| Host City: Moskva, Soviet Union |
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| Date Started: July 30, 1980 |
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| Date Finished: July 30, 1980 |
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| (Competitors: 27; Countries: 14) |
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Venue(s): Grand Arena, Central Lenin Stadium Area, Moskva
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| Overview by IAAF |
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| The attrition rate was high – with 12 of the 27 starters either failing to finish or disqualified. Hartwig Gauder and Yevgeniy Ivchenko set a fierce pace, passing 5Km in 22:45 with a group of eight walkers on their heels, but by 10Km the two leaders were 30 seconds up. European Champion Llopart, Mexicans Daniel Bautista and Raúl González, Boris Yakovlev (URS) and Dietmar Meisch (GDR) closed in at 20Km. González then shared the lead with Gauder, and by 30Km the two were leading from Yakovlev, with a gap of 1:26 to Llopart and Meisch. Bautista had already retired, and Yakovlev suffered the same fate soon after. González broke shortly after 30Km and eventually dropped out after 40Km by which time he was almost 20 minutes behind Gauder. Both Yakovlev and Meisch were disqualified, and Gauder came home the winner by two minutes from Llopart, breaking Kannenberg’s Olympic record by almost seven minutes. |
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| Summary by Sports-reference.com |
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| After not being contested at the Olympics in 1976, the 50 km. race was reinstated. The world record holder was Mexico’s Raúl González, and he led out the field for the first 20 km. But he would not finish, and all the Mexican walkers also failed to finish this race. Hartwig Gauder (GDR) walked with Gonzales for much of the race, but broke him shortly after 30 km. and eventually pulled away to win by two minutes over Spain’s Jorge Llopart. Bronze medalist Yevgeny Ivchenko was 42-years-old, one of the oldest athletics medalists ever. |
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Results |
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| 50 km walk |
Men |
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Final |
30 July |
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Mark |
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Athlete |
Country |
NOC |
Birth Date |
Records |
| 1 |
3.49.24 |
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Hartwig Gauder |
East Germany |
GDR |
10 Nov 54 |
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| 2 |
3.51.25 |
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Jorge Llopart |
Spain |
ESP |
5 May 52 |
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| 3 |
3.56.32 |
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Yevgeniy Ivchenko |
Soviet Union |
URS |
27 Jul 38 |
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| 4 |
3.57.08 |
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Bengt Simonsen |
Sweden |
SWE |
23 Mar 58 |
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| 5 |
3.58.32 |
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Vyacheslav Fursov |
Soviet Union |
URS |
19 Jul 54 |
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| 6 |
4.03.08 |
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José Marín |
Spain |
ESP |
20 Jan 50 |
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| 7 |
4.07.07 |
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Stanislaw Rola |
Poland |
POL |
28 Jan 57 |
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| 8 |
4.08.25 |
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Willi Sawall |
Australia |
AUS |
7 Nov 41 |
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| 9 |
4.10.53 |
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László Sator |
Hungary |
HUN |
9 May 53 |
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| 10 |
4.16.26 |
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Pavol Blazek |
Czechoslovakia |
TCH |
9 Jul 58 |
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| 11 |
4.22.57 |
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Ian Richards |
Great Britain |
GBR |
12 Apr 48 |
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| 12 |
4.24.36 |
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Hristos Karageorgios |
Greece |
GRE |
3 May 53 |
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| 13 |
4.27.39 |
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Juraj Bencík |
Czechoslovakia |
TCH |
15 Feb 45 |
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| 14 |
4.29.27 |
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Enrique Peña |
Colombia |
COL |
21 Apr 42 |
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| 15 |
4.46.28 |
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Ernesto Alfaro |
Colombia |
COL |
10 Mar 46 |
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DNF |
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Daniel Bautista |
Mexico |
MEX |
4 Aug 52 |
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DNF |
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Martín Bermúdez |
Mexico |
MEX |
19 Jul 58 |
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DNF |
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Raúl González |
Mexico |
MEX |
29 Feb 52 |
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DNF |
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Reima Salonen |
Finland |
FIN |
19 Nov 55 |
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DNF |
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Gérard Lelièvre |
France |
FRA |
13 Nov 49 |
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DQ |
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Dietmar Meisch |
East Germany |
GDR |
10 Feb 59 |
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DQ |
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Uwe Dünkel |
East Germany |
GDR |
3 Nov 60 |
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DNF |
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Bogdan Bulakowski |
Poland |
POL |
11 Jan 50 |
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DNF |
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Bo Gustafsson |
Sweden |
SWE |
29 Sep 54 |
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DQ |
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Jaromir Vanous |
Czechoslovakia |
TCH |
24 Sep 55 |
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DQ |
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Boris Yakovlev |
Soviet Union |
URS |
16 Jul 45 |
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DNF |
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Dave Smith |
Australia |
AUS |
24 Jul 55 |
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