MOSCOW 1980
The Games of the XXII Summer Olympiad. July 19 - August 3, 1980. Moscow, USSR.
Archery Athletics Basketball Boxing Canoeing Cycling Diving Equestrian Fencing Field Hockey Football Gymnastics Handball Judo Modern Pentathlon Rowing Sailing Shooting Swimming Volleyball Water Polo Weightlifting Wrestling Medal Count
Men’s individual
1.Tomi Poikolainen (Finland)
Women’s individual
1.Keto Losaberidze (USSR)
RUNNING GOLD MEDAL COUNT
1.USSR 8
2.East Germany 6
3.Great Britain 3
MEN
100 m
1.Allan Wells (Great Britain)
2.Silvio Leonard (Cuba)
200 m
1.Pietro Mennea (Italy)
2.Allan Wells (Great Britain)
3.Don Quarrie (Jamaica)
800 m
1.Steve Ovett (Great Britain)
2.Sebastian Coe (Great Britain)
1500 m
1.Sebastien Coe (Great Britain)
2.Jurgen Straub (East Germany)
3.Steve Ovett (Great Briatin)
4.Andreas Busse (East Germany)
5.Vittorio Fontanella (Italy)
6.Jozef Plachy (Czechoslovakia)
7.Jose Marajo (France)
8.Steve Cram (Great Britain)
9.Dragan Zdravkovic (Yugoslavia)
5000 m
1.Miruts Yifter (Ethiopia)
2.Suleiman Nyambui (Tanzania)
3.Kaarlo Maaninka (Finland)
10.Yohannes Mohamed (Ethiopia)
12.Mohamed Kedir (Ethiopia)
10000 m
1.Miruts Yifter (Ethiopia)
3.Mohamed Kedir (Ethiopia)
110 m hurdles
1.Thomas Munkelt (East Germany)
2.Alejandro Casanas (Cuba)
3000 m steeplechase
1.Bronislaw Malinowski (Poland)
2.Filbert Bayi (Tanzania)
4 x 100 m
1.USSR
4 x 400 m
1.USSR
3.Italy (Pietro Mennea)
Marathon
1.Waldemar Cierpinski (East Germany)
15.Gidamis Shahanga (Tanzania)
20 km walk
1.Maurizio Damilano (Italy)
2.Pyotr Pochenchuk (USSR)
4.Yevgeni Yevsyukov (USSR)
6.Raul Gonzalez (Mexico)
20.Jozef Pribilinec (Czechoslovakia)
DNF.Anatoly Solomin (USSR), Daniel Bautista (Mexico), Bo Gustafsson (Sweden)
50 km walk
2.Jorge Llopart (Spain)
Long jump
1.Lutz Dombrowski (East Germany)
2.Frank Paschek (East Germany)
Triple jump
1.Jaak Uudmae (USSR)
2.Viktor Saneyev (USSR)
3.Joao Carlos de Oliveira (Brazil)
High jump
1.Gerd Wessig (East Germany)
2.Jacek Wszola (Poland)
Pole vault
1.Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz (Poland)
2-3.Konstantin Volkov (USSR), Tadeusz Slusarski (Poland)
Discus throw
1.Viktor Rashchupkin (USSR)
3.Luis Delis (Cuba)
Javelin throw
1.Dainis Kula (USSR)
15.Zakayo Malekwa (Tanzania)
Hammer throw
1.Yuriy Sedykh (USSR)
Decathlon
1.Daley Thompson (Great Britain)
WOMEN
100 m
2.Marlies Gohr (East Germany)
NQF (6 in Heat 5).Nzaeli Kyomo (Tanzania)
200 m
1.Barbel Wockel (East Germany)
400 m
1.Marita Koch (East Germany)
1500 m: 1.Tatyana Kazankina (USSR)
Long jump: 1.Tatyana Kolpakova (USSR)
4 x 100 m
1.East Germany (Barbel Wockel, Marlies Gohr)
2.USSR (Lyudmila Maslakova)
4 x 400 m
2.East Germany (Marita Koch)
High jump
1.Sara Simeoni (Italy)
Discus throw
2.Maria Petkova (Bulgaria)
Javelin throw
1.Maria Caridad Colon (Cuba)
Men
1.Yugoslavia (Dragan Kicanovic, Rajko Zizic, Zeljko Jerkov, Kresimir Cosic)
2.Italy
3.USSR
Women
1.USSR (Uljana Semjonova)
2.Bulgaria
Gold medal count
1.Cuba 6
2-6.USSR 1, East Germany 1
48 kg
2.Hipolito Ramos (Cuba)
51 kg
1.Petar Lesov (Bulgaria)
54 kg
1.Juan Bautista Hernandez Perez (Cuba)
57 kg
1.Rudi Fink (East Germany)
2.Adolfo Horta (Cuba)
60 kg
1.Angel Herrera (Cuba)
63.5 kg
First Round
Patrizio Oliva (Italy) def. Aurelien Agnan (Benin) (referee stopped contest in the first round)
1.Patrizio Oliva (Italy)
3-4.Jose Aguilar (Cuba)
5-8.William Lyimo (Tanzania)
17-30.Aurelien Agnan (Benin)
67 kg
1.Andres Aldama (Cuba)
2.John Mugabi (Uganda)
3-4.Karl-Heniz Kruger (East Germany), Kazimierz Szczerba (Poland)
71 kg
1.Armando Martinez (Cuba)
75 kg
1.Jose Gomez (Cuba)
81 kg
1.Slobodan Kacar (Yugoslavia)
3-4.Ricardo Rojas (Cuba)
81+ kg
Quarterfinal
Teofilo Stevenson (Cuba) def. Grzegorz Skrzecz (Poland) (knockout in third round)
Final
Teofilo Stevenson (Cuba) - Pyotr Zayev (USSR) 4:1
1.Teofilo Stevenson (Cuba)
2.Pyotr Zayev (USSR)
5-8.Grzegorz Skrzecz (Poland)
GOLD MEDAL COUNT
1-2.USSR, East Germany 4
3-4.Bulgaria 1
MEN
C-1 500 m
3.Olaf Heukrodt (East Germany)
C-1 1000 m
1.Lyubomir Lyubenov (Bulgaria)
C-2 500 m
2.Ivan Patzaichin / Petre Capusta (Romania)
C-2 1000 m
1.Ivan Patzaichin / Toma Simionov (Romania)
2.Olaf Heukrodt / Uwe Madeja (East Germany)
K-1 500 m
3.Vasile Diba (Romania)
K-2 500 m
2.Herminio Menendez / Guillermo del Riego (Spain)
K-2 1000 m
3.Luis Gregorio Ramos / Herminio Menendez (Spain)
K-4 1000 m
1.East Germany
2.Romania (Vasile Diba)
WOMEN
K-1 500 m
1.Birgit Fischer (East Germany)
ROAD
Individual road race
1.Sergei Sukhoruchenkov (USSR)
2.Czeslaw Lang (Poland)
TRACK
Individual pursuit
1.Robert Dill-Bundi (Switzerland)
Sprint
1.Lutz Hesslich (East Germany)
MEN
10 m platform
1.Falk Hoffmann (East Germany)
WOMEN
10 m platform
1.Martina Jaschke (East Germany)
Individual dressage
1.Elisabeth Theurer (Austria)
Team dressage
2.Bulgaria
Individual eventing
1.Federico Roman (Italy)
2.Aleksandr Blinov (USSR)
3.Yuri Salnikov (USSR)
Team eventing
1.USSR
Individual jumping
1.Jan Kowalczyk (Poland)
Team jumping
1.USSR
2.Poland (Jan Kowalczyk)
GOLD MEDAL COUNT
1.France 4
2.USSR 3
3.Sweden 1
MEN
Team epee: 1.France
Team foil: 1.France
Individual sabre
1.Viktor Krovopuskov (USSR)
Team sabre
1.USSR (Viktor Krovopuskov, Viktor Sidyak)
WOMEN
Team foil
1.France
2.USSR (Elena Belova)
3.Hungary (Ildiko Schwarczenberger)
Men
2.Spain
Women
1.Zimbabwe
1.Czechoslovakia
2.East Germany
3.USSR
(Rinat Dasayev, Tengiz Sulakvelidze, Alexandre Chivadze, Vagiz Khidiyatullin, Sergei Baltacha, Yuri Gavrilov, Khoren Hovhannisyan)
Konstantin Beskov (USSR, head coach)
MEN
Team all-around
1.USSR (Nikolai Andrianov, Eduard Azaryan, Alexander Dityatin)
3.Hungary (Zoltan Magyar)
Individual all-around
1.Alexander Dityatin (USSR)
2.Nikolai Andrianov (USSR)
3.Stoyan Deltchev (Bulgaria)
Floor exercise
2.Nikolai Andrianov (USSR)
3.Alexander Dityatin (USSR)
Horizontal bar
1.Stoyan Deltchev (Bulgaria)
2.Alexander Dityatin (USSR)
3.Nikolai Andrianov (USSR)
Parallel bars
2.Alexander Dityatin (USSR)
Pommel horse
1.Zoltan Magyar (Hungary)
2.Alexander Dityatin (USSR)
Rings
1.Alexander Dityatin (USSR)
Vault
1.Nikolai Andrianov (USSR)
2.Alexander Dityatin (USSR)
WOMEN
Team all-around
1.USSR (Nellie Kim)
2.Romania (Nadia Comaneci)
Individual all-around
2-3.Nadia Comaneci (Romania)
Balance beam: 1.Nadia Comaneci (Romania)
Floor exercise: 1-2.Nellie Kim (USSR), Nadia Comaneci (Romania)
Uneven bars
6.Nellie Kim (USSR)
Men
1.East Germany (Dietmar Schmidt, Ingolf Wiegert)
Women
3.East Germany (Kornelia Kunisch)
Gold medal count
1-2.USSR, France 2
3-6.East Germany 1
60 kg: 2.Jose Rodriguez (Cuba)
86 kg: 2.Isaac Azcuy (Cuba)
78 kg
1.Shota Khabareli (USSR)
2.Juan Ferrer (Cuba)
95 kg
1.Robert Van de Walle (Belgium)
95+ kg
1.Angelo Parisi (France)
2.Dimitar Zaprianov (Bulgaria)
Open
2.Angelo Parisi (France)
Individual
1.Anatoly Starostin (USSR)
Team
1.USSR (Anatoly Starostin)
MEN
Single sculls: 1.Pertti Karppinen (Finland)
Coxless pairs: 1.Bernd Landvoigt / Jorg Landvoigt (East Germany)
Coxless fours: 1.East Germany (Siegfried Brietzke, Andreas Decker, Stefan Semmler, Jurgen Thiele)
Coxed eights
2.Great Britain (Allan Whitwell)
WOMEN
Double sculls
3.Olga Homeghi / Valeria Racila (Romania)
Coxed fours
2.Bulgaria
Coxed eights
3.Romabia (Rodica Puscatu)
Finn
1.Esko Rechardt (Finland)
2.Wolfgang Mayrhofer (Austria)
3.Andrei Balashov (USSR)
470
1.Marcos Soares / Eduardo Penido (Brazil)
Flying Dutchman
1.Alejandro Abascal / Miguel Noguer (Spain)
Tornado
1.Lars Sigurd Bjorkstrom / Alexandre Welter (Brazil)
Soling
1.Denmark
25 m rapid fire pistol
1.Corneliu Ion (Romania)
50 m free pistol
1.Aleksandr Melentyev (USSR)
3.Lyubcho Dyakov (Bulgaria)
50 m rifle, prone
3.Petar Zapryanov (Bulgaria)
Skeet
3.Roberto Castrillo (Cuba)
GOLD MEDAL COUNT
1.East Germany 12
2.USSR 8
3-4.Sweden 2
MEN
100 m butterfly
3.David Lopez-Zubero (Spain)
4 x 200 m freestyle
1.USSR (Ivar Stukolkin)
WOMEN
100 m freestyle
1.Barbara Krause (East Germany)
3.Ines Diers (East Germany)
200 m freestyle
1.Barbara Krause (East Germany)
2.Ines Diers (East Germany)
400 m freestyle
1.Ines Diers (East Germany)
800 m freestyle
2.Ines Diers (East Germany)
100 m backstroke: 1.Rica Reinisch (East Germany)
200 m backstroke: 1.Rica Reinisch (East Germany)
200 m butterfly
1.Ines Geissler (East Germany)
4 x 100 m freestyle
1.East Germany (Barbara Krause, Ines Diers)
4 x 100 m medley
1.East Germany (Rica Reinisch)
Men
1.USSR (Vladimir Chernyshov, Viljar Loor, Vyacheslav Zaitsev)
2.Bulgaria
1.USSR (Mait Riisman)
2.Yugoslavia (Ratko Rudic)
Gold medal count
1.USSR 5
2.Bulgaria 2
3-5.Czechoslovakia 1
52 kg
2.Ho Bong Chol (North Korea)
56 kg
1.Daniel Nunez (Cuba)
67.5 kg
1.Yanko Rusev (Buglaria)
75 kg
1.Asen Zlatev (Bulgaria)
82.5 kg
1.Yurik Vardanyan (USSR)
90 kg
1.Peter Baczako (Hungary)
100 kg
3.Alberto Blanco (Cuba)
110 kg
1.Leonid Taranenko (USSR)
110+ kg
1.Sultan Rakhmanov (USSR)
FREESTYLE
48 kg: 2.Jang Se-Hong (North Korea)
57 kg: 2.Li Ho-Pyong (North Korea)
74 kg
1.Valentin Raychev (Bulgaria)
2.Jamtsyn Davaajav (Mongolia)
82 kg
1.Ismail Abilov (Bulgaria)
100+ kg
2.Jozsef Balla (Hungary)
GRECO-ROMAN
48 kg
1.Zhaqsylyq Ushkempirov (USSR)
52 kg
1.Vakhtang Blagidze (USSR)
100 kg
1.Georgi Raikov (Bulgaria)
1.USSR (80-69-46)
2.EAST GERMANY (47-37-42)
3.BULGARIA (8-16-17)
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