Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's 20 kilometres walk explained

Event:Men's 20 kilometres walk
Games:1980 Summer
Date:24 July
Venue:Central Lenin Stadium
Competitors:34
Nations:20
Win Value:1:23:35.5
Longnames:yes
Gold:Maurizio Damilano
Goldnoc:ITA
Silver:Pyotr Pochenchuk
Silvernoc:URS
Bronze:Roland Wieser
Bronzenoc:GDR
Prev:1976
Next:1984

The Men's 20 km Race Walk at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR had an entry list of 34 competitors. Seven athletes were disqualified and two did not finish in the final, which was held on Thursday, 24 July 1980.

The race occurred on a very hot and humid day in the Grand Arena of Central Lenin Stadium. The defending champion of the Montreal summer games, Daniel Bautista of Mexico, led along with Soviet Anatoly Solomin for the majority of the race. However, Bautista was disqualified less than two kilometres from the finish and Solomin a few 100 metres later. There were a total of 136 caution flags and seven disqualifications during the course of the race.[1]

In what was considered a major upset, Maurizio Damilano of Italy won the gold with a finishing time of 1-23:35.5, over a minute faster than silver medalist Pyotr Pochinchuk of Belarus, competing for the USSR. Roland Wieser took the bronze for East Germany, the country with the second highest medal total at these Olympics after the USSR.[2]

Also notable was the 18-year-old 25th place finisher, Thipsamay Chanthaphone, who was competing for Laos in its first Olympic appearance. Chanthaphone completed the 20 kilometres in 2:20:22.0, finishing during the medal ceremony almost 57 minutes after Damilano's win and 31 minutes after 24th place.[3]

Results

Rank Athlete Nation Time Time behind Notes
Maurizio Damilano1:23:35.5
Pyotr Pochynchuk1:24:45.4
Roland Wieser1:25:58.2
4Yevgeniy Yevsyukov1:26:28.3
5Josep Marín1:26:45.6
6Raúl González1:27:48.6
7Bohdan Bułakowski1:28:36.3
8Karl-Heinz Stadtmüller1:29:21.7
9Reima Salonen1:31:32.0
10Roger Mills1:32:37.8
11Giorgio Damilano1:33:26.2
12János Szálas1:34:10.5
13Alf Brandt1:34:44.0
14Pavol Blažek1:35:30.8
15Aristidis Karageorgos1:36:53.4
16Hunde Toure1:37:16.6
17Enrique Peña1:38:00.0
18Ranjit Singh1:38:27.2
19Ernesto Alfaro1:42:19.7
20Jozef Pribilinec1:42:52.4
21Martin Toporek1:44:56.0
22Johann Siegele1:45:17.8
23Tekeste Mitiku1:45:45.7
24Stefano Casali1:49:21.3
25Thipsamay Chanthaphone2:20:22.0
Lucien Faber
Wilfried Siegele
Anatoliy Solomin
Daniel Bautista
Bo Gustafsson
David Smith
Domingo Colín
Werner Heyer
Juraj Benčík

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Athletics at the 1980 Moscow Summer Games: Men's 20 kilometres Walk . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417173309/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1980/ATH/mens-20-kilometres-walk.html . dead . 17 April 2020 . 1 December 2017 . sports-reference.com.
  2. Web site: Athletics at the 1980 Moscow Summer Games: Men's 20 kilometres Walk . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417173309/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1980/ATH/mens-20-kilometres-walk.html . dead . 17 April 2020 . 1 December 2017 . sports-reference.com.
  3. https://web.archive.org/web/20200418064832/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ch/thipsamay-chanthaphone-1.html Thipsamay Chanthaphone at Sports Reference