Women Pentathlon Athletics XXII Olympic Games Moskva, Soviet Union 1980 - -- August - Gold Medal:
Women Pentathlon Olympic Games Moscow 1980 - Thursday 24.07
Final
Team
Pts
100m
Shot
High
Long
800m
1. Nadezhda Tkachenko
URS
5083
13.29s
16.84m
1.84m
6.73m
2:05.20
960
994
1068
1062
999
2. Olga Rukavishnikova
URS
4937
13.66s
14.09m
1.88m
6.79m
2:04.80
910
844
1104
1074
1005
3. Olga Kuragina
URS
4875
13.26s
12.49m
1.84m
6.77m
2:03.60
964
749
1068
1070
1024
4. Ramona Neubert
GDR
4698
13.93s
13.68m
1.77m
6.63m
2:07.70
875
820
1002
1041
960
5. Margit Papp
HUN
4562
13.96s
14.94m
1.74m
6.35m
2:15.80
871
891
974
982
844
6. Burglinde Pollak
GDR
4553
13.74s
16.67m
1.68m
5.93m
2:14.40
899
985
915
891
863
7. Valentina Dimitrova
BUL
4458
14.39s
15.65m
1.74m
5.91m
2:15.50
818
931
974
886
849
8. Emilia Kunova
BUL
4431
13.73s
11.98m
1.74m
6.10m
2:11.10
901
718
974
928
910
9. Florence Picaut
FRA
4424
13.75s
13.24m
1.80m
5.83m
2:16.70
898
794
1031
869
832
10.Sylvia Barlag
HOL
4333
14.20s
11.82m
1.80m
6.05m
2:16.40
841
708
1031
917
836
11.Marcela Koblasova
TCH
4328
14.10s
13.42m
1.71m
6.15m
2:20.30
853
805
945
939
786
12.Malgorzata Guzowska
POL
4326
14.16s
13.63m
1.80m
6.21m
2:29.30
846
817
1031
952
680
13.Judy Livermore
GBR
4304
13.57s
13.56m
1.77m
5.71m
2:25.30
922
813
1002
842
725
14.Conceicao Brasil
BRA
4263
14.33s
13.16m
1.71m
5.97m
2:18.90
825
789
945
900
804
15.Susan Longden
GBR
4234
14.10s
11.47m
1.74m
6.09m
2:19.60
853
686
974
926
795
16.Yvette Wray
GBR
4159
13.78s
12.01m
1.65m
5.60m
2:15.90
894
720
885
817
843
17.Cecile Ngambi
CMR
3832
14.09s
10.28m
1.80m
5.38m
2:39.70
855
608
1031
766
572
-. Nancy Vallecilla
ECU
3170
14.46s
11.12m
1.68m
5.45m
DNF
810
663
915
782
0
-. Christine Laser
GDR
1712
13.67s
13.39m
DNF
909
803
0
The Soviet athletes were clearly very well prepared, and Kuragina took
a slim lead of four points with her 13.26 hurdles. Tkachenko, second
after the hurdles, pounded out the shot to 16.84, which only Pollak
(16.67) could approach. The superiority of the USSR athletes was seen
in the high jump, where the powerful Tkachenko jumped 1.84, superb
for a woman only 1.65 tall, This was matched by the slim (170/58kg)
Kuragina, and beaten by Rukavishnikova, the tallest (1.76) of the three
who cleared 1.88. Tkachenko’s lead was now 154 points over
Rukavishnikova.
All three cleared more than 6.70 in the long jump, with Neubert
responding well with 6.63, but the German was over 100 points down
on Kuragina, the number three Soviet. The 800m saw Kuragina finish
with 2:03.6, to set a new world record which lasted 1.2 seconds until
Rukavishnikova reached the line. She, in turn, held the record for all of
0.4 of a second, when Tkachenko finished her record setting perform-
ance. For the second consecutive time one country had swept the
medals.
