1980 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Pentathlon (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	Pentathlon
gender	Women
Attendees	19 athletes from 10 countries
Competition location	Luzhniki Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 24, 1980
Medalists Nadija Tkachenko ( URS )   Olga Rukavischnikowa ( URS )   Olga Kuragina ( URS )

The women's pentathlon at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow was played on July 24, 1980 in the Luzhniki Olympic Stadium. Nineteen athletes took part. The pentathlon was on the Olympic program for the last time. In 1984 in Los Angeles the heptathlon was introduced instead . A 1977 modified all-around table was used to determine the points. The competition was held here for the only time at the Olympic Games in one day. The final 200-meter run has been replaced by the 800-meter run since 1977 .

Olympic champion was Nadija Tkachenko from the Soviet Union, who set a new world record. She won ahead of her compatriots Olga Rukawischnikowa and Olga Kuragina .

It was thanks to a questionable decision by the President of the IAAF , Adriaan Paulen, that Tkachenko was allowed to start at all . At the European Athletics Championships in 1978 , she had initially achieved the highest number of points of all female competitors in the pentathlon. However, she was subsequently disqualified for violating the doping rules. She was stripped of her title and was banned for life. Adriaan Paulen later lifted this suspension so that Tkachenko could start here in Moscow .

With Christine Laser , Ramona Neubert and Burglinde Pollak , three athletes from the GDR competed. Laser broke off the competition after the third discipline, Neubert was fourth, Pollak sixth.
Athletes 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	4856 points	Olga Vitalievna Kuragina ( Soviet Union )	Moscow , Soviet Union (now Russia )	June 20, 1980
Olympic record	4801 points	Mary Peters ( Great Britain )	Pentathlon of Munich , FR Germany (today Germany )	2/3. September 1972

Note:
Up to and including 1976 , the 200-meter race was part of the pentathlon. This discipline was replaced by the 800-meter run in 1977 . So the scores of the world record and the Olympic record are actually not comparable. At the 1972 Olympic Games , where Mary Peters set the Olympic record, the 1971 scoring table was used to determine the number of points. After the change of discipline, the table from 1977 was used, which was used for Olga Kuragina's world record.

Time schedule

July 24, 9.30 a.m .: 100-meter hurdles
July 24, 10.30 a.m .: Shot put
July 24, 12.30 p.m .: High jump
July 24, 5.10 p.m .: Long jump
July 24, 8.55 p.m .: 800-meter run

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

Participants

Nineteen athletes from twelve countries took part in the Olympic competition:

Surname	nation
Sylvia Barlag	Netherlands
Valentina Dimitrova	Bulgaria
Conceição Geremias	Brazil
Małgorzata Guzowska	Poland
Marcela Koblasová	Czechoslovakia
Emilija Kunova	Bulgaria
Olga Kuragina	Soviet Union
Christine Laser	GDR
Judy Livermore	Great Britain
Susan Longden	Great Britain
Ramona Neubert	GDR
Cécile Ngambi	Cameroon
Margit Papp	Hungary
Florence Picaut	France
Burglinde Pollak	GDR
Olga Rukavischnikowa	Soviet Union
Nadia Tkachenko	Soviet Union
Nancy Vallecilla	Ecuador
Yvette Wray	Great Britain

Disciplines

100 meter hurdles

The discipline was carried out in three runs.

Classification space Surname time Points 01 Kuragina 13.26 s 964 02 Tkachenko 13.29 s 960 03 Livermore 13.57 s 922 04th Rukavishnikova 13.66 s 910 05 laser 13.67 s 909 06th Kunowa 13.73 s 901 07th Pollak 13.74 s 899 08th Picaut 13.75 s 898 09 Wray 13.78 s 894 10 Neubert 13.93 s 875 11 Cardboard 13.96 s 871 12 Ngambi 14.09 s 855 13 Koblasová 14.10 s 853 Longden 15th Guzowska 14.16 s 846 16 Cash lag 14.20 s 841 17th Geremias 14.33 s 825 18th Dimitrova 14.39 s 818 19th Vallecilla 14.46 s 810

Shot put

Olympic champion Nadia Tkachenko, USSR

Silver medal for Olga Rukawischnikowa from the USSR

Nadija Tkachenko was 70 points ahead of Burglinde Pollak. Olga Kuragina had dropped to seventh place.

Classification space Surname Best Points 01 Tkachenko 16.84 m 994 02 Pollak 16.67 m 985 03 Dimitrova 15.65 m 931 04th Cardboard 14.94 m 891 05 Rukavishnikova 14.09 m 844 06th Neubert 13.68 m 820 07th Guzowska 13.63 m 817 08th Livermore 13.56 m 813 09 Koblasová 13.42 m 805 10 laser 13.39 m 803 11 Picaut 13.24 m 794 12 Geremias 13.16 m 789 13 Kuragina 12.49 m 749 14th Wray 12.01 m 720 15th Kunowa 11.98 m 718 16 Cash lag 11.82 m 708 17th Longden 11.47 m 686 18th Vallecilla 11.12 m 663 19th Ngambi 10.28 m 608

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Tkachenko 1954 02 Pollak 1884 03 Cardboard 1762 04th Rukavishnikova 1754 05 Dimitrova 1749 06th Livermore 1735 07th Kuragina 1713 08th laser 1712 09 Neubert 1695 10 Picaut 1692 11 Guzowska 1663 12 Koblasová 1658 13 Kunowa 1619 14th Geremias 1614 Wray 16 Cash lag 1549 17th Longden 1539 18th Vallecilla 1473 19th Ngambi 1463

high jump

Sylvia Barlag from the Netherlands came in tenth

At 1.88 m, Olga Rukawischnikowa achieved the greatest height in the high jump in the Olympic pentathlon.
Nadija Tkachenko extended her lead to 164 points. Behind her was the high jump winner Rukawischnikowa ahead of Burglinde Pollak, who was 18 points ahead of Olga Kuragina.

Classification space Surname height Points 01 Rukavishnikova 1.88 m 1104 02 Kuragina 1.84 m 1068 Tkachenko 04th Cash lag 1.80 m 1031 Guzowska Ngambi Picaut 08th Livermore 1.77 m 1002 Neubert 10 Dimitrova 1.74 m 974 Kunowa Longden Cardboard 14th Geremias 1.71 m 945 Koblasová 16 Pollak 1.68 m 915 Vallecilla 18th Wray 1.65 m 885 - laser - 0

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Tkachenko 3022 02 Rukavishnikova 2858 03 Pollak 2799 04th Kuragina 2781 05 Livermore 2737 06th Cardboard 2736 07th Dimitrova 2723 Picaut 09 Neubert 2697 10 Guzowska 2694 11 Koblasová 2603 12 Kunowa 2593 13 Cash lag 2580 14th Geremias 2559 15th Longden 2513 16 Wray 2499 17th Ngambi 2494 18th Vallecilla 2388 19th laser 1712

Long jump

The Olympic sixth Burglinde Pollak from the GDR

Christine Laser from the GDR did not take part in this fourth discipline.
With 6.79 m, Olga Rukawischnikowa achieved the greatest distance in the long jump in the Olympic pentathlon.
Nadija Tkachenko's lead had shrunk to 152 points. Burglinde Pollak had lost ground with her weak long jump and was now in sixth place behind Olga Kuragina, Ramona Neubert and Margit Papp.

Classification space Surname Expanse Points 01 Rukavishnikova 6.79 m 1074 02 Kuragina 6.77 m 1070 03 Tkachenko 6.73 m 1062 04th Neubert 6.63 m 1041 05 Cardboard 6.35 m 982 06th Guzowska 6.21 m 952 07th Koblasová 6.15 m 939 08th Kunowa 6.10 m 928 09 Longden 6.09 m 926 10 Cash lag 6.05 m 917 11 Geremias 5.97 m 900 12 Pollak 5.93 m 891 13 Dimitrova 5.91 m 886 14th Picaut 5.83 m 869 15th Livermore 5.71 m 842 16 Wray 5.60 m 817 17th Vallecilla 5.45 m 782 18th Ngambi 5.38 m 766

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Tkachenko 4084 02 Rukavishnikova 3932 03 Kuragina 3851 04th Neubert 3738 05 Cardboard 3718 06th Pollak 3690 07th Guzowska 3646 08th Dimitrova 3609 09 Picaut 3592 10 Livermore 3579 11 Koblasová 3542 12 Kunowa 3521 13 Cash lag 3497 14th Geremias 3459 15th Longden 3439 16 Wray 3316 17th Ngambi 3260 18th Vallecilla 3170

800 meter run

The discipline was carried out in three runs.
Nancy Vallecilla from Ecuador did not participate in this last exercise.

Classification space Surname time Points 01 Kuragina 2: 03.6 min 1024 02 Rukavishnikova 2: 04.8 min 1005 03 Tkachenko 2: 05.2 min 999 04th Neubert 2: 07.7 min 960 05 Kunowa 2: 11.1 min 910 06th Pollak 2: 14.4 min 863 07th Dimitrova 2: 15.5 min 849 08th Cardboard 2: 15.8 min 844 09 Wray 2: 15.9 min 843 10 Cash lag 2: 16.4 min 836 11 Picaut 2: 16.7 min 832 12 Geremias 2: 18.9 min 804 13 Longden 2: 19.6 min 795 14th Koblasová 2: 20.3 min 786 15th Livermore 2: 25.3 min 725 16 Guzowska 2: 29.3 min 680 17th Ngambi 2: 39.7 min 572

Bottom line

space	Surname	nation	Points - official rating	Points - more recent 1980 rating
1	Nadia Tkachenko	Soviet Union	5083 WR	5213
2	Olga Rukavischnikowa	Soviet Union	4937	5051
3	Olga Vitalievna Kuragina	Soviet Union	4875	4964
4th	Ramona Neubert	GDR	4698	4750
5	Margit Papp	Hungary	4562	4584
6th	Burglinde Pollak	GDR	4553	4545
7th	Valentina Dimitrova	Bulgaria	4458	4439
8th	Emilija Kunova	Bulgaria	4431	4409
9	Florence Picaut	France	4424	4402
10	Sylvia Barlag	Netherlands	4333	4315
11	Marcela Koblasová	Czechoslovakia	4328	4301
12	Małgorzata Guzowska	Poland	4326	4320
13	Judy Livermore	Great Britain	4304	4261
14th	Conceição Geremias	Brazil	4263	4216
15th	Susan Longden	Great Britain	4234	4199
16	Yvette Wray	Great Britain	4159	4076
17th	Cécile Ngambi	Cameroon	3832	3733

Date: July 26, 1980, o'clock

This competition took place under a number of dubious circumstances. The US Olympic boycott meant that Jane Fredericks could not be there as a medal candidate. The later Soviet Olympic champion Nadija Tkachenko was allowed to participate. She had violated doping rules two years earlier , had been disqualified and suspended for life, but was again pardoned.

Tkachenko was one of the favorites alongside world record holder Olga Kuragina and Olga Rukawischnikowa - both from the USSR. The three GDR athletes Burglinde Pollak, Ramona Neubert and Christine Laser were also among the medal candidates, like the Hungarian European champion from 1978 Margit Papp.

The Soviet athletes got off to a good start over the 100 meter hurdles and finished first, second and fourth with excellent times. Her opponents already lost a lot of ground here. In the shot put , Tkachenko and Pollak were well ahead of the other participants. The point differences were already considerable. Tkachenko was 70 points ahead of Pollak. Papp had improved to third, but the gap to Tkachenko was already 192 points. Behind it, however, it was closer. Rukawischnikowa followed in fourth place, who was exactly 200 points behind the leader. In the high jump , Rukawischnikowa made up a lot of ground with the best jump ever made in an Olympic pentathlon. She mastered 1.88 m, but Tkachenko and Kuragina were also not far behind with 1.84 m. In the interim standings, Tkachenko continued to lead with 164 points. Rukawischnikowa was now second, 59 points ahead of Pollak. Kuragina was 241 points behind Tkachenko in fourth place.

The jump specialist Rukawischnikowa also shone in the long jump with 6.79 m, a distance that had never before been achieved in an Olympic pentathlon. But Kuragina with 6.77 m and Tkachenko with 6.73 m were not far behind either. So the three Soviet all-rounders led the field before the last discipline. The point differences between each other and also in front of the other participants were large. The three Soviet athletes were also rated strong over 800 meters , so that it seemed hardly possible to change the medal distribution. In fact, Kuragina, Rukavischnikowa and Tkachenko dominated the middle distance in that order. With times between 2: 03.6 min and 2: 05.2 min, they also took first to third place in this discipline. The end result brought a new world record for Olympic champion Nadija Tkachenko with 5083 points. Olga Rukawischnikowa was second, 146 points behind. Olga Kuragina won the bronze medal. With her 4875 points she was exactly 208 points behind the winner. Ramona Neubert came fourth ahead of Margit Papp and Burglinde Pollak.

With three medals won, the Soviet Union is the most successful nation in the women's Olympic pentathlon at the Olympic Games. Soviet pentathletes won five medals for their country.

For a better classification of the performance, in addition to the official points according to the rating table from 1977, the number of points converted according to the current rating system from 1980 is also given. According to this table, which is valid today, there would have been only one deviation: the athletes in positions eleven and twelve would have swapped places. Otherwise the order would be unchanged. But these comparisons are of course only indicative, because the different standards of the time must apply as a basis.

Web links

• SportsReference Pentathlon , accessed January 4, 2018
• Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 94f, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on January 4, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Article in Spiegel from October 4, 1982 , accessed on January 4, 2018
2. ↑ World Records Progression , Pentathlon, accessed December 21, 2017
3. ↑ Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 17, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on January 4, 2018
4. ↑ SportsReference Pentathlon (high jump) , accessed January 4, 2018
5. ↑ SportsReference Pentathlon (long jump) , accessed January 4, 2018
6. ↑ Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 95, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on January 4, 2018