Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 kilometres walk

The Men's 50 km Race Walk at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR had an entry list of 27 competitors. Three athletes were disqualified and nine of them did not finish in the final, held on 30 July 1980.[1] This event was not conducted in 1976, it was last held in 1972.

Men's 50 kilometres walk
at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
VenueCentral Lenin Stadium
Date30 July
Competitors29 from 14 nations
Winning time3:49:24
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s)Hartwig Gauder
 East Germany
2nd place, silver medalist(s)Jordi Llopart
 Spain
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)Yevgeniy Ivchenko
 Soviet Union
← 1972
1984 →

This event netted Spain its first-ever medal in athletics, with Jordi Llopart taking silver.[2]

Medalists

GoldHartwig Gauder
 East Germany
SilverJordi Llopart
 Spain
BronzeYevgeniy Ivchenko
 Soviet Union

Final ranking

RankAthleteTimeNote
 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)4:22:57
12  Aristidis Karageorgos (GRE)4:24:36
13  Juraj Benčík (TCH)4:27:39
14  Enrique Peña (COL)4:29:27
15  Ernesto Alfaro (COL)4:46:28
DID NOT FINISH (DNF)
 Bo Gustafsson (SWE)DNF
 Bohdan Bułakowski (POL)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)DNF
DISQUALIFIED (DSQ)
 Dietmar Meisch (GDR)DSQ
 Jaromír Vaňous (TCH)DSQ
 Uwe Dünkel (GDR)DSQ

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