Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics was represented by 38 events. They were held in the Grand Arena of the Central Lenin Stadium at Luzhniki (south-western part of Moscow) between July 24 and August 1. There were a total number of 959 participating athletes from 70 countries.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres Details	Allan Wells Great Britain (GBR)	10.25	Silvio Leonard Cuba (CUB)	10.25	Petar Petrov Bulgaria (BUL)	10.42
200 metres Details	Pietro Mennea Italy (ITA)	20.19	Allan Wells Great Britain (GBR)	20.21	Don Quarrie Jamaica (JAM)	20.29
400 metres Details	Viktor Markin Soviet Union (URS)	44.60	Rick Mitchell Australia (AUS)	44.84	Frank Schaffer East Germany (GDR)	44.87
800 metres Details	Steve Ovett Great Britain (GBR)	1:45.40	Sebastian Coe Great Britain (GBR)	1:45.85	Nikolay Kirov Soviet Union (URS)	1:45.94
1500 metres Details	Sebastian Coe Great Britain (GBR)	3:38.40	Jürgen Straub East Germany (GDR)	3:38.80	Steve Ovett Great Britain (GBR)	3:38.99
5000 metres Details	Miruts Yifter Ethiopia (ETH)	13:20.91	Suleiman Nyambui Tanzania (TAN)	13:21.60	Kaarlo Maaninka Finland (FIN)	13:22.00
10000 metres Details	Miruts Yifter Ethiopia (ETH)	27:42.69	Kaarlo Maaninka Finland (FIN)	27:44.28	Mohamed Kedir Ethiopia (ETH)	27:44.64
110 metre hurdles Details	Thomas Munkelt East Germany (GDR)	13.39	Alejandro Casanas Cuba (CUB)	13.40	Aleksandr Puchkov Soviet Union (URS)	13.44
400 metre hurdles Details	Volker Beck East Germany (GDR)	48.70	Vasili Arkhipenko Soviet Union (URS)	48.86	Gary Oakes Great Britain (GBR)	49.11
3000 metre steeplechase Details	Bronisław Malinowski Poland (POL)	8:09.70	Filbert Bayi Tanzania (TAN)	8:12.48	Eshetu Tura Ethiopia (ETH)	8:13.57
4×100 metres relay Details	Soviet Union (URS) Vladimir Muravyov Nikolay Sidorov Andrey Prokofyev Aleksandr Aksinin	38.26	Poland (POL) Zenon Licznerski Leszek Dunecki Marian Woronin Krzysztof Zwoliński	38.33	France (FRA) Patrick Barre Pascal Barre Hermann Panzo Antoine Richard	38.53
4×400 metres relay Details	Soviet Union (URS) Viktor Markin Remigijus Valiulis Mikhail Linge Nikolay Chernetsky	3:01.08	East Germany (GDR) Klaus Thiele Andreas Knebel Frank Schaffer Volker Beck	3:01.26	Italy (ITA) Roberto Tozzi Mauro Zuliani Stefano Malinverni Pietro Mennea	3:04.54
Marathon Details	Waldemar Cierpinski East Germany (GDR)	2:11:03	Gerard Nijboer Netherlands (NED)	2:11:20	Setymkul Dzhumanazarov Soviet Union (URS)	2:11:35
20 km walk Details	Maurizio Damilano Italy (ITA)	1:23:35.5	Piotr Pochinchuk Soviet Union (URS)	1:25:45.4	Roland Wieser East Germany (GDR)	1:25:58.2
50 km walk Details	Hartwig Gauder East Germany (GDR)	3:49.24	Jorge Llopart Spain (ESP)	3:51.25	Evgeni Ivchenko Soviet Union (URS)	3:56.32
High jump Details	Gerd Wessig East Germany (GDR)	2.36 m WR	Jacek Wszoła Poland (POL)	2.31 m	Jörg Freimuth East Germany (GDR)	2.31 m
Long jump Details	Lutz Dombrowski East Germany (GDR)	8.54 m	Frank Paschek East Germany (GDR)	8.21 m	Valeriy Podluzhniy Soviet Union (URS)	8.18 m
Triple jump Details	Jaak Uudmäe Soviet Union (URS)	17.35 m	Viktor Saneev Soviet Union (URS)	17.24 m	João Carlos de Oliveira Brazil (BRA)	17.22 m
Pole vault Details	Władysław Kozakiewicz Poland (POL)	5.78 m WR	Konstantin Volkov Soviet Union (URS) 5.65 m  Tadeusz Ślusarski Poland (POL) 5.65 m
Shot put Details	Vladimir Kiselyov Soviet Union (URS)	21.35 m	Aleksandr Baryshnikov Soviet Union (URS)	21.08 m	Udo Beyer East Germany (GDR)	21.06 m
Discus throw Details	Viktor Rashchupkin Soviet Union (URS)	66.64 m	Imrich Bugár Czechoslovakia (TCH)	66.38 m	Luis Delís Cuba (CUB)	66.32 m
Javelin throw Details	Dainis Kūla Soviet Union (URS)	91.20 m	Aleksandr Makarov Soviet Union (URS)	89.64 m	Wolfgang Hanisch East Germany (GDR)	86.72 m
Hammer throw Details	Yuriy Sedykh Soviet Union (URS)	81.80 m WR	Sergey Litvinov Soviet Union (URS)	80.64 m	Jüri Tamm Soviet Union (URS)	78.96 m
Decathlon Details	Daley Thompson Great Britain (GBR)	8495	Yuriy Kutsenko Soviet Union (URS)	8331	Sergey Zhelanov Soviet Union (URS)	8315

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres Details	Lyudmila Kondratyeva Soviet Union (URS)	11.06	Marlies Göhr East Germany (GDR)	11.07	Ingrid Auerswald East Germany (GDR)	11.14
200 metres Details	Bärbel Wöckel East Germany (GDR)	22.03 OR	Natalia Bochina Soviet Union (URS)	22.19	Merlene Ottey Jamaica (JAM)	22.20
400 metres Details	Marita Koch East Germany (GDR)	48.88 OR	Jarmila Kratochvílová Czechoslovakia (TCH)	49.46	Christina Lathan East Germany (GDR)	49.66
800 metres Details	Nadezhda Olizarenko Soviet Union (URS)	1:53.43 WR	Olga Mineeva Soviet Union (URS)	1:54.81	Tatyana Providokhina Soviet Union (URS)	1:55.46
1500 metres Details	Tatyana Kazankina Soviet Union (URS)	3:56.56 OR	Christiane Wartenberg East Germany (GDR)	3:57.71	Nadezhda Olizarenko Soviet Union (URS)	3:59.52
100 metre hurdles Details	Vera Komisova Soviet Union (URS)	12.56 OR	Johanna Schaller-Klier East Germany (GDR)	12.63	Lucyna Langer Poland (POL)	12.65
4×100 metres relay Details	East Germany (GDR) Romy Müller Bärbel Wöckel Ingrid Auerswald Marlies Göhr	41.60 WR	Soviet Union (URS) Vera Komisova Liudmila Zharkova-Maslakova Vera Anisimova Natalia Bochina	42.10	Great Britain (GBR) Heather Hunte Kathy Smallwood-Cook Beverley Goddard Sonia Lannaman	42.43
4×400 metres relay Details	Soviet Union (URS) Tatyana Prorochenko Tatyana Goishchik Nina Ziuskova Irina Nazarova	3:20.12	East Germany (GDR) Barbara Krug Gabriele Löwe Christina Lathan Marita Koch	3:20.35	Great Britain (GBR) Linsey MacDonald Michelle Probert Joslyn Hoyte-Smith Janine MacGregor	3:27.74
High jump Details	Sara Simeoni Italy (ITA)	1.97 m	Urszula Kielan Poland (POL)	1.94 m	Jutta Kirst East Germany (GDR)	1.94 m
Long jump Details	Tatyana Kolpakova Soviet Union (URS)	7.06 m	Brigitte Wujak East Germany (GDR)	7.04 m	Tatyana Skachko Soviet Union (URS)	7.01 m
Shot put Details	Ilona Schoknecht-Slupianek East Germany (GDR)	22.41 m (OR)	Svetlana Krachevskaia Soviet Union (URS)	21.42 m	Margitta Droese-Pufe East Germany (GDR)	21.20 m
Discus throw Details	Evelin Jahl East Germany (GDR)	69.96 m	Maria Vergova-Petkova Bulgaria (BUL)	67.90 m	Tatyana Lesovaya Soviet Union (URS)	67.40 m
Javelin throw Details	Maria Colon Cuba (CUB)	68.40 m	Saida Gunba Soviet Union (URS)	67.76 m	Ute Hommola East Germany (GDR)	66.56 m
Pentathlon Details	Nadezhda Tkachenko Soviet Union (URS)	5083 WR	Olga Rukavishnikova Soviet Union (URS)	4937	Olga Kuragina Soviet Union (URS)	4875

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	15	14	12	41
2	East Germany (GDR)	11	8	10	29
3	Great Britain (GBR)	4	2	4	10
4	Italy (ITA)	3	0	1	4
5	Poland (POL)	2	4	1	7
6	Ethiopia (ETH)	2	0	2	4
7	Cuba (CUB)	1	2	1	4
8	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	2	0	2
	Tanzania (TAN)	0	2	0	2
10	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	1	1	2
	Finland (FIN)	0	1	1	2
12	Australia (AUS)	0	1	0	1
	Netherlands (NED)	0	1	0	1
	Spain (ESP)	0	1	0	1
15	Jamaica (JAM)	0	0	2	2
16	Brazil (BRA)	0	0	1	1
	France (FRA)	0	0	1	1

See also

• 1980 in athletics (track and field)

References

• International Olympic Committee results database
• Athletics Australia

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