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 Peńalver 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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