Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Men

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Allan Wells  Great Britain	10.25	Silvio Leonard  Cuba	10.25	Petar Petrov  Bulgaria	10.39
200 metres details	Pietro Mennea  Italy	20.19	Allan Wells  Great Britain	20.21	Don Quarrie  Jamaica	20.29
400 metres details	Viktor Markin  Soviet Union	44.60	Rick Mitchell  Australia	44.84	Frank Schaffer  East Germany	44.87
800 metres details	Steve Ovett  Great Britain	1:45.40	Sebastian Coe  Great Britain	1:45.85	Nikolay Kirov  Soviet Union	1:45.94
1500 metres details	Sebastian Coe  Great Britain	3:38.40	Jürgen Straub  East Germany	3:38.80	Steve Ovett  Great Britain	3:38.99
5000 metres details	Miruts Yifter  Ethiopia	13:20.91	Suleiman Nyambui  Tanzania	13:21.60	Kaarlo Maaninka  Finland	13:22.00
10,000 metres details	Miruts Yifter  Ethiopia	27:42.69	Kaarlo Maaninka  Finland	27:44.28	Mohamed Kedir  Ethiopia	27:44.64
110 metres hurdles details	Thomas Munkelt  East Germany	13.39	Alejandro Casañas  Cuba	13.40	Aleksandr Puchkov  Soviet Union	13.44
400 metres hurdles details	Volker Beck  East Germany	48.70	Vasyl Arkhypenko  Soviet Union	48.86	Gary Oakes  Great Britain	49.11
3000 metres steeplechase details	Bronisław Malinowski  Poland	8:09.70	Filbert Bayi  Tanzania	8:12.48	Eshetu Tura  Ethiopia	8:13.57
4 × 100 metres relay details	Soviet Union (URS) Vladimir Muravyov Nikolay Sidorov Andrey Prokofyev Aleksandr Aksinin	38.26	Poland (POL) Zenon Licznerski Leszek Dunecki Marian Woronin Krzysztof Zwoliński	38.33	France (FRA) Patrick Barre Pascal Barre Hermann Panzo Antoine Richard	38.53
4 × 400 metres relay details	Soviet Union (URS) Viktor Markin Remigijus Valiulis Mikhail Linge Nikolay Chernetskiy	3:01.08	East Germany (GDR) Klaus Thiele Andreas Knebel Frank Schaffer Volker Beck	3:01.26	Italy (ITA) Roberto Tozzi Mauro Zuliani Stefano Malinverni Pietro Mennea	3:04.54
Marathon details	Waldemar Cierpinski  East Germany	2:11:03	Gerard Nijboer  Netherlands	2:11:20	Satymkul Dzhumanazarov  Soviet Union	2:11:35
20 kilometres walk details	Maurizio Damilano  Italy	1:23:35.5	Pyotr Pochynchuk  Soviet Union	1:24:45.4	Roland Wieser  East Germany	1:25:58.2
50 kilometres walk details	Hartwig Gauder  East Germany	3:49.24	Jorge Llopart  Spain	3:51.25	Evgeni Ivchenko  Soviet Union	3:56.32
High jump details	Gerd Wessig  East Germany	2.36 m WR	Jacek Wszoła  Poland	2.31 m	Jörg Freimuth  East Germany	2.31 m
Pole vault details	Władysław Kozakiewicz  Poland	5.78 m WR	Konstantin Volkov  Soviet Union Tadeusz Ślusarski  Poland	5.65 m	none	--
Long jump details	Lutz Dombrowski  East Germany	8.54 m	Frank Paschek  East Germany	8.21 m	Valeriy Pidluzhnyy  Soviet Union	8.18 m
Triple jump details	Jaak Uudmäe  Soviet Union	17.35 m	Viktor Saneev  Soviet Union	17.24 m	João Carlos de Oliveira  Brazil	17.22 m
Shot put details	Vladimir Kiselyov  Soviet Union	21.35 m	Aleksandr Baryshnikov  Soviet Union	21.08 m	Udo Beyer  East Germany	21.06 m
Discus throw details	Viktor Rashchupkin  Soviet Union	66.64 m	Imrich Bugár  Czechoslovakia	66.38 m	Luis Delís  Cuba	66.32 m
Hammer throw details	Yuriy Sedykh  Soviet Union	81.80 m WR	Sergey Litvinov  Soviet Union	80.64 m	Jüri Tamm  Soviet Union	78.96 m
Javelin throw details	Dainis Kūla  Soviet Union	91.20 m	Aleksandr Makarov  Soviet Union	89.64 m	Wolfgang Hanisch  East Germany	86.72 m
Decathlon details	Daley Thompson  Great Britain	8495	Yuriy Kutsenko  Soviet Union	8331	Sergey Zhelanov  Soviet Union	8135

Women

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Lyudmila Kondratyeva  Soviet Union	11.06	Marlies Göhr  East Germany	11.07	Ingrid Auerswald  East Germany	11.14
200 metres details	Bärbel Wöckel  East Germany	22.03 OR	Natalya Bochina  Soviet Union	22.19	Merlene Ottey  Jamaica	22.20
400 metres details	Marita Koch  East Germany	48.88 OR	Jarmila Kratochvílová  Czechoslovakia	49.46	Christina Lathan  East Germany	49.66
800 metres details	Nadiya Olizarenko  Soviet Union	1:53.43 WR	Olga Mineeva  Soviet Union	1:54.81	Tatyana Providokhina  Soviet Union	1:55.46
1500 metres details	Tatyana Kazankina  Soviet Union	3:56.56 OR	Christiane Wartenberg  East Germany	3:57.71	Nadiya Olizarenko  Soviet Union	3:59.52
100 metres hurdles details	Vera Komisova  Soviet Union	12.56 OR	Johanna Klier  East Germany	12.63	Lucyna Langer  Poland	12.65
4 × 100 metres relay details	East Germany (GDR) Romy Müller Bärbel Wöckel Ingrid Auerswald Marlies Göhr	41.60 WR	Soviet Union (URS) Vera Komisova Lyudmila Maslakova Vera Anisimova Natalya Bochina	42.10	Great Britain (GBR) Heather Hunte Kathy Smallwood Beverley Goddard Sonia Lannaman	42.43
4 × 400 metres relay details	Soviet Union (URS) Tatyana Prorochenko Tatyana Goyshchik Nina Ziuskova Irina Nazarova	3:20.12	East Germany (GDR) Barbara Krug Gabriele Löwe Christina Lathan Marita Koch	3:20.35	Great Britain (GBR) Linsey MacDonald Michelle Probert Joslyn Hoyte-Smith Donna Hartley	3:27.74
High jump details	Sara Simeoni  Italy	1.97 m	Urszula Kielan  Poland	1.94 m	Jutta Kirst  East Germany	1.94 m
Long jump details	Tatyana Kolpakova  Soviet Union	7.06 m	Brigitte Wujak  East Germany	7.04 m	Tatyana Skachko  Soviet Union	7.01 m
Shot put details	Ilona Slupianek  East Germany	22.41 m OR	Svetlana Krachevskaia  Soviet Union	21.42 m	Margitta Droese-Pufe  East Germany	21.20 m
Discus throw details	Evelin Jahl  East Germany	69.96 m	Mariya Petkova  Bulgaria	67.90 m	Tatyana Lesovaya  Soviet Union	67.40 m
Javelin throw details	María Caridad Colón  Cuba	68.40 m	Saida Gunba  Soviet Union	67.76 m	Ute Hommola  East Germany	66.56 m
Pentathlon details	Nadiya Tkachenko  Soviet Union	5083 WR	Olga Rukavishnikova  Soviet Union	4937	Olga Kuragina  Soviet Union	4875

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.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

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.

• 1980 World Championships in Athletics
• 1980 in athletics (track and field)

• International Olympic Committee results database
• Athletics Australia