1980 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Pentathlon (Women)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Pentathlon | ||||||||
gender | Women | ||||||||
Attendees | 19 athletes from 10 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Luzhniki Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | July 24, 1980 | ||||||||
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The women's pentathlon at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow was played on July 24, 1980 in the Luzhniki Olympic Stadium. Nineteen athletes took part. The pentathlon was on the Olympic program for the last time. In 1984 in Los Angeles the heptathlon was introduced instead . A 1977 modified all-around table was used to determine the points. The competition was held here for the only time at the Olympic Games in one day. The final 200-meter run has been replaced by the 800-meter run since 1977 .
Olympic champion was Nadija Tkachenko from the Soviet Union, who set a new world record. She won ahead of her compatriots Olga Rukawischnikowa and Olga Kuragina .
It was thanks to a questionable decision by the President of the IAAF , Adriaan Paulen, that Tkachenko was allowed to start at all . At the European Athletics Championships in 1978 , she had initially achieved the highest number of points of all female competitors in the pentathlon. However, she was subsequently disqualified for violating the doping rules. She was stripped of her title and was banned for life. Adriaan Paulen later lifted this suspension so that Tkachenko could start here in Moscow .
With Christine Laser , Ramona Neubert and Burglinde Pollak , three athletes from the GDR competed. Laser broke off the competition after the third discipline, Neubert was fourth, Pollak sixth.
Athletes 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 | 4856 points | Olga Vitalievna Kuragina ( Soviet Union ) | Moscow , Soviet Union (now Russia ) | June 20, 1980 |
Olympic record | 4801 points | Mary Peters ( Great Britain ) | Pentathlon of Munich , FR Germany (today Germany ) | 2/3. September 1972 |
Note:
Up to and including 1976 , the 200-meter race was part of the pentathlon. This discipline was replaced by the 800-meter run in 1977 . So the scores of the world record and the Olympic record are actually not comparable. At the 1972 Olympic Games , where Mary Peters set the Olympic record, the 1971 scoring table was used to determine the number of points. After the change of discipline, the table from 1977 was used, which was used for Olga Kuragina's world record.
Time schedule
July 24, 9.30 a.m .: 100-meter hurdles
July 24, 10.30 a.m .: Shot put
July 24, 12.30 p.m .: High jump
July 24, 5.10 p.m .: Long jump
July 24, 8.55 p.m .: 800-meter run
Note: All times are local time Moscow ( UTC + 3 )
Participants
Nineteen athletes from twelve countries took part in the Olympic competition:
Disciplines
100 meter hurdles
The discipline was carried out in three runs.
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Shot put
Nadija Tkachenko was 70 points ahead of Burglinde Pollak. Olga Kuragina had dropped to seventh place.
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high jump
At 1.88 m, Olga Rukawischnikowa achieved the greatest height in the high jump in the Olympic pentathlon.
Nadija Tkachenko extended her lead to 164 points. Behind her was the high jump winner Rukawischnikowa ahead of Burglinde Pollak, who was 18 points ahead of Olga Kuragina.
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Long jump
Christine Laser from the GDR did not take part in this fourth discipline.
With 6.79 m, Olga Rukawischnikowa achieved the greatest distance in the long jump in the Olympic pentathlon.
Nadija Tkachenko's lead had shrunk to 152 points. Burglinde Pollak had lost ground with her weak long jump and was now in sixth place behind Olga Kuragina, Ramona Neubert and Margit Papp.
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800 meter run
The discipline was carried out in three runs.
Nancy Vallecilla from Ecuador did not participate in this last exercise.
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Bottom line
space | Surname | nation | Points - official rating | Points - more recent 1980 rating |
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1 | Nadia Tkachenko | Soviet Union | 5083 WR | 5213 |
2 | Olga Rukavischnikowa | Soviet Union | 4937 | 5051 |
3 | Olga Vitalievna Kuragina | Soviet Union | 4875 | 4964 |
4th | Ramona Neubert | GDR | 4698 | 4750 |
5 | Margit Papp | Hungary | 4562 | 4584 |
6th | Burglinde Pollak | GDR | 4553 | 4545 |
7th | Valentina Dimitrova | Bulgaria | 4458 | 4439 |
8th | Emilija Kunova | Bulgaria | 4431 | 4409 |
9 | Florence Picaut | France | 4424 | 4402 |
10 | Sylvia Barlag | Netherlands | 4333 | 4315 |
11 | Marcela Koblasová | Czechoslovakia | 4328 | 4301 |
12 | Małgorzata Guzowska | Poland | 4326 | 4320 |
13 | Judy Livermore | Great Britain | 4304 | 4261 |
14th | Conceição Geremias | Brazil | 4263 | 4216 |
15th | Susan Longden | Great Britain | 4234 | 4199 |
16 | Yvette Wray | Great Britain | 4159 | 4076 |
17th | Cécile Ngambi | Cameroon | 3832 | 3733 |
Date: July 26, 1980, o'clock
This competition took place under a number of dubious circumstances. The US Olympic boycott meant that Jane Fredericks could not be there as a medal candidate. The later Soviet Olympic champion Nadija Tkachenko was allowed to participate. She had violated doping rules two years earlier , had been disqualified and suspended for life, but was again pardoned.
Tkachenko was one of the favorites alongside world record holder Olga Kuragina and Olga Rukawischnikowa - both from the USSR. The three GDR athletes Burglinde Pollak, Ramona Neubert and Christine Laser were also among the medal candidates, like the Hungarian European champion from 1978 Margit Papp.
The Soviet athletes got off to a good start over the 100 meter hurdles and finished first, second and fourth with excellent times. Her opponents already lost a lot of ground here. In the shot put , Tkachenko and Pollak were well ahead of the other participants. The point differences were already considerable. Tkachenko was 70 points ahead of Pollak. Papp had improved to third, but the gap to Tkachenko was already 192 points. Behind it, however, it was closer. Rukawischnikowa followed in fourth place, who was exactly 200 points behind the leader. In the high jump , Rukawischnikowa made up a lot of ground with the best jump ever made in an Olympic pentathlon. She mastered 1.88 m, but Tkachenko and Kuragina were also not far behind with 1.84 m. In the interim standings, Tkachenko continued to lead with 164 points. Rukawischnikowa was now second, 59 points ahead of Pollak. Kuragina was 241 points behind Tkachenko in fourth place.
The jump specialist Rukawischnikowa also shone in the long jump with 6.79 m, a distance that had never before been achieved in an Olympic pentathlon. But Kuragina with 6.77 m and Tkachenko with 6.73 m were not far behind either. So the three Soviet all-rounders led the field before the last discipline. The point differences between each other and also in front of the other participants were large. The three Soviet athletes were also rated strong over 800 meters , so that it seemed hardly possible to change the medal distribution. In fact, Kuragina, Rukavischnikowa and Tkachenko dominated the middle distance in that order. With times between 2: 03.6 min and 2: 05.2 min, they also took first to third place in this discipline. The end result brought a new world record for Olympic champion Nadija Tkachenko with 5083 points. Olga Rukawischnikowa was second, 146 points behind. Olga Kuragina won the bronze medal. With her 4875 points she was exactly 208 points behind the winner. Ramona Neubert came fourth ahead of Margit Papp and Burglinde Pollak.
With three medals won, the Soviet Union is the most successful nation in the women's Olympic pentathlon at the Olympic Games. Soviet pentathletes won five medals for their country.
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 1980 is also given. According to this table, which is valid today, there would have been only one deviation: the athletes in positions eleven and twelve would have swapped places. Otherwise the order would be unchanged. But these comparisons are of course only indicative, because the different standards of the time must apply as a basis.
Web links
- SportsReference Pentathlon , accessed January 4, 2018
- Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 94f, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on January 4, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Article in Spiegel from October 4, 1982 , accessed on January 4, 2018
- ↑ World Records Progression , Pentathlon, accessed December 21, 2017
- ↑ Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 17, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on January 4, 2018
- ↑ SportsReference Pentathlon (high jump) , accessed January 4, 2018
- ↑ SportsReference Pentathlon (long jump) , accessed January 4, 2018
- ↑ Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 95, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on January 4, 2018