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Global Global championships · since 1896

1980 Olympic Games

Moscow, Soviet Union 19 Jul – 3 Aug 1980

events: 38
medals awarded: 114
nations on the podium: 17
world records: 3

Podiums

Sprints

100m

wind -1.1

Allan Wells Reax: 0.193 10.25

Silvio Leonard Reax: 0.151 10.25

Petar Petrov Reax: 0.145 10.39

Sprints

200m

wind +0.9

Pietro Mennea 20.19

Allan Wells 20.21

Don Quarrie 20.29

Sprints

400m

Viktor Markin NR 44.60

Rick Mitchell NR 44.84

Frank Schaffer 44.87

Middle & long

800m

Steve Ovett 1:45.40

Sebastian Coe 1:45.85

Nikolay Kirov 1:45.94

Middle & long

1500m

Sebastian Coe 3:38.40

Jürgen Straub 3:38.80

Steve Ovett 3:38.99

Middle & long

5000m

Miruts Yifter 13:20.91

Suleiman Nyambui 13:21.60

Kaarlo Maaninka 13:22.00

Middle & long

10,000m

Miruts Yifter 27:42.69

Kaarlo Maaninka 27:44.28

Mohamed Kedir 27:44.64

Road

Marathon

Waldemar Cierpinski 2:11:03

Gerard Nijboer 2:11:20

Satymkul Dzhumanazarov 2:11:35

Middle & long

3000m steeplechase

Bronislaw Malinowski 8:09.70

Filbert Bayi 8:12.48

Eshetu Tura 8:13.57

Hurdles

110m hurdles

wind +0.9

Thomas Munkelt 13.39

Alejandro Casanas 13.40

Aleksandr Puchkov 13.44

Hurdles

400m hurdles

Volker Beck 48.70

Vasiliy Arkhipenko 48.86

Gary Oakes 49.11

Jumps

High jump

Gerd Wessig WROR 2.36

Jacek Wszola Tie-breaker: 2.27 o / 2.29 o / 2.31 xo 2.31

Jorg Freimuth Tie-breaker: 2.27 xxo / 2.29 o / 2.31 xo 2.31

Jumps

Pole vault

Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz 5.78

Konstantin Volkov 5.65

Tadeusz Slusarski 5.65

Jumps

Long jump

Lutz Dombrowski 8.54 +0.9

Frank Paschek 8.21 -0.1

Valeriy Podluzhniy 8.18 +1.2

Jumps

Triple jump

Jaak Uudmae 17.35 -0.3

Viktor Saneyev 17.24 -1.3

Joao Carlos De Oliveira 17.22 +2.0

Throws

Shot put

Vladimir Kiselyov OR 21.35

Aleksandr Baryshnikov 21.08

Udo Beyer 21.06

Throws

Discus throw

Viktor Rashchupkin 66.64

Imrich Bugar Competed under TCH (Czechoslovakia) 66.38

Luis Delis 66.32

Throws

Hammer throw

Yuriy Sedykh OR 81.80

Sergey Litvinov 80.64

Jüri Tamm 78.96

Throws

Javelin throw

Dainis Kula 91.20

Aleksandr Makarov 89.64

Wolfgang Hanisch 86.72

Race walks

20 km race walk

Maurizio Damilano OR 1:23:35.5

Pyotr Pochenchuk 1:24:45.4

Roland Wieser 1:25:58.2

Race walks

50 km race walk

Hartwig Gauder OR 3:49:24

Jorge Llopart 3:51:25

Yevgeniy Ivchenko 3:56:32

Combined

Decathlon

Daley Thompson Upd to 84 table: 8522 pts 8495

Yuriy Kutsenko Upd to 84 table: 8369 pts 8331

Sergey Zhelanov Upd to 84 table: 8135 pts 8135

Relays

4x100m

Soviet Union

Vladimir Muravyov Nikolay Sidorov Andrey Prokofyev Aleksandr Aksinin

38.26

Poland

Zenon Licznerski Leszek Dunecki Marian Woronin Krzysztof Zwolinski

38.33

France

Patrick Barre Pascal Barre Hermann Panzo Antoine Richard

38.53

Relays

4x400m

Soviet Union

Remigijus Valiulis Mikhail Linge Nikolay Chernyetskiy Viktor Markin Viktor Burakov

3:01.08

Germany DR (1949-89)

Klaus Thiele Andreas Knebel Frank Schaffer Volker Beck

3:01.26

Italy

Roberto Tozzi Mauro Zuliani Stefano Malinverni Pietro Mennea

3.04.3

Medal table

17 nations · 114 medals

#	Nation				Total
1	Soviet Union URS	15	14	12	41
2	Germany DR (1949-89) GDR	11	8	10	29
3	Great Britain & NI 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	Czech Republic CZE	0	2	0	2
9	Tanzania TAN	0	2	0	2
10	Bulgaria BUL	0	1	1	2
11	Finland FIN	0	1	1	2
12	Australia AUS	0	1	0	1
13	Spain ESP	0	1	0	1
14	Netherlands NED	0	1	0	1
15	Jamaica JAM	0	0	2	2
16	Brazil BRA	0	0	1	1
17	France FRA	0	0	1	1

Records set

3 WR · 9 OR

WR Gerd Wessig High jump · Men 2.36
WR Nadezhda Olizarenko 800m · Women 1:53.43
WR Germany DR (1949-89) 4x100m · Women 41.60
OR Gerd Wessig High jump · Men 2.36
OR Vladimir Kiselyov Shot put · Men 21.35
OR Yuriy Sedykh Hammer throw · Men 81.80
OR Maurizio Damilano 20 km race walk · Men 1:23:35.5
OR Hartwig Gauder 50 km race walk · Men 3:49:24
OR Barbel Wöckel 200m · Women 22.03
OR Marita Koch 400m · Women 48.88
OR Sara Simeoni High jump · Women 1.97
OR Tatyana Kolpakova Long jump · Women 7.06