1980 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 800 m (men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | 800 meter run | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 41 athletes from 28 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Luzhniki Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | July 24, 1980 (preliminary round) July 25, 1980 (semi-finals) July 26, 1980 (final) |
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The men's 800-meter run at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow was held on July 24, 25 and 26, 1980 in the Luzhniki Olympic Stadium. 41 athletes took part.
The British Steve Ovett was the Olympic champion . He won ahead of his compatriot Sebastian Coe and Mikalaj Kirau from the Soviet Union.
Olaf Beyer , Andreas Busse and Detlef Wagenknecht started for the GDR . Beyer was eliminated in the semifinals. In the final, Busse and Wagenknecht finished fifth and sixth respectively. 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 | 1: 42.33 min | Sebastian Coe ( Great Britain ) | Oslo , Norway | 5th July 1979 |
Olympic record | 1: 43.50 min | Alberto Juantorena ( Cuba ) | Final of Montreal , Canada | July 25, 1976 |
Conducting the competition
The athletes competed in a total of six heats on July 24th. The three best runners and the six fastest runners reached the semi-finals on July 25th. In each of the three semi-finals, the two best runners and the two fastest runners qualified for the final, which took place on July 24th.
Time schedule
July 24, 7:25 p.m .: Preliminaries
July 25, 6:15 p.m .: Semi-finals
July 26, 7:25 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 7:25 p.m.
Forward 1
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Steve Ovett | Great Britain | 1: 49.4 min | |
2 | Antonio Páez | Spain | 1: 49.5 min | |
3 | Philippe Dupont | France | 1: 49.6 min | |
4th | Sriram Singh | India | 1: 49.8 min | |
5 | Abebe Zerihun | Ethiopia | 1: 50.3 min | |
6th | Langa Mudongo | Botswana | 1: 52.5 min | |
7th | Kenneth Hlasa | Lesotho | 1: 56.1 min |
Forward 2
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Detlef Wagenknecht | GDR | 1: 47.5 min | |
2 | Mikalaj Kirau | Soviet Union | 1: 47.5 min | |
3 | András Paróczai | Hungary | 1: 47.5 min | |
4th | Colomán Trabado | Spain | 1: 47.9 min | |
5 | Musa Luliga | Tanzania | 1: 49.6 min | |
6th | Jón Didriksson | Iceland | 1: 51.1 min | |
7th | George branch | Sierra Leone | 1: 54.6 min |
Forward 3
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Andreas Busse | GDR | 1: 47.4 min | |
2 | Anatoly Reshetnyak | Soviet Union | 1: 47.9 min | |
3 | Agberto Guimarães | Brazil | 1: 48.2 min | |
4th | William Wuycke | Venezuela | 1: 48.5 min | |
5 | Derradji Harek | Algeria | 1: 49.9 min | |
6th | Tisbite Rakotoarisoa | Madagascar | 1: 50.5 min | |
7th | Khaled Hussain | Kuwait | 1: 54.6 min |
Forward 4
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Sebastian Coe | Great Britain | 1: 48.5 min | |
2 | Roger Milhau | France | 1: 48.5 min | |
3 | Binko Kolew | Bulgaria | 1: 48.7 min | |
4th | Carlo Grippo | Italy | 1: 48.9 min | |
5 | Archfell Musango | Zambia | 1: 51.6 min | |
6th | Mohamed Makhlouf | Syria | 1: 52.3 min | |
7th | Jimmy Massallay | Sierra Leone | 2: 04.4 min |
Forward 5
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Olaf Beyer | GDR | 1: 48.9 min | |
2 | Milovan Savic | Yugoslavia | 1: 49.2 min | |
3 | Owen Hamilton | Jamaica | 1: 49.3 min | |
4th | Salem El-Margini | Libya | 1: 50.0 min | |
5 | Atre Bezabeh | Ethiopia | 1: 52.7 min | |
6th | Adam Assimi | Benin | 1: 59.9 min |
Forward 6
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | José Marajo | France | 1: 49.6 min | |
2 | David Warren | Great Britain | 1: 49.9 min | |
3 | Mehdi Aidet | Algeria | 1: 50.4 min | |
4th | Nigusse Bekele | Ethiopia | 1: 51.1 min | |
5 | Sekou Camara | Guinea | 1: 58.9 min | |
6th | Vongdeuane Phongsavanh | Laos | 2: 05.5 min | |
7th | Sahr Kendor | Sierra Leone | 2: 06.5 min |
Semifinals
Date: July 25, 1980, from 6.15 p.m.
Run 1
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Steve Ovett | Great Britain | 1: 46.6 min | |
2 | Andreas Busse | GDR | 1: 46.9 min | |
3 | Agberto Guimarães | Brazil | 1: 46.9 min | |
4th | Owen Hamilton | Jamaica | 1: 47.6 min | |
5 | Milovan Savic | Yugoslavia | 1: 47.6 min | |
6th | Roger Milhau | France | 1: 48.1 min | |
7th | Colomán Trabado | Spain | 1: 48.1 min | |
8th | Mehdi Aidet | Algeria | 1: 48.2 min |
Run 2
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Sebastian Coe | Great Britain | 1: 46.7 min | |
2 | Detlef Wagenknecht | GDR | 1: 46.7 min | |
3 | Binko Kolew | Bulgaria | 1: 47.3 min | |
4th | William Wuycke | Venezuela | 1: 47.4 min | |
5 | Anatoly Reshetnyak | Soviet Union | 1: 48.2 min | |
6th | Philippe Dupont | France | 1: 49.7 min | |
7th | Musa Luliga | Tanzania | 1: 51.5 min | |
8th | Derradji Harrek | Algeria | 1: 51.9 min |
Run 3
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Mikalaj Kirau | Soviet Union | 1: 46.6 min | |
2 | David Warren | Great Britain | 1: 47.2 min | |
3 | José Marajo | France | 1: 47.3 min | |
4th | Olaf Beyer | GDR | 1: 47.6 min | |
5 | Antonio Páez | Spain | 1: 47.8 min | |
6th | Carlo Grippo | Italy | 1: 48.7 min | |
7th | András Paróczai | Hungary | 1: 48.8 min | |
8th | Sriram Singh | India | 1: 49.0 min |
final
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Steve Ovett | Great Britain | 1: 45.4 min | |
2 | Sebastian Coe | Great Britain | 1: 45.9 min | |
3 | Mikalaj Kirau | Soviet Union | 1: 46.0 min | |
4th | Agberto Guimarães | Brazil | 1: 46.2 min | |
5 | Andreas Busse | GDR | 1: 46.9 min | |
6th | Detlef Wagenknecht | GDR | 1: 47.0 min | |
7th | José Marajo | France | 1: 47.3 min | |
8th | David Warren | Great Britain | 1: 49.3 min |
Date: July 26, 1980, 7:25 p.m.
The men's middle-distance races were awaited with great excitement . The two best middle distance athletes of their time, the British Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett, would meet here. Up until the games in Moscow , they had avoided each other at the major international athletics events by starting on different track lengths. Here, however, Coe and Ovett had reported for both the 800 and 1500 meter run . They were the clear favorites on both tracks. For the shorter middle distance, which was held here first, the experts saw Coe as the favorites, for the longer ones Ovett. Another candidate for a medal for the 800 meter run was Olaf Beyer, who had become European champion in 1978 with an excellent time and even left Ovett and Coe behind. But Beyer was surprisingly eliminated in the semi-finals. Otherwise the American Don Paige was absent because of his country's Olympic boycott .
The final race started rather leisurely. The Brazilian Agberto Guimarães led the packed field through the first lap. The intermediate time at 400 meters was 54.55 seconds. There was a considerable increase in tempo here. David Warren, who had been second up until then, took the initiative and took the lead. Coe ran at the end of the field and missed the connection for a brief moment. Then the Soviet athlete Mikalaj Kirau went in front and kept the pace high. The field grew significantly apart. In the final corner only Ovett had a direct connection to Kirau. Coe had to go a long way from behind to get close again. At the beginning of the home stretch Kirau continued ahead of Ovett, Guimarães and Coe. There was already a gap behind it. Ovett easily passed Kirau in the last 80 meters. Coe's gap to the front was too big, he couldn't endanger his compatriot anymore. Steve Ovett was Olympic champion ahead of Sebastian Coe, who ran past Guimarães and Kirau to the silver medal with a strong finish. Mikalaj Kirau saved bronze in front of Agberto Guimarães.
After the slow first lap, top times were no longer possible. But the front runners had mastered the second half of the course in a very fast 51 seconds.
Video
- 1980 Olympics in Moscow the 800m final - winner Steve Ovett , published August 16, 2016 on youtube.com, accessed December 24, 2017
Web links
- SportsReference 800m , accessed December 24, 2017
- Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 30f, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 24, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 548 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on 24 December 2017
- ↑ Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 17, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 24, 2017
- ↑ a b c Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 31, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 24, 2017
- ↑ SportsReference , accessed December 24, 2017