1980 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 100 m (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	100 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	65 athletes from 40 countries
Competition location	Luzhniki Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 24, 1980 (preliminary round / quarter-finals) July 25, 1980 (semi-finals / final)
Medalist Allan Wells ( GBR )   Silvio Leonard ( CUB )   Petar Petrov ( BUL )

The men's 100-meter run at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow was held on July 24th and 25th, 1980 in the Luzhniki Olympic Stadium. 65 athletes took part.

The British Allan Wells became Olympic champion . He won ahead of the Cuban Silvio Leonard and the Bulgarian Petar Petrow .

The GDR was represented by Klaus-Dieter Kurrat , Eugen Ray and Sören Schlegel . Kurrat and Schlegel were eliminated in the quarterfinals, Ray in the semifinals.
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	9.95 s	Jim Hines ( USA )	Mexico City , Mexico	October 14, 1968
Olympic record			Mexico City Final , Mexico

Conducting the competition

The athletes competed in nine heats on July 24th. The three best runners and the five fastest runners below made it to the quarter-finals on the same day. From this, the four best running qualified for the semifinals on July 25th, from which the four best leaves reached the final, which took place on the same day.

Time schedule

July 24th, 11.40 a.m .: Preliminaries
July 24th, 8.25 p.m .: quarter finals
July 25th, 6.00 p.m .: semi-finals
July 25th, 8.15 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 24, 1980, from 11.40 a.m.

Forward 1

Wind: −0.04 m / s

Marc Larose was the first Seychelles athlete to compete in the Olympic Games.

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Silvio Leonard	Cuba	10.33 s
2	Peter Okodogbe	Nigeria	10.39 s
3	Christopher Brathwaite	Trinidad and Tobago	10.44 s
4th	Klaus-Dieter Kurrat	GDR	10.53 s
5	Charles Kachenjela	Zambia	11.03 s
6th	John Carew	Sierra Leone	11.11 s
7th	Marc Larose	Seychelles	11.27 s

Forward 2

Wind: −0.23 m / s

Ilídio Coelho was the first athlete from Angola to take part in the Olympic Games.

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Petar Petrov	Bulgaria	10.32 s
2	Vladimir Muravyov	Soviet Union	10.37 s
3	Osvaldo Lara	Cuba	10.39 s
4th	Antoine Richard	France	10.51 s
5	Pascal Aho	Benin	11.01 s
6th	Joseph Letseka	Lesotho	11.21 s
7th	Ilídio Coelho	Angola	11.42 s
8th	Besha Tuffa	Ethiopia	11.55 s

Forward 3

Mario Westbroek from the Netherlands

, Sixth in his lead

Wind: −0.12 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Allan Wells	Great Britain	10.35 s
2	Donald Quarrie	Jamaica	10.37 s
3	Krzysztof Zwoliński	Poland	10.60 s
4th	Ivajlo Karanyotov	Bulgaria	10.66 s
5	István Tatár	Hungary	10.69 s
6th	Mario Westbroek	Netherlands	10.91 s
7th	Oddur Sigurðsson	Iceland	10.94 s

Forward 4

Wind: +0.04 m / s

Eduardo Costa from Mozambique and Soutsakhone Somninhom from Laos were the first athletes in their countries to take part in the Olympic Games.

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Pietro Mennea	Italy	10.56 s
2	Lambros Kefalas	Greece	10.70 s
3	Katsuhiko Nakaya	Brazil	10.72 s
4th	Momar N'Dao	Senegal	10.73 s
5	Eduardo Costa	Mozambique	11.02 s
6th	Lucien Josiah	Botswana	11.15 s
7th	Soutsakhone Somninhom	Laos	11.69 s

Forward 5

Wind: +0.88 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Eugene Ray	GDR	10.38 s
2	Hasely Crawford	Trinidad and Tobago	10.42 s
3	Drew McMaster	Great Britain	10.43 s
4th	Gerardo Suero	Dominican Republic	10.53 s
5	Roland Dagher	Lebanon	11.01 s
6th	Sheku Boima	Sierra Leone	11.08 s
7th	Raghu Raj Onta	Kingdom of Nepal	11.61 s

Forward 6

Wind: −0.14 m / s

Paul Haba was the first Guinea athlete to take part in the Olympic Games.

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	James Gilkes	Guyana	10.34 s
2	Cameron Sharp	Great Britain	10.38 s
3	Théophile Nkounkou	People's Republic of the Congo	10.53 s
4th	Istvan Nagy	Hungary	10.68 s
5	David Lukuba	Tanzania	10.74 s
6th	Paul Haba	Guinea	11.19 s
7th	Abdul Majeed Al-Mosawi	Kuwait	11.28 s

Forward 7

Wind: +0.43 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Alexander Aksinin	Soviet Union	10.26 s
2	Leszek Dunecki	Poland	10.42 s
3	Nelson dos Santos	Brazil	10.51 s
4th	Hammed Adio	Nigeria	10.58 s
5	Nabil Nahri	Syria	10.67 s
6th	Mwalimu Ally	Tanzania	10.86 s
7th	Rudolph George	Sierra Leone	11.37 s

Forward 8

Wind: −0.02 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Sören Schlegel	GDR	10.44 s
2	Hermann Panzo	France	10.53 s
3	Tomás González	Cuba	10.65 s
4th	Antoine Kiakouama	People's Republic of the Congo	10.69 s
5	Milton de Castro	Brazil	10.74 s
6th	Boubacar Diallo	Senegal	10.75 s
7th	Adille Sumariwalla	India	11.04 s

Forward 9

Wind: +0.26 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Grégoire Illorson	Cameroon	10.34 s
2	Marian Voronin	Poland	10.35 s
3	Andrei Slyapnikov	Soviet Union	10.43 s
4th	Samson Oyeledun	Nigeria	10.59 s
5	Francis Adams	Trinidad and Tobago	10.80 s
6th	Peter Mwita	Tanzania	11.07 s
7th	Salif Koné	Mali	11.07 s
8th	José Luis Elias	Peru	13.66 s

Quarter finals

Date: July 24, 1980, from 8:25 p.m.

Run 1

Pietro Mennea from Italy - he made it to the semi-finals over 100 meters and won gold over 200 meters

Wind: +1.31 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Allan Wells	Great Britain	10.11 s
2	Petar Petrov	Bulgaria	10.13 s
3	Osvaldo Lara	Cuba	10.21 s
4th	Pietro Mennea	Italy	10.27 s
5	Hasely Crawford	Trinidad and Tobago	10.28 s
	Sören Schlegel	GDR	10.28 s
7th	Nelson dos Santos	Brazil	10.45 s
8th	Lambros Kefalas	Greece	10.62 s

Run 2

Wind: +0.22 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Alexander Aksinin	Soviet Union	10.29 s
2	Donald Quarrie	Jamaica	10.29 s
3	Hermann Panzo	France	10.29 s
4th	Peter Okodogbe	Nigeria	10.34 s
5	Leszek Dunecki	Poland	10.40 s
6th	Drew McMaster	Great Britain	10.42 s
7th	Tomás González	Cuba	10.44 s
8th	Gerardo Suero	Dominican Republic	10.57 s

Run 3

Wind: +0.19 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Silvio Leonard	Cuba	10.16 s
2	Marian Voronin	Poland	10.27 s
3	Eugene Ray	GDR	10.30 s
4th	Christopher Brathwaite	Trinidad and Tobago	10.37 s
5	Andrei Slyapnikov	Soviet Union	10.41 s
6th	Théophile Nkounkou	People's Republic of the Congo	10.59 s
7th	Hammed Adio	Nigeria	10.67 s
8th	Katsuhiko Nakaya	Brazil	10.70 s

Run 4

Wind: +0.26 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	James Gilkes	Guyana	10.26 s
2	Grégoire Illorson	Cameroon	10.29 s
3	Vladimir Muravyov	Soviet Union	10.34 s
4th	Cameron Sharp	Great Britain	10.38 s
5	Antoine Richard	France	10.45 s
6th	Klaus-Dieter Kurrat	GDR	10.54 s
7th	Krzysztof Zwoliński	Poland	10.54 s
8th	Samson Oyeledun	Nigeria	10.73 s

Semifinals

Eugen Ray from the GDR, on the right in the picture

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

Run 1

Wind: +0.44 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Petar Petrov	Bulgaria	10.39 s
2	Silvio Leonard	Cuba	10.40 s
3	Alexander Aksinin	Soviet Union	10.45 s
4th	Hermann Panzo	France	10.45 s
5	Donald Quarrie	Jamaica	10.55 s
6th	Pietro Mennea	Italy	10.58 s
7th	Cameron Sharp	Great Britain	10.60 s
	Grégoire Illorson	Cameroon	10.60 s

Run 2

Wind: +0.44 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Allan Wells	Great Britain	10.27 s
2	Osvaldo Lara	Cuba	10.34 s
3	Vladimir Muravyov	Soviet Union	10.42 s
4th	Marian Voronin	Poland	10.43 s
5	James Gilkes	Guyana	10.44 s
6th	Eugene Ray	GDR	10.47 s
7th	Peter Okodogbe	Nigeria	10.51 s
8th	Christopher Brathwaite	Trinidad and Tobago	10.54 s

final

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Allan Wells	Great Britain	10.25 s
2	Silvio Leonard	Cuba	10.25 s
3	Petar Petrov	Bulgaria	10.39 s
4th	Alexander Aksinin	Soviet Union	10.42 s
5	Osvaldo Lara	Cuba	10.43 s
6th	Vladimir Muravyov	Soviet Union	10.44 s
7th	Marian Voronin	Poland	10.46 s
8th	Hermann Panzo	France	10.49 s

Date: July 25, 1980, 8:15 p.m.

Wind: +1.11 m / s

In the absence of the US sprinters, the Cuban Silvio Leonard and the British Allan Wells were the favorites. After the semi-finals, this favorite duo became a trio: the Bulgarian Petar Petrow had defeated Leonard wafer-thin. The 1976 Olympic runner-up, Jamaican Donald Quarrie, was also back at the start. However, he no longer had the shape of past successful years and was eliminated in the semifinals.

The fight for the Olympic victory was closer than seldom before. The placements for the gold and silver medals could only be determined by evaluating the target photograph . Wells and Leonard were clearly ahead of their competitors with 10.25 seconds at the same time. The decision was then made in favor of the British. Allan Wells was Olympic champion ahead of Silvio Leonard, while Petar Petrow secured bronze ahead of Alexander Aksinin from the USSR.

The level on this short sprint route was significantly affected. Above all, the lack of US athletes was particularly noticeable here. In all games since 1964, the performances had been significantly better.

Allan Wells was the last white 100-meter Olympic champion to date - as of December 2017 .

Petar Petrov won the first Bulgarian medal in this discipline.

Video

• Allan Wells Powers To 100m Gold For Great Britain - Moscow 1980 Olympics , published April 9, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed December 24, 2017

Web links

• SportsReference 100 m , accessed December 24, 2017
• Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 24f, 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. 25, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 24, 2017
4. ↑ SportsReference , accessed December 24, 2017