1980 in athletics (track and field)

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This page contains an overview of the year 1980 in athletics (track and field).

[edit] International Events

• Olympic Boycott Games
• Olympic Games
• World Cross Country Championships

[edit] World Records

[edit] Men

[edit] Women

[edit] Men's Best Year Performers

[edit] 100 metres

RANK	1980 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	James Sanford (USA)	10.02
2.	Stanley Floyd (USA)	10.07
3.	Allan Wells (GBR)	10.11
4.	Mike Roberson (USA)	10.12
5.	Petar Petrov (BUL)	10.13

[edit] 200 metres

RANK	1980 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Pietro Mennea (ITA)	19.96
2.	LaMonte King (USA)	20.08
3.	Allan Wells (GBR)	20.21
4.	James Sanford (USA)	20.26
	Steve Williams (USA)

[edit] 400 metres

RANK	1980 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Viktor Markin (URS)	44.60
2.	Billy Mullins (USA)	44.84
	Rick Mitchell (AUS)
4.	Frank Schaffer (GDR)	44.87
5.	Harald Schmid (FRG)	45.06

[edit] 800 metres

RANK	1980 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Donald Paige (USA)	1:44.53
2.	Sebastian Coe (GBR)	1:44.7
3.	Andreas Busse (GDR)	1:44.72
4.	Willi Wülbeck (FRG)	1:44.96
5.	James Maina Boi (KEN)	1:45.23

[edit] 1,500 metres

RANK	1980 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Steve Ovett (GBR)	3:31.36
2.	Thomas Wessinghage (FRG)	3:31.58
3.	Harald Hudak (FRG)	3:31.96
4.	Sebastian Coe (GBR)	3:32.19
5.	John Walker (NZL)	3:33.31

[edit] Mile

RANK	1980 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Steve Ovett (GBR)	3:48.8
2.	John Walker (NZL)	3:52.7
	Steve Scott (USA)
4.	Thomas Wessinghage (FRG)	3:53.20
5.	Pierre Délèze (SUI)	3:53.55

[edit] 3,000 metres

RANK	1980 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Eamonn Coghlan (IRL)	7:37.60
2.	Thomas Wessinghage (FRG)	7:38.89
3.	Filbert Bayi (TAN)	7:39.27
4.	Henry Rono (KEN)	7:43.0
5.	Dietmar Millonig (AUT)	7:43.66

[edit] 5,000 metres

RANK	1980 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Miruts Yifter (ETH)	13:16.38
2.	Mohamed Kedir (ETH)	13:17.5
3.	Nathaniel Muir (GBR)	13:17.9
4.	Filbert Bayi (TAN)	13:18.2
5.	Suleiman Nyambui (TAN)	13:18.6
	Bill McChesney (USA)

[edit] 10,000 metres

RANK	1980 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Craig Virgin (USA)	27:29.16
2.	Henry Rono (KEN)	27:31.68
3.	Fernando Mamede (POR)	27:37.88
4.	Miruts Yifter (ETH)	27:42.69
5.	Toshihiko Seko (JPN)	27:43.44

[edit] Half Marathon

RANK	1980 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Stan Mavis (USA)	1:02:16

[edit] Marathon

RANK	1980 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Gerard Nijboer (NED)	2:09:01
2.	Alberto Salazar (USA)	2:09:41
3.	Toshihiko Seko (JPN)	2:09:45
4.	Takeshi So (JPN)	2:09:49
5.	Kunimitsu Ito (JPN)	2:10:05

[edit] 110m Hurdles

RANK	1980 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Renaldo Nehemiah (USA)	13.21
2.	Greg Foster (USA)	13.27
3.	Dedy Cooper (USA)	13.34
4.	Thomas Munkelt (GDR)	13.39
5.	Rodney Milburn (USA)	13.40
	Alejandro Casañas (CUB)

[edit] 400m Hurdles

RANK	1980 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Edwin Moses (USA)	47.13
2.	Harald Schmid (FRG)	48.05
3.	Volker Beck (GDR)	48.70
4.	James Walker (USA)	48.6
5.	Vasiliy Arkhipyenko (URS)	48.86

[edit] 3,000m Steeplechase

RANK	1980 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Bronisław Malinowski (POL)	8:09.70
2.	George Kiprotich Rono (KEN)	8:12.0
3.	Filbert Bayi (TAN)	8:12.48
4.	Mariano Scartezzini (ITA)	8:12.5
5.	Eshetu Tura (ETH)	8:13.57

[edit] High Jump

RANK	1980 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	HEIGHT
1.	Gerd Wessig (GDR)	2.36 m
2.	Jacek Wszola (POL)	2.35 m
	Dietmar Mögenburg (FRG)
4.	Carlo Thränhardt (FRG)	2.31 m
	Jörg Freimuth (GDR)

[edit] Long Jump

RANK	1980 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Lutz Dombrowski (GDR)	8.54 m
2.	Frank Paschek (GDR)	8.36 m
3.	Larry Myricks (USA)	8.31 m
4.	Antonio Corgos (ESP)	8.23 m
5.	Andrzej Klimaszewski (POL)	8.20 m

[edit] Triple Jump

RANK	1980 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Jaak Uudmäe (URS)	17.35 m
2.	Viktor Saneyev (URS)	17.24 m
3.	João Carlos de Oliveira (BRA)	17.22 m
4.	Keith Connor (GBR)	17.16 m
5.	Willie Banks (USA)	17.13 m

[edit] Discus

RANK	1980 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Mac Wilkins (USA)	70.98 m
2.	Al Oerter (USA)	69.46 m
3.	Art Swarts (USA)	69.22 m
4.	Wolfgang Schmidt (GDR)	68.48 m
5.	John Powell (USA)	68.20 m

[edit] Hammer

RANK	1980 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Yuriy Syedikh (URS)	81.80 m
2.	Sergey Litvinov (URS)	81.66 m
3.	Karl-Hans Riehm (FRG)	80.80 m
4.	Boris Zaychuk (URS)	80.48 m
5.	Jüri Tamm (URS)	80.46 m

[edit] Shot Put

RANK	1980 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Udo Beyer (GDR)	21.98 m
2.	Brian Oldfield (USA)	21.82 m
3.	Geoff Capes (GBR)	21.68 m
4.	Ralf Reichenbach (FRG)	21.51 m
5.	Aleksandr Baryshnikov (URS)	21.48 m

[edit] Pole Vault

RANK	1980 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	HEIGHT
1.	Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz (POL)	5.78 m
2.	Philippe Houvion (FRA)	5.77 m
3.	Thierry Vigneron (FRA)	5.75 m
4.	Jean-Michel Bellot (FRA)	5.70 m
	Konstantin Volkov (URS)
	Serge Ferreira (FRA)

[edit] Javelin (old design)

RANK	1980 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Ferenc Paragi (HUN)	96.72
2.	Helmut Schreiber (FRG)	92.62
3.	Dainis Kula (URS)	92.06
4.	Detlef Michel (GDR)	90.98
5.	Wolfgang Hanish (GDR)	90.74

[edit] Decathlon

RANK	1980 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	POINTS
1.	Guido Kratschmer (FRG)	8667
2.	Daley Thompson (GBR)	8648
3.	Siegfried Stark (GDR)	8534
4.	Jürgen Hingsen (FRG)	8409
5.	Yuriy Kutsenko (URS)	8369

[edit] Women's Best Year Performers

[edit] 100 metres

RANK	1980 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Marlies Göhr (GDR)	10.93
2.	Marita Koch (GDR)	10.99
3.	Romy Müller (GDR)	11.02
4.	Lyudmila Kondratyeva (URS)	11.06
5.	Ingrid Auerswald (GDR)	11.08

[edit] 200 metres

RANK	1980 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Bärbel Wöckel (GDR)	22.01
2.	Natalya Bochina (URS)	22.19
3.	Merlene Ottey (JAM)	22.20
4.	Lyudmila Kondratyeva (URS)	22.31
	Kathy Cook (GBR)

[edit] 400 metres

RANK	1980 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Marita Koch (GDR)	48.88
2.	Jarmila Kratochvílová (TCH)	49.46
3.	Christina Lathan (GDR)	49.66
4.	Irina Nazarova (URS)	50.07
5.	Nina Zyuskova (URS)	50.17

[edit] 800 metres

RANK	1980 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Nadezhda Olizarenko (URS)	1:53.43
2.	Olga Mineyeva (URS)	1:54.81
3.	Tatyana Providokhina (URS)	1:55.46
4.	Martina Steuk (GDR)	1:56.21
5.	Tatyana Kazankina (URS)	1:56.5

[edit] 1,500 metres

RANK	1980 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Tatyana Kazankina (URS)	3:52.47
2.	Lyubov Smolka (URS)	3:56.7
3.	Nadezhda Olizarenko (URS)	3:56.8
4.	Zamira Zaytseva (URS)	3:56.9
5.	Yekaterina Podkopayeva (URS)	3:57.4

[edit] Mile

RANK	1980 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Mary Slaney (USA)	4:21.68
2.	Gabriella Dorio (ITA)	4:23.29

[edit] 3,000 metres

RANK	1980 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Yelena Sipatova (URS)	8:33.53
2.	Tatyana Sychova (URS)	8:33.9
3.	Fayna Krasnova (URS)	8:34.0
4.	Lyubov Smolka (URS)	8:36.0
5.	Tatyana Pozdnyakova (URS)	8:37.6

[edit] 100m Hurdles

RANK	1980 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Grazyna Rabsztyn (POL)	12.36
2.	Vera Komisova (URS)	12.39
3.	Lucyna Kalek (POL)	12.44
4.	Johanna Klier (GDR)	12.56
5.	Kerstin Knabe (GDR)	12.60

[edit] 400m Hurdles

RANK	1980 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Karin Roßley (GDR)	54.28
2.	Bärbel Broschat (GDR)	54.55
3.	Ellen Fiedler (GDR)	54.56
4.	Tatyana Storozheva (URS)	54.80
5.	Marina Styepanova (URS)	54.91

[edit] Births

• January 19 — Matic Osovnikar, Slovenian track and field athlete
• January 25 — Christian Olsson, Swedish athlete
• February 11 — Karin Ruckstuhl, Dutch athlete
• February 13 — Tetyana Holovchenko, Ukrainian distance runner
• February 20 — Bram Som, Dutch track and field athlete
• March 12 — California Molefe, Botswanan athlete
• April 13 — Boštjan Buč, Slovenian track and field athlete
• May 14 — Eugène Martineau, Dutch athlete
• June 2 — Shingo Suetsugu, Japanese track and field athlete
• June 19 — Sanjay Ayre, Jamaican athlete
• July 17 — Rashid Ramzi, Moroccan athlete
• July 24 — Wilfred Bungei, Kenyan middle distance runner
• August 29 — Perdita Felicien, Canadian track and field athlete
• September 8 — Mbulaeni Mulaudzi, South African middle distance runner
• September 28 — Maurice Smith, Jamaican decathlete
• October 7 — Olesya Zykina, Russian track and field athlete

[edit] Deaths

[edit] References

• Year Lists
• Association of Road Racing Statisticians
• Year Rankings

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