Moscow 1980 Olympic Game

The Moscow 1980 Olympics was started amazingly with great wonders, excitements among the people. On July 19, the Moscow Olympics was started with official opening by President Leonid Brezhnev, lighting flame by segei beloy, Olympic oath by nikolay andrianov and official oath by aleksandr ledved. Hardly, 5179 athletes from 80 nations participated in 203 events out of that 1115 were women and 4064 were men.

Vladimir salnikov won three gold medals in 400m freestyle, 4 x 200m relay and 1500m. This is the first time; the swimmer has swum 1500m in under 150 minutes. After eight years, he would make an extraordinary comeback by wining 1500m. Aleksandr Dityatin won medals in men’s gymnastics and in heavyweight boxing, Teófilo Stevenson became the first boxer.