1980 Summer Olympics
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The Games of the XXII Olympiad were held in 1980 in Moscow, Soviet Union. Another candidate in the bid to organise the Olympics was Los Angeles. The choice between them was made on October 23, 1974 on the 75th IOC session. Moscow defeated Los Angeles 39 votes to 20. It was the first time the Olympics were held in a communist country. The yachting events were held in Tallinn; preliminary matches and the quarter-finals of the football tournament were held, besides Moscow, at the stadiums of Leningrad, Kiev, Minsk.
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Highlights
- Although approximately a half of the countries, which boycotted 1976 Summer Olympics, participated in these ones, the Games were disrupted by another, even larger, boycott led by the United States in a protest to the 1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan. Eighty nations did participate - the lowest number since 1956.
- In response to the U.S.-boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics, NBC, which was slated to provide coverage of the games, canceled its coverage, but the network did air highlights and recaps of the games on a regular basis.
- Soviet gymnast Aleksandr Dityatin won a medal in each of the eight gymnastics events, including three titles.
- Vladimir Salnikov (USSR) won three gold medals in the swimming pool. His time in the 1500 m freestyle was the first below 15 minutes.
- Belarusian Uladzimir Parfianovich of the USSR won 3 gold medals in canoeing.
- Ethiopian Muruse Yefter won the 5000 m and 10000 m double, emulating Lasse Viren's 1976 performance.
- Waldemar Cierpinski of East Germany won his second consecutive marathon gold.
- Women's field hockey was an Olympic sport for the first time. Six countries competed in it: Austria, India, Poland, Czechoslovakia, USSR, Zimbabwe. The golden medal was won by the team of Zimbabwe.
- East Germany dominated rowing: they won eleven of the fourteen available titles.
- Teófilo Stevenson of Cuba became the first boxer to win three consecutive Olympic titles.
Medals awarded
See the medal winners, ordered by sport:
Medal count
Top medal-collecting nations:
(for the full table, see 1980 Summer Olympics medal count)
(host nation in bold.)
| 1980 Summer Olympics medal count | 
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| Pos | Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Missing image Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.png USSR | 80 | 69 | 46 | 195 |
| 2 |  East Germany (GDR)
| 47 | 37 | 42 | 126 |
| 3 |  Bulgaria
| 8 | 16 | 17 | 41 |
| 4 |  Cuba
| 8 | 7 | 5 | 20 |
| 5 | Missing image Flag_of_Italy.png Italy | 8 | 3 | 4 | 15 |
| 6 |  Hungary
| 7 | 10 | 15 | 32 |
| 7 |  Romania
| 6 | 6 | 13 | 25 |
| 8 |  France
| 6 | 5 | 3 | 14 |
| 9 |  Great Britain
| 5 | 7 | 9 | 21 |
| 10 |  Poland
| 3 | 14 | 15 | 32 |
Nations
Articles about Moscow Summer Olympics by nation:
See also
- 1980 Summer Paralympics
- International Olympic Committee
- American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics
- WikiProject Sports Olympics
- IOC country codes
External links
- IOC Site on 1980 Summer Olympics (http://www.olympic.org/uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=1&OLGY=1980)
- Bear Cub Misha Lover's Association (http://www.geocities.co.jp/HeartLand-Sumire/2565/), 1980 Summer Olympics mascot Misha's fan page (in Japanese)
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