Soviet Union at the 1980 Summer Olympics
The Soviet Union was the host nation of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. 489 competitors, 340 men and 149 women, took part in 202 events in 23 sports.
The Soviet Union won a record 80 gold medals, and their 195 total medals are the second best result in history.
Medalists
The USSR finished first in the final medal rankings, with 80 gold and 195 total medals.Gold
- Keto Losaberidze — archery, women's competition
- Vera Komisova — athletics, 100 m hurdles women
- Lyudmila Kondratyeva — athletics, 100 m women
- Tatiana Kazankina — athletics, 1500 m women
- Viktor Markin — athletics, 400 m men
- Muravyov, Sidorov, Aksinin and Prokofyev — athletics, 4 × 100 m relay men
- Valiulis, Linge, Chernetskiy and Markin — athletics, 4 × 400 m relay men
- Prorochenko, Goyshchik, Zyuskova and Nazarova — athletics, 4 × 400 m relay women
- Nadiya Olizarenko — athletics, 800 m women
- Viktor Rashchupkin — athletics, discus throw men
- Yuri Sedykh — athletics, hammer throw men
- Dainis Kūla — athletics, javelin throw men
- Tatiana Kolpakova — athletics, long jump women
- Nadiya Tkachenko — athletics, pentathlon women
- Vladimir Kiselyov — athletics, shot put men
- Jaak Uudmäe — athletics, triple jump men
- Rupsiene, Sharmai, Besselene, Barisheva-Korosteleva, Ovechkina, Shuvaeva-Olkhova, Semjonova, Rogozhina, Feryabnikova, Sukharnova, Zakharova-Nadirova and Ivinskaia — basketball, women
- Shamil Sabirov — boxing, light-flyweight men
- Sergei Postrekhin — canoe / kayak, flatwater C-1 500 m men
- Vladimir Parfenovich — canoe / kayak, flatwater K-1 500 m men
- Vladimir Parfenovich and Sergei Chukhrai — canoe / kayak, flatwater K-2 500 m men
- Vladimir Parfenovich Sergei Chukhrai — canoe / kayak, flatwater K-2 1000 m men
- Sergei Sukhoruchenkov — cycling road, individual road race men
- Kashirin, Logvin, Shelpakov and Yarkin — cycling road, team time trial men
- Manakov, Movchan, Osokin and Petrakov — cycling track, team pursuit men
- Aleksandr Portnov — diving, 3 m springboard men
- Irina Kalinina — diving, 3 m springboard women
- Yuri Kovshov & Igrok, Viktor Ugryumov & Shkval, Vera Misevich & Plot — equestrian, dressage team mixed
- Aleksandr Blinov & Galzun, Yuri Salnikov & Pintset, Valeri Volkov & Tskheti, Sergei Rogozhin & Gelespont — equestrian, eventing team mixed
- Viacheslav Chukanov & Gepatit, Viktor Poganovski & Topki, Viktor Asmaev & Reis, Nikolai Korolkov & Espadron — equestrian, jumping team mixed
- Vladimir Smirnov — fencing, foil individual men
- Viktor Krovopuskov — fencing, sabre individual men
- Burtsev, Krovopuskov, Sidyak and Nazlymov — fencing, sabre team men
- Nellie Kim — gymnastics, floor exercises women
- Alexander Dityatin — gymnastics, individual all-round men
- Yelena Davydova — gymnastics, individual all-round women
- Aleksandr Tkachyov — gymnastics, parallel bars men
- Aleksandr Dityatin — gymnastics, rings men
- Andrianov, Azarian, Dityatin, Makuts, Markelov and Tkachyov — gymnastics, team competition men
- Davydova, Filatova, Kim, Naimushina, Shaposhnikova and Stella Zakharova — gymnastics, team competition women
- Nikolay Andrianov — gymnastics, vault men
- Natalia Shaposhnikova — gymnastics, vault women
- Tymoshkina, Karlova, Palchykova, Turchyna, Kocherhina, Poradnyk, Savkina, Neneniene, Safina, Zubaryeva, Lutayeva, Odynokova, Strecen — handball, women
- Nikolai Solodukhin — judo, 60–65 kg men
- Shota Khabareli — judo, 71–78 kg men
- Anatoly Starostin — modern pentathlon, individual
- Starostin, Lednev and Lipeyev — modern pentathlon, team
- Yelena Khloptseva, Larissa Alexandrova-Popova — rowing, double sculls women,
- Valentyn Mankin and Aleksandr Muzychenko — sailing, star mixed
- Aleksandr Melentiev — shooting 50 m pistol mixed
- Viktor Vlassov — shooting 50 m rifle 3 positions mixed
- Igor Sokolov — shooting 50 m running target mixed
- Vladimir Salnikov — swimming, 1500 m freestyle men
- Robertas Žulpa — swimming, 200 m breaststroke men
- Lina Kačiušytė — swimming, 200 m breaststroke women
- Sergey Fesenko — swimming, 200 m butterfly men
- Sergey Kopliakov — swimming, 200 m freestyle men
- Vladimir Salnikov — swimming, 400 m freestyle men
- Aleksandr Sidorenko – swimming, 400 m individual medley men
- Kopliakov, Salnikov, Stukolkin, Krylov — swimming, 4 × 200 m freestyle relay men
- Panchenko, Zaitsev, Savin, Dorokhov, Ermilov, Selivanov, Moliboga, Kondra, Chernyshev, Lashchenov, Krivov and Loor — volleyball, men
- Radzevich, Razumova, Solovova, Akhaminova, Pavlova, Andreyuk, Makogonova, Kozyreva, Nikishina, Chernyshova, Badulina and Loginova — volleyball, women
- Sharonov, Kotenko, Akimov, Grishin, Riisman, Kabanov, Barkalov, Shagaev, Mschvenieradze, Ivanov and Sobchenko — water polo, men
- Kanybek Osmonaliev — weightlifting, flyweight
- Viktor Mazin — weightlifting, featherweight
- Yurik Vardanyan — weightlifting, light-heavyweight
- Leonid Taranenko — weightlifting heavyweight
- Sultan Rakhmanov — weightlifting, super heavyweight
- Anatoli Beloglazov — wrestling, freestyle flyweight
- Sergei Beloglazov — wrestling, freestyle bantamweight
- Magomedgasan Abushev — wrestling, freestyle featherweight
- Saipulla Absaidov — wrestling, freestyle lightweight
- Sanasar Oganisian — wrestling, freestyle light-heavyweight
- Illia Mate — wrestling, freestyle heavyweight
- Soslan Andiev — wrestling, freestyle super heavyweight men
- Zhaksylyk Ushkempirov — wrestling, Greco-Roman light-flyweight
- Vakhtang Blagidze — wrestling, Greco-Roman flyweight
- Shamil Serikov — wrestling, Greco-Roman bantamweight
- Gennadi Korban — wrestling, Greco-Roman middleweight
- Alexander Kolchinsky — wrestling, Greco-Roman super heavyweight
Silver
- Boris Isachenko — archery, men's competition
- Natalya Butuzova — archery, women's competition
- Natalya Bochina,- athletics, 200 m women
- Piotr Pochinchuk — athletics, 20 km walk men
- Vasyl Arkhypenko — athletics, 400 m hurdles men
- Komisova, Maslakova, Anisimova and Bochina — athletics, 4 × 100 m relay women
- Olga Mineeva — athletics, 800 m women
- Yuriy Kutsenko — athletics, decathlon men
- Sergei Litvinov — athletics, hammer throw men
- Aleksandr Makarov — athletics, javelin throw men
- Saida Gunba — athletics, javelin throw women
- Olga Rukavishnikova — athletics, pentathlon women
- Konstantin Volkov — athletics, pole vault men
- Aleksandr Baryshnikov — athletics, shot put men
- Svetlana Krachevskaia — athletics, shot put women
- Viktor Saneev — athletics, triple jump men
- Viktor Miroshnichenko, boxing, flyweight men
- Viktor Demyanenko — boxing, lightweight men
- Serik Konakbaev — boxing, light-welterweight men
- Aleksandr Koshkyn — boxing, light-middleweight men
- Viktor Savchenko — boxing, middleweight men
- Piotr Zaev — boxing, heavyweight men
- Sergei Postrekhin — canoe / kayak, flatwater C-1 1000 m men
- Galina Kreft-Alekseeva and Nina Gopova-Trofimova — canoe / kayak, flatwater K-2 500 m women
- Aleksandr Panfilov — cycling track, 1 km time trial men
- Vladimir Aleinik — diving, 10 m platform men
- Sirvard Emirzyan — diving, 10 m platform women
- Yuri Kovshov & Igrok — equestrian, dressage individual mixed
- Aleksandr Blinov & Galzun — equestrian, eventing individual mixed
- Nikolai Korolkov & Espadron — equestrian, jumping individual mixed
- Romankov, Smirnov, Ruziev, Karagian, Lapitski — fencing, foil team men
- Sidorova, Giliazova, Novikova-Belova, Ushakova, Tsagaraeva — fencing, foil team women
- Mikhail Burtsev — fencing, sabre individual men
- Elena Davydova — gymnastics balance beam women
- Nikolay Andrianov — gymnastics floor exercises men
- Aleksandr Dityatin — gymnastics, horizontal bar men
- Nikolay Andrianov — gymnastics, individual all-round men
- Aleksandr Dityatin — gymnastics, parallel bars men
- Aleksandr Dityatin — gymnastics, pommel horse men
- Aleksandr Tkachyov — gymnastics, rings men
- Aleksandr Dityatin — gymnastics, vault men
- Ishchenko, Makhorin, Kushniryuk, Karshakevich, Kravtsov, Belov, Fedyukin, Anpilogov, Chernyshov, Zhuk, Tomin, Kidyaev, Repiev and Novitski — handball, men
- Tengiz Khubuluri — judo, half-heavyweight men
- Yuriy Pimenov and Nikolay Pimenov — rowing, coxless pair men
- Pivovarova, Umanets, Prishchepa, Zhulina, Stetsenko, Tereshina, Preobrazhenskaia, Paziun and Frolova — rowingeight with coxswain women
- Aleksei Kamkin, Valeriy Dolinin, Aleksandr Kulagin, Vitali Eliseev — rowing, four without coxswain men
- Garonskis, Krishianis, Krishianis, Tikmers and Berzinsh — rowing, four-oared shell with coxswain men
- Viktor Pereverzev, Gennadi Kriuchkin and Aleksandr Lukyanov — rowing, pair-oared shell with coxswain men
- Pustovit, Matievskaia, Vasilchenko, Liubimova, Cheremisina — rowing, quadruple sculls with coxswain women
- Shapochka, Barbakov, Kleshnyov, Dovgan — rowing, quadruple sculls without coxswain men
- Vasily Yakusha — rowing, single sculls men
- Antonina Dumcheva — rowing, single sculls women
- Boris Budnikov, Aleksandr Budnikov, Nikolai Polyakov — sailing, soling mixed
- Rustam Yambulatov — shooting, trap mixed
- Viktor Kuznetsov — swimming, 100 m backstroke men
- Arsens Miskarovs — swimming, 100 m breaststroke men
- Elvira Vasilkova — swimming, 100 m breaststroke women
- Aleksandr Chayev — swimming, 1500 m freestyle men
- Svetlana Varganova — swimming, 200 m breaststroke women
- Andrei Krylov — swimming, 200 m freestyle men
- Andrei Krylov — swimming, 400 m freestyle men
- Sergey Fesenko — swimming, 400 m individual medley men
- Viktor Kuznetsov, Arsens Miskarovs, Yevgeny Seredin and Sergey Koplyakov — swimming, 4 × 100 m medley relay men
- Yurik Sarkisian — weightlifting, bantamweight men
- Aleksandr Pervi — weightlifting, middleweight men
- Igor Nikitin — weightlifting, first-heavyweight men
- Magomedkhan Aratsilov — wrestling, freestyle middleweight men
- Anatoly Bykov — wrestling, Greco-Roman welterweight men
- Igor Kanygin — wrestling, Greco-Roman light-heavyweight men
Bronze
- Aleksandr Puchkov — athletics, men's 110 m hurdles
- Nikolai Kirov — athletics, men's 800 m
- Tatiana Providokhina — athletics, women's 800 m
- Nadiya Olizarenko — athletics, women's 1500 m
- Tatiana Lesovaia — athletics, women's discus throw
- Jüri Tamm — athletics, men's hammer throw
- Valeriy Pidluzhnyy — athletics, men's long jump
- Tetyana Skachko — athletics, women's long jump
- Evgeni Ivchenko — athletics, men's 50 km walk
- Setymkul Dzhumanazarov — athletics, men's marathon
- Sergei Zhelanov — athletics, women's decathlon
- Olga Kuragina — athletics, women's pentathlon
- Eremin, Miloserdov, Tarakanov, Salnikov, Lopatov, Deriugin, Belov, Tkachenko, Myshkin, Jovaiša, Belostennyi and Zhigily — basketball, men's team competition
- Viktor Rybakov — boxing, men's featherweight
- Vasili Yurchenko and Yuri Lobanov — canoe/kayak, men's flatwater C-2 1000 m
- Antonina Melnikova — canoe/kayak, women's flatwater K-1 500 m
- Yuri Barinov — cycling, men's individual road race
- Sergei Kopylov — cycling, men's sprint individual track
- David Ambartsumyan — diving, men's 10 m platform
- Liana Tsotadze — diving, women's 10 m platform
- Viktor Ugryumov & Shkval — equestrian, dressage individual competition
- Yuri Salnikov & Pintset — equestrian, eventing individual competition
- Karagian, Lukomsky, Abushakhmetov, Mozhaev — fencing, men's épée team competition
- Aleksander Romankov — fencing, men's foil individual competition
- Dasaev, Sulakvelidze, Chivadze, Khidiyatullin, Romantsev, Shavlo, Andreev, Bessonov, Gavrilov, Cherenkov, Gazzaev, Pilguj, Baltacha, Nikulin, Hovhannisyan, Prokopenko and Chelebadze — football, men's team competition
- Natalia Shaposhnikova — gymnastics, women's balance beam
- Alexander Dityatin — gymnastics, men's floor exercises
- Natalia Shaposhnikova — gymnastics, women's floor exercises
- Nikolay Andrianov — gymnastics, men's horizontal bar
- Maria Filatova — gymnastics, women's uneven bars
- Pleshakov, Lampeev, Pavlovski, Hayrapetyan, Zigangirov, Belyakov, Klevtsov, Zagorodnev, Gusev, Pleshakov, Nichepurenko, Azizov, Sychev, Miasnikov, Deputatov and Goncharov — field hockey, men's team competition
- Inzhuvatova, Gorbatkova, Zazdravnykh, Ovechkina, Krasnikova, Bykova, Glubokova, Viuzhanina, Buzunova, Akhmerova, Filippova, Guryeva, Embakhtova, Shvyganova, Kham and Frolova — field hockey, women's team competition
- Aramby Emizh — judo, men's 60 kg
- Aleksandrs Jackevičs — judo, men's 78–86 kg
- Pavel Lednev — modern pentathlon, men's individual competition
- Kokoshin, Tishchenko, Tkachenko, Pintskus, Narmontas, Lugin, Mantsevich, Maystrenka and Dmitrienko — Rowing, Men's Eights with Coxswain
- Fadeeva, Sovetnikova, Studneva, Semenova and Cheremisina — rowing, women's four-oared shell with coxswain
- Andrei Balashov — sailing, men's finn individual competition
- Aleksandr Gazov — shooting, 50 m running target
- Vladimir Dolgov — swimming, men's 100 m backstroke
- Arsens Miskarovs — swimming, men's 200 m breaststroke
- Yuliya Bogdanova — swimming, women's 200 m breaststroke
- Ivar Stukolkin — swimming, men's 400 m freestyle
- Kruglova, Vasilkova, Grishchenkova and Strunnikova — swimming, women's 4 × 100 m medley relay
- Sergey Kornilayev — wrestling, men's freestyle light flyweight
- Boris Kramorenko — wrestling, men's Greco-Roman featherweight
Competitors
Archery
;MenAthlete | Event | 90 m | 70 m | 50 m | 30 m | Total | Rank |
Boris Isachenko | Men's individual | 271 | 303 | 302 | 341 | 2452 | |
Boris Isachenko | Men's individual | 289 | 312 | 300 | 334 | 2452 | |
Vladimir Yesheyev | Men's individual | 278 | 307 | 294 | 343 | 2432 | 6 |
Vladimir Yesheyev | Men's individual | 268 | 310 | 306 | 326 | 2432 | 6 |
;Women
Athlete | Event | 70 m | 60 m | 50 m | 30 m | Total | Rank |
Natalya Butuzova | Women's individual | 301 | 314 | 301 | 335 | 2477 | |
Natalya Butuzova | Women's individual | 278 | 306 | 300 | 342 | 2477 | |
Keto Losaberidze | Women's individual | 299 | 317 | 295 | 346 | 2491 | |
Keto Losaberidze | Women's individual | 282 | 304 | 304 | 344 | 2491 |
Athletics
;Men's competitionMen's 100 metres
- Aleksandr Aksinin
- Vladimir Muravyov
- Andrei Shlyapnikov
- Nikolay Sidorov
- Vladimir Muravyov
- Aleksandr Stasevich
- Viktor Markin
- Viktor Burakov
- Nikolay Chernetsky
- Nikolay Kirov
- Anatoliy Reshetnyak
- Vladimir Malozemlin
- Vitaliy Tyshchenko
- Pavel Yakovlev
Men's 10,000 metres
- Enn Sellik
- Vladimir Shesterov
- Aleksandras Antipovas
- Vladimir Muravyov, Nikolay Sidorov, Aleksandr Aksinin and Andrey Prokofyev
- Nikolay Chernetskiy, Mikhail Linge, Remigijus Valiulis and Viktor Burakov
- Remigijus Valiulis, Mikhail Linge, Nikolay Chernetskiy and Viktor Markin
- Aleksandr Puchkov
- Andrey Prokofyev
- Yuriy Chervanev
Men's 3,000 m steeplechase
Men's marathon
Men's 20 km walk
- Pyotr Pochenchuk
- Yevgeniy Yevsyukov
- Anatoliy Solomin
- Yevgeniy Ivchenko
- Vyacheslav Fursov
- Boris Yakovlev
Men's high jump
Men's pole vault
Men's triple jump
- Jaak Uudmäe
- Viktor Saneyev
- Yevgeni Anikin
- Yuriy Sedykh
- Sergey Litvinov
- Jüri Tamm
Men's shot put
Men's javelin throw
Men's decathlon
;Women's competition
Women's 100 metres
Women's 200 metres
- Natalya Bochina
- Lyudmila Maslakova
Women's 800 metres
Women's 1,500 metres
- Tatyana Kazankina
- Nadiya Olizarenko
- Lyubov Smolka
Women's 4x100 metres relay
- Vera Komisova, Lyudmila Maslakova, Vera Anisimova and Natalya Bochina
- Tatyana Prorochenko, Tatyana Goyshchik, Lyudmila Chernova and Olga Mineyeva
- Tatyana Prorochenko, Tatyana Goyshchik, Nina Ziuskova and Irina Nazarova
Women's long jump
Women's discus throw
Women's javelin throw
Women's shot put
Women's pentathlon
- Nadiya Tkachenko — 5083 points
- # 100 metres — 13.29s
- # Shot put — 16.84m
- # High jump — 1.84m
- # Long jump — 6.73m
- # 800 metres — 2:05.20
- Olga Rukavishnikova — 4937 points
- # 100 metres — 13.66s
- # Shot put — 14.09m
- # High jump — 1.88m
- # Long jump — 6.79m
- # 800 metres — 2:04.80
- Olga Kuragina — 4875 points
- # 100 metres — 13.26s
- # Shot put — 12.49m
- # High jump — 1.84m
- # Long jump — 6.77m
- # 800 metres — 2:03.60
Basketball
;Men's roster
;Women's roster
Boxing
Canoeing
;Men;Women
Cycling
Thirteen cyclists represented the Soviet Union in 1980.Road
Track
;Pursuit;Sprint
;Time trial
Athlete | Event | Time | Rank |
Aleksandr Panfilov | 1 km time trial | 1:04.845 |
Diving
;Men;Women
Equestrian
;Dressage, Individual- Yuriy Kovshov → Silver medal
- Viktor Ugryumov → Bronze medal
- Vera Misevich → 4th place
- Yuriy Kovshov, Viktor Ugryumov, Vera Misevich → Gold medal
- Aleksandr Blinov → Silver medal
- Yuri Salnikov → Bronze medal
- Valery Volkov → 4th place
- Sergey Rogozhin → 11th place
- Aleksandr Blinov, Yuri Salnikov, Valery Volkov, Sergey Rogozhin → Gold medal
- Nikolai Korolkov → Silver medal
- Viktor Poganovsky → 5th place
- Vyacheslav Chukanov → 9th place
- Nikolai Korolkov, Viktor Poganovsky, Vyacheslav Chukanov, Viktor Asmaev → Gold medal
Fencing
;Men's foil
- Volodymyr Smyrnov → Gold medal
- Aleksandr Romankov → Bronze medal
- Sabirzhan Ruziyev → 4th place
- Aleksandr Romankov, Volodymyr Smyrnov, Sabirzhan Ruziyev, Ashot Karagyan, Vladimir Lapitsky → Silver medal
- Aleksandr Mozhayev → 5th place
- Boris Lukomsky → 7th place
- Aleksandr Abushakhmetov → 9th place
- Ashot Karagyan, Aleksandr Abushakhmetov, Aleksandr Mozhayev, Boris Lukomsky, Volodymyr Smyrnov → Bronze medal
- Viktor Krovopuskov → Gold medal
- Mikhail Burtsev → Silver medal
- Vladimir Nazlymov → 8th place
- Viktor Sidyak, Vladimir Nazlymov, Viktor Krovopuskov, Mikhail Burtsev, Nikolai Alyokhin → Gold medal
- Nailya Gilyazova → 9th place
- Yelena Novikova-Belova → 9th place
- Valentina Sidorova → 13th place
- Valentina Sidorova, Nailya Gilyazova, Yelena Novikova-Belova, Irina Ushakova, Larisa Tsagarayeva → Silver medal
Field hockey
;Men's roster
;Women's roster
Football
;SummaryTeam roster
Gymnastics
;Men;Women
Handball
;Summary;Men's roster
;Women's roster
Judo
Extra lightweight- Aramby Yemizh → Bronze medal
- Nikolai Solodukhin → Gold medal
- Tamaz Namgalauri → 12th place
- Shota Khabareli → Gold medal
- Aleksandrs Jackēvičs → Bronze medal
- Tengiz Khubuluri → Silver medal
- Vitaly Kuznetsov → 10th place
- Sergey Novikov → 5 place
Modern pentathlon
Rowing
The Soviet Union had 30 male and 24 female rowers participate in all 14 rowing events in 1980.;Men
;Women
Sailing
Shooting
;OpenSwimming
;Men;Women
Volleyball
;Summary;Men's roster
;Women's roster
Water polo
;Summary;Team roster