page_title: Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon
hierarchical_section_title: Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon
caption_attribution_description: For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. ADN-ZB Mittelstädt 01.08.80 Moskau: Olympia. Cierpinski widerholte Olympiasieg von Montreal-Zum Abschluß der olympischen Leichtathletik-Wettbewerbe holte sich Waldemar Cierpinski (DDR) die Goldmedaille auf der klassischen Marathon-Distanz (42,195 km). Der jubelnde 29jährige Hallenser ist damit nach Abebe Biklia der zweite Marathonläufer, der seinen Olympiasieg wiederholen konnte. Links der zweitplazierte Gerard Nijboer (Niederlande).
context_page_description: The men's marathon at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR had an entry list of 76 competitors, with 74 athletes from 40 nations starting and 53 runners finishing the race held on Friday 1 August 1980. The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress. The event was won by Waldemar Cierpinski of East Germany, the second man to successfully defend Olympic gold in the marathon. Both the Netherlands and the Soviet Union won their first men's Olympic marathon medals.
context_section_description: The men's marathon at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR had an entry list of 76 competitors, with 74 athletes from 40 nations starting and 53 runners finishing the race held on Friday 1 August 1980. The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress. The event was won by Waldemar Cierpinski of East Germany, the second man to successfully defend Olympic gold in the marathon (after Abebe Bikila in 1960 and 1964). Both the Netherlands (Gerard Nijboer's silver) and the Soviet Union (Satymkul Dzhumanazarov's bronze) won their first men's Olympic marathon medals.
caption: Waldemar Cierpinski, celebrating his gold medal. Left behind him Gerard Nijboer
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