1980 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Shot Put (Men)
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sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Shot put | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 16 athletes from 11 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Luzhniki Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | July 28, 1980 (qualifying) July 30, 1980 (final) |
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The men's shot put at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow was held on July 28 and 30, 1980 in the Luzhniki Olympic Stadium. 16 athletes took part.
Olympic champion was Vladimir Kisselev from the Soviet Union. He won ahead of his compatriot Alexander Baryschnikow and Udo Beyer from the GDR.
In addition to the medalist Beyer, Hans-Jürgen Jacobi competed for the GDR . He also reached the final and finished sixth there.
Jean-Pierre Egger from Switzerland also made it to the final. He finished twelfth.
Shot putters from 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 | 22.15 m |
Udo Beyer ( GDR )
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Gothenburg , Sweden | July 6, 1978 |
Olympic record | 21.32 m |
Alexander Baryshnikov ( Soviet Union )
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Montreal , Canada Qualifying | July 23, 1976 |
Conducting the competition
The athletes competed in a qualifying round on July 28th. Since there were only sixteen participants, this elimination was carried out together in one group. The qualifying distance for directly reaching the final on July 30th was 19.60 m. Since exactly twelve athletes reached this distance, the final field was not filled any further.
Time schedule
July 28, 10:30 a.m .: Qualification
July 30, 6:35 p.m .: Final
Note: All times are local time Moscow ( UTC + 3 )
The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.
qualification
Date: July 28, 1980, 10:30 a.m.
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Vladimir Kisselev |
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20.72 m | - | - | 20.72 m | |
2 | Alexander Baryshnikov |
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20.58 m | - | - | 20.58 m | |
3 | Vladimir Milic |
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20.56 m | - | - | 20.56 m | |
4th | Reijo Ståhlberg |
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20.53 m | - | - | 20.53 m | |
5 | Anatoly Yarosh |
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20.19 m | - | - | 20.19 m | |
6th | Udo Beyer |
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19.94 m | - | - | 19.94 m | |
7th | Hans-Jürgen Jacobi |
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19.15 m | 19.57 m | 19.92 m | 19.92 m | |
8th | Geoff Capes |
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19.75 m | - | - | 19.75 m | |
9 | Hreinn Halldórsson |
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19.29 m | 19.74 m | - | 19.74 m | |
10 | Jaromír Vlk |
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19.58 m | 19.69 m | - | 19.69 m | |
11 | Óskar Jakobsson |
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19.30 m | x | 19.66 m | 19.66 m | |
12 | Jean-Pierre Egger |
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19.61 m | - | - | 19.61 m | |
13 | Nikola Hristow |
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17.82 m | 18.94 m | 19.01 m | 19.01 m | |
14th | Mohamed Al-Zinkawi |
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17.15 m | x | 17.03 m | 17.15 m | |
15th | Bahadur Singh Chouhan |
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17.05 m | 16.91 m | 16.72 m | 17.05 m | |
ogV | Waltscho Stoyev |
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x | x | x | without space |
final
Date: July 30, 1980, 6:35 p.m.
The favorite was the 1976 Olympic champion , Udo Beyer, who was also the world record holder and 1978 European champion . The strongest competitor was the silver medalist from Montreal , Alexander Baryschnikow. The American elite was lacking, but their athletes were not strong enough in those years to be among the narrowest circle of medal contenders.
The Soviet athlete Vladimir Kisseljow, who had already reached the greatest distance in qualifying, took the lead in the first lap with 21.10 m. Behind him lay the Briton Geoff Capes, followed by Hans-Jürgen Jacobi from the GDR. Baryschnikow moved up to second place with 21.08 m in the second attempt, Beyer followed in third place. In the third attempt, Beyer came within two centimeters of Baryschnikow, while Kisseljow hit the ball on the new Olympic record of 21.35 m. In the fourth round nothing changed, in the fifth the Finn Reijo Ståhlberg moved past Capes to fourth place. Nothing changed in the last series of tests either. With that, Vladimir Kisseljow was surprisingly Olympic champion ahead of the actual favorites Alexander Baryschnikow - silver - and Udo Beyer - bronze.
Vladimir Kisselev became the first Soviet Olympic champion in the shot put .
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | 4th attempt | 5th attempt | 6th attempt | Bottom line | annotation |
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1 | Vladimir Kisselev |
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21.10 m | 20.86 m | 21.35 m OR | 21.03 m | 21.00 m | x | 21.35 m | OR |
2 | Alexander Baryshnikov |
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20.20 m | 21.08 m | 20.66 m | 20.39 m | x | x | 21.08 m | |
3 | Udo Beyer |
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x | 20.70 m | 21.06 m | 20.98 m | x | x | 21.06 m | |
4th | Reijo Ståhlberg |
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19.83 m | x | 20.20 m | 19.63 m | 20.82 m | 20.58 m | 20.82 m | |
5 | Geoff Capes |
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20.50 m | x | 19.47 m | x | 19.69 m | 19.23 m | 20.50 m | |
6th | Hans-Jürgen Jacobi |
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20.32 m | x | 19.80 m | 19.50 m | x | 20.00 m | 20.32 m | |
7th | Jaromír Vlk |
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20.24 m | x | 19.77 m | 19.62 m | 19.84 m | 20.01 m | 20.24 m | |
8th | Vladimir Milic |
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20.07 m | x | 19.69 m | x | 20.06 m | x | 20.07 m | |
9 | Anatoly Yarosh |
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19.63 m | 19.93 m | x | not in the final of the eight best athletes |
19.93 m | |||
10 | Hreinn Halldórsson |
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19.55 m | 18.99 m | 19.16 m | 19.55 m | ||||
11 | Óskar Jakobsson |
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19.07 m | x | x | 19.07 m | ||||
12 | Jean-Pierre Egger |
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18.25 m | 18.26 m | 18.90 m | 18.90 m |
Web links
- SportsReference Shot Put , accessed December 31, 2017
- Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , pp. 60f, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 31, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 557 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on 31 December 2017
- ↑ Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 17, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 31, 2017
- ↑ a b Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 61, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 31, 2017
- ↑ SportsReference , accessed December 31, 2017