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Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics was represented by 38 events: 24 for men and 14 for women. They were held in the Grand Arena of the Central Lenin Stadium at Luzhniki (south-western part of Moscow) between July 24 and August 1. There were a total number of 959 participating athletes from 70 countries.
This year's meet was contested at Memorial Stadium at the University of Texas at Austin in Austin, Texas. This was the third time the Longhorns hosted the event, and the first since 1974. [1] [2] UTEP topped the team standings for the third consecutive year and, therefore, claimed their fourth national title.
This article contains an overview of the year 1980 in athletics.The major athletics event of the year was the 1980 Moscow Olympics.A boycott of this competition meant many of world's leading athletes did not face each other, with many of the boycotting athletes taking part in the rival Liberty Bell Classic competition.
Pages in category "1980 in athletics (track and field)" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The 1980 United States Olympic trials for track and field were held at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon. These were the first such trials organized by the new national governing body for the sport of track and field , The Athletics Congress formed one year earlier as required by the Amateur Sports Act of 1978 .
These are the official results of the men's 10,000 metres event at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union. There were a total number of 40 participating athletes, with the final held on Sunday July 27, 1980. [1] The winning margin was 1.59 seconds.
In track-and-field, six world records, eighteen Olympic records and nine best results of the year were registered. In women's track and field, events alone either a world or Olympic record was broken in almost every event. Daley Thompson of Great Britain won the gold in the Decathlon. He won gold again at the Los Angeles Olympics.
Because of the boycott, and the quirk of participating in the Winter Olympics, he was the only U.S. track and field athlete to participate in the 1980 Olympics. [1] [2] In Mexico City in 1968, he reached the final and won, later saying, "From the first step, the gun, I knew I had won the race." In 1972 he finished fourth, and in his third ...