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.^[1]

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.^[2]

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 Chervanev

• 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)

• Yury 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)

• Anatoli 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)

• Valeri Kachanov

• 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)
  1. 100 metres — 13.29s
  2. Shot put — 16.84m
  3. High jump — 1.84m
  4. Long jump — 6.73m
  5. 800 metres — 2:05.20
• Olga Rukavishnikova — 4937 points (→ Silver medal)
  1. 100 metres — 13.66s
  2. Shot put — 14.09m
  3. High jump — 1.88m
  4. Long jump — 6.79m
  5. 800 metres — 2:04.80
• Olga Kuragina — 4875 points (→ Bronze medal)
  1. 100 metres — 13.26s
  2. Shot put — 12.49m
  3. High jump — 1.84m
  4. Long jump — 6.77m
  5. 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

Dressage, Individual

• Yuriy Kovshov → Silver medal
• Viktor Ugryumov → Bronze medal
• Vera Misevich → 4th place

Team dressage

• Yuriy Kovshov, Viktor Ugryumov, Vera Misevich → Gold medal

Three-Day Event, Individual

• Aleksandr Blinov → Silver medal
• Yuri Salnikov → Bronze medal
• Valery Volkov → 4th place
• Sergey Rogozhin → 11th place

Three-Day Event, Team

• Aleksandr Blinov, Yuri Salnikov, Valery Volkov, Sergey Rogozhin → Gold medal

Jumping, Individual

• Nikolai Korolkov → Silver medal
• Viktor Poganovsky → 5th place
• Vyacheslav Chukanov → 9th place

Jumping, Team

• 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, Nikolai 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 Yemizh → 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

• Sergey Novikov → 5 place

Modern pentathlon

Rowing

The Soviet Union had 30 male and 24 female rowers participate in all 14 rowing events in 1980.^[4]

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

References

1. "Soviet Union at the 1980 Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 25 April 2011.
2. "Московская Олимпиада 1980" [Moscow Olympics 1980] (in Russian). histrf.ru. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
3. Olympedia page
4. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Soviet Union Rowing at the 1980 Moskva Summer Games". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 12 April 2018.