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

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Men's 20 kilometres walk
at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
VenueCentral Lenin Stadium
Date24 July
Competitors34 from 20 nations
Winning time1:23:35.5
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Maurizio Damilano
 Italy
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Pyotr Pochenchuk
 Soviet Union
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Roland Wieser
 East Germany
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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.[1]

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.[2]

Results

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Time behind Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Maurizio Damilano  Italy 1:23:35.5
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Pyotr Pochynchuk  Soviet Union 1:24:45.4
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Roland Wieser  East Germany 1:25:58.2
4 Yevgeniy Yevsyukov  Soviet Union 1:26:28.3
5 Josep Marín  Spain 1:26:45.6
6 Raúl González  Mexico 1:27:48.6
7 Bohdan Bułakowski  Poland 1:28:36.3
8 Karl-Heinz Stadtmüller  East Germany 1:29:21.7
9 Reima Salonen  Finland 1:31:32.0
10 Roger Mills  Great Britain 1:32:37.8
11 Giorgio Damilano  Italy 1:33:26.2
12 János Szálas  Hungary 1:34:10.5
13 Alf Brandt  Sweden 1:34:44.0
14 Pavol Blažek  Czechoslovakia 1:35:30.8
15 Aristidis Karageorgos  Greece 1:36:53.4
16 Hunde Toure  Ethiopia 1:37:16.6
17 Enrique Peña  Colombia 1:38:00.0
18 Ranjit Singh  India 1:38:27.2
19 Ernesto Alfaro  Colombia 1:42:19.7
20 Jozef Pribilinec  Czechoslovakia 1:42:52.4
21 Martin Toporek  Austria 1:44:56.0
22 Johann Siegele  Austria 1:45:17.8
23 Tekeste Mitiku  Ethiopia 1:45:45.7
24 Stefano Casali  San Marino 1:49:21.3
25 Thipsamay Chanthaphone  Laos 2:20:22.0
Lucien Faber  Luxembourg DNF
Wilfried Siegele  Austria DNF
Anatoliy Solomin  Soviet Union DNS
Daniel Bautista  Mexico DNS
Bo Gustafsson  Sweden DNS
David Smith  Australia DNS
Domingo Colín  Mexico DNS
Werner Heyer  East Germany DNS
Juraj Benčík  Czechoslovakia DNS

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Athletics at the 1980 Moscow Summer Games: Men's 20 kilometres Walk". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
  2. ^ Thipsamay Chanthaphone at Sports Reference
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