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
10000 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

These are the official results of the Women's Pentathlon competition at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR. There were a total number of 19 participating athletes, with the competition held on 24 July 1980.

Nadezhda Tkachenko had finished fifth in the pentathlon at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montréal. In 1978 she seemed to have won the European Championships in the pentathlon, but was disqualified for a positive doping test for anabolic steroids. In Moscow she took the lead after the shot put, with a effort of 16.84 (55-3), and was never headed.

The Soviet women swept the medals in the event, with all three athletes bettering the previous world record. Actually, all three set world records, with bronze medalist Olga Kuragina crossing the line in the 800 first with 2:03.6, followed by silver medalist Olga Rukavishnikova in 2:04.8, and Tkachenko coming in 4/10ths of a second later for the gold medal. Tkachenko’s world record of 5,083 was the first mark ever over 5,000 points.

[edit] Results

RANK	FINAL RANKING	POINTS
	Nadezhda Tkachenko (URS)	5.083 WR
	Olga Rukavishnikova (URS)	4.937
	Olga Kuragina (URS)	4.875
4.	Ramona Neubert (GDR)	4.698
5.	Margit Papp (HUN)	4.562
6.	Burglinde Pollak (GDR)	4.553
7.	Valentina Dimitrova (BUL)	4.458
8.	Emiliya Kunova (BUL)	4.431
9.	Florence Picaut (FRA)	4.424
10.	Sylvia Barlag (NED)	4.333
11.	Marcela Koblasová (TCH)	4.328
12.	Małgorzata Guzowska (POL)	4.326
13.	Judy Livermore (GBR)	4.304
14.	Conceição Geremias (BRA)	4.263
15.	Sue Longden (GBR)	4.234
16.	Yvette Wray (GBR)	4.159
17.	Cécile Ngambi (CMR)	3.832
—	Nancy Vallecilla (ECU)	DNF
—	Christine Laser (GDR)	DNF

[edit] See also

• 1976 Women's Olympic Pentathlon (Montreal)
• 1978 Women's European Championships Pentathlon (Prague)
• 1982 Women's European Championships Heptathlon (Athens)
• 1984 Women's Olympic Heptathlon (Los Angeles)
• 1983 Women's World Championship Heptathlon (Helsinki)
• 1986 Women's European Championships Heptathlon (Stuttgart)

[edit] References

• Results
• sports-reference

v • d • e Olympic Champions in Women's Pentathlon and Heptathlon Pentathlon 1964: Irina Press • 1968: Ingrid Becker • 1972: Mary Peters • 1976: Siegrun Siegl • 1980: Nadezhda Tkachenko Heptathlon 1984: Glynis Nunn • 1988: Jackie Joyner-Kersee • 1992: Jackie Joyner-Kersee • 1996: Ghada Shouaa • 2000: Denise Lewis • 2004: Carolina Klüft • 2008: Nataliya Dobrynska