Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay

These are the official results of the Men's 4 × 400 metre relay event at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR. There were a total number of 24 nations competing. The top two in each heat and next two fastest advanced to the final.[1]

Final

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  • Held on Friday 1 August 1980
RANK NATION FINAL TIME
    Soviet Union (URS) Remigijus Valiulis
Mikhail Linge
Nikolay Chernetskiy
Viktor Markin
3:01.08
    East Germany (GDR) Klaus Thiele
Andreas Knebel
Frank Schaffer
Volker Beck
3:01.26
    Italy (ITA) Stefano Malinverni
Mauro Zuliani
Roberto Tozzi
Pietro Mennea
3:04.54
4.   France (FRA) Jacques Fellice
Robert Froissart
Didier Dubois
Francis Demarthon
3:04.8
5.   Brazil (BRA) Paulo Correia
Antônio Dias Ferreira
Agberto Guimarães
Geraldo Pegado
3:05.9
6.   Trinidad and Tobago (TRI) Joseph Coombs
Charles Joseph
Rafee Mohammed
Mike Solomon
3:06.6
7.   Czechoslovakia (TCH) Josef Lomický
Dusan Malovec
František Břečka
Karel Kolář
3:07.0
8.   Great Britain (GBR) Alan Bell
Terry Whitehead
Rod Milne
Glen Cohen
DNF

Heats

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  • Held on Thursday 31 July 1980
RANK NATION HEAT 1 TIME
1.   Soviet Union (URS) Nikolay Chernetskiy
Mikhail Linge
Remigijus Valiulis
Viktor Burakov
3:01.8
2.   Brazil (BRA) Paulo Correia
Antônio Dias Ferreira
Agberto Guimarães
Geraldo Pegado
3:04.9
3.   Yugoslavia (YUG) Željko Knapić
Milovan Savić
Rok Kopitar
Josip Alebić
3:05.3
4.   Poland (POL) Jan Pawłowicz
Jerzy Pietrzyk
Adam Starostka
Andrzej Stępień
3:05.8
5.   Netherlands (NED) Henk Brouwer
Mario Westbroek
Marcel Klarenbeek
Harry Schulting
3:06.0
6.   Spain (ESP) Isidoro Hornillos
Colomán Trabado
Benjamín González
José Casabona
3:06.9
7.   Zambia (ZAM) Charles Lupiya
Alston Muziyo
Archfell Musango
Davison Lishebo
3:14.9
8.   Sierra Leone (SLE) William Akabi-Davis
Jimmy Massallay
Sahr Kendor
George Branche
3:25.0


RANK NATION HEAT 2 TIME
1.   East Germany (GDR) Klaus Thiele
Andreas Knebel
Frank Schaffer
Volker Beck
3:03.4
2.   Czechoslovakia (TCH) Josef Lomický
Dušan Malovec
František Břečka
Karel Kolář
3:03.5
3.   Italy (ITA) Stefano Malinverni
Mauro Zuliani
Roberto Tozzi
Pietro Mennea
3:03.5
4.   Trinidad and Tobago (TRI) Joseph Coombs
Mike Solomon
Rafer Mohammed
Charles Joseph
3:04.3
5.   Uganda (UGA) Pius Olowo
Charles Dramiga
John Akii-Bua
Silver Ayoo
3:07.0
6.   Libya (LBA) Bashir Al-Fellah
Salem El-Margini
Ahmed Seluma
Elmehdi Diab
3:16.7
7.   Ethiopia (ETH) Besha Tuffa
Kumela Fituma
Asfaw Deble
Atre Bezabeh
3:18.2
  Belgium (BEL) Eddy de Leeuw
Danny Roelandt
Rik Vandenberghe
Alfons Brijdenbach
DNF


RANK NATION HEAT 3 TIME
1.   France (FRA) Jacques Fellice
Robert Froissart
Didier Dubois
Francis Demarthon
3:05.4
2.   Great Britain (GBR) Alan Bell
Terry Whitehead
Rod Milne
Glen Cohen
3:05.9
3.   Switzerland (SUI) Rolf Strittmatter
Peter Haas
Rolf Gisler
Urs Kamber
3:07.2
4.   Iraq (IRQ) • Hussain Ali Nasayyif
Ali Hassan Kadhum
Fahim Abdul Al-Sada
Abbas Murshid Al-Aibi
3:10.5
5.   Nigeria (NGR) Sunday Uti
Hope Ezeigbo
Felix Imadiyi
Dele Udo
3:14.1
6.   Sri Lanka (SRI) Samararatne Dharmasena
Kosala Sahabandu
Newton Perera
Appunidage Premachandra
3:14.4
7.   Seychelles (SEY) Vincent Confait
Regis Tranquille
Marc La Rose
Casimir Pereira
3:19.2
  Jamaica (JAM) Derrick Peynado
Colin Bradford
Ian Stapleton
Bert Cameron
DNF

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Athletics at the 1980 Moscow Summer Games: Men's 4 × 400 metres Relay". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
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