Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metres
| Men's 200 metres at the Games of the XXII Olympiad | |
|---|---|
| File:Pietro Mennea en 1973.jpg Pietro Mennea (1973) | |
| Venue | Central Lenin Stadium |
| Date | 27 July 1980 (heats and quarterfinals) 28 July 1980 (semifinals and final) |
| Competitors | 57 from 37 nations |
| Winning time | 20.19 |
| Medalists | |
| Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics | ||
|---|---|---|
| File:Olympic Athletics.png | ||
| Track events | ||
| 100 m | men | women |
| 200 m | men | women |
| 400 m | men | women |
| 800 m | men | women |
| 1500 m | men | women |
| 5000 m | men | |
| 10,000 m | men | |
| 100 m hurdles | women | |
| 110 m hurdles | men | |
| 400 m hurdles | men | |
| 3000 m steeplechase | men | |
| 4 × 100 m relay | men | women |
| 4 × 400 m relay | men | women |
| Road events | ||
| Marathon | men | |
| 20 km walk | men | |
| 50 km walk | men | |
| Field events | ||
| Long jump | men | women |
| Triple jump | men | |
| High jump | men | women |
| Pole vault | men | |
| Shot put | men | women |
| Discus throw | men | women |
| Javelin throw | men | women |
| Hammer throw | men | |
| Combined events | ||
| Pentathlon | women | |
| Decathlon | men | |
The men's 200 metres was an event at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. The competition was held on July 27, 1980, and on July 28, 1980.[1] There were 57 competitors from 37 nations.[2] The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at three since the 1930 Olympic Congress. The event was won by 0.02 seconds by Pietro Mennea of Italy, the nation's first victory in the event since 1960 and second overall (tied for second-most with Canada behind the United States' 12 wins). This winning margin remains the narrowest in this event at the Olympics since the introduction of fully automatic timing. Great Britain earned its first medal in the men's 200 metres since 1928 with Allan Wells' silver. Don Quarrie of Jamaica, the defending champion, took bronze. Mennea (the 1972 bronze medalist) and Quarrie were the fifth and sixth men to earn multiple medals in the event.
Summary
Random lane draw put the two semifinal winners on the outside, Leonard having the misfortune to draw lane 1, Mennea in lane 8. Wells was just inside of Mennea in 7 while Quarrie drew lane 4. Wells just eked into the final with a fourth place in his semifinal. Had timed qualification been involved, he only had the tenth-fastest time in the semis. Wells, who disliked using starting blocks but used them, was out fast, making up the stagger on Mennea 40 metres into the race. Coming off the turn Mennea was two metres back, behind both Leonard and Quarrie. Mennea accelerated down the straight edging closer to Wells with every step. He caught Wells five metres before the finish and continued past him for the win, regarded as one of the great comebacks in Olympic sprinting. Quarrie was able to outlean Leonard for the bronze.[3][4]
Background
This was the 18th appearance of the event, which was not held at the first Olympics in 1896 but has been on the program ever since. Three of the eight finalists from the 1976 Games returned: gold medalist Don Quarrie of Jamaica, fourth-place finisher (and 1972 bronze medalist) Pietro Mennea of Italy, and seventh-place finisher Colin Bradford of Jamaica. The odds on favourite was Mennea, the current world record holder. Other favourites in the field included Quarrie, Silvio Leonard of Cuba, and Allan Wells of Great Britain.[2] Angola, Benin, Botswana, Guinea, Laos, Lebanon, Libya, Mozambique, the Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Syria, and Zambia each made their debut in the event. France and Great Britain each made their 16th appearance, most of the nations competing in 1980 but one fewer than the United States, missing the event for the first time.
Competition format
The competition used the four round format introduced in 1920: heats, quarterfinals, semifinals, and a final. The "fastest loser" system introduced in 1960 was used in the heats. There were 9 heats of between 6 and 7 runners each (before withdrawals), with the top 3 men in each advancing to the quarterfinals along with the next 5 fastest overall. The quarterfinals consisted of 4 heats of 8 athletes each; the 4 fastest men in each heat advanced to the semifinals. There were 2 semifinals, each with 8 runners. Again, the top 4 athletes advanced. The final had 8 runners. The races were run on a 400 metre track.[2]
Records
These were the standing world and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 1980 Summer Olympics.
| World record | File:Flag of Italy.svg Pietro Mennea (ITA) | 19.72 | Mexico City, Mexico | 12 September 1979 |
| Olympic record | File:Flag of the United States.svg Tommie Smith (USA) | 19.83 | Mexico City, Mexico | 16 October 1968 |
No new world or Olympic records were set during the competition.
Schedule
All times are Moscow Time (UTC+3)
| Date | Time | Round |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday, 27 July 1980 | 10:30 18:25 |
Heats Quarterfinals |
| Monday, 28 July 1980 | 17:20 20:10 |
Semifinals Final |
Results
Heats
Held on July 27, 1980.
Heat 1
| Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cameron Sharp | File:Olympic flag.svg Great Britain | 21.51 | Q |
| 2 | Tomás González | File:Flag of Cuba (3-2).svg Cuba | 21.64 | Q |
| 3 | Pavel Pavlov | File:Flag of Bulgaria (1971-1990).svg Bulgaria | 21.78 | Q |
| 4 | Nikolaos Angelopoulos | File:Flag of Greece.svg Greece | 21.98 | |
| 5 | Grégoire Illorson | File:Flag of Cameroon.svg Cameroon | 22.21 | |
| 6 | Rubén Inácio | File:Flag of Angola.svg Angola | 22.52 | |
| 7 | Casimir Pereira | File:Flag of Seychelles (1977–1996).svg Seychelles | 22.59 |
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Heat 2
| Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pietro Mennea | File:Olympic flag.svg Italy | 21.26 | Q |
| 2 | Ferenc Kiss | File:Flag of Hungary.svg Hungary | 21.34 | Q |
| 3 | Olaf Prenzler | File:Flag of East Germany.svg East Germany | 21.35 | Q |
| 4 | Mike McFarlane | File:Olympic flag.svg Great Britain | 21.43 | q |
| 5 | Nabil Nahri | File:Flag of Syria.svg Syria | 22.14 | |
| 6 | Ahmed Mohamed Sallouma | File:Flag of Libya (1977–2011).svg Libya | 22.88 | |
| — | Abdul Majeed Al-Mosawi | File:Flag of Kuwait (3-2).svg Kuwait | DNS |
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Heat 3
| Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Don Quarrie | File:Flag of Jamaica.svg Jamaica | 20.87 | Q |
| 2 | Joseph Arame | File:Olympic flag.svg France | 21.24 | Q |
| 3 | Peter Okodogbe | File:Flag of Nigeria.svg Nigeria | 21.42 | Q |
| 4 | Altevir de Araújo | File:Flag of Brazil (1968-1992).svg Brazil | 21.49 | q |
| 5 | Cheikh Touradou Diouf | File:Flag of Senegal.svg Senegal | 21.89 | |
| 6 | Henk Brouwer | File:Olympic flag.svg Netherlands | 21.96 | |
| 7 | Paul Haba | File:Flag of Guinea.svg Guinea | 22.70 |
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Heat 4
| Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marian Woronin | File:Flag of Poland.svg Poland | 21.63 | Q |
| 2 | István Nagy | File:Flag of Hungary.svg Hungary | 21.80 | Q |
| 3 | Gerardo Suero | File:Flag of the Dominican Republic.svg Dominican Republic | 22.16 | Q |
| — | Aleksandr Stasevich | File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union | DNF | |
| — | Théophile Nkounkou | File:Flag of the People's Republic of Congo.svg Republic of the Congo | DNS | |
| José Luis Elias | File:Flag of Peru.svg Peru | DNS | ||
| Emmanuel Bitanga | File:Flag of Cameroon.svg Cameroon | DNS |
Heat 5
| Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Colin Bradford | File:Flag of Jamaica.svg Jamaica | 21.17 | Q |
| 2 | Leszek Dunecki | File:Flag of Poland.svg Poland | 21.30 | Q |
| 3 | Petar Petrov | File:Flag of Bulgaria (1971-1990).svg Bulgaria | 21.59 | Q |
| 4 | David Lukuba | File:Flag of Tanzania.svg Tanzania | 21.76 | |
| 5 | Pascal Aho | File:Flag of Benin (1975–1990).svg Benin | 22.09 | |
| 6 | Roland Dagher | File:Flag of Lebanon.svg Lebanon | 22.27 | |
| 7 | Walter During | File:Flag of Sierra Leone.svg Sierra Leone | 23.12 |
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Heat 6
| Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Andrew Bruce | File:Flag of Trinidad and Tobago.svg Trinidad and Tobago | 21.36 | Q |
| 2 | Allan Wells | File:Olympic flag.svg Great Britain | 21.57 | Q |
| 3 | Aleksandar Popović | File:Flag of SFR Yugoslavia.svg Yugoslavia | 21.65 | Q |
| 4 | Hammed Adio | File:Flag of Nigeria.svg Nigeria | 21.79 | |
| 5 | Perumal Subramanian | File:Flag of India.svg India | 22.39 | |
| 6 | Rudolph George | File:Flag of Sierra Leone.svg Sierra Leone | 23.20 | |
| — | Vladimir Muravyov | File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union | DNS |
Heat 7
| Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | James Gilkes | File:Flag of Guyana.svg Guyana | 21.07 | Q |
| 2 | František Břečka | File:Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg Czechoslovakia | 21.49 | Q |
| 3 | Bernhard Hoff | File:Flag of East Germany.svg East Germany | 21.53 | Q |
| 4 | Boubacar Diallo | File:Flag of Senegal.svg Senegal | 21.56 | q |
| 5 | Joseph Letseka | File:Flag of Lesotho (1966–1987).svg Lesotho | 22.31 | |
| 6 | Lucien Josiah | File:Flag of Botswana.svg Botswana | 22.45 | |
| — | Constantino Reis | File:Flag of Mozambique (1975-1983).svg Mozambique | DNF |
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Heat 8
| Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Osvaldo Lara | File:Flag of Cuba (3-2).svg Cuba | 21.03 | Q |
| 2 | Christopher Brathwaite | File:Flag of Trinidad and Tobago.svg Trinidad and Tobago | 21.13 | Q |
| 3 | Nikolay Sidorov | File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union | 21.15 | Q |
| 4 | Vladimir Ivanov | File:Flag of Bulgaria (1971-1990).svg Bulgaria | 21.28 | q |
| 5 | Alston Muziyo | File:Flag of Zambia (1964-1996).svg Zambia | 22.47 | |
| 6 | Besha Tuffa | File:Flag of Ethiopia (1975–1987).svg Ethiopia | 23.18 | |
| — | Pascal Barré | File:Olympic flag.svg France | DNS |
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Heat 9
| Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Silvio Leonard | File:Flag of Cuba (3-2).svg Cuba | 20.95 | Q |
| 2 | Bernard Petitbois | File:Olympic flag.svg France | 21.16 | Q |
| 3 | Paulo Roberto Correira | File:Flag of Brazil (1968-1992).svg Brazil | 21.27 | Q |
| 4 | Zenon Licznerski | File:Flag of Poland.svg Poland | 21.36 | q |
| 5 | Mwalimu Ali | File:Flag of Tanzania.svg Tanzania | 21.83 | |
| 6 | Sheku Boima | File:Flag of Sierra Leone.svg Sierra Leone | 22.93 | |
| 7 | Sitthixay Sacpraseuth | File:Flag of Laos.svg Laos | 24.28 |
Quarterfinals
Held on July 27, 1980.
Quarterfinal 1
| Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Don Quarrie | File:Flag of Jamaica.svg Jamaica | 20.89 | Q |
| 2 | Marian Woronin | File:Flag of Poland.svg Poland | 20.97 | Q |
| 3 | Osvaldo Lara | File:Flag of Cuba (3-2).svg Cuba | 21.01 | Q |
| 4 | Ferenc Kiss | File:Flag of Hungary.svg Hungary | 21.24 | Q |
| 5 | Bernard Petitbois | File:Olympic flag.svg France | 21.32 | |
| 6 | Mike McFarlane | File:Olympic flag.svg Great Britain | 21.33 | |
| 7 | Aleksandar Popović | File:Flag of SFR Yugoslavia.svg Yugoslavia | 21.66 | |
| 8 | Petar Petrov | File:Flag of Bulgaria (1971-1990).svg Bulgaria | 21.89 |
Quarterfinal 2
| Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Allan Wells | File:Olympic flag.svg Great Britain | 20.59 | Q |
| 2 | James Gilkes | File:Flag of Guyana.svg Guyana | 20.83 | Q |
| 3 | Peter Okodogbe | File:Flag of Nigeria.svg Nigeria | 20.89 | Q |
| 4 | Olaf Prenzler | File:Flag of East Germany.svg East Germany | 20.89 | Q |
| 5 | Christopher Brathwaite | File:Flag of Trinidad and Tobago.svg Trinidad and Tobago | 21.02 | |
| 6 | Colin Bradford | File:Flag of Jamaica.svg Jamaica | 21.04 | |
| 7 | Altevir de Araújo | File:Flag of Brazil (1968-1992).svg Brazil | 21.22 | |
| 8 | Pavel Pavlov | File:Flag of Bulgaria (1971-1990).svg Bulgaria | 21.35 |
Quarterfinal 3
| Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Silvio Leonard | File:Flag of Cuba (3-2).svg Cuba | 20.93 | Q |
| 2 | Joseph Arame | File:Olympic flag.svg France | 20.95 | Q |
| 3 | Bernhard Hoff | File:Flag of East Germany.svg East Germany | 20.96 | Q |
| 4 | Cameron Sharp | File:Olympic flag.svg Great Britain | 21.16 | Q |
| 5 | Zenon Licznerski | File:Flag of Poland.svg Poland | 21.22 | |
| 6 | István Nagy | File:Flag of Hungary.svg Hungary | 21.38 | |
| 7 | František Břečka | File:Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg Czechoslovakia | 21.47 | |
| 8 | Gerardo Suero | File:Flag of the Dominican Republic.svg Dominican Republic | 21.75 |
Quarterfinal 4
| Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pietro Mennea | File:Olympic flag.svg Italy | 20.60 | Q |
| 2 | Nikolay Sidorov | File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union | 20.83 | Q |
| 3 | Leszek Dunecki | File:Flag of Poland.svg Poland | 20.87 | Q |
| 4 | Andrew Bruce | File:Flag of Trinidad and Tobago.svg Trinidad and Tobago | 20.94 | Q |
| 5 | Vladimir Ivanov | File:Flag of Bulgaria (1971-1990).svg Bulgaria | 20.96 | |
| 6 | Paulo Roberto Correia | File:Flag of Brazil (1968-1992).svg Brazil | 21.01 | |
| 7 | Boubacar Diallo | File:Flag of Senegal.svg Senegal | 21.10 | |
| 8 | Tomás González | File:Flag of Cuba (3-2).svg Cuba | 21.19 |
Semifinals
Held on July 28, 1980.
Semifinal 1
| Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Silvio Leonard | File:Flag of Cuba (3-2).svg Cuba | 20.61 | Q |
| 2 | Bernhard Hoff | File:Flag of East Germany.svg East Germany | 20.69 | Q |
| 3 | Marian Woronin | File:Flag of Poland.svg Poland | 20.75 | Q |
| 4 | Allan Wells | File:Olympic flag.svg Great Britain | 20.75 | Q |
| 5 | James Gilkes | File:Flag of Guyana.svg Guyana | 20.87 | |
| 6 | Peter Okodogbe | File:Flag of Nigeria.svg Nigeria | 21.03 | |
| 7 | Andrew Bruce | File:Flag of Trinidad and Tobago.svg Trinidad and Tobago | 21.16 | |
| 8 | Ferenc Kiss | File:Flag of Hungary.svg Hungary | 21.17 |
Semifinal 2
| Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pietro Mennea | File:Olympic flag.svg Italy | 20.70 | Q |
| 2 | Don Quarrie | File:Flag of Jamaica.svg Jamaica | 20.76 | Q |
| 3 | Leszek Dunecki | File:Flag of Poland.svg Poland | 20.82 | Q |
| 4 | Osvaldo Lara | File:Flag of Cuba (3-2).svg Cuba | 20.93 | Q |
| 5 | Olaf Prenzler | File:Flag of East Germany.svg East Germany | 21.00 | |
| 6 | Joseph Arame | File:Olympic flag.svg France | 21.05 | |
| 7 | Nikolay Sidorov | File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union | 21.17 | |
| 8 | Cameron Sharp | File:Olympic flag.svg Great Britain | 21.24 |
Final
Held on July 28, 1980.
See also
- 1976 Men's Olympic 200 metres (Montreal)
- 1978 Men's European Championships 200 metres (Prague)
- 1982 Men's European Championships 200 metres (Athens)
- 1983 Men's World Championships 200 metres (Helsinki)
- 1984 Men's Olympic 200 metres (Los Angeles)
References
- ↑ "Athletics at the 1980 Moscow Games: Men's 200 metres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "200 metres, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
- ↑ "Lane 8 200m Revisited – Pietro Mennea 1980 Olympic Gold Medal". SpeedEndurance.com. 19 April 2010. Retrieved 4 June 2019.
- ↑ "Mennea Nips Wells In Olympic Drama - The Washington Post". The Washington Post.
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