Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon

Men's marathon at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Venue	Central Lenin Olympic Stadium, Moscow
Dates	August 1
Competitors	74 from 40 nations
Winning time	2:11:03
Medalists
Waldemar Cierpinski   East Germany   Gerard Nijboer   Netherlands   Satymkul Dzhumanazarov   Soviet Union

Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics
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

Runner pass in front of Saint Basil's Cathedral. Winner Waldemar Cierpinski is at left.

The Men's Marathon at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR had an entrylist of 76 competitors, with 53 runners actually finishing the race held on Friday 1 August 1980.

Medalists

Gold	Waldemar Cierpinski East Germany (GDR)
Silver	Gerard Nijboer Netherlands (NED)
Bronze	Satymkul Dzhumanazarov Soviet Union (URS)

Results

Place	Athlete	Time
1	Waldemar Cierpinski (GDR)	2:11:03
2	Gerard Nijboer (NED)	2:11:20
3	Satymkul Dzhumanazarov (URS)	2:11:35
4	Vladimir Kotov (URS)	2:12:05
5	Leonid Moseyev (URS)	2:12:14
6	Rodolfo Gómez (MEX)	2:12:39
7	Dereje Nedi (ETH)	2:12:44
8	Massimo Magnani (ITA)	2:13:12
9	Karel Lismont (BEL)	2:13:27
10	Robert de Castella (AUS)	2:14:31
11	Joachim Truppel (GDR)	2:14:55
12	Ferenc Szekeres (HUN)	2:15:18
13	Mark Smet (BEL)	2:16:00
14	Emmanuel Ndiemandoi (TAN)	2:16:47
15	Gidamis Shahanga (TAN)	2:16:47
16	Anacleto Pinto (POR)	2:17:04
17	Domingo Tibaduiza (COL)	2:17:06
18	Rik Schoofs (BEL)	2:17:28
19	Kjell-Erik Ståhl (SWE)	2:17:44
20	Michael Koussis (GRE)	2:18:02
21	Jürgen Eberding (GDR)	2:18:04
22	Eleuterio Antón (ESP)	2:18:16
23	Leodigard Martin (TAN)	2:18:21
24	Moges Alemayehu (ETH)	2:18:40
25	Jules Randrianari (MAD)	2:19:23
26	Zbigniew Pierzynka (POL)	2:20:03
27	Koh Chun-Son (PRK)	2:20:08
28	Christopher Wardlaw (AUS)	2:20:42
29	Li Jong-Hyong (PRK)	2:21:10
30	Tommy Persson (SWE)	2:21:11
31	Hari Chand (IND)	2:22:08
32	Håkan Spik (FIN)	2:22:24
33	Choe Chang-Sop (PRK)	2:22:42
34	Luis Barbosa (COL)	2:22:58
35	Marco Marchei (ITA)	2:23:21
36	Vincent Rakabaele (LES)	2:23:29
37	Baikuntha Manandhar (NEP)	2:23:51
38	Dick Hooper (IRL)	2:23:53
39	Josef Steiner (AUT)	2:24:24
40	Josef Peter (SUI)	2:24:53
41	Cor Vriend (NED)	2:26:41
42	Pat Hooper (IRL)	2:30:28
43	Buumba Halwand (ZAM)	2:36:51
44	Esa Shetewi (LBA)	2:38:01
45	Mukundahari Shrestha (NEP)	2:38:52
46	Baba Ibrahim Suma-Keita (SLE)	2:41:20
47	Soe Khin (BIR)	2:41:41
48	Damiano Musonda (ZAM)	2:42:11
49	Enemri El-Marghani (LBA)	2:42:27
50	Quyen Nguyen (VIE)	2:44:37
51	Tapfumaneyi Jonga (ZIM)	2:47:17
52	Emmanuel Mpioh (CGO)	2:48:17
53	Abel Nkhoma (ZIM)	2:53:35
—	Shivnath Singh (IND)	DNF
	Ryszard Marczak (POL)	DNF
	Andrzej Sajkowski (POL)	DNF
	Vlastimil Zwiefelhofer (TCH)	DNF
	Radamés González (CUB)	DNF
	David Black (GBR)	DNF
	Bernard Ford (GBR)	DNF
	Lasse Virén (FIN)	DNF
	Jean-Michel Charbonnel (FRA)	DNF
	Albert Marie (SEY)	DNF
	Abdelmadjid Mada (ALG)	DNF
	Gerard Barrett (AUS)	DNF
	Göran Högberg (SWE)	DNF
	Josef Jánský (TCH)	DNF
	Nabil Chouéry (LIB)	DNF
	Ian Thompson (GBR)	DNF
	Jouni Kortelainen (FIN)	DNF
	Patrick Chiwala (ZAM)	DNF
	Kebede Balcha (ETH)	DNF
	Jorn Lauenborg (DEN)	DNF
	Kenneth Hlasa (LES)	DNF
—	Laswell Ngoma (ZIM)	DNS
	John Treacy (IRL)	DNS

See also

• 1978 Men's European Championships Marathon (Prague)
• 1980 Marathon Year Ranking
• 1982 Men's European Championships Marathon (Athens)
• 1983 Men's World Championships Marathon (Helsinki)
• 1986 Men's European Championships Marathon (Stuttgart)

References

• Results