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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.
Medal Table
| Position | Country: | Total: | |||
| 1 |  USSR | 15 | 14 | 12 | 41 |
| 2 | GDR | 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 |
| 8= |  Tanzania | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 10= |  Bulgaria | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 10= |  Finland | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 12= |  Australia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 12= |  Netherlands | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 12= |  Spain | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 15 |  Jamaica | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 16 |  Brazil | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 17 |  France | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Remark:country names in the medal table are given in the form they were used in official documents of the IOC in 1980
Medal Winners
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100 m Men | Allan Wells, GBR | Silvio Leonard Sarria, Cuba | Peter Petrov, Bulgaria |
| 100 m Women | Liudmila Kondratieva , USSR | Marlies Oelsner-Gohr, E.Germany | Ingrid Auerswald-Lange, E.Germany |
| 100 m Hurdles Women | Vera Komisova , USSR | Johanna Schaller-Klier, E.Germany | Lucyna Langer, Poland |
| 110 m Hurdles Men | Thomas Munkelt, E.German | Alejandro Casanas Ramirez, Cuba | Aleksandr Puchkov, USSR |
| 200 m Men | Pietro Mennea, Italy | Allan Wells, GBR | Donald Quarrie, Jamaica |
| 200 m Women | Barbel Eckert-Wockel , E.Germany | Natalia Bochina, USSR | Merlene Ottey-Page, Jamaica |
| 400 m Men | Viktor Markin, USSR | Richard Mitchell, Australia | Frank Schaffer, E.Germany |
| 400 m Women | Marita Koch, E.German | Jarmila Kratochvilova, Czechoslovakia | Christina Brehmer-Lathan, E.German |
| 400 m Hurdles Men | Volker Beck, E.Germany | Vasili Arkhipenko, USSR | Gary Oakes, GBR |
| 800 m Men | Steve Ovett, GBR | Sebastian Coe, GBR | Nikolai Kirov, USSR |
| 800 m Women | Nadezhda Olizarenko , USSR | Olga Mineeva, USSR | Tatiana Providokhina, USSR |
| 1500 m Men | Sebastian Coe, GBR | Jurgen Straub, E. Germany | Steve Ovett, GBR |
| 1500 m Women | Tatiana Kazankina , USSR | Christiane Stoll-Wartenberg, E.Germany | Nadezhda Olizarenko, USSR |
| 3,000 m Steeplechase Men | Bronislaw Malinowski, Poland | Filbert Bayi, Tanzania | Eshetu Tura, Ethiopia |
| 5,000 m Men | Miruts Yifter, Ethiopia | Suleiman Nyambui, Tanzania | Kaarlo Maaninka, Finland |
| 10,000 m Men | Miruts Yifter, Ethiopia | Kaarlo Maaninka, Finland | Mohammed Kedir, Ethiopia |
| 20 km Walk Men | Maurizio Damilano , Italy | Piotr Pochinchuk, USSR | Roland Wieser, E.Germany |
| 50 km Walk Men | Hartwig Gauder , E.Germany | Jorge Llopart Ribas, Spain | Evgeni Ivchenko, USSR |
| 4 x 100 m Relay Men | USSR, Vladimir Muraviov, Nikolai Sidorov, Andrei Prokofiev, Aleksandr Aksinin | POLAND, Zenon Licznerski, Leszek Dunecki, Marian Woronin, Krzysztof Zwolinski | FRANCE, Patrick Barre, Pascal Barre, Herman Panzo,
Antoine Richard |
| 4 x 100 m Women | E.Germany, Romy Muller, Barbel Eckert-Wockel, Ingrid Auerswald-Lange, Marlies Oelsner-Gohr | USSR, Vera Komisova, Liudmila Zharkova-Maslakova, Vera Animisova, Natalia Bochina | GBR, Heather Hunt-Oakes, Kathryn Smallwood-Cook, Beverley Goddard-Callender,Sonia Lannaman |
| 4 x 400 m Men | USSR, Viktor Markin, Remigius Valiulis, Mikhail Linge, Nikolai Chernetski | E.GERMANY, Klaus Thiele, Andreas Knebel, Frank Schaffer, Volker Beck | ITALY, Roberto Tozzi, Mauro Zuliani, Stefano Malinverni, Pietro Mennea |
| 4 x 400 m Women | USSR, Tatiana Prorochenko, Tatiana Goishchik, Nina Zuiskova, Irina Nazarova | E.GERMANY, Barbara Krug, Gabriele Lowe, Christina Brehmer-Lathan, Marita Koch | GBR, Linsey Macdonald, Michelle Probert-Scutt, Joslyn Hoyte-Smith, Janine Macgregor |
| Marathon Men | Waldemar Cierpinski, E.Germany | Gerard Nijboer, Netherlands | Setymkul Dzhumanazarov, USSR |
| Long Jump Men | Lutz Dombrowski , E.Germany | Frank Paschek, E.Germany | Valeri Podluzhnyi, USSR |
| Long Jump Women | Tatiana Kolpakova , USSR | Brigitte Wujak, E.Germany | Tatiana Skachko, USSR |
| Triple Jump Men | Yaak Uudmae , USSR | Viktor Saneev, USSR | Joao Carlos De Oliveira, Brazil |
| High Jump Men | Gerd Wessig , E.Germany | Jacek Wszola, Poland | Jorg Freimuth, E.Germany |
| High Jump Women | Sara Simeoni , Italy | Urszula Kielan, Poland | Jutta Kirst, E.Germany |
| Javelin Men | Dainis Kula , USSR | Aleksandr Makarov, USSR | Wolfgang Hanisch, E.Germany |
| Javelin Women | Maria Colon , Cuba | Saida Gunba, USSR | Ute Hommola, E.Germany |
| Discus Men | Viktor Rashchupkin , USSR | Imrich Bugar,Czechoslovakia | Luis Delis, Cuba |
| Discus Women | Evelin Schlaak-Jahl , E.Germany | Maria Vergova-Petkova,Bulgaria | Tatiana Lesovaia, USSR |
| Hammer Men | Yuriy Sedykh, USSR | Sergei Litvinov, USSR | Yuri Tamm, USSR |
| Shot Put Men | Vladimir Kiselev , USSR | Aleksandr Baryshnikov, USSR | Udo Beyer, E.Germany |
| Shot Put Women | Ilona Schoknecht-Slupianek , E.Germany | Svetlana Krachevskaia, USSR | Margitta Droese-Pufe, E.Germany |
| Pole Vault Men | Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz , Poland | Konstantin Volkov, USSR ; Tadeusz Slusarski, Poland | |
| Pentathlon Women | Nadezhda Tcachenko , USSR | Olga Rukavishnikova, USSR | Olga Kuragina, USSR |
| Decathlon Men | Daley Thompson, GBR | Yuri Kutsenko, USSR | Sergei Zhelanov, USSR |
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