1980 Summer Olympics / Modern Pentathlon

Modern pentathlon at the 1980 Summer Olympics
information
venue	Moscow
Competition venue	Bitza Park CSKA universal sports hall Dynamo shooting range Olimpijski
Nations	17th
Athletes	43 (43 )
date	July 20-24, 1980
decisions	2
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At the XXII. The 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow hosted two modern pentathlon competitions.

Medal table

space	country				total
1	Soviet Union	2	-	1	3
2	Hungary	-	2	-	2
3	Sweden	-	-	1	1

Time schedule

date	sport	Competition venue
20th of July	Cross-country ride	Bitza Park
21 July	Epee fencing	ZSKA universal sports hall
22nd of July	Pistol shooting	Dynamo shooting range, Mytishchi
July 23	300 m freestyle swimming	Olimpijski
24th July	4000 m cross-country run	Bitza Park

Results

singles

space	country	athlete	Points
1	URS	Anatoly Starostin	5568
2	HUN	Tamás Szombathelyi	5502
3	URS	Pavel Lednyov	5382
4th	SWE	Svante Rasmuson	5373
5	HUN	Tibor Maracskó	5279
6th	POLE	Janusz Pyciak-Peciak	5268
7th	SWE	Lennart Pettersson	5243
8th	TCH	Milan Kadlec	5229
9	SWE	George Horvath	5229
10	FIN	Heikki Hulkkonen	5227
35	AUT	Alexander Topay	4784
38	AUT	Helmut Wieser	4582

Date: July 20th to 24th, 1980
43 participants from 17 countries

team

space	country	athlete	Points
1	URS	Pavel Lednjow , Evgeny Lipejew , Anatoly Starostin	16,126
2	HUN	László Horváth , Tibor Maracskó , Tamás Szombathelyi	15,912
3	SWE	George Horvath , Lennart Pettersson , Svante Rasmuson	15,845
4th	POLE	Marek Bajan , Jan Olesiński , Janusz Pyciak-Peciak	15,634
5	FRA	Joël Bouzou , Alain Cortes , Paul Four	15,345
6th	TCH	Jan Bártů , Milan Kadlec , Bohumil Starnovský	15,339
7th	FIN	Heikki Hulkkonen , Jussi Pelli , Pekka Santanen	15,087
8th	GBR	Nigel Clark , Robert Nightingale , Peter Whiteside	15,062
9	ESP	Federico Galera , Manuel Montesinos , José Serrano	14,699
10	BUL	Borislav Batikow , Simeon Monew , Nikolai Nikolow	14,545
11	ROME	Gyula Galovici , Cezar Răducanu , Dumitru Spîrlea	14,390
12	IRL	Sackville Currie , Jerome Hartigan , Mark Hartigan	13,295

Date: July 20 to 24, 1980
36 participants from 12 countries, all teams in the ranking

Web links

• Modern pentathlon at the 1980 Summer Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official results of the 1980 Summer Games (PDF, 27.6 MB)