Date and place| Games of the 22nd Olympiad Moscow 1980, July 19 to August 3 |
StatisticsNumber of participants: 5179 (4064 men, 1115 women)
Total attendance: 5,500,000
Olympic Oath: Nikolai Andrianov (USSR, gymnastics)
Olympic flame: Sergei Belov (USSR, basketball)
Participating countries: 80
Afghanistan, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Australia, Belgium, Benin, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burma, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cyprus, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Greece, Great Britain, Guatemala, Guinea, Guyana, Hungary, Ireland, India, Iraq, Italy, Jamaica, Jordan, Yugoslavia, Cameroon, Kuwait, Congo, Korea, Laos, Lesotho, Lebanon, Libya, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Malta, Mexico, Mongolia, Mozambique, Nepal, Netherlands, Nicaragua, New Zealand, Nigeria, Uganda, East Germany, Austria, Peru, Poland, Puerto Rico, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Soviet Union, Spain, Sri Lanka, Syria, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Czechoslovakia, Venezuela, Vietnam, Iceland, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Sweden, Switzerland |
Accomodations| Athletics in the Central Lenin Stadium (architects: Vlassov, W. and N. Polikarpov Resnikov, spectator capacity: 103.000, Tartan runway with a length of 400 meters), weight lifting in the sports palace "Ismailovo" (audience capacity 5000), wrestling in the sports-ZSKA (audience capacity 7000), boxing in the large gym at the Prospekt Mira (spectator capacity: 17,000), judo in the Sportpalace in the Loesjniki-sports (spectator capacity: 14,000), fencing (in the ZSKA-sports (spectator capacity: 6000), shooting on the Dynamo-shooting in Mytisjtisji (audience capacity 3000), archery at the Olympic archery field in Krylatskoje (audience capacity 3000), modern pentathlon, sports complex and swimming pool "Olympisjki" to Prospekt Mira, equestrian in the horse fields of trade unions in Bitsa (spectator capacity: 12,000) and in the Central Lenin Stadium, the Olympic cycling velodrome Krylatskoje (spectator capacity: 6000 333.33-m track) on the Chaussee Minsker and around 13.5 kilometers of track in Krylatskoje (spectator capacity: 4,000) , gymnastics in the sports palace of the Loesjniki-sports (spectator capacity: 14,000) swimming and diving in the pool Olympisjki to Prospekt Mira, water polo in the swimming stadium in the Loesjniki-sports (spectator capacity: 9000) and in the pool at the Olympisjki Prospekt Mira, rowing and canoeing on the canoe and rowing course in Moscow Krylatskoje (spectator capacity: 21,000) sailing in the Olympic sailing center in Tallinn (audience capacity 8300) and in the Bay of Tallinn, football in the Central Dynamo Stadium in Moscow (spectator capacity : 54,000), the Kirov Stadium in Leningrad (spectator capacity: 80,000), in the Republic of the stadium in Kiev (spectator capacity: 100,000), the Dynamo stadium in Minsk (spectator capacity: 42,000) and in the Central Lenin Stadium in Moscow, hockey in the small sports arena "Dynamo" (spectator capacity: 10,000) and in the stadium of the "Young Pioneers" (audience capacity 3000), basketball in the Sports Palace to Prospekt Mira (spectator capacity: 15,000) and in the ZSKA-sportpaleis (audience capacity 4000), handball in the sports palace "Sokolniki" (audience capacity 8000), and in the sports palace "Dynamo" (spectator capacity: 5,000), volleyball in the Small Sports Arena (spectator capacity: 10,000) and in the Droesjba-sports (spectator capacity : 3900) in the Loesjnikisportpark. |
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