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Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metres

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Men's 200 metres
at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Pietro Mennea (1973)
VenueCentral Lenin Stadium
Date27 July 1980 (heats and quarterfinals)
28 July 1980 (semifinals and final)
Competitors57 from 37 nations
Winning time20.19
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Pietro Mennea
 Italy
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Allan Wells
 Great Britain
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Don Quarrie
 Jamaica
← 1976
1984 →

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 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress. The event was won 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). 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.

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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  Pietro Mennea (ITA) 19.72 Mexico City, Mexico 12 September 1979
Olympic record  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  Great Britain 21.51 Q
2 Tomás González  Cuba 21.64 Q
3 Pavel Pavlov  Bulgaria 21.78 Q
4 Nikolaos Angelopoulos  Greece 21.98
5 Grégoire Illorson  Cameroon 22.21
6 Rubén Inácio  Angola 22.52
7 Casimir Pereira  Seychelles 22.59

Heat 2

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Pietro Mennea  Italy 21.26 Q
2 Ferenc Kiss  Hungary 21.34 Q
3 Olaf Prenzler  East Germany 21.35 Q
4 Mike McFarlane  Great Britain 21.43 q
5 Nabil Nahri  Syria 22.14
6 Ahmed Mohamed Sallouma  Libya 22.88
Abdul Majeed Al-Mosawi  Kuwait DNS

Heat 3

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Don Quarrie  Jamaica 20.87 Q
2 Joseph Arame  France 21.24 Q
3 Peter Okodogbe  Nigeria 21.42 Q
4 Altevir de Araújo  Brazil 21.49 q
5 Cheikh Touradou Diouf  Senegal 21.89
6 Henk Brouwer  Netherlands 21.96
7 Paul Haba  Guinea 22.70

Heat 4

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Marian Woronin  Poland 21.63 Q
2 István Nagy  Hungary 21.80 Q
3 Gerardo Suero  Dominican Republic 22.16 Q
Aleksandr Stasevich  Soviet Union DNF
Théophile Nkounkou  Republic of the Congo DNS
José Luis Elias  Peru DNS
Emmanuel Bitanga  Cameroon DNS

Heat 5

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Colin Bradford  Jamaica 21.17 Q
2 Leszek Dunecki  Poland 21.30 Q
3 Petar Petrov  Bulgaria 21.59 Q
4 David Lukuba  Tanzania 21.76
5 Pascal Aho  Benin 22.09
6 Roland Dagher  Lebanon 22.27
7 Walter During  Sierra Leone 23.12

Heat 6

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Andrew Bruce  Trinidad and Tobago 21.36 Q
2 Allan Wells  Great Britain 21.57 Q
3 Aleksandar Popović  Yugoslavia 21.65 Q
4 Hammed Adio  Nigeria 21.79
5 Perumal Subramanian  India 22.39
6 Rudolph George  Sierra Leone 23.20
Vladimir Muravyov  Soviet Union DNS

Heat 7

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 James Gilkes  Guyana 21.07 Q
2 František Břečka  Czechoslovakia 21.49 Q
3 Bernhard Hoff  East Germany 21.53 Q
4 Boubacar Diallo  Senegal 21.56 q
5 Joseph Letseka  Lesotho 22.31
6 Lucien Josiah  Botswana 22.45
Constantino Reis  Mozambique DNF

Heat 8

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Osvaldo Lara  Cuba 21.03 Q
2 Christopher Brathwaite  Trinidad and Tobago 21.13 Q
3 Nikolay Sidorov  Soviet Union 21.15 Q
4 Vladimir Ivanov  Bulgaria 21.28 q
5 Alston Muziyo  Zambia 22.47
6 Besha Tuffa  Ethiopia 23.18
Pascal Barré  France DNS

Heat 9

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Silvio Leonard  Cuba 20.95 Q
2 Bernard Petitbois  France 21.16 Q
3 Paulo Roberto Correira  Brazil 21.27 Q
4 Zenon Licznerski  Poland 21.36 q
5 Mwalimu Ali  Tanzania 21.83
6 Sheku Boima  Sierra Leone 22.93
7 Sitthixay Sacpraseuth  Laos 24.28

Quarterfinals

Held on July 27, 1980.

Quarterfinal 1

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Don Quarrie  Jamaica 20.89 Q
2 Marian Woronin  Poland 20.97 Q
3 Osvaldo Lara  Cuba 21.01 Q
4 Ferenc Kiss  Hungary 21.24 Q
5 Bernard Petitbois  France 21.32
6 Mike McFarlane  Great Britain 21.33
7 Aleksandar Popović  Yugoslavia 21.66
8 Petar Petrov  Bulgaria 21.89

Quarterfinal 2

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Allan Wells  Great Britain 20.59 Q
2 James Gilkes  Guyana 20.83 Q
3 Peter Okodogbe  Nigeria 20.89 Q
4 Olaf Prenzler  East Germany 20.89 Q
5 Christopher Brathwaite  Trinidad and Tobago 21.02
6 Colin Bradford  Jamaica 21.04
7 Altevir de Araújo  Brazil 21.22
8 Pavel Pavlov  Bulgaria 21.35

Quarterfinal 3

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Silvio Leonard  Cuba 20.93 Q
2 Joseph Arame  France 20.95 Q
3 Bernhard Hoff  East Germany 20.96 Q
4 Cameron Sharp  Great Britain 21.16 Q
5 Zenon Licznerski  Poland 21.22
6 István Nagy  Hungary 21.38
7 František Břečka  Czechoslovakia 21.47
8 Gerardo Suero  Dominican Republic 21.75

Quarterfinal 4

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Pietro Mennea  Italy 20.60 Q
2 Nikolay Sidorov  Soviet Union 20.83 Q
3 Leszek Dunecki  Poland 20.87 Q
4 Andrew Bruce  Trinidad and Tobago 20.94 Q
5 Vladimir Ivanov  Bulgaria 20.96
6 Paulo Roberto Correia  Brazil 21.01
7 Boubacar Diallo  Senegal 21.10
8 Tomás González  Cuba 21.19

Semifinals

Held on July 28, 1980.

Semifinal 1

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Silvio Leonard  Cuba 20.61 Q
2 Bernhard Hoff  East Germany 20.69 Q
3 Marian Woronin  Poland 20.75 Q
4 Allan Wells  Great Britain 20.75 Q
5 James Gilkes  Guyana 20.87
6 Peter Okodogbe  Nigeria 21.03
7 Andrew Bruce  Trinidad and Tobago 21.16
8 Ferenc Kiss  Hungary 21.17

Semifinal 2

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Pietro Mennea  Italy 20.70 Q
2 Don Quarrie  Jamaica 20.76 Q
3 Leszek Dunecki  Poland 20.82 Q
4 Osvaldo Lara  Cuba 20.93 Q
5 Olaf Prenzler  East Germany 21.00
6 Joseph Arame  France 21.05
7 Nikolay Sidorov  Soviet Union 21.17
8 Cameron Sharp  Great Britain 21.24

Final

Held on July 28, 1980.

Rank Athlete Nation Time
1st place, gold medalist(s) Pietro Mennea  Italy 20.19
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Allan Wells  Great Britain 20.21
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Don Quarrie  Jamaica 20.29
4 Silvio Leonard  Cuba 20.30
5 Bernhard Hoff  East Germany 20.50
6 Leszek Dunecki  Poland 20.68
7 Marian Woronin  Poland 20.81
8 Osvaldo Lara  Cuba 21.19

See also

References

  1. ^ "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. ^ a b c "200 metres, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
  3. ^ "Lane 8 200m Revisited – Pietro Mennea 1980 Olympic Gold Medal". SpeedEndurance.com. 19 April 2010. Retrieved 4 June 2019.
  4. ^ "Mennea Nips Wells In Olympic Drama - The Washington Post".
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