Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Women's discus throw

Women's discus throw at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Pictogram for athletics
Venue	Lenin Central Stadium
Date	31 July 1980 (qualifications) 1 August 1980 (finals)
Competitors	18 from 11 nations
Winning distance	69.96
Medalists
Evelin Schlaak  East Germany Mariya Petkova  Bulgaria Tatyana Lesovaya  Soviet Union

Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The Women's Discus Throw event at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union had an entrylist of 18 competitors, with one qualifying group and the final (12) held on Friday 1980-08-01.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Evelin Jahl  East Germany
Silver	Mariya Petkova  Bulgaria
Bronze	Tatyana Lesovaya  Soviet Union

Results

Final

RANK	FINAL	DISTANCE
	Evelin Jahl (GDR)	69.96 m
	Mariya Petkova (BUL)	67.90 m
	Tatyana Lesovaya (URS)	67.40 m
4.	Gisela Beyer (GDR)	67.08 m
5.	Margitta Pufe (GDR)	66.12 m
6.	Florenţa Ţacu (ROU)	64.38 m
7.	Galina Murašova (URS)	63.84 m
8.	Svetla Bozhkova (BUL)	63.14 m
9.	Meg Ritchie (GBR)	61.16 m
10.	Carmen Romero (CUB)	60.86 m
11.	Zdena Bartoňová (TCH)	57.78 m
12.	Ágnes Herczegh (HUN)	55.06 m

Qualifying round

• Held on Thursday July 31, 1980

RANK	FINAL	DISTANCE
1.	Margitta Pufe (GDR)	65.52 m
2.	Mariya Petkova (BUL)	65.02 m
3.	Gisela Beyer (GDR)	62.86 m
4.	Tatyana Lesovaya (URS)	62.20 m
5.	Svetla Bozhkova (BUL)	60.84 m
6.	Florenţa Ţacu (ROU)	60.40 m
7.	Galina Murašova (URS)	60.32 m
8.	Evelin Jahl (GDR)	60.22 m
9.	Zdena Bartoňová (TCH)	59.48 m
10.	Meg Ritchie (GBR)	58.66 m
11.	Carmen Romero (CUB)	58.60 m
12.	Ágnes Herczegh (HUN)	57.80 m
13.	María Cristina Betancourt (CUB)	57.62 m
14.	Katalin Csőke (HUN)	57.38 m
15.	Gael Mulhall (AUS)	54.90 m
16.	Faina Melnyk (URS)	53.76 m
—	Ludovina de Oliveira (MOZ)	NM
—	Ulla Lundholm (FIN)	DNS

See also

• 1976 Women's Olympic Discus Throw (Montreal)
• 1978 Women's European Championships Discus Throw (Prague)
• 1982 Women's European Championships Discus Throw (Athens)
• 1983 Women's World Championships Discus Throw (Helsinki)
• 1984 Women's Olympic Discus Throw (Los Angeles)
• 1986 Women's European Championships Discus Throw (Stuttgart)
• 1987 Women's World Championships Discus Throw (Rome)

References

External links

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