Athletics At The 1980 Summer Olympics

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.

Athletics at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Dates	24 July – 1 August 1980
Competitors	959 from 70 nations
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Men

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Allan Wells   Great Britain	10.25	Silvio Leonard   Cuba	10.25	Petar Petrov   Bulgaria	10.39
200 metres details	Pietro Mennea   Italy	20.19	Allan Wells   Great Britain	20.21	Don Quarrie   Jamaica	20.29
400 metres details	Viktor Markin   Soviet Union	44.60	Rick Mitchell   Australia	44.84	Frank Schaffer   East Germany	44.87
800 metres details	Steve Ovett   Great Britain	1:45.40	Sebastian Coe   Great Britain	1:45.85	Nikolay Kirov   Soviet Union	1:45.94
1500 metres details	Sebastian Coe   Great Britain	3:38.40	Jürgen Straub   East Germany	3:38.80	Steve Ovett   Great Britain	3:38.99
5000 metres details	Miruts Yifter   Ethiopia	13:20.91	Suleiman Nyambui   Tanzania	13:21.60	Kaarlo Maaninka   Finland	13:22.00
10,000 metres details	Miruts Yifter   Ethiopia	27:42.69	Kaarlo Maaninka   Finland	27:44.28	Mohamed Kedir   Ethiopia	27:44.64
110 metres hurdles details	Thomas Munkelt   East Germany	13.39	Alejandro Casañas   Cuba	13.40	Aleksandr Puchkov   Soviet Union	13.44
400 metres hurdles details	Volker Beck   East Germany	48.70	Vasyl Arkhypenko   Soviet Union	48.86	Gary Oakes   Great Britain	49.11
3000 metres steeplechase details	Bronisław Malinowski   Poland	8:09.70	Filbert Bayi   Tanzania	8:12.48	Eshetu Tura   Ethiopia	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 Chernetskiy	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	2:11:03	Gerard Nijboer   Netherlands	2:11:20	Satymkul Dzhumanazarov   Soviet Union	2:11:35
20 kilometres walk details	Maurizio Damilano   Italy	1:23:35.5	Pyotr Pochynchuk   Soviet Union	1:24:45.4	Roland Wieser   East Germany	1:25:58.2
50 kilometres walk details	Hartwig Gauder   East Germany	3:49.24	Jorge Llopart   Spain	3:51.25	Evgeni Ivchenko   Soviet Union	3:56.32
High jump details	Gerd Wessig   East Germany	2.36 m WR	Jacek Wszoła   Poland	2.31 m	Jörg Freimuth   East Germany	2.31 m
Pole vault details	Władysław Kozakiewicz   Poland	5.78 m WR	Konstantin Volkov   Soviet Union Tadeusz Ślusarski   Poland	5.65 m	none	--
Long jump details	Lutz Dombrowski   East Germany	8.54 m	Frank Paschek   East Germany	8.21 m	Valeriy Pidluzhnyy   Soviet Union	8.18 m
Triple jump details	Jaak Uudmäe   Soviet Union	17.35 m	Viktor Saneev   Soviet Union	17.24 m	João Carlos de Oliveira   Brazil	17.22 m
Shot put details	Vladimir Kiselyov   Soviet Union	21.35 m	Aleksandr Baryshnikov   Soviet Union	21.08 m	Udo Beyer   East Germany	21.06 m
Discus throw details	Viktor Rashchupkin   Soviet Union	66.64 m	Imrich Bugár   Czechoslovakia	66.38 m	Luis Delís   Cuba	66.32 m
Hammer throw details	Yuriy Sedykh   Soviet Union	81.80 m WR	Sergey Litvinov   Soviet Union	80.64 m	Jüri Tamm   Soviet Union	78.96 m
Javelin throw details	Dainis Kūla   Soviet Union	91.20 m	Aleksandr Makarov   Soviet Union	89.64 m	Wolfgang Hanisch   East Germany	86.72 m
Decathlon details	Daley Thompson   Great Britain	8495	Yuriy Kutsenko   Soviet Union	8331	Sergey Zhelanov   Soviet Union	8135

Women

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Lyudmila Kondratyeva   Soviet Union	11.06	Marlies Göhr   East Germany	11.07	Ingrid Auerswald   East Germany	11.14
200 metres details	Bärbel Wöckel   East Germany	22.03 OR	Natalya Bochina   Soviet Union	22.19	Merlene Ottey   Jamaica	22.20
400 metres details	Marita Koch   East Germany	48.88 OR	Jarmila Kratochvílová   Czechoslovakia	49.46	Christina Lathan   East Germany	49.66
800 metres details	Nadiya Olizarenko   Soviet Union	1:53.43 WR	Olga Mineeva   Soviet Union	1:54.81	Tatyana Providokhina   Soviet Union	1:55.46
1500 metres details	Tatyana Kazankina   Soviet Union	3:56.56 OR	Christiane Wartenberg   East Germany	3:57.71	Nadiya Olizarenko   Soviet Union	3:59.52
100 metres hurdles details	Vera Komisova   Soviet Union	12.56 OR	Johanna Klier   East Germany	12.63	Lucyna Langer   Poland	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 Lyudmila Maslakova Vera Anisimova Natalya Bochina	42.10	Great Britain (GBR) Heather Hunte Kathy Smallwood Beverley Goddard Sonia Lannaman	42.43
4 × 400 metres relay details	Soviet Union (URS) Tatyana Prorochenko Tatyana Goyshchik 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 Donna Hartley	3:27.74
High jump details	Sara Simeoni   Italy	1.97 m	Urszula Kielan   Poland	1.94 m	Jutta Kirst   East Germany	1.94 m
Long jump details	Tatyana Kolpakova   Soviet Union	7.06 m	Brigitte Wujak   East Germany	7.04 m	Tatyana Skachko   Soviet Union	7.01 m
Shot put details	Ilona Slupianek   East Germany	22.41 m OR	Svetlana Krachevskaia   Soviet Union	21.42 m	Margitta Droese-Pufe   East Germany	21.20 m
Discus throw details	Evelin Jahl   East Germany	69.96 m	Mariya Petkova   Bulgaria	67.90 m	Tatyana Lesovaya   Soviet Union	67.40 m
Javelin throw details	María Caridad Colón   Cuba	68.40 m	Saida Gunba   Soviet Union	67.76 m	Ute Hommola   East Germany	66.56 m
Pentathlon details	Nadiya Tkachenko   Soviet Union	5083 WR	Olga Rukavishnikova   Soviet Union	4937	Olga Kuragina   Soviet Union	4875

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.

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.

• 1980 World Championships in Athletics
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