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The Men's 50 km Race Walk at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR had an entry list of 27 competitors. Three athletes were disqualified and nine of them did not finish in the final, held on 30 July 1980.[1] This event was not conducted in 1976, it was last held in 1972.

This event netted Spain its first-ever medal in athletics, with Jordi Llopart taking silver.[2]

Medalists

Gold Hartwig Gauder
 East Germany
Silver Jordi Llopart
 Spain
Bronze Yevgeniy Ivchenko
 Soviet Union

Final ranking

Rank Athlete Time Note
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Hartwig Gauder (GDR) 3:49:24
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Jordi Llopart (ESP) 3:51:25
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Yevgeniy Ivchenko (URS) 3:56:32
4  Bengt Simonsen (SWE) 3:57:08
5  Vyacheslav Fursov (URS) 3:58:32
6  Josep Marín (ESP) 4:03:08
7  Stanisław Rola (POL) 4:07:07
8  Willi Sawall (AUS) 4:08:25
9  László Sátor (HUN) 4:10:53
10  Pavol Blažek (TCH) 4:16:26
11  Ian Richards (GBR) 4:22:57
12  Aristidis Karageorgos (GRE) 4:24:36
13  Juraj Benčík (TCH) 4:27:39
14  Enrique Peña (COL) 4:29:27
15  Ernesto Alfaro (COL) 4:46:28
DID NOT FINISH (DNF)
 Bo Gustafsson (SWE) DNF
 Bohdan Bułakowski (POL) DNF
 Daniel Bautista (MEX) DNF
 David Smith (AUS) DNF
 Gérard Lelièvre (FRA) DNF
 Martín Bermúdez (MEX) DNF
 Raúl González (MEX) DNF
 Reima Salonen (FIN) DNF
 Boris Yakovlev (URS) DNF
DISQUALIFIED (DSQ)
 Dietmar Meisch (GDR) DSQ
 Jaromír Vaňous (TCH) DSQ
 Uwe Dünkel (GDR) DSQ

See also

References

  1. ^ "Athletics at the 1980 Moscow Summer Games: Men's 50 kilometres Walk". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
  2. ^ "1980 Olympic 50km race walk silver medallist Llopart dies". World Athletics. 11 November 2020. Retrieved 31 July 2021.

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