamaican Olympic champion Donald Quarrie. The Cuban Silvio Leonard, over 100 meters at the same time as Wells' Olympic runner-up, was also one of the medal candidates.

Wells had the best start in the final race and hit the home straight as the leader. Leonard and Quarrie came out of the curve just behind him, while Mennea was clearly behind. But on the second half of the track, the Italian was by far the fastest sprinter . He came closer and closer to the leading runners and on the last meters Pietro Mennea pulled past Wells to win the Olympic gold with two hundredths of a second ahead. Allan Wells secured the silver medal. The outcome in the battle for bronze, which Donald Quarrie won ahead of Silvio Leonard, was only very close. Only a hundredth of a second separated these two. Her gap to the front was only a tenth of a second.

This competition did not have to hide from the races of the previous Olympic Games. Even if the Americans were absent, the times achieved were excellent and Pietro Mennea was a well-deserved Olympic champion.

Video

• Men's 200m Final 1980 Moscow Olympics , published April 28, 2017 on youtube.com, accessed December 24, 2017

Web links

• SportsReference 200 m , accessed December 24, 2017
• Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 26f, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 24, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 547 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on 24 December 2017
2. ↑ Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 17, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 24, 2017
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 27, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 24, 2017
4. ↑ SportsReference , accessed December 24, 2017