1980 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 4 × 100 m (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	4 x 100 meter relay
gender	Men
Attendees	64 athletes from 16 countries
Competition location	Luzhniki Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 31, 1980 (preliminary round) August 1, 1980 (final)
Medalist  URS  POLE  FRA

The men's 4 x 100 meter relay at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow was held on July 31 and August 1, 1980 in the Luzhniki Olympic Stadium. 64 athletes took part in 16 relays.

Olympic champions became the team of the Soviet Union ( Vladimir Muravyov , Nikolai Sidorov , Alexander Aksinin , Andrei Prokofiev ). The silver medal went to the Polish relay with Krzysztof Zwoliński , Zenon Licznerski , Leszek Dunecki and Marian Woronin , and bronze to France with Antoine Richard , Pascal Barré , Patrick Barré and Hermann Panzo .

The GDR relay reached the final and finished fifth.
Relays from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part. A team from the Federal Republic of Germany was also not at the start because of the Olympic boycott.

Existing records

World record	38.03 s	USA ( Bill Collins , Steve Riddick , Cliff Wiley , Steve Williams )	Düsseldorf , Federal Republic of Germany	3rd September 1977
Olympic record	38.19 s	USA ( Larry Black , Robert Taylor , Gerald Tinker , Eddie Hart )	Final of Munich , Federal Republic of Germany	September 10, 1972

Conducting the competition

The relays competed on July 31st for two preliminary runs. The first three and the two fastest teams below qualified for the final on August 1st.

Time schedule

July 31, 10.30 a.m .: Preliminaries

August 1st, 5:50 p.m .: Final

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

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

Preliminary round

Date: July 31, 1980, from 10.30 a.m.

Forward 1

space	Season	occupation	time	annotation
1	Soviet Union	Vladimir Muravyov Nikolai Sidorov Alexander Aksinin Andrei Prokofiev	38.68 s
2	France	Antoine Richard Pascal Barré Patrick Barré Hermann Panzo	39.01 s
3	Bulgaria	Pavel Pavlov Vladimir Ivanov Ivajlo Karanyotov Petar Petrov	39.25 s
4th	Jamaica	Donald Quarrie Colin Bradford Michael Davis Albert Lawrence	39.71 s
5	Trinidad and Tobago	Edwin Noel Hasely Crawford Christopher Brathwaite Andrew Bruce	39.74 s
6th	Senegal	Boubacar Diallo Momar N'Dao Cheikh Touradou Diouf Issa case	40.25 s
7th	Seychelles	Marc Larose Régis Tranquille Casimir Pereira Vincent Confait	41.71 s
DNF	Cuba	Osvaldo Lara Alejandro Casañas Silvio Leonard Tomás González

Forward 2

space	Season	occupation	time	annotation
1	GDR	Sören Schlegel Eugen Ray Bernhard Hoff Thomas Munkelt	38.65 s
2	Poland	Krzysztof Zwoliński Zenon Licznerski Leszek Dunecki Marian Voronin	38.83 s
3	Great Britain	Mike McFarlane Allan Wells Cameron Sharp Drew McMaster	39.20 s
4th	Nigeria	Hammed Adio Kayode Elegbede Samson Oyeledun Peter Okodogbe	39.48 s
5	Brazil	Milton de Castro Nelson dos Santos Katsuhiko Nakaya Altevir de Araújo	39.48 s
6th	Hungary	István Tatár István Nagy László Babály Ferenc Kiss	39.97 s
7th	People's Republic of the Congo	Louis Nkanza Théophile Nkounkou Jean-Pierre Bassegela Antoine Kiakouama	40.09 s
8th	Sierra Leone	Rudolph George Sheku Boima William Akabi-Davis Walter During	42.53 s

final

space	Season	occupation	time	annotation
1	Soviet Union	Vladimir Muravyov Nikolai Sidorov Alexander Aksinin Andrei Prokofiev	38.26 s
2	Poland	Krzysztof Zwoliński Zenon Licznerski Leszek Dunecki Marian Voronin	38.33 s
3	France	Antoine Richard Pascal Barré Patrick Barré Hermann Panzo	38.53 s
4th	Great Britain	Mike McFarlane Allan Wells Cameron Sharp Drew McMaster	38.62 s
5	GDR	Sören Schlegel Eugen Ray Bernhard Hoff Thomas Munkelt	38.73 s
6th	Bulgaria	Pavel Pavlov Vladimir Ivanov Ivajlo Karanyotov Petar Petrov	38.99 s
7th	Nigeria	Hammed Adio Kayode Elegbede Samson Oyeledun Peter Okodogbe	39.12 s
8th	Brazil	Milton de Castro Nelson dos Santos Katsuhiko Nakaya Altevir de Araújo	39.54 s

Date: August 1st, 5:50 p.m.

Because of the Olympic boycott, the US-Americans, by far the strongest season in recent years, were not there. The US team had won all gold medals since 1964 and the team would have started as the clear favorite in Moscow . The squadrons from Poland, Cuba and the Soviet Union in particular were considered candidates for medals. However, the highly rated Cubans were eliminated in the preliminary run after they had abandoned the race with a significant deficit due to a bad substitution.

In the final, the seasons stayed the same until the first change. The GDR sprinter Eugen Ray was able to take the lead, but a weak move caused the team to fall back while the Soviet relay took over the lead. The Polish final runner, Marian Voronin, caught up slightly on the home stretch, but the USSR, with Andrei Prokofiev as the last runner, could not take the victory. France won the bronze medal behind Poland, ahead of Great Britain and the GDR.

The quality of this competition was high despite the lack of a US season. The winning time was better than four years before. Six seasons stayed under 39 seconds. In Montreal 1976 only four teams had succeeded, in Munich 1972 five teams had undercut this mark.

The Soviet relay achieved the first Olympic victory over 4 times 100 meters .

Web links

• SportsReference 4 × 100 m , accessed on December 29, 2017
• Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 40f, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 29, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 561 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on 29 December 2017
2. ↑ Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 17, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 29, 2017
3. ↑ ^{a b} Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 41, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 29, 2017
4. ↑ SportsReference , accessed December 29, 2017