1980 Moscow Olympics Gallery

Coe, Cram and Ovett race for Great Britain in the 1980 Olympic 1500m Final

Athletics - 1980 Moscow Olympics - Men's 1500 metres Final
Jurgen Straub (338) of East Germany leads from Great Britain's Steve Ovett (279), Sebastian Coe (254), and Steve Cram, with East Germany's Andreas Busse (296) far left, in the Grand Arena of the Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow, USSR.
Coe would win the gold, with Straub second and Ovett third. Busse finished fourth and Cram eighth

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Keith Connor - 1980 Moscow Olympics - Triple Jump

Athletics - 1980 Moscow Olympics - Men's Triple Jump Final
Great Britain's Keith Connor on the way to fourth place at the Grand Arena of the Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow, USSR.
This triple jump final was highly controversial, with apparent blatant cheating by the Russian officials resulting in a 1-2 for home athletes Jaak Uudmae (gold) and Viktor Saneyev (silver). The two favourites, Australia's Ian Campbell and Brazilian world record holder Joao Carlos de Oliveira, had nine of their twelve jumps in the final called as fouls. One of Campbell's efforts would have broken the Olympic world record and won the competition, but was adjudged a foul because he he dragged his foot on the step phase - this is almost impossible to do at that speed, and was not evident in the television replays. de Oliveira had to settle for the bronze, while Campbell finished fifth

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1980 Moscow Olympics: Men's 1500m Freestyle Medal Presentation

Swimming - 1980 Moscow Olympics - Men's 1500 metres Freestyle Medal Presentation
Left to right: the USSR's silver medalist Aleksandr Chayev, the USSR's gold medalist Vladimir Salnikov, who finished under 15 minutes to break the world record, and Australia's bronze medalist Max Metzker on the podium in the Swimming Pool of the Olimpiysky Sports Complex, Moscow, USSR.
Salnikov won two more gold medals in the 4 x 200m relay and in the 400m, both freestyle

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