Advertisement

 

 

 

 

 

• Home
• Results
• Statistics
• Timeline
• Trivia
• What if...
• Articles

 

Olympic Games 1980 - Moscow

The Men's Marathon at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow had an entry list of 76 competitors, with 53 runners actually finishing the race held on Friday 1 August 1980. Cierpinski ran wisely and didn't match the suicidal pace the leaders had set. He caught up to the leaders at the 36 kilometer mark and soon led by a healthy margin. Although Gerard Nijboer from the Netherlands narrowed the gap in the last kilometer, Cierpinski sprinted the last 200 meters to win his second Olympic gold and duplicate the feat of legendary Ethiopian Abebe Bikila of winning two Olympic marathons.

Results
1°	Waldemar	Cierpisnki	East Germany	2:11:03
2°	Gerard	Nijboer	Netherlands	2:11:20
3°	Satymkul	Dzhumanazarov	Soviet Union	2:11:35
4°	Vladimir	Kotov	Soviet Union	2:12:05
5°	Leonid	Mosseyev	Soviet Union	2:12:14
6°	Rodolfo	Gómez	Mexico	2:12:39
7°	Dereje	Nedi	Ethiopia	2:12:44
8°	Massimo	Magnani	Italy	2:13:12
9°	Karel	Lismont	Belgium	2:13:27
10°	Robert	de Castella	Australia	2:14:31
11°	Joachim	Truppel	East Germany	2:14:55
12°	Ferenc	Szekeres	Hungary	2:15:18
13°	Mark	Smet	Belgium	2:16:00
14°	Emmanuel	Ndiemandoi	Tanzania	2:16:47
15°	Gidamis	Shahanga	Tanzania	2:16:47
16°	Anacleto	Pinto	Portugal	2:17:04
17°	Domingo	Tibaduiza	Colombia	2:17:06
18°	Rik	Schoofs	Belgium	2:17:28
19°	Kjell-Erik	Ståhl	Sweden	2:17:44
20°	Michail	Koussis	Greece	2:18:02
21°	Jürgen	Eberding	East Germany	2:18:04
22°	Eleuterio	Antón	Spain	2:18:16
23°	Leodigard	Martin	Tanzania	2:18:21
24°	Moges	Alemayehu	Ethiopia	2:18:40
25°	Jules	Randrianarivelo	Madagascar	2:19:23
26°	Zbigniew	Pierzynka	Poland	2:20:03
27°	Koh	Chun-Son	North Korea	2:20:08
28°	Christopher	Wardlaw	Australia	2:20:42
29°	Li	Jong-Hyong	North Korea	2:21:10
30°	Tommy	Persson	Sweden	2:21:11
31°	Hari	Chand	India	2:22:08
32°	Håkan	Spik	Finland	2:22:24
33°	Choe	Chang-Sop	North Korea	2:22:42
34°	Luis	Barbosa	Colombia	2:22:58
35°	Marco	Marchei	Italy	2:23:21
36°	Vincent	Rakabaele	Lesotho	2:23:29
37°	Baikuntha	Manandhar	Nepal	2:23:51
38°	Dick	Hooper	Ireland	2:23:53
39°	Josef	Steiner	Austria	2:24:24
40°	Joseph	Peter	Switzerland	2:24:53
41°	Cor	Vriend	Netherlands	2:26:41
42°	Pat	Hooper	Ireland	2:30:28
43°	Buumba	Halwand	Zambia	2:36:51
44°	Esa	Shetewi	Libya	2:38:01
45°	Mukundahari	Shrestha	Nepal	2:38:52
46°	Baba Ibrahim	Suma-Keita	Sierra Leone	2:41:20
47°	Soe	Khin	Myanmar	2:41:41
48°	Damiano	Musonda	Zambia	2:42:11
49°	Enemri	El-Marghani	Libya	2:42:27
50°	Quyen	Nguyen	Vietnam	2:44:37
51°	Tapfumaneyi	Jonga	Zimbabwe	2:47:17
52°	Emmanuel	Mpioh	Congo	2:48:17
53°	Abel	Nkhoma	Zimbabwe	2:53:35
Did not finish
DNF	Abdelmadjid	Mada	Algeria
DNF	Gerard	Barrett	Australia
DNF	Radamés	González	Cuba
DNF	Josef	Jánský	Czechoslovakia
DNF	Vlastimil	Zwiefelhofer	Czechoslovakia
DNF	Jorn	Lauenborg	Denmark
DNF	Kebede	Balcha	Ethiopia
DNF	Jouni	Kortelainen	Finland
DNF	Lasse	Virén	Finland
DNF	Jean-Michel	Charbonnel	France
DNF	David	Black	Great Britain
DNF	Bernard	Ford	Great Britain
DNF	Ian	Thompson	Great Britain
DNF	Shivnath	Singh	India
DNF	Kenneth	Hlasa	Lesotho
DNF	Nabil	Chouéry	Libya
DNF	Ryszard	Marczak	Poland
DNF	Andrzej	Sajkowski	Poland
DNF	Albert	Marie	Seychelles
DNF	Göran	Högberg	Sweden
DNF	Patrick	Chiwala	Zambia
Did not start
DNS	John	Treacy	Ireland
DNS	Laswell	Ngoma	Zimbabwe
Disqualified

---

Results 1980

MEN MARATHON
2:11:03
Waldemar Cierpisnki
(East Germany)

---