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1980 World Championships in Athletics are held featuring only two events, which were not included in that year's Olympics programme, women's 400 metres hurdles and 3000 metres. • Female combined eventers start to switch from the pentathlon to the heptathlon.
This article contains an overview of the year 1980 in athletics. The major athletics event of the year was the 1980 Moscow Olympics . A boycott of this competition meant many of world's leading athletes did not face each other, with many of the boycotting athletes taking part in the rival Liberty Bell Classic competition.
The 1980s (pronounced "nineteen-eighties", shortened to "the '80s" or "the Eighties") was the decade that began on January 1, 1980, and ended on December 31, 1989.. The decade saw a dominance of conservatism and free market economics, and a socioeconomic change due to advances in technology and a worldwide move away from planned economies and towards laissez-faire capitalism compared to the 1970s.
The Soviet Union's Jaak Uudmäe and Viktor Saneyev won the first two places in the triple jump, ahead of Brazil's world record holder João Carlos de Oliveira. Both de Oliveira and Australia's Ian Campbell produced long jumps, but they were declared fouls by the officials and not measured; in Campbell's case, his longest jump was ruled a ...
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Athletics records in the Summer Olympic Games have been recorded since 1896. The modern Summer Olympic Games have been held every four years since the first Games in 1896 (except 1916 due to the First World War, 1940 and 1944 due to the Second World War, and 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic) and Olympic records are recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in each event.
Alpine Skiing World Cup: . Men's overall season champion: Andreas Wenzel, Liechtenstein Women's overall season champion: Hanni Wenzel, Liechtenstein January 12 – Canada's Ken Read, the leader of the "Crazy Canucks" ski team, wins the Hahnenkamm downhill in Kitzbühel, Austria, becoming the second North American to ever win the classic race.
The World Series of Pro Football, as it was called, was the first attempt at professional American football championship games. December 11, 1909 - Films made in Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, are shown for the first time in the United States by George Albert Smith and Charles Urban. [1]