Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 kilometres walk
| Men's 50 kilometres walk at the Games of the XXII Olympiad | ||||||||||
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| Venue | Central Lenin Stadium | |||||||||
| Date | 30 July | |||||||||
| Competitors | 29 from 14 nations | |||||||||
| Winning time | 3:49:24 | |||||||||
| Medalists | ||||||||||
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| Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics | ||
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| Track events | ||
| 100 m | men | women |
| 200 m | men | women |
| 400 m | men | women |
| 800 m | men | women |
| 1500 m | men | women |
| 5000 m | men | |
| 10,000 m | men | |
| 100 m hurdles | women | |
| 110 m hurdles | men | |
| 400 m hurdles | men | |
| 3000 m steeplechase | men | |
| 4 × 100 m relay | men | women |
| 4 × 400 m relay | men | women |
| Road events | ||
| Marathon | men | |
| 20 km walk | men | |
| 50 km walk | men | |
| Field events | ||
| Long jump | men | women |
| Triple jump | men | |
| High jump | men | women |
| Pole vault | men | |
| Shot put | men | women |
| Discus throw | men | women |
| Javelin throw | men | women |
| Hammer throw | men | |
| Combined events | ||
| Pentathlon | women | |
| Decathlon | men | |
The .
This event netted Spain its first-ever medal in athletics, with
Jordi Llopart taking silver.[2]
Medalists
| Gold | Hartwig Gauder East Germany
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| Silver | |
| Bronze | Yevgeniy Ivchenko Soviet Union
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Final ranking
| Rank | Athlete | Time | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
 |
 Hartwig Gauder (GDR)
|
3:49:24 | |
 |
 Jordi Llopart (ESP)
|
3:51:25 | |
 |
 Yevgeniy Ivchenko (URS)
|
3:56:32 | |
| 4 |  Bengt Simonsen (SWE)
|
3:57:08 | |
| 5 | Vyacheslav Fursov (URS)
|
3:58:32 | |
| 6 | Josep Marín (ESP )
|
4:03:08 | |
| 7 |  Stanisław Rola (POL)
|
4:07:07 | |
| 8 |  Willi Sawall (AUS)
|
4:08:25 | |
| 9 |  László Sátor (HUN)
|
4:10:53 | |
| 10 |  Pavol Blažek (TCH)
|
4:16:26 | |
| 11 | Ian Richards (GBR)
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4:22:57 | |
| 12 |  Aristidis Karageorgos (GRE)
|
4:24:36 | |
| 13 | Juraj Benčík (TCH)
|
4:27:39 | |
| 14 |  Enrique Peña (COL)
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4:29:27 | |
| 15 | Ernesto Alfaro (COL)
|
4:46:28 | |
| DID NOT FINISH (DNF) | |||
| — | Bo Gustafsson (SWE)
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DNF | |
| — | Bohdan Bułakowski (POL)
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DNF | |
| — |  Daniel Bautista (MEX)
|
DNF | |
| — | David Smith (AUS )
|
DNF | |
| — | Gérard Lelièvre (FRA)
|
DNF | |
| — | Martín Bermúdez (MEX)
|
DNF | |
| — | Raúl González (MEX)
|
DNF | |
| — |  Reima Salonen (FIN)
|
DNF | |
| — | Boris Yakovlev (URS )
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DNF | |
| DISQUALIFIED (DSQ) | |||
| — | Dietmar Meisch (GDR)
|
DSQ | |
| — | Jaromír Vaňous (TCH)
|
DSQ | |
| — | Uwe Dünkel (GDR)
|
DSQ | |
See also
- 1978 Men's European Championships 50 km Walk (Prague)
- 1982 Men's European Championships 50 km Walk (Athens)
- 1983 Men's World Championships 50 km Walk (Helsinki)
- 1986 Men's European Championships 50 km Walk (Stuttgart)
References
- ^ "Athletics at the 1980 Moscow Summer Games: Men's 50 kilometres Walk". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
- ^ "1980 Olympic 50km race walk silver medallist Llopart dies". World Athletics. 11 November 2020. Retrieved 31 July 2021.