1980 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 110 m hurdles (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	110 meter hurdles
gender	Men
Attendees	23 athletes from 16 countries
Competition location	Luzhniki Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 25, 1980 (preliminary round) July 27, 1980 (semi-finals / finals)
Medalist Thomas Munkelt ( GDR )   Alejandro Casañas ( CUB )   Alexander Putschkow ( URS )

The men's 110-meter hurdles at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow was held on July 25 and 27, 1980 in the Luzhniki Olympic Stadium. 23 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was Thomas Munkelt from the GDR. He won ahead of the Cubans Alejandro Casañas and Alexander Putschkow from the Soviet Union.

In addition to the Olympic champion, Thomas Dittrich and Andreas Schlißke also competed for the GDR. Both were eliminated in the semi-finals.
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	13.00 s	Renaldo Nehemiah ( USA )	Los Angeles , USA	May 6, 1979
Olympic record	13.24 s	Rod Milburn ( USA )	Final of Munich , Federal Republic of Germany	7th September 1972

Conducting the competition

The athletes competed in three heats on July 25th. The four best runners and the four fastest runners reached the semi-finals on July 27th. Here, the four best runners qualified for the final, which took place on the same day.

Time schedule

July 25, 12 noon: Preliminary
July 27, 5 p.m .: Semi-finals
July 27, 7 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 25, 1980, from noon

Forward 1

Wind: +0.15 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Yuri Chervanyov	Soviet Union	13.75 s
2	Jan Pusty	Poland	13.84 s
3	Plamen Krastew	Bulgaria	13.95 s
4th	Andreas Schlißke	GDR	14.18 s
5	Petar Vukićević	Yugoslavia	14.19 s
6th	Bernard Mabikana	People's Republic of the Congo	15.42 s
7th	Maher Hreitani	Syria	15.45 s
DNF	Július Ivan	Czechoslovakia

Forward 2

Wind: +0.48 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Thomas Munkelt	GDR	13.55 s
2	Andrei Prokofiev	Soviet Union	13.61 s
3	Javier Moracho	Spain	13.72 s
4th	Wilbert Greaves	Great Britain	13.85 s
5	Borisav Pisić	Yugoslavia	14.13 s
6th	Abdoulaye Sarr	Senegal	14.57 s
7th	Abdul Jabbar Rahima	Iraq	14.89 s

Forward 3

Wind: +0.91 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Alejandro Casañas	Cuba	13.46 s
2	Arto Bryggare	Finland	13.77 s
3	Mark Holtom	Great Britain	13.83 s
4th	Alexander Putschkov	Soviet Union	13.84 s
5	Thomas Dittrich	GDR	13.93 s
6th	Carlos Sala	Spain	14.28 s
7th	Abdul Ismail	Mozambique	15.18 s
8th	Antonio Gopal	Seychelles	16.36 s

Semifinals

Date: July 27, 1980, from 5 p.m.

Run 1

Wind: +0.68 m / s

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Alejandro Casañas	Cuba	13.44 s
2	Alexander Putschkov	Soviet Union	13.50 s
3	Yuri Nikolayevich Chervanyov	Soviet Union	13.78 s
4th	Javier Moracho	Spain	13.80 s
5	Thomas Dittrich	GDR	13.90 s
6th	Wilbert Greaves	Great Britain	13.98 s
7th	Borisav Pisić	Yugoslavia	14.16 s
8th	Andreas Schlißke	GDR	14.60 s

Run 2

Wind: +0.81 m / s

Olympic champion Thomas Munkelt, GDR

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Thomas Munkelt	GDR	13.49 s
2	Andrei Prokofiev	Soviet Union	13.59 s
3	Arto Bryggare	Finland	13.78 s
4th	Jan Pusty	Poland	13.81 s
5	Mark Holtom	Great Britain	13.94 s
6th	Plamen Krastew	Bulgaria	13.99 s
7th	Carlos Sala	Spain	14.00 s
8th	Petar Vukićević	Yugoslavia	14.12 s

final

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Thomas Munkelt	GDR	13.39 s
2	Alejandro Casañas	Cuba	13.40 s
3	Alexander Putschkov	Soviet Union	13.44 s
4th	Andrei Prokofiev	Soviet Union	13.49 s
5	Jan Pusty	Poland	13.68 s
6th	Arto Bryggare	Finland	13.76 s
7th	Javier Moracho	Spain	13.78 s
8th	Yuri Chervanyov	Soviet Union	15.80 s

Date: July 27, 1980, 7:00 p.m.

Wind: +0.86 m / s

The absence of the US hurdlers, especially the world record holder Renaldo Nehemiah and his teammate Greg Foster , led to a significant deterioration in the quality of this competition. The favorites were now the Cuban Alejandro Casañas and the GDR runner Thomas Munkelt, European champion from 1978 .

The Cuban had the best start in the final race, but touching the first two hurdles could not increase his pace fast enough. Rumors passed him. Casañas came up again, but it wasn't enough to get to the front. Thomas Munkelt won the gold medal ahead of Alejandro Casañas. Bronze went to Alexander Putschkow from the USSR.

Thomas Munkelt ran the 110 meter hurdles for the GDR's first Olympic victory . At the same time, it was the first ever German medal win in this discipline.

Video

• 1980 Moscow Olympic Games Athletics , range 11:33 min - 11:51 min, published on June 21, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed on December 27, 2017

Web links

• SportsReference 110m hurdles , accessed December 27, 2017
• Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 44f, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 27, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 554 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 27, 2017
2. ↑ Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 17, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 27, 2017
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 45, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 27, 2017
4. ↑ SportsReference , accessed December 27, 2017