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Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics

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Summary

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Field	Value
event	Athletics
games	1980 Summer
image	Olympics Moscow 1980 Athletics.png
image_size	100
dates	24 July – 1 August 1980
competitors	959
nations	70
prev	1976
next	1984

Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics was represented by 38 events: 24 for men and 14 for women. 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 of 959 participating athletes from 70 countries. A number of countries had boycotted the 1980 Games due to the Soviet-Afghan War.

Medal table

Medal summary

Men

Decathlon
Daley Thompson	8495	Yuriy Kutsenko	8331	Sergey Zhelanov	8135

Women

Pentathlon
Nadiya Tkachenko	5083 WR	Olga Rukavishnikova	4937	Olga Kuragina	4875

Controversy

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.

References

(31 July 1980). "Kozakiewicz Sets World Pole Vault Record". [[Star-Banner]].
Barukh Ḥazan. (January 1982). "Olympic Sports and Propaganda Games: Moscow 1980". Transaction Publishers.
Jesse Reed. "Top 10 Scandals in Summer Olympic History". Bleacher Report.
"Style, Love, Home, Horoscopes & more - MSN Lifestyle".
"Polanik English".

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