Olympic Boycott Games

United Kingdom Track and Field All-Time Lists

OLYMPIC BOYCOTT GAMES

Alternative events were arranged for those nations boycotting the 1980 and 1984 Olympic Games by the United States and Soviet Union respectively. The 1980 event was entitled the "Liberty Bell Classic" whilst the 1984 event was entitled the "Druzhba (Friendship) Games". Unlike the Olympics the various sports were held in different cities.

Venues: 1980 Philadelphia (USA), 1984-M Moscow (URS), 1984-W Prague (TCH)

MEN

100 Metres

	First		Second		Third		wind
1980 1984	Mel Lattany USA Osvaldo Lara CUB	10.31 10.17	Harvey Glance USA Attila Kovács HUN	10.31 10.18	Willie Gault USA Leandro Peñalver CUB	10.33 10.21	0.9 -0.4

200 Metres

	First		Second		Third		wind
1980 1984	James Butler USA Vladimir Muravyov URS	20.65 20.34	Fred Taylor USA Aleksandr Yevgenyev URS	20.66 20.41	Desai Williams CAN Olaf Prenzler GDR	20.92 20.58	0.1 -1.2

400 Metres

	First		Second		Third
1980 1984	Billy Konchellah KEN Viktor Markin URS	45.59 44.78	El Kashief Hassan SUD Aleksandr Troshchilo URS	45.60 45.51	Bill Green USA Aleksandr Kurochkin URS	45.79 45.52

800 Metres

	First		Second		Third
1980 1984	Don Paige USA Alberto Juantorena CUB & Ryszard Ostrowski POL	1:47.19 1:45.68	Omer Khalifa SUD	1:47.27	Randy Wilson USA Viktor Kalinkin URS	1:48.03 1:45.82

1500 Metres

	First		Second		Third
1980 1984	Steve Scott USA Andreas Busse GDR	3:40.19 3:36.65	Omer Khalifa SUD Anatoliy Kalutskiy URS	3:40.34 3:37.35	Mike Durkin USA Igor Lotarev URS	3:41.40 3:38.42

5000 Metres

	First		Second		Third
1980 1984	Kip Rono KEN Evgeni Ignatov BUL	13:37.52 13:26.35	Hillary Tuwei KEN Dmitriy Dmitriyev URS	13:45.77 13:26.85	Greg Duhaime CAN Wodajo Bulti ETH	13:45.77 13:29.08

10000 Metres

	First		Second		Third
1984	Valeriy Abramov URS	27:55.17	Wodajo Bulti ETH	27:58.87	Bekele Debele ETH	28:03.06

Marathon

	First		Second		Third
1984	Dereje Nedi ETH	2:10:32	Abebe Mekonnen ETH	2:11:30	Lee Chang-Chen PRK	2:11:44

3000 Metres Steeplechase

	First		Second		Third
1984	Boguslaw Maminski POL	8:27.15	Hagen Melzer GDR	8:27.43	Jan Hagelbrand SWE	8:32.36

110 Metres Hurdles

	First		Second		Third		wind
1980 1984	Renaldo Nehemiah USA György Bakos HUN	13.31w 13.52	Tonie Campbell USA Vyacheslav Ustinov URS	13.68w 13.57	Hans-Gerd Klein FRG Thomas Munkelt GDR	13.94w 13.64	2.7 -0.6

400 Metres Hurdles

	First		Second		Third
1980 1984	James Walker USA Aleksandr Vasilyev URS	48.6 48.63	David Lee USA Vladimir Budko URS	49.1 48.74	Bart Williams USA Toma Tomov BUL	50.0 49.29

High Jump

	First		Second		Third
1980 1984	Benn Fields USA Valeriy Sereda URS & Javier Sotomayor CUB	2.26 2.25	Nat Page USA	2.26	Dietmar Mögenburg FRG & Carlo Thränhardt FRG Dariusz Zielke POL	2.22 2.20

Pole Vault

	First		Second		Third
1980 1984	Tom Hintnaus USA Konstantin Volkov URS	5.50 5.80	Steve Lawry USA Sergey Bubka URS	5.33 5.70	Zhang Cheng CHN Aleksandr Krupskiy URS	5.18 5.70

Long Jump

	First		Second		Third
1980 1984	Larry Myricks USA Konstantin Semykin URS	8.20 8.38	Larry Doubley USA Jaime Jefferson CUB	7.95 8.37	Carl Lewis USA Sergey Layevskiy URS	7.77 8.22

Triple Jump

	First		Second		Third
1980 1984	Zhou Zhenxian CHN Oleg Protsenko URS	16.90 17.46	Greg Caldwell USA Aleksandr Yakovlev URS	16.75 17.41w	Steve Hanna BAH Khristo Markov BUL	16.42 17.29

Shot

	First		Second		Third
1980 1984	Youssef Nagui Asaad EGY Sergey Kasnauskas URS	19.69 21.64	Ian Pyka USA Udo Beyer GDR	19.58 21.60	only 2 competitors Vladimir Kiselyov URS	21.58

Discus

	First		Second		Third
1980 1984	Ben Plucknett USA Yuriy Dumchev URS	61.46 66.70	Al Oerter USA Juan Martínez CUB	60.76 66.04	Alwin Wagner FRG Jürgen Schult GDR	59.48 66.02

Hammer

	First		Second		Third
1980 1984	Scott Neilson CAN Yuriy Sedykh URS	72.62 85.60	Boris Djerassi USA Igor Nikulin URS	71.34 82.56	Andy Bessette USA Sergey Litvinov URS	69.08 81.30

Javelin

	First		Second		Third
1980 1984	Shen Maomao CHN Uwe Hohn GDR	89.12 94.44	Tom Petranoff USA Detlef Michel GDR	84.56 88.32	Gheorghe Megelea CAN Zdenek Adamec TCH	79.24 87.10

Decathlon

	First		Second		Third
1980 1984	Bobby Coffman USA Grigoriy Degtyaryov URS	8058 8523	Lee Palles USA Torsten Voss GDR	8009 8450	Wang Kangqiang CHN Igor Sobolevskiy URS	7015 8433

20 Kilometres Road Walk

	First		Second		Third
1984	Sergey Protsishin URS	1:21:57	Anatoliy Solomin URS	1:22:21	Nikolay Polozov URS	1:22:40

50 Kilometres Road Walk

	First		Second		Third
1984	Andrey Perlov URS	3:43:06	Pavol Szikora TCH	3:45:53	Viktor Dorovskikh URS	3:58:47

4 x 100 Metres Relay

	First		Second		Third
1980 1984	United States Soviet Union	38.61 38.32	Canada Cuba	39.54 38.79	Thailand Poland	41.29 38.81

4 x 400 Metres Relay

	First		Second		Third
1980 1984	United States Soviet Union	3:03.20 3:00.16	Kenya German D.R.	3:05.72 3:00.47	Sudan Cuba	3:09.06 3:04.76

WOMEN

100 Metres

	First		Second		Third		wind
1980 1984	Chandra Cheeseborough USA Marlies Göhr GDR	11.27 10.95	Jeanette Bolden USA Lyudmila Kondratyeva URS	11.41 11.02	Karen Hawkins USA Anelia Nuneva BUL	11.43 11.10	0.5 -0.1

200 Metres

	First		Second		Third		wind
1980 1984	Angella Taylor CAN Bärbel Wöckel GDR	22.77 22.15	Chandra Cheeseborough USA Svetlana Zhizdrikova URS	22.84 22.75	Karen Hawkins USA Nadezhda Georgieva BUL	23.41 22.79	0.1 0.4

400 Metres

	First		Second		Third
1980 1984	Gwen Gardner USA Marita Koch GDR	52.04 48.16	Charmaine Crooks CAN Tatána Kocembová TCH	52.33 48.73	Roberta Belle USA Olga Vladykina URS	52.34 49.52

800 Metres

	First		Second		Third
1980 1984	Yvonne Mondesire CAN Irina Podyalovskaya URS	2:02.34 1:57.31	Robin Campbell USA Zuzana Moravcíková TCH	2:02.53 1:58.06	Ann Mackie-Morelli CAN Nadezhda Olizarenko URS	2:02.63 1:58.10

1500 Metres

	First		Second		Third
1980 1984	Mary Decker USA Nadezhda Ralldugina URS	4:00.87 3:56.63	Julie Brown USA Ravilya Agletdinova URS	4:10.37 3:58.70	Francie Larrieu USA Yekaterina Podkopayeva URS	4:10.39 4:01.61

3000 Metres

	First		Second		Third
1984	Tatyana Kazankina URS	8:33.01	Natalya Artyomova URS	8:40.53	Olga Bondarenko URS	8:43.74

Marathon

	First		Second		Third
1984	Zoya Ivanova URS	2:33:44	Luciya Belyayeva URS	2:33:54	Raisa Smekhnova URS	2:33:59

100 Metres Hurdles

	First		Second		Third		wind
1980 1984	Stephanie Hightower USA Yordanka Donkova BUL	13.08 12.55	Benita Fitzgerald USA Sabine Paetz GDR	13.17 12.60	Esther Rot ISR Lucyna Kalek POL	13.20 12.61	0.8 -0.2

400 Metres Hurdles

	First		Second		Third
1984	Marina Stepanova URS	53.67	Yekaterina Grun URS	54.42	Margarita Ponomaryova URS	54.65

High Jump

	First		Second		Third
1980 1984	Zheng Dazhen CHN Lyudmila Andonova BUL	1.92 1.96	Brigitte Reid CAN Galina Butusova URS	1.84 1.96	Paula Girven USA Tamara Bykova URS	1.80 1.96

Long Jump

	First		Second		Third
1980 1984	Kathy McMillan USA Heike Drechsler GDR	6.65w 7.15	Carol Lewis USA Helga Radtke GDR	6.60 7.11	Shonel Ferguson BAH Galina Chistyakova URS	6.48 7.11

Shot

	First		Second		Third
1980 1984	Shen Lijuan CHN Natalya Lisovskaya URS	17.09 21.96	Ann Turbyne USA Helena Fibingerová TCH	16.24 21.33	Lu Cheng CHN Nunu Abashidze URS	15.98 21.18

Discus

	First		Second		Third
1980 1984	Xie Jianhua CHN Irina Meszynski GDR	56.56 73.36	Lucette Moreau CAN Galina Murašova URS	55.20 72.14	Lorna Griffin USA Zdenka Šilhavá TCH	53.52 70.14

Javelin

	First		Second		Third
1980 1984	Laurie Kern CAN Petra Felke GDR	57.42 73.30	Tang Guoli CHN Antoaneta Todorova BUL	55.30 65.40	Li Baolian María Caridad Colón CUB	54.94 64.34

Pentathlon

	First		Second		Third
1980	Diane Konihowski CAN	4640	Marlene Harmon USA	4346	Linda Waltman USA	4314

Heptathlon

	First		Second		Third
1984	Natalya Gracheva URS	6477	Nadezhda Vinogradova URS	6357	Heike Tischler GDR	6290

4 x 100 Metres Relay

	First		Second		Third
1980 1984	United States Bulgaria	44.57 42.62	F.R. Germany Soviet Union	45.26 42.71	Thailand Czechoslovakia	46.90 43.21

4 x 400 Metres Relay

	First		Second		Third
1980 1984	United States Soviet Union	3:32.69 3:19.12	Canada Czechoslovakia	3:33.50 3:21.89	only 2 teams finished Bulgaria	3:28.34

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