Athletics at the 1980 Summer Paralympics

Athletics at the VI Paralympic Games
Paralympic Athletics
Competitors	936 from 40 nations
←1976 1984→

Athletics at the 1980 Summer Paralympics consisted of 275 events. The Games saw 1,973 Para athletes from 43 countries compete in 13 sports.^[1]

The full list of sports was; archery, Para athletics, dartchery, lawn bowls, goalball, shooting Para sport, Para swimming, table tennis, sitting volleyball, weightlifting, wheelchair basketball, wheelchair fencing and wrestling.^[1]

The USA and Poland tied for the most gold medals in Arnhem, with USA taking 195 overall medals and Poland finishing with 177. Germany, Canada and Great Britain rounded out the top 5 on the medals chart.^[1] Bahamas, Jamaica, Kenya, Kuwait, Luxembourg, Sudan and Zimbabwe won their first ever medals in this competition.

Participating nations[]

Medal summary[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	42	46	28	116
2	Canada (CAN)	37	16	16	69
3	Poland (POL)	34	27	27	88
4	West Germany (FRG)	31	26	24	81
5	Mexico (MEX)	17	13	4	34
6	Great Britain (GBR)	12	6	4	22
7	Belgium (BEL)	11	7	8	26
8	Sweden (SWE)	10	5	4	19
9	France (FRA)	9	8	3	20
10	Norway (NOR)	9	2	1	12
11	Austria (AUT)	8	12	7	27
12	Australia (AUS)	8	9	17	34
13	Japan (JPN)	7	7	3	17
14	Finland (FIN)	6	14	10	30
15	Jamaica (JAM)	6	4	4	14
16	New Zealand (NZL)	5	4	4	13
17	Netherlands (NED)	4	8	11	23
18	Egypt (EGY)	4	4	2	10
19	Switzerland (SUI)	3	7	8	18
20	Denmark (DEN)	3	4	3	10
21	Italy (ITA)	2	3	5	10
22	Kuwait (KUW)	2	2	1	5
23	Israel (ISR)	1	7	9	17
24	Kenya (KEN)	1	2	0	3
25	Ireland (IRL)	1	0	9	10
26	Sudan (SUD)	1	0	0	1
27	Zimbabwe (ZIM)	0	4	0	4
28	Spain (ESP)	0	3	3	6
29	Yugoslavia (YUG)	0	1	5	6
30	Argentina (ARG)	0	1	3	4
31	Bahamas (BAH)	0	1	1	2
	Hong Kong (HKG)	0	1	1	2
33	Greece (GRE)	0	0	1	1
	Luxembourg (LUX)	0	0	1	1
Totals (34 nations)		274	254	227	755

Men's events[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
60 m 1A	Mexico	Canada	Switzerland
60 m 1B	Sweden	Mexico	Greece
60 m 1C	Mexico	Mexico	D. Miller  New Zealand
60 m A	William McLeod  Great Britain	United States	Poland
80 m CP C	France	Tony Harborn  Sweden	Sweden
80 m CP D	Denmark	Duvivier  France	United States
100 m 2	Mexico	Kuwait	United States
100 m 3	Sweden	Belgium	Chris Alp  Australia
100 m 4	United States	Rolf Johansson  Sweden	Richard Oliver  Australia
100 m 5	Belgium	Mel Fitzgerald  Canada	Erich Hubel  Australia
100 m B details	Poland	United States	Poland
100 m C	Canada	Canada	Jo Egan  Australia
100 m C1	Denis Lapalme  Canada	Austria	Poland
100 m D	West Germany	Joe Harrison  Canada	West Germany
100 m D1 runners	Austria	None	None
100 m D1 wheelchairs	United States	Curt Brinkman  United States	Austria
100 m E	Finland	Poland	Wolfgang Pickl  Austria
100 m E1	Cato Zahl Pedersen  Norway	Yekutiel Gershoni  Israel	Luxembourg
100 m F	Wayne Lanham  Australia	Hong Kong	Austria
100 m F1	Matthias Berg  West Germany	Canada	West Germany
200 m 2	Mexico	United States	Mexico
200 m 3	Mike Nugent  Australia	Belgium	Chris Alp  Australia
400 m 2	Mexico	United States	Kuwait
400 m 3	Belgium	Mike Nugent  Australia	Fred Pointer  Australia
400 m A	Canada	West Germany	Netherlands
400 m B	Poland	Poland	Belgium
400 m C	West Germany	Austria	Joe Egan  Australia
400 m C1	Austria	Poland	None
400 m D	Joe Harrison  Canada	West Germany	West Germany
400 m D1 runners	Austria	None	None
400 m D1 wheelchairs	Curt Brinkman  United States	United States	J. Finch  United States
400 m E	Finland	Poland	Finland
400 m E1	Cato Zahl Pedersen  Norway	Yekutiel Gershoni  Israel	None
400 m F	Poland	Wayne Lanham  Australia	Austria
400 m F1	Matthias Berg  West Germany	West Germany	Canada
800 m 4	Rick Hansen  Canada	United States	Mexico
800 m 5	Mel Fitzgerald  Canada	Erich Hubel  Australia	Netherlands
800 m CP C	Sweden	Tony Harborn  Sweden	Italy
800 m CP D	Sweden	Denmark	Duvivier  France
1500 m 4	United States	Rick Hansen  Canada	Belgium
1500 m 5	Mel Fitzgerald  Canada	Netherlands	Erich Hubel  Australia
1500 m A	Canada	Norway	Hans Anton Aalien  Norway
1500 m B	Canada	United States	Bruce Sandilands  Australia
1500 m E	Finland	Canada	Poland
1500 m E1	Cato Zahl Pedersen  Norway	Yekutiel Gershoni  Israel	Denmark
1500 m F	West Germany	France	J. Santos  Spain
1500 m F1	Egypt	None	None
5000 m walk A	Japan	Finland	Yugoslavia
5000 m walk B	Great Britain	United States	Eddie Morten  Canada
4×60 m relay 1A-1C	Mexico (MEX)	United States (USA)	Netherlands (NED)
4×80 m relay CP D	United States (USA)	Belgium (BEL)	Denmark (DEN)
4×100 m relay 2-5	Belgium (BEL) Paul van Winkel	Mexico (MEX) Ruben Rojas	Canada (CAN) Mel Fitzgerald Rick Hansen André Viger
4×100 m relay C	West Germany (FRG)	None	None
4×100 m relay D	West Germany (FRG)	None	None
4×100 m relay D1	United States (USA) Curt Brinkman J. Finch	None	None
4×100 m relay E-F1	West Germany (FRG)	None	None
4×400 m relay D1	United States (USA)	None	None
4×400 m relay E	West Germany (FRG)	None	None
High jump A	Canada	United States	United States
High jump B	Japan	Austria	West Germany
High jump C	West Germany	D. J. Eden  New Zealand
		Canada
High jump D	Arnold Boldt  Canada	Great Britain	West Germany
High jump E	Poland	Switzerland	Spain
High jump F	Austria	Japan	Nitzan Atzmon  Israel
Long jump A	Norway	Finland	Canada
Long jump B	Poland	Japan	West Germany
Long jump C	Austria	West Germany	Israel
Long jump CP C	Alex Hermans  Belgium	United States	United States
Long jump CP D	France	Sweden	Belgium
Long jump D	Arnold Boldt  Canada	Netherlands	West Germany
Long jump E	Poland	Spain	Poland
Long jump E1	Cato Zahl Pedersen  Norway	Denmark	Yekutiel Gershoni  Israel
Long jump F	Poland	Japan	Hong Kong
Long jump F1	Matthias Berg  West Germany	Canada	West Germany
Triple jump A	Netherlands	Poland	Finland
Triple jump B	Poland	Spain	Finland
Club throw 1A	Wayne Patchett  Australia	Mexico	Ireland
Club throw 1B	United States	Bahamas	Canada
Discus throw 1A	Wayne Patchett  Australia	West Germany	Ireland
Discus throw 1B	United States	Finland	Bahamas
Discus throw 1C	Mexico	David Hynds  New Zealand	Poland
Discus throw 2	Graham Condon  New Zealand	Yugoslavia	United States
Discus throw 3	Belgium	Kenya	Eric Russell  Australia
Discus throw 4	Eugene Reimer  Canada	Argentina	Great Britain
Discus throw 5	Sweden	Poland	Rene Ahrens  Australia
Discus throw A	Finland	West Germany	Poland
Discus throw B	Poland	Sweden	Finland
Discus throw C	West Germany	Canada	Israel
Discus throw C1	Poland	Finland	Poland
Discus throw CP C	Belgium	Israel	United States
Discus throw CP D	Norway	United States	United States
Discus throw D	Poland	Poland	Israel
Discus throw D1	United States	United States	Austria
Discus throw E	West Germany	Poland	Finland
Discus throw F	Belgium	Dan Leonard  Canada	Netherlands
Discus throw J	Poland	Great Britain	Canada
Javelin throw 1C	West Germany	West Germany	Poland
Javelin throw 2	Netherlands	United States	Netherlands
Javelin throw 3	Jamaica	United States	Belgium
Javelin throw 4	West Germany	West Germany	Yugoslavia
Javelin throw 5	Sweden	Poland	France
Javelin throw B	Finland	Canada	Poland
Javelin throw C	Austria	Canada	West Germany
Javelin throw C1	Denis Lapalme  Canada	Poland	Poland
Javelin throw CP C	Belgium	Israel	Netherlands
Javelin throw CP D	Norway	United States	Switzerland
Javelin throw D	Poland	France	Netherlands
Javelin throw D1	United States	Austria	Jamaica
Javelin throw E	Poland	West Germany	Finland
Javelin throw F	Dan Leonard  Canada	Belgium	Netherlands
Javelin throw J	Great Britain	Egypt	Poland
Shot put 1A	Wayne Patchett  Australia	West Germany	United States
Shot put 1B	Sudan	United States	Canada
Shot put 1C	West Germany	West Germany	David Hynds  New Zealand
Shot put 2	Murray Todd  Australia	West Germany	Ireland
Shot put 3	Eric Russell  Australia	Kenya	Belgium
Shot put 4	Canada	Great Britain	West Germany
Shot put 5	Sweden	Poland	Poland
Shot put A	United States	Finland	West Germany
Shot put B	Sweden	United States	Poland
Shot put C	West Germany	Zvi Karsh  Israel	West Germany
Shot put C1	Poland	Finland	Poland
Shot put CP C	Alex Hermans  Belgium	Belgium	Switzerland
Shot put CP D	United States	Norway	Yugoslavia
Shot put D	Poland	Poland	West Germany
Shot put D1	United States	United States	Jamaica
Shot put E	West Germany	Poland	Finland
Shot put F	Belgium	Dan Leonard  Canada	West Germany
Shot put J	Poland	Great Britain	Canada
Slalom 1A	Switzerland	Mexico	Canada
Slalom 1B	Italy	Netherlands	Netherlands
Slalom 1C	D. Miller  New Zealand	Mexico	Japan
Slalom 2	Japan	Graham Condon  New Zealand	Denmark
Slalom 3	Paul van Winkel  Belgium	West Germany	Fred Pointer  Australia
Slalom 4	Japan	Japan	Canada
Slalom 5	Franz Nietlispach  Switzerland	Japan	Robert McIntyre  Australia
Slalom F1	West Germany	Matthias Berg  West Germany	Egypt
Pentathlon 1A	Finland	Matti Launonen  Finland	None
Pentathlon 1B	Austria	Ian Trewhella  Australia	Sweden
Pentathlon 1C	West Germany	Austria	Jamaica
Pentathlon 2	West Germany	Netherlands	Italy
Pentathlon 3	United States	Austria	Eric Russell  Australia
Pentathlon 4	West Germany	United States	West Germany
Pentathlon 5	Sweden	Belgium	West Germany
Pentathlon A	Poland	Israel	Israel
Pentathlon B	Poland	Poland	Belgium
Pentathlon C	Canada	Austria	Israel
Pentathlon C1	Austria	Finland	None
Pentathlon D	Great Britain	Austria	Israel
Pentathlon D1	United States	Austria	None
Pentathlon E	Canada	Finland	Wolfgang Pickl  Austria
Pentathlon E1	Denmark	None	None
Pentathlon F	Dan Leonard  Canada	Austria	Finland

Women's events[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
60 m 1A	Josefina Cornejo  Mexico	United States	Great Britain[2]
60 m 1B	United States	Martha Sandoval  Mexico	Ireland
60 m 1C	Egypt	Italy	United States
60 m 2	Kuwait	Mexico	United States
60 m 3	Mexico	Great Britain	Italy
60 m 4	Sharon Rahn  United States	France	United States
60 m 5	Juana Soto  Mexico	Sue Hobbs  Australia	Sweden
60 m A	United States	United States	United States
60 m CP C	Onfroy  France	United States	United States
60 m CP D	France	Switzerland	Royet  France
100 m B details	Poland	United States	Spain
100 m C	Anne Farrell  Canada	Canada	Charmaine Cree  Australia
100 m C1	Poland	None	None
100 m D	United States	United States	None
100 m D1	Jamaica	Poland	Poland
100 m E	Barbara Joscelyne  Great Britain	Finland	Poland
100 m F	Japan	Poland	None
100 m F1	Giselle Cole  Canada	Lina Franzese  Italy	None
200 m 2	Kuwait	Patricia Hill  New Zealand	United States
200 m 3	Candace Cable  United States	Mexico	United States
400 m 2	United States	Switzerland	Patricia Hill  New Zealand
400 m 3	Candace Cable  United States	Mexico	Canada
400 m A	United States	Purificacion Santamarta  Spain	Sweden
400 m B	West Germany	United States	United States
400 m C1	Poland	None	None
400 m CP C	Onfroy  France	France	United States
400 m CP D	France	Royet  France	United States
400 m D	United States	None	None
400 m D1 runners	Poland	None	None
400 m D1 wheelchairs	Poland	None	None
400 m E	Barbara Joscelyne  Great Britain	Finland	None
400 m F1	Giselle Cole  Canada	West Germany	West Germany
800 m 4	Sharon Rahn  United States	United States	Mexico
800 m 5	Juana Soto  Mexico	Sue Hobbs  Australia	United States
800 m A	West Germany	Austria	Finland
800 m B	West Germany	United States	Lily Wong  Canada
1500 m 4	Sharon Rahn  United States	United States	West Germany
1500 m 5	Juana Soto  Mexico	Sue Hobbs  Australia	United States
1500 m F1	West Germany	Lina Franzese  Italy	None
3000 m walk A	Canada	Belgium	Japan
4×60 m relay 1A-1C	United States (USA)	None	None
4×60 m relay 2-5	Mexico (MEX) Juana Soto	United States (USA) Candace Cable Sharon Rahn	West Germany (FRG)
4×60 m relay CP C	United States (USA)	None	None
4×60 m relay CP D details	None	None	None
High jump A	Joke van Rijswijk  Netherlands	West Germany	Canada
High jump B	United States	United States	Canada
High jump C	Charmaine Cree  Australia	None	None
High jump D	Canada	None	None
Long jump B	West Germany	United States	Poland
Long jump C	Anne Farrell  Canada	Charmaine Cree  Australia	Canada
Long jump CP C	Onfroy  France	France	United States
Long jump CP D	France	Royet  France	United States
Long jump D	Canada	Netherlands	None
Long jump E	Barbara Joscelyne  Great Britain	Poland	Finland
Long jump F	Japan	Poland	None
Long jump F1	Giselle Cole  Canada	West Germany	West Germany
Club throw 1A	Josefina Cornejo  Mexico	Sandra James  Zimbabwe	Argentina
Club throw 1B	Jamaica	Martha Sandoval  Mexico	Ireland
Discus throw 1A	Josefina Cornejo  Mexico	Sandra James  Zimbabwe	Argentina
Discus throw 1B	Martha Sandoval  Mexico	United States	Ireland
Discus throw 1C	United States	Egypt	Italy
Discus throw 2	Norway	Great Britain	Poland
Discus throw 3	Poland	Jamaica	Ireland
Discus throw 4	United States	Poland	Poland
Discus throw 5	Jamaica	West Germany	Switzerland
Discus throw A	United States	Netherlands	T. G. Skipwith  New Zealand
Discus throw B	United States	Poland	West Germany
Discus throw C	Anne Farrell  Canada	Finland	Charmaine Cree  Australia
Discus throw C1	Canada	Poland	Switzerland
Discus throw CP C	Great Britain	Switzerland	United States
Discus throw CP D	United States	Chris Fuller  United States	Switzerland
Discus throw D	Stephania Balta  Canada	Netherlands	Austria
Discus throw D1	Poland	Egypt	Poland
Discus throw E	Poland	None	None
Discus throw F	Poland	Japan	None
Javelin throw 1C	United States	Egypt	None
Javelin throw 2	Norway	Poland	Great Britain
Javelin throw 3	Kenya	Zimbabwe	Poland
Javelin throw 4	Denmark	Jamaica	Milka Milinkovic  Yugoslavia
Javelin throw 5	Zipora Rubin  Israel	Jamaica	Belgium
Javelin throw A	United States	Netherlands	West Germany
Javelin throw B	Poland	Poland	Lily Wong  Canada
Javelin throw C	Anne Farrell  Canada	Finland	Charmaine Cree  Australia
Javelin throw C1	Canada	Switzerland	Poland
Javelin throw CP C	Great Britain	United States	Switzerland
Javelin throw CP D	Great Britain	United States	United States
Javelin throw D	Stephania Balta  Canada	United States	Netherlands
Javelin throw D1	Egypt	P. Martin  United States	Poland
Javelin throw E	Poland	None	None
Javelin throw F	Japan	Poland	None
Shot put 1A	Josefina Cornejo  Mexico	Sandra James  Zimbabwe	Argentina
Shot put 1B	United States	Martha Sandoval  Mexico	Jamaica
Shot put 1C	Egypt	United States	None
Shot put 2	Great Britain	Kuwait	Poland
Shot put 3	Eve M. Rimmer  New Zealand	West Germany	Poland
Shot put 4	Jamaica	Denmark	Milka Milinkovic  Yugoslavia
Shot put 5	Jamaica	West Germany	Zipora Rubin  Israel
Shot put A	Netherlands	West Germany	West Germany
			United States
Shot put B	United States	West Germany	Poland
Shot put C	Anne Farrell  Canada	Finland	None
Shot put C1	Switzerland	Poland	None
Shot put CP C	Great Britain	United States	None
Shot put CP D	France	Switzerland	Great Britain
Shot put D	Stephania Balta  Canada	Switzerland	Netherlands
Shot put D1	Poland	Poland	Egypt
Shot put E	Poland	None	None
Shot put F	Poland	Japan	None
Slalom 1A	United States	Josefina Cornejo  Mexico	Ireland
Slalom 1B	United States	United States	Rosa Sicari  Italy
Slalom 1C	Italy	United States	None
Slalom 2	Patricia Hill  New Zealand	Ingrid Lauridsen  Denmark	West Germany
Slalom 3	United States	Jamaica	Belgium
Slalom 4	West Germany	West Germany	Japan
Slalom 5	Canada	West Germany	Switzerland
Pentathlon 1B	Ireland	United States	None
Pentathlon 2	West Germany	Poland	None
Pentathlon 3	West Germany	Julie Russell  Australia	Ireland
Pentathlon 4	Poland	West Germany	Mexico
Pentathlon 5	Sweden	West Germany	None
Pentathlon A	West Germany	United States	United States
Pentathlon B	K. M. Firth  New Zealand	Canada	United States
Pentathlon D	Stephania Balta  Canada	Austria	None

References[]

• Athletics at the 1980 Summer Paralympics (Arnhem) from the International Paralympic Committee (archived)