Soviet Union at the 1980 Summer Olympics
sporting event delegation
The Soviet Union (USSR) was the host nation of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. 489 competitors, 340 men and 149 women, took part in 202 events in 23 sports.
The Soviet Union won a record 80 gold medals (although since surpassed by the United States), and their 195 total medals are the second best result in history.
Medalists
The USSR finished first in the final medal rankings, with 80 gold and 195 total medals.
Competitors
Archery
Men
Women
Athletics
Men's competition
Men's 100 metres
Aleksandr Aksinin
Heat — 10.26
Quarterfinals — 10.29
Semifinals — 10.45
Final — 10.42 (→ 4th place)
Vladimir Muravyov
Heat — 10.37
Quarterfinals — 10.34
Semifinals — 10.42
Final — 10.44 (→ 6th place)
Andrei Shlyapnikov
Heat — 10.43
Quarterfinals — 10.59 (→ did not advance)
Men's 200 metres
Nikolay Sidorov
Heat — 21.15
Quarterfinals — 20.83
Semifinals — 21.17 (→ did not advance)
Vladimir Muravyov
Heat — did not start (→ did not advance)
Aleksandr Stasevich
Heat — did not finish (→ did not advance)
Men's 400 metres
Viktor Markin
Heat — 46.88
Quarterfinals — 45.58
Semifinals — 45.60
Final — 44.60 (→ Gold medal)
Viktor Burakov
Heat — 46.41
Quarterfinals — 46.23
Semifinals — 45.97 (→ did not advance)
Nikolay Chernetsky
Heat — 47.04
Quarterfinals — 46.30
Semifinals — 45.94 (→ did not advance)
Men's 800 metres
Nikolay Kirov
Heat — 1:47.5
Semifinals — 1:46.7
Final — 1:46.0 (→ Bronze medal)
Anatoliy Reshetnyak
Heat — 1:47.9
Semifinals — 1:48.2 (→ did not advance)
Men's 1,500 metres
Vladimir Malozemlin
Heat — 3:38.7
Semifinals — 3:43.6 (→ did not advance)
Vitaliy Tyshchenko
Heat — 3:44.4
Semifinals — 3:41.5 (→ did not advance)
Pavel Yakovlev
Heat — 3:44.2 (→ did not advance)
Men's 5,000 metres
Aleksandr Fyodotkin
Heat — 13:45.6
Semifinals — 13:31.9
Final — 13:24.1 (→ 8th place)
Valery Abramov
Heat — 13:42.9
Semifinals — 13:40.7 (→ did not advance)
Enn Sellik
Heat — 13:52.4 (→ did not advance)
Men's 10,000 metres
Enn Sellik
Heat — 29:12.1
Final — 28:13.8 (→ 8th place)
Vladimir Shesterov
Heat — 29:32.4 (→ did not advance)
Aleksandras Antipovas
Heat — did not finish (→ did not advance)
Men's 4x100 metres relay
Vladimir Muravyov, Nikolay Sidorov, Aleksandr Aksinin and Andrey Prokofyev
Heat — 38.68
Final — 38.26 (→ Gold medal)
Men's 4x400 metres relay
Nikolay Chernetskiy, Mikhail Linge, Remigijus Valiulis and Viktor Burakov
Heat — 3:01.8
Remigijus Valiulis, Mikhail Linge, Nikolay Chernetskiy and Viktor Markin
Final — 3:01.1 (→ Gold medal)
Men's 110 m hurdles
Aleksandr Puchkov
Heat — 13.84
Semifinals — 13.50
Final — 13.44 (→ Bronze medal)
Andrey Prokofyev
Heat — 13.61
Semifinals — 13.59
Final — 13.49 (→ 4th place)
Yuriy Chervanov
Heat — 13.75
Semifinals — 13.78
Final — 15.80 (→ 8th place)
Men's 400 m hurdles
Vasyl Arkhypenko
Heat — 50.22
Semifinals — 49.80
Final — 48.86 (→ Silver medal)
Nikolay Vasilyev
Heat — 50.09
Semifinals — 49.87
Final — 49.34 (→ 4th place)
Aleksandr Kharlov
Heat — 50.79
Semifinals — 50.64 (→ did not advance)
Men's 3,000 m steeplechase
Anatoliy Dimov
Heat — 8:33.2
Semifinals — 8:24.9
Final — 8:19.8 (→ 8th place)
Serhiy Olizarenko
Heat — 8:34.3
Semifinals — did not finish (→ did not advance)
Aleksandr Vorobey
Heat — 8:42.6
Semifinals — 8:44.3 (→ did not advance)
Men's marathon
Setymkul Dzhumanazarov
Final — 2:11:35 (→ Bronze medal)
Vladimir Kotov
Final — 2:12:05 (→ 4th place)
Leonid Moseyev
Final — 2:12:14 (→ 5th place)
Men's 20 km walk
Pyotr Pochenchuk
Final — 1:24:45.4 (→ Silver medal)
Yevgeniy Yevsyukov
Final — 1:26:28.3 (→ 4th place)
Anatoliy Solomin
Final — DSQ (→ no ranking)
Men's 50 km walk
Yevgeniy Ivchenko
Final — 3:56:32 (→ Bronze medal)
Vyacheslav Fursov
Final — 3:58:32 (→ 5th place)
Boris Yakovlev
Final — DSQ (→ no ranking)
Men's long jump
Valeriy Podluzhniy
Qualification — 8.02 m
Final — 8.18 m (→ Bronze medal)
Viktor Belskiy
Qualification — 8.01 m
Final — 8.10 m (→ 6th place)
Men's high jump
Aleksandr Grigoryev
Qualification — 2.21 m
Final — 2.21 m (→ 8th place)
Gennadiy Belkov
Qualification — 2.21 m
Final — 2.21 m (→ 10th place)
Aleksey Demyanyuk
Qualification — 2.21 m
Final — 2.21 m (→ 11th place)
Men's pole vault
Konstantin Volkov
Qualification — 5.35 m
Final — 5.65 m (→ Silver medal)
Sergey Kulibaba
Qualification — 5.35 m
Final — 5.45 m (→ 8th place)
Yuriy Prokhorenko
Qualification — no mark (→ did not advance)
Men's triple jump
Jaak Uudmäe
Qualification — 16.69 m
Final — 17.35 m (→ Gold medal)
Viktor Saneyev
Qualification — 16.57 m
Final — 17.24 m (→ Silver medal)
Yevgeni Anikin
Qualification — 16.77 m
Final — 16.12 m (→ 9th place)
Men's hammer throw
Yuriy Sedykh
Qualification — 78.22 m
Final Round — 81.80 m (→ Gold medal)
Sergey Litvinov
Qualification — 75.24 m
Final Round — 80.64 m (→ Silver medal)
Jüri Tamm
Qualification — 76.24 m
Final Round — 78.96 m (→ Bronze medal)
Men's discus throw
Viktor Rashchupkin
Qualification — 64.78 m
Final — 66.64 m (→ Gold medal)
Yuriy Dumchev
Qualification — 62.82 m
Final — 65.58 m (→ 5th place)
Ihor Duhinets
Qualification — 63.10 m
Final — 64.04 m (→ 6th place)
Men's shot put
Vladimir Kiselyov
Qualification — 20.72 m
Final — 21.35 m (→ Gold medal)
Aleksandr Baryshnikov
Qualification — 20.58 m
Final — 21.08 m (→ Silver medal)
Anatoliy Yarosh
Qualification — 20.19 m
Final — 19.93 m (→ 9th place)
Men's javelin throw
Dainis Kula
Qualification — 85.76 m
Final — 91.20 m (→ Gold medal)
Aleksandr Makarov
Qualification — 83.32 m
Final — 89.64 m (→ Silver medal)
Heino Puuste
Qualification — 82.96 m
Final — 86.10 m (→ 4th place)
Men's decathlon
Yuriy Kutsenko
Final — 8331 points (→ Silver medal)
Sergei Zhelanov
Final — 8135 points (→ Bronze medal)
Valeriu Caceanov
Final — did not finish (→ no ranking)
Women's competition
Women's 100 metres
Lyudmila Kondratyeva
Heat — 11.13
Quarterfinals — 11.06
Semifinals — 11.11
Final — 11.06 (→ Gold medal)
Vera Anisimova
Heat — 11.53
Quarterfinals — 11.33
Semifinals — 11.51 (→ did not advance)
Natalya Bochina
Heat — 11.38
Quarterfinals — 11.30
Semifinals — 11.38 (→ did not advance)
Women's 200 metres
Natalya Bochina
Heat — 23.28
Quarterfinals — 22.26
Semifinals — 22.75
Final — 22.19 (→ Silver medal)
Lyudmila Maslakova
Heat — 23.49
Quarterfinals — 23.24
Semifinals — 23.27 (→ did not advance)
Women's 400 metres
Irina Nazarova
Heat — 51.66
Semifinals — 50.18
Final — 50.07 (→ 4th place)
Nina Ziuskova
Heat — 51.42
Semifinals — 51.12
Final — 50.17 (→ 5th place)
Lyudmila Chernova
Heat — 51.51
Semifinals — 51.30 (→ did not advance)
Women's 800 metres
Nadiya Olizarenko
Heat — 1:59.3
Semifinals — 1:57.7
Final — 1:53.5 (→ Gold medal)
Olga Mineyeva
Heat — 2:01.5
Semifinals — 1:57.5
Final — 1:54.9 (→ Silver medal)
Tatyana Providokhina
Heat — 1:58.5
Semifinals — 1:58.3
Final — 1:55.5 (→ Bronze medal)
Women's 1,500 metres
Tatyana Kazankina
Heat — 3:59.2
Final — 3:56.6 (→ Gold medal)
Nadiya Olizarenko
Heat — 3:59.5
Final — 3:59.6 (→ Bronze medal)
Lyubov Smolka
Heat — 4:04.4
Final — 4:01.3 (→ 6th place)
Women's 100 m hurdles
Vera Komisova
Heat — 12.67
Semifinal — 12.78
Final — 12.56 (→ Gold medal)
Irina Litovchenko
Heat — 12.97
Semifinal — 12.84
Final — 12.84 (→ 6th place)
Tatyana Anisimova
Heat — 13.31
Semifinal — did not start (→ did not advance)
Women's 4x100 metres relay
Vera Komisova, Lyudmila Maslakova, Vera Anisimova and Natalya Bochina
Final — 42.10 (→ Silver medal)
Women's 4x400 metres relay
Tatyana Prorochenko, Tatyana Goyshchik, Lyudmila Chernova and Olga Mineyeva
Heat — 3:25.3
Tatyana Prorochenko, Tatyana Goyshchik, Nina Ziuskova and Irina Nazarova
Final — 3:20.2 (→ Gold medal)
Women's high jump
Marina Sysoeva
Qualification — 1.88 m
Final — 1.91 m (→ 5th place)
Tamara Bykova
Qualification — 1.88 m
Final — 1.88 m (→ 9th place)
Marina Serkova
Qualification — 1.80 m (→ did not advance)
Women's long jump
Tatyana Kolpakova
Qualification — 6.70 m
Final — 7.06 m (→ Gold medal)
Tetyana Skachko
Qualification — 6.56 m
Final — 7.01 m (→ Bronze medal)
Lidiya Alfeyeva
Qualification — 6.78 m
Final — 6.71 m (→ 8th place)
Women's discus throw
Tatyana Lesovaya
Qualification — 62.20 m
Final — 67.40 m (→ Bronze medal)
Galina Murašova
Qualification — 60.32 m
Final — 63.84 m (→ 7th place)
Faina Melnik
Qualification — 53.76 m (→ did not advance)
Women's javelin throw
Saida Gunba
Qualification — 63.98 m
Final — 67.76 m (→ Silver medal)
Tatyana Biryulina
Qualification — 59.86 m
Final — 65.08 m (→ 6th place)
Yadviga Putiniene
Qualification — 62.96 m
Final — 59.94 m (→ 11th place)
Women's shot put
Svetlana Krachevskaia
Final — 21.42 m (→ Silver medal)
Nunu Abashidze
Final — 21.15 m (→ 4th place)
Natalya Akhrimenko
Final — 19.74 m (→ 7th place)
Women's pentathlon
Nadiya Tkachenko — 5083 points (→ Gold medal)
100 metres — 13.29s
Shot put — 16.84m
High jump — 1.84m
Long jump — 6.73m
800 metres — 2:05.20
Olga Rukavishnikova — 4937 points (→ Silver medal)
100 metres — 13.66s
Shot put — 14.09m
High jump — 1.88m
Long jump — 6.79m
800 metres — 2:04.80
Olga Kuragina — 4875 points (→ Bronze medal)
100 metres — 13.26s
Shot put — 12.49m
High jump — 1.84m
Long jump — 6.77m
800 metres — 2:03.60
Basketball
Summary
Boxing
Canoeing
Men
Women
Cycling
Thirteen cyclists represented the Soviet Union in 1980.
Road
Track
Pursuit
Sprint
Time trial
Diving
Men
Women
Equestrian
Individual dressage
Yuriy Kovshov → Silver medal
Viktor Ugryumov → Bronze medal
Vera Misevich → 4th place
Team dressage
Yuriy Kovshov, Viktor Ugryumov, Vera Misevich → Gold medal
Individual eventing
Aleksandr Blinov → Silver medal
Yuri Salnikov → Bronze medal
Valery Volkov → 4th place
Sergey Rogozhin → 11th place
Team eventing
Aleksandr Blinov, Yuri Salnikov, Valery Volkov, Sergey Rogozhin → Gold medal
Individual jumping
Nikolai Korolkov → Silver medal
Viktor Poganovsky → 5th place
Vyacheslav Chukanov → 9th place
Team jumping
Nikolai Korolkov, Viktor Poganovsky, Vyacheslav Chukanov, Viktor Asmaev → Gold medal
Fencing
18 fencers, 13 men and 5 women, represented Soviet Union in 1980.
Men's foil
Volodymyr Smyrnov → Gold medal
Aleksandr Romankov → Bronze medal
Sabirzhan Ruziyev → 4th place
Men's team foil
Aleksandr Romankov, Volodymyr Smyrnov, Sabirzhan Ruziyev, Ashot Karagyan, Vladimir Lapitsky → Silver medal
Men's épée
Aleksandr Mozhayev → 5th place
Boris Lukomsky → 7th place
Aleksandr Abushakhmetov → 9th place
Men's team épée
Ashot Karagyan, Aleksandr Abushakhmetov, Aleksandr Mozhayev, Boris Lukomsky, Volodymyr Smyrnov → Bronze medal
Men's sabre
Viktor Krovopuskov → Gold medal
Mikhail Burtsev → Silver medal
Vladimir Nazlymov → 8th place
Men's team sabre
Viktor Sidyak, Vladimir Nazlymov, Viktor Krovopuskov, Mikhail Burtsev, Nikolay Alyokhin → Gold medal
Women's foil
Nailya Gilyazova → 9th place
Yelena Novikova-Belova → 9th place
Valentina Sidorova → 13th place
Women's team foil
Valentina Sidorova, Nailya Gilyazova, Yelena Novikova-Belova, Irina Ushakova, Larisa Tsagarayeva → Silver medal
Field hockey
Summary
Football
Summary
Team roster
Rinat Dasayev
Tengiz Sulakvelidze
Aleksandre Chivadze
Vagiz Khidiyatullin
Oleg Romantsev
Sergey Shavlo
Sergey Andreyev
Volodymyr Bezsonov
Yuri Gavrilov
Fyodor Cherenkov
Valery Gazzaev
Vladimir Pilguy
Sergei Baltacha
Sergei Nikulin
Khoren Oganesian
Aleksandr Prokopenko
Revaz Chelebadze
Gymnastics
Men
Women
Handball
Summary
Judo
Extra lightweight (60 kg)
Aramby Emizh → Bronze medal
Half lightweight (65 kg)
Nikolai Solodukhin → Gold medal
Lightweight (71 kg)
Tamaz Namgalauri → 12th place
Half middleweight (78 kg)
Shota Khabareli → Gold medal
Middleweight (86 kg)
Aleksandrs Jackēvičs → Bronze medal
Half heavyweight (95 kg)
Tengiz Khubuluri → Silver medal
Heavyweight (+95 kg)
Vitaly Kuznetsov → 10th place
Open category
Serhiy Novikov → 5 place
Modern pentathlon
Rowing
The Soviet Union had 30 male and 24 female rowers participate in all 14 rowing events in 1980.
Men
Women
Sailing
Shooting
Open
Swimming
Men
Women
Volleyball
Summary
Water polo
Summary
Team roster
Evgeni Sharonov
Sergei Kotenko
Vladimir Akimov
Yevgeny Grishin
Mait Riisman
Aleksandr Kabanov
Aleksei Barkalov
Erkin Shagaev
Georgi Mshvenieradze
Mikhail Ivanov
Viacheslav Sobchenko
Weightlifting
Wrestling
Medals by republic
In the following table for team events number of team representatives, who received medals are counted, not "one medal for all the team", as usual. Because there were people from different republics in one team.
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