1980 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Decathlon (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Decathlon
gender	Men
Attendees	21 athletes from 12 countries
Competition location	Luzhniki Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	25-26 July 1980
Medalist Daley Thompson ( GBR )   Yuri Kuzenko ( URS )   Sergei Schelanow ( URS )

The men's decathlon at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow was played on July 25 and 26, 1980 in the Luzhniki Olympic Stadium. 21 athletes took part, 16 of them finished the competition. A decathlon table modified in 1977 was used as the basis for calculating the number of points.

The British Daley Thompson became Olympic champion . He won ahead of Yuri Kuzenko and Sergei Schelanow , both from the Soviet Union.

Steffen Grummt , Rainer Pottel and Siegfried Stark started for the GDR . Grumbled eighth. Stark gave up after the second, Pottel after the third. Georg Werthner and Sepp Zeilbauer
started for Austria . Werthner was fourth, Zeilbauer was fifth. The Swiss Stephan Niklaus came in twelfth. Athletes from 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	8649 points (8667)	Guido Kratschmer ( Federal Republic of Germany )	Filderstadt , Federal Republic of Germany	14./15. June 1980
Olympic record	8616 points (8634)	Bruce Jenner ( USA )	Montreal Decathlon , Canada	29./30. July 1976

Note:
The points mentioned result from various decathlon tables that are no longer valid today. For the 1976 Olympic record it was the 1971 rating system and for the 1980 world record it was the 1977 system. The number of points that would be obtained using the 1985 rating table valid today is given in brackets.

Conducting the competition

The decathlon was carried out according to the same rules as today. The ten disciplines took place over two days. Scoring was based on the points table from 1977.

Time schedule

July 25, 10:00 a.m .: 100-meter run

July 25, 11 a.m .: long jump

July 25th, 1 p.m .: Shot put

July 25, 2:30 p.m .: high jump

July 25, 5:30 p.m .: 400-meter run

July 26, 9:00 a.m .: 110-meter hurdles

July 26, 10 a.m .: Discus throw

July 26th, 12 noon: pole vault

July 26th, 3:30 p.m .: Javelin throw

July 26, 6:20 p.m .: 1500 meter run

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

Attendees

21 athletes from 12 countries took part in the Olympic competition:

Surname	nation
Atanas Andonow	Bulgaria
Columba Blango	Sierra Leone
Sandro Brogini	Italy
Steffen Grummt	GDR
Peter Hadfield	Australia
Raswigor Jankow	Bulgaria
Esa Jokinen	Finland
Valeriu Caceanov	Soviet Union
Yuri Kuzenko	Soviet Union
Johannes Lahti	Finland
Dariusz Ludwig	Poland
Bradley McStravick	Great Britain
Stephan Niklaus	Switzerland
Rainer Pottel	GDR
Miro Ronac	Peru
Sergei Shelanov	Soviet Union
Siegfried Stark	GDR
Janusz Szczerkowski	Poland
Daley Thompson	Great Britain
Georg Werthner	Austria
Sepp Zeilbauer	Austria

Disciplines

100 meter run

The discipline was carried out in three runs.

Classification space Surname time Points 01 Thompson 10.62 s 900 02 McStravick 10.97 s 812 03 Hadfield 11.04 s 795 04th Potty 11.16 s 766 05 Niklaus 11.17 s 763 06th Kuzenko 11.19 s 759 07th Caceanov 11.22 s 752 Szczerkowski 9 Jankow 11.26 s 742 10 Strong 11.27 s 740 11 Zeilbauer 11.29 s 735 12 Lahti 11.32 s 728 13 Grumbles 11.35 s 721 Ludwig 15th Andonov 11.38 s 715 16 Blango 11.40 s 710 Jokines Shelanov 19th Brogini 11.41 s 708 20th Werthner 11.44 s 701 21st Ronac 11.88 s 605

Long jump

East German decathlete Rainer Pottel retired after the third discipline, the shot put , from

With 8.00 m, Daley Thompson achieved the largest distance in the long jump in the Olympic decathlon.
With the first 8-meter jump in an Olympic decathlon, Daley Thompson extended his lead. Yuri Kuzenko was 192 points behind in second place.

Classification space Surname Expanse Points 01 Thompson 8.00 m 1020 02 Kuzenko 7.74 m 969 03 Caceanov 7.65 m 951 04th Shelanov 7.60 m 941 05 Ludwig 7.51 m 923 06th Szczerkowski 7.38 m 897 07th Hadfield 7.36 m 893 08th Brogini 7.33 m 887 09 Jokines 7.27 m 875 Werthner 11 Lahti 7.20 m 861 12 Zeilbauer 7.14 m 848 13 Strong 7.00 m 820 14th Niklaus 6.93 m 806 15th Andonov 6.86 m 791 Grumbles 17th McStravick 6.74 m 765 18th Ronac 6.72 m 761 19th Jankow 6.61 m 738 20th Blango 6.40 m 693 21st Potty without space 0

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Thompson 1920 02 Kuzenko 1728 03 Caceanov 1703 04th Hadfield 1688 05 Shelanov 1651 06th Szczerkowski 1649 07th Ludwig 1644 08th Brogini 1595 09 Lahti 1589 10 Jokines 1585 11 Zeilbauer 1583 12 McStravick 1577 13 Werthner 1576 14th Niklaus 1569 15th Strong 1560 16 Grumbles 1512 17th Andonov 1506 18th Jankow 1480 19th Blango 1403 20th Ronac 1366 21st Potty 766

Shot put

Siegfried Stark from the GDR did not participate in this third discipline.

Daley Thompson extended his lead over Juri Kuzenko to 232 points. Kuzenko's compatriot Valeriu Caceanov was 13 points behind. Fourth place was shared by Sergei Schelanow, also from the USSR, and the Austrian Sepp Zeilbauer.

Classification space Surname Expanse Points 01 Jankow 16.28 m 863 02 Grumbles 16.15 m 856 03 Andonov 15.59 m 823 04th Zeilbauer 15.31 m 807 05 Thompson 15.18 m 799 06th Caceanov 14.70 m 771 07th Kuzenko 14.50 m 759 08th Potty 14.32 m 747 09 Niklaus 14.29 m 746 10 Lahti 14.28 m 745 11 Shelanov 14.17 m 739 12 Jokines 14.12 m 736 13 Szczerkowski 14.06 m 732 14th McStravick 13.53 m 698 15th Werthner 13.45 m 693 16 Hadfield 13.34 m 686 17th Ludwig 13.32 m 685 18th Brogini 13.02 m 666 19th Ronac 12.60 m 639 20th Blango 10.00 m 460

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Thompson 2719 02 Kuzenko 2487 03 Caceanov 2474 04th Shelanov 2390 Zeilbauer 06th Szczerkowski 2381 07th Hadfield 2374 08th Grumbles 2368 09 Jankow 2343 10 Lahti 2334 11 Andonov 2329 Ludwig 13 Jokines 2321 14th Niklaus 2315 15th McStravick 2275 16 Werthner 2269 17th Brogini 2261 18th Ronac 2005 19th Blango 1863 20th Potty 1513

high jump

Rainer Pottel from the GDR did not take part in this fourth discipline.

With 2.18 m, Sergei Schelanow achieved the greatest height in the high jump in the Olympic decathlon.
Nothing changed in the first two ranks. Schelanow was able to work his way up to third place thanks to his best performance, which he shared with Valeriu Caceanov.

Classification space Surname height Points 01 Shelanov 2.18 m 1009 02 Caceanov 2.08 m 925 Kuzenko Ludwig Thompson 06th Brogini 2.06 m 909 Jokines 08th Lahti 2.03 m 882 Werthner Zeilbauer 11 Andonov 2.00 m 857 Szczerkowski 13 Niklaus 1.97 m 831 14th Grumbles 1.94 m 804 15th McStravick 1.91 m 779 Ronac 17th Blango 1.85 m 725 Hadfield Jankow

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Thompson 3644 02 Kuzenko 3412 03 Shelanov 3399 Caceanov 05 Zeilbauer 3272 06th Ludwig 3254 07th Szczerkowski 3238 08th Jokines 3230 09 Lahti 3216 10 Andonov 3186 11 Grumbles 3172 12 Brogini 3170 13 Werthner 3151 14th Niklaus 3146 15th Hadfield 3099 16 Jankow 3068 17th McStravick 3054 18th Ronac 2784 19th Blango 2588

400 meter run

The discipline was carried out in three runs.

Daley Thompson's lead over Yuri Kuzenko had now grown by a further 32 points to 264 points. Valeriu Caceanov was again the sole third, Sergei Schelanow had slipped to fourth due to his weak run, Sepp Zeilbauer even to seventh.

Classification space Surname time Points 01 Thompson 48.01 s 898 02 Hadfield 48.40 s 879 03 Caceanov 48.67 s 866 Kuzenko 05 McStravick 48.80 s 860 06th Jokines 49.06 s 848 07th Werthner 49.26 s 839 08th Shelanov 49.27 s 838 09 Grumbles 49.39 s 833 10 Szczerkowski 49.64 s 821 11 Niklaus 49.74 s 817 12 Lahti 50.06 s 802 13 Andonov 50.36 s 789 14th Jankow 50.37 s 789 15th Ludwig 50.55 s 781 16 Zeilbauer 50.91 s 765 17th Brogini 50.97 s 762 18th Ronac 52.45 s 701 19th Blango 53.48 s 659

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Thompson 4542 02 Kuzenko 4278 03 Caceanov 4265 04th Shelanov 4237 05 Jokines 4078 06th Szczerkowski 4059 07th Zeilbauer 4037 08th Ludwig 4035 09 Lahti 4018 10 Grumbles 4005 11 Werthner 3990 12 Hadfield 3978 13 Andonov 3975 14th Niklaus 3963 15th Brogini 3932 16 McStravick 3914 17th Jankow 3857 18th Ronac 3485 19th Blango 3247

110 meter hurdles

The discipline was carried out in three runs.

Daley Thompson's lead grew to 269 points. Valeriu Caceanov was able to oust Juri Kuzenko from second place. Behind Kuzenko, Sergei Schelanow was still fourth, ahead of Poland's Janusz Szczerkowski and Sepp Zeilbauer.

Classification space Surname time Points 01 Caceanov 14.40 s 915 02 Thompson 14.47 s 907 03 Szczerkowski 14.57 s 896 04th Zeilbauer 14.80 s 870 05 Grumbles 14.82 s 868 06th Andonov 14.83 s 867 Shelanov 08th Niklaus 14.96 s 853 09 Kuzenko 15.04 s 844 10 Werthner 15.08 s 840 11 Lahti 15.14 s 834 12 Hadfield 15.18 s 830 13 Brogini 15.21 s 826 14th McStravick 15.23 s 824 15th Ludwig 15.38 s 809 16 Blango 15.45 s 802 17th Jokines 15.62 s 785 18th Jankow 15.69 s 778 19th Ronac 17.19 s 645

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Thompson 5449 02 Caceanov 5180 03 Kuzenko 5122 04th Shelanov 5104 05 Szczerkowski 4955 06th Zeilbauer 4907 07th Grumbles 4873 08th Jokines 4863 09 Lahti 4852 10 Ludwig 4844 11 Andonov 4842 12 Werthner 4830 13 Niklaus 4816 14th Hadfield 4808 15th Brogini 4758 16 McStravick 4738 17th Jankow 4635 18th Ronac 4130 19th Blango 4049

Discus throw

Here Daley Thompson's lead over Valeriu Caceanov shrank to 198 points. Sergei Schelanow passed Yuri Kuzenko into third place. The GDR athlete Steffen Grummt had worked his way up to sixth place behind Janusz Szczerkowski.

Classification space Surname Expanse Points 01 Grumbles 48.56 m 846 02 Jankow 48.02 m 837 03 Andonov 47.62 m 829 04th Ronac 46.42 m 808 05 Caceanov 46.02 m 800 06th Ludwig 45.82 m 797 07th Hadfield 45.08 m 783 08th Szczerkowski 44.74 m 777 09 Zeilbauer 44.00 m 763 10 Shelanov 42.80 m 740 11 Lahti 42.44 m 733 12 Thompson 42.24 m 729 13 Niklaus 42.18 m 728 14th Jokines 40.48 m 695 15th Kuzenko 39.86 m 683 16 Brogini 39.54 m 676 17th McStravick 38.46 m 675 18th Werthner 38.14 m 648 19th Blango 23.08 m 306

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Thompson 6178 02 Caceanov 5980 03 Shelanov 5844 04th Kuzenko 5805 05 Szczerkowski 5732 06th Grumbles 5719 07th Andonov 5671 08th Zeilbauer 5670 09 Ludwig 5641 10 Hadfield 5591 11 Lahti 5585 12 Jokines 5558 13 Niklaus 5544 14th Werthner 5478 15th Jankow 5472 16 Brogini 5434 17th McStravick 5413 18th Ronac 4938 19th Blango 4355

Pole vault

Valeriu Caceanov's failure at his starting height brought Juri Kuzenko back to second place, followed by Sergei Schelanow, Janusz Szczerkowski, the Bulgarian Atanas Andonow, the Polish Dariusz Ludwig, Steffen Grummt and Sepp Zeilbauer. Daley Thompson's lead over Kuzenko was 326 points.

Classification space Surname height Points 01 Kuzenko 4.90 m 1028 Szczerkowski 03 Werthner 4.85 m 1017 04th Ludwig 4.80 m 1005 05 Andonov 4.70 m 981 Thompson 07th Jankow 4.60 m 957 Lahti Shelanov 10 Zeilbauer 4.50 m 932 11 Hadfield 4.40 m 909 Ronac 13 Grumbles 4.30 m 884 McStravick Niklaus 16 Jokines 4.20 m 859 17th Blango without height 0 Brogini Caceanov

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Thompson 7159 02 Kuzenko 6833 03 Shelanov 6801 04th Szczerkowski 6760 05 Andonov 6652 06th Ludwig 6646 07th Grumbles 6603 08th Zeilbauer 6602 09 Lahti 6542 10 Hadfield 6500 11 Werthner 6495 12 Jankow 6429 13 Niklaus 6428 14th Jokines 6417 15th McStravick 6297 16 Caceanov 5980 17th Ronac 5847 18th Brogini 5434 19th Blango 4355

Javelin throw

The Italian Sandro Brogini and Valeriu Caceanov from the Soviet Union did not compete in this ninth discipline.

Daley Thompson's lead over Kuzenko shrunk to 280 points. Behind Juri Kuzenko was Sergei Schelanow, followed by the two Austrians Sepp Zeilbauer and Georg Werthner.

Classification space Surname Expanse Points 01 Werthner 73.66 m 920 02 Kuzenko 68.08 m 860 03 Jokines 67.38 m 849 04th Niklaus 66.54 m 839 05 Zeilbauer 64.86 m 820 06th Thompson 64.16 m 811 07th Ludwig 58.38 m 741 08th Jankow 58.12 m 738 09 McStravick 57.98 m 736 10 Shelanov 57.30 m 728 11 Lahti 56.94 m 723 12 Ronac 56.34 m 716 13 Hadfield 56.12 m 713 14th Grumbles 55.24 m 701 15th Andonov 53.54 m 680 16 Szczerkowski 45.22 m 567 17th Blango 36.20 m 432

Intermediate result space Surname Points 01 Thompson 7970 02 Kuzenko 7690 03 Shelanov 7529 04th Zeilbauer 7422 05 Werthner 7415 06th Ludwig 7387 07th Andonov 7332 08th Szczerkowski 7327 09 Grumbles 7304 10 Niklaus 7267 11 Jokines 7266 12 Lahti 7265 13 Hadfield 7213 14th Jankow 7167 15th McStravick 7033 16 Ronac 6563 17th Blango 4787

1500 meter run

The discipline was carried out in three runs.

The Peruvian Miro Ronac did not take part in this last discipline.

Classification space Surname time Points 01 Kuzenko 4: 22.6 min 641 02 Werthner 4: 23.4 min 635 03 Shelanov 4: 27.5 min 606 04th Andonov 4: 29.2 min 595 05 Ludwig 4: 29.7 min 591 06th Grumbles 4: 30.2 min 588 07th Zeilbauer 4: 30.6 min 585 08th McStravick 4: 31.0 min 583 09 Jokines 4: 34.4 min 560 10 Thompson 4: 39.9 min 525 11 Lahti 4: 44.0 min 500 12 Hadfield 4: 44.7 min 496 13 Niklaus 4: 44.9 min 495 Szczerkowski 15th Jankow 4: 51.2 min 457 16 Blango 5: 22.9 min 293

Course and result

Date: 25./26. July 1980, o'clock

The Brit Daley Thompson was clearly the favorite for the Olympic victory. However, he benefited from the fact that three of his biggest competitors were not there in Moscow . Especially the German decathlete Guido Kratschmer , silver medalist from 1976 , showed himself in great form when he set a new world record in June . The Soviet European Champion of 1978 Alexander Grebenjuk had to pass due to an injury and the US athlete Bobby Coffman was absent because of the US Olympic boycott . So the other medal candidates remained primarily the EM third Sigfried Stark from the GDR and the Austrian EM fourth Sepp Zeilbauer.

Thompson presented himself in his usual good shape over 100 meters and immediately had a clear lead over all competitors. In the long jump , Thompson achieved the greatest distance ever jumped in an Olympic decathlon. With this he expanded his leadership. Yuri Kuzenko was already 192 points behind in second place. Behind that, the point gaps were small. Thompson's main opponent couldn't make up any ground in the shot put either. The strong athletes here pushed about a meter further than the Briton, but the medal candidates stayed behind. Thompson was now 232 points ahead of Kuzenko. Kuzenko's compatriot Valeriu Caceanov was 13 points behind. Fourth place was shared by Sergei Schelanow, also from the USSR, and the Austrian Sepp Zeilbauer. The high jump was a matter for Schelanow, who jumped 2.18 m, the highest height achieved in an Olympic decathlon. This improved him to third place, which was shared with Caceanov. Thompson and Kuzenko were still ahead, both of whom had mastered 2.08 m. Thompson was fastest over 400 meters with his 48.01 seconds. Caceanov and Kuzenko each ran for 48.67 s. After the first day, Thompson had achieved a remarkably good intermediate result with 4542 points. Kuzenko's deficit was 264 points. Not far behind were Caceanov and Schelanow, who had clearly weakened here.

On the second day, Caceanov and Thompson started the 110 meter hurdles the strongest with times of 14.40 s and 14.47 s respectively. Kuzenko continued to lose significant ground. As before, the three Soviet decathletes were ranked two to four, now ahead of Poland's Janusz Szczerkowski and Zeilbauer. The discus throw was not Thompson's strength, but only Caceanov could benefit with a good length. He was now second but was still almost 200 points behind Thompson. Schelanow moved past Kuzenko into third place. The GDR athlete Steffen Grummt had worked his way up to sixth place behind Szczerkowski. The pole vault brought the end for Caceanov in the battle for the medals. It failed at its starting height. Kuzenko, convincing here with 4.90 m, took second place again, followed by Schelanow and Szczerkowski. Daley Thompson's lead over Kuzenko was 326 points. In the penultimate discipline, the javelin throw , Kuzenko once again proved his strength. He achieved the second best distance behind the Austrian Georg Werthner. But Thompson was just four meters behind Kuzenko, so the Briton had a reassuring 280 point lead. Third was Schelanow, followed by the two Austrians Zeilbauer and Werthner. Before the final 1,500 meter run , everything was actually decided. Even in the battle for the medals behind Thompson, the gaps were too big for changes to have come about without falling or giving up. And so Daley Thompson secured the gold medal from Yuri Kuzenko and Sergei Schelanow.

The two Austrians Georg Werthner and Sepp Zeilbauer stayed in fourth and fifth. The top four athletes exceeded the 8,000 point mark. Four years earlier, seven decathletes had succeeded. Daley Thompson's significantly weaker second day prevented the Olympic champion from achieving an even better score. After the excellent first day, more might have been possible. Guido Kratschmer continued to hold the world record , and Bruce Jenner also kept his Olympic record . Nevertheless, Thompson's result was of a very high quality. And how competitive he could be even with the strongest opposition, was to be seen in the next few years at the World Championships and the Olympic Games.

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 1985 is also given. According to this table, which is valid today, there would have been only one deviation: ranks nine and ten would have been swapped. 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.

space	Surname	nation	Points - official rating	Points - 1985 rating
1	Daley Thompson	Great Britain	8495	8522
2	Yuri Kuzenko	Soviet Union	8331	8369
3	Sergei Shelanov	Soviet Union	8135	8135
4th	Georg Werthner	Austria	8050	8084
5	Sepp Zeilbauer	Austria	8007	7989
6th	Dariusz Ludwig	Poland	7978	7972
7th	Atanas Andonow	Bulgaria	7927	7858
8th	Steffen Grummt	GDR	7892	7840
9	Esa Jokinen	Finland	7826	7793
10	Janusz Szczerkowski	Poland	7822	7794
11	Johannes Lahti	Finland	7765	7725
12	Stephan Niklaus	Switzerland	7762	7721
13	Peter Hadfield	Australia	7709	7656
14th	Raswigor Jankow	Bulgaria	7624	7572
15th	Bradley McStravick	Great Britain	7616	7537
16	Columba Blango	Sierra Leone	5080	5214

Video

• Daley Thompson Olympic Decathlon Gold Medal at Moscow Olympics 1980 , published July 8, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed December 31, 2017

Web links

• SportsReference Decathlon , accessed December 31, 2017
• Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 68f, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 31, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Records, Decathlon Men , accessed on December 31, 2017
2. ↑ Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 17, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 31, 2017
3. ↑ SportsReference decathlon (long jump) , accessed on December 31, 2017
4. ↑ SportsReference decathlon (high jump) , accessed on December 31, 2017
5. ↑ Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 69, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 31, 2017