Athletics 1980

Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics was held from 24 July to 1 August 1980 at the Luzhniki Stadium.

This edition marked the last Olympics to feature the women's pentathlon.

Medal Table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	15	14	12	41
2	East Germany	11	8	10	29
3	Great Britain	4	2	4	10
4	Italy	3	0	1	4
5	Poland	2	4	1	7
6	Ethiopia	2	0	2	4
7	Cuba	1	2	1	4
8	Czechoslovakia	0	2	0	2
	Tanzania	0	2	0	2
10	Bulgaria	0	1	1	2
	Finland	0	1	1	2
12	Australia	0	1	0	1
	Netherlands	0	1	0	1
	Spain	0	1	0	1
15	Jamaica	0	0	2	2
16	Brazil	0	0	1	1
	France	0	0	1	1

Medalists

Men

Event
100 m	Allan Wells	Silvio Leonard	Petr Petrov
200 m	Pietro Mennea	Allan Wells	Donald Quarrie
400 m	Viktor Markin	Richard Mitchell	Frank Schaffer
800 m	Steven Ovett	Sebastian Coe	Nikolai Kirov
1500 m	Sebastian Coe	Jurgen Straub	Steven Ovett
5000 m	Miruts Yifter	Suleiman Nyambui	Kaarlo Maaninka
10000 m	Miruts Yifter	Kaarlo Maaninka	Mohammed Kedir
Marathon	Waldemar Cierpinski	Gerard Nijboer	Setymkul Dzhumanazarov
110 m hurdles	Thomas Munkelt	Alejandro Casanas	Aleksandr Puchkov
400 m hurdles	Volker Beck	Vasili Arkhipenko	Gary Oakes
3000 m steeplechase	Bronislaw Malinowski	Filbert Bayi	Eshetu Tura
4x100 m	Soviet Union Aleksandr Aksinin Vladimir Muraviov Andrei Prokofiev Nikolai Sidorov	Poland Leszek Dunecki Zenon Licznerski Marian Woronin Krzysztof Zwolinski	France Pascal Barre Patrick Barre Antoine Richard Herman Panzo
4x400 m	Soviet Union Nikolai Chernetski Mikhail Linge Viktor Markin Remigius Valiulis	East Germany Volker Beck Andreas Knebel Frank Schaffer Klaus Thiele	Italy Stefano Malinverni Pietro Mennea Roberto Tozzi Mauro Zuliani
20 km walk	Maurizio Damilano	Piotr Pochinchuk	Roland Wieser
50 km walk	Hartwig Gauder	Jorge Llopart	Evgeni Ivchenko
High jump	Gerd Wessig	Jacek Wszola	Jorg Freimuth
Pole vault	Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz	Tadeusz Slusarski Konstantin Volkov	—
Long jump	Lutz Dombrowski	Frank Paschek	Valeri Podluzhnyi
Triple jump	Yaak Uudmae	Viktor Saneev	Joao Carlos de Oliveira
Shot put	Vladimir Kiselev	Aleksandr Baryshnikov	Udo Beyer
Discus throw	Viktor Rashchupkin	Imrich Bugar	Luis Delis
Hammer throw	Yuri Sedykh	Sergei Litvinov	Yuri Tamm
Javelin throw	Dainis Kula	Aleksandr Makarov	Wolfgang Hanisch
Decathlon	Daley Thompson	Yuri Kutsenko	Sergei Zhelanov

Women

Event
100 m	Liudmila Kondratieva	Marlies Gohr	Ingrid Auerswald
200 m	Barbel Wockel	Natalia Bochina	Merlene Ottey
400 m	Marita Koch	Jarmila Kratochvilova	Christina Lathan
800 m	Nadezhda Olizarenko	Olga Mineeva	Tatiana Providokhina
1500 m	Tatiana Kazankina	Christiane Wartenberg	Nadezhda Olizarenko
100 m hurdles	Vera Komisova	Johanna Klier	Lucyna Langer
4x100 m	East Germany Ingrid Auerswald Marlies Gohr Romy Muller Barbel Wockel	Soviet Union Vera Anisimova Natalia Bochina Vera Komisova Liudmila Maslakova	Great Britain Beverley Goddard Heather Hunte Sonia Lannamann Kathryn Smallwood
4x400 m	Soviet Union Tatiana Goishchik Irina Nazarova Tatiana Prorochenko Nina Ziuskova	East Germany Marita Koch Barbara Krug Christina Lathan Gabriele Lowe	Great Britain Joslyn Hoyte-Smith Linsey MacDonald Janine MacGregor Michelle Probert
High jump	Sara Simeoni	Urszula Kielan	Jutta Kirst
Long jump	Tatiana Kolpakova	Brigitte Wujak	Tatiana Skachko
Shot put	Ilona Slupianek	Svetlana Krachevskaia	Margitta Pufe
Discus throw	Evelin Jahl	Maria Petkova	Tatiana Lesovaia
Javelin throw	Maria Colon	Saida Gunba	Ute Hommola
Pentathlon	Nadezhda Tkachenko	Olga Rukavishnikova	Olga Kuragina

Trivia

• There were 959 total athletes from 70 countries.
• Marcellina Emmanuel was the youngest participant with 15 years and 266 days.
• Evgeny Ivchenko was the oldest participant with 42 years and 33 days.
• Soviet Union won 41 medals, more than in any other sport.
• Great Britain won 10 medals, more than in any other sport.
• Italy won 4 medals, more than in any other sport.
• Jamaica won 2 medals, more than in any other sport.
• Ethiopia won its only 4 medals of Moscow 1980.
• Tanzania won its first-ever Olympic medals and its only 2 medals of Moscow 1980.
• Spain won its first-ever medal in the sport.

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