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1980 Summer Olympics medals
Vladimir Parfenovich standing in a track suit with a gold medal around his neck, while two hands reach out and touch each other in front of him.
Vladimir Parfenovich (pictured) won three gold medals at the 1980 Summer Olympics, tied for the most of any competing athlete.
LocationMoscow,  Soviet Union
Highlights
Most gold medals Soviet Union (80)
Most total medals Soviet Union (195)
Medalling NOCs36
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1980 Summer Olympics

The 1980 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Moscow, Soviet Union, from 19 July to 3 August.[1][2] They were the first Olympic Games to be staged in a communist nation.[3] A total of 5,179 athletes representing 80 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated.[2] This was the fewest number of participating NOCs since 1956,[4] which included seven teams making their Olympic debut at the Summer Games; Angola,[5] Botswana,[6] Cyprus,[7], Jordan,[8] Laos,[9] Mozambique,[10] and Seychelles.[11] The games featured 203 events in 21 sports across 27 disciplines.[2]

67 eligible countries participated in a boycott against these games, some of which did so explicitly citing the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.[12][13] Sixteen NOCs participated under the Olympic Flag, as opposed to their nation's flag, as a partial boycott.[14][15] This included the Olympic Anthem and flag being used at medal ceremonies when athletes from these NOCs won medals.[16]

Athletes representing 36 NOCs received at least one medal, with 25 NOCs winning at least one gold medal.[17] The Soviet Union won the most overall medals, with 195, and the most gold medals, with 80, setting a new record for most golds won in a single games (which was later broken at the 1984 Games).[17][18] Sports commentators noted that the absence of the United States and various other Western nations stemming from an unprecedented boycott contributed to the highly skewed medal results benefitting the Soviet Union and East Germany.[3] Guyana,[19] Tanzania,[20] and Zimbabwe won their first Olympic medals of any kind, with Zimbabwe also winning their nation's first gold medal.[21]

Among individual participants, Soviet gymnast Alexander Dityatin won the most medals overall with eight medals (three gold, four silver, one bronze), becoming the first athlete to win eight medals at a single games.[22][23] Dityatin, Soviet canoer Vladimir Parfenovich, Soviet swimmer Vladimir Salnikov, and East German swimmers Barbara Krause, Caren Metschuck, and Rica Reinisch tied for the most gold medals, with three each.[22]

Medal table

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Head shot of Alexander Dityatin
Alexander Dityatin, pictured in 2018, had the most total medals among individual participants with eight (three gold, four silver, one bronze). His three gold medals was also tied for the most gold medals at the games.
Easy Germany swept the podium in the women's 200 metre backstroke at the 1980 Summer Games.[24] From left to right: Cornelia Polit, Rica Reinisch, and Birgit Treiber.
See also: Olympic medal table

The medal table is based on information provided by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and is consistent with IOC conventional sorting in its published medal tables. The table uses the Olympic medal table sorting method. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won, where a nation is an entity represented by a NOC. The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals.[25][26] If teams are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically by their IOC country code.[27]

Events in boxing resulted in bronze medals being awarded to each of the competitors who lost their semi-final matches, as opposed to taking part in a third place tiebreaker.[28] Events in judo used a repechage system which also resulted in two bronze medals being awarded.[29]

In women's gymnastics floor there was a two-way tie for first and a two-way tie for third, resulting in two gold medals and two bronze medals being issued, with no silver medal being awarded.[30] In men's pole vault and the women's gymnastic artistic individual all-around events there were two-way ties for second, which resulted in two silver medals and no bronze medals being awarded in each event.[31][32] Lastly, in the women's uneven bars, there was a three-way tie for third, which resulted in three bronze medals being awarded.[33]

  *   Host nation (Soviet Union)

1980 Summer Olympics medal table[17]
RankNOCGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Soviet Union*806946195
2 East Germany473742126
3 Bulgaria8161741
4 Cuba87520
5 Italy83415
6 Hungary7101532
7 Romania661325
8 France65314
9 Great Britain57921
10 Poland3141532
11 Sweden33612
12 Finland3148
13 Czechoslovakia23914
14 Yugoslavia2349
15 Australia2259
16 Denmark2125
17 Brazil2024
 Ethiopia2024
19 Switzerland2002
20 Spain1326
21 Austria1214
22 Greece1023
23 Belgium1001
 India1001
 Zimbabwe1001
26 North Korea0325
27 Mongolia0224
28 Tanzania0202
29 Mexico0134
30 Netherlands0123
31 Ireland0112
32 Uganda0101
 Venezuela0101
34 Jamaica0033
35 Guyana0011
 Lebanon0011
Totals (36 entries)204204223631

See also

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References

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