Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Template:Short description Template:Infobox Olympic event Template:AthleticsAt1980SummerOlympics Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics was represented by 38 events: 24 for men and 14 for women. 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 of 959 participating athletes from 70 countries. A number of countries had boycotted the 1980 Games due to the Soviet-Afghan War.

Medal summary

Men

100 metres Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	10.25	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	10.25	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	10.39
200 metres Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	20.19	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	20.21	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	20.29
400 metres Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	44.60	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	44.84	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	44.87
800 metres Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:45.40	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:45.85	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:45.94
1500 metres Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	3:38.40	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	3:38.80	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	3:38.99
5000 metres Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	13:20.91	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	13:21.60	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	13:22.00
10,000 metres Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	27:42.69	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	27:44.28	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	27:44.64
110 metres hurdles Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	13.39	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	13.40	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	13.44
400 metres hurdles Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	48.70	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	48.86	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	49.11
3000 metres steeplechase Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	8:09.70	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	8:12.48	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	8:13.57
4 × 100 metres relay Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCteam Vladimir Muravyov Nikolay Sidorov Andrey Prokofyev Aleksandr Aksinin	38.26	Template:FlagIOCteam Zenon Licznerski Leszek Dunecki Marian Woronin Krzysztof Zwoliński	38.33	Template:FlagIOCteam Patrick Barré Pascal Barré Hermann Panzo Antoine Richard	38.53
4 × 400 metres relay Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCteam Viktor Markin Remigijus Valiulis Mikhail Linge Nikolay Chernetskiy	3:01.08	Template:FlagIOCteam Klaus Thiele Andreas Knebel Frank Schaffer Volker Beck	3:01.26	Template:FlagIOCteam Roberto Tozzi Mauro Zuliani Stefano Malinverni Pietro Mennea	3:04.54
Marathon Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:11:03	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:11:20	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:11:35
20 kilometres walk Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:23:35.5 OR	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:24:45.4	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:25:58.2
50 kilometres walk Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	3:49.24 OR	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	3:51.25	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	3:56.32
High jump Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2.36 m WR	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2.31 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2.31 m
Pole vault Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	5.78 m WR	Template:FlagIOCmedalist Template:FlagIOCmedalist	5.65 m	none	--
Long jump Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	8.54 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	8.21 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	8.18 m
Triple jump Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	17.35 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	17.24 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	17.22 m
Shot put Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	21.35 m OR	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	21.08 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	21.06 m
Discus throw Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	66.64 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	66.38 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	66.32 m
Hammer throw Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	81.80 m WR	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	80.64 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	78.96 m
Javelin throw Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	91.20 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	89.64 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	86.72 m
Decathlon Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	8495	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	8331	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	8135

Women

100 metres Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	11.06	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	11.07	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	11.14
200 metres Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	22.03 OR	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	22.19	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	22.20
400 metres Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	48.88 OR	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	49.46	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	49.66
800 metres Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:53.43 WR	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:54.81	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:55.46
1500 metres Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	3:56.56 OR	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	3:57.71	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	3:59.52
100 metres hurdles Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	12.56 OR	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	12.63	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	12.65
4 × 100 metres relay Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCteam Romy Müller Bärbel Wöckel Ingrid Auerswald Marlies Göhr	41.60 WR	Template:FlagIOCteam Vera Komisova Lyudmila Maslakova Vera Anisimova Natalya Bochina	42.10	Template:FlagIOCteam Heather Hunte Kathy Smallwood Beverley Goddard Sonia Lannaman	42.43
4 × 400 metres relay Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCteam Tatyana Prorochenko Tatyana Goyshchik Nina Zyuskova Irina Nazarova	3:20.12	Template:FlagIOCteam Barbara Krug Gabriele Löwe Christina Lathan Marita Koch	3:20.35	Template:FlagIOCteam Linsey MacDonald Michelle Probert Joslyn Hoyte-Smith Donna Hartley	3:27.74
High jump Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1.97 m OR	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1.94 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1.94 m
Long jump Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	7.06 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	7.04 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	7.01 m
Shot put Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	22.41 m OR	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	21.42 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	21.20 m
Discus throw Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	69.96 m OR	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	67.90 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	67.40 m
Javelin throw Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	68.40 m OR	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	67.76 m	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	66.56 m
Pentathlon Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	5083 WR	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	4937	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	4875

Controversy

Polish gold medallist pole vaulter Władysław Kozakiewicz showed an obscene bras d'honneur gesture in all four directions to the jeering Soviet public, causing an international scandal and almost losing his medal as a result. There were numerous incidents and accusations of Soviet officials using their authority to negate marks by opponents to the point that IAAF officials found the need to look over the officials' shoulders to try to keep the events fair. There were also accusations of opening stadium gates to advantage Soviet athletes, and causing other disturbances to opposing athletes.<ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Dead link</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The Soviet Union's Jaak Uudmäe and Viktor Saneyev won the first two places in the triple jump, ahead of Brazil's world record holder João Carlos de Oliveira. Both de Oliveira and Australia's Ian Campbell produced long jumps, but they were declared fouls by the officials and not measured; in Campbell's case, his longest jump was ruled a "scrape foul", with his trailing leg touching the track during the jump. Campbell insisted he hadn't scraped, and it was alleged the officials intentionally threw out his and de Oliveira's best jumps to favor the Soviets, similarly to a number of other events. Similar allegations were made about a favorable call aiding Tatyana Kolpakova in the women's long jump.

See also

• 1980 World Championships in Athletics
• 1980 in athletics (track and field)

External links

• International Olympic Committee results database
• Athletics Australia

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