Athletics at the 1984 Summer Olympics

Athletics at the Games of the XXIII Olympiad
Athletes during the men’s 400 meters event
Venue	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
No. of events	41
Competitors	1,273 from 124 nations
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At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, 41 events in athletics were contested. There were a total number of 1273 participating athletes from 124 countries. Women's marathon, women's 3000 meters, and women's 400 meters hurdles debuted at these Games.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States  (USA)	16	15	9	40
2	West Germany  (FRG)	4	2	5	11
3	Great Britain  (GBR)	3	7	6	16
4	Romania  (ROU)	3	3	4	10
5	Italy  (ITA)	3	1	3	7
6	Finland  (FIN)	2	1	1	4
7	Mexico  (MEX)	2	1	0	3
8	Morocco  (MAR)	2	0	0	2
9	France  (FRA)	1	1	2	4
10	Australia  (AUS)	1	1	1	3
11	Portugal  (POR)	1	0	2	3
12	Kenya  (KEN)	1	0	1	2
13	Brazil  (BRA)	1	0	0	1
	Netherlands  (NED)	1	0	0	1
15	Canada  (CAN)	0	2	3	5
16	Sweden  (SWE)	0	2	1	3
17	Jamaica  (JAM)	0	1	2	3
18	Ireland  (IRL)	0	1	0	1
	Ivory Coast  (CIV)	0	1	0	1
	Norway  (NOR)	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland  (SUI)	0	1	0	1
22	China  (CHN)	0	0	1	1
	Nigeria  (NGR)	0	0	1	1
	Spain  (ESP)	0	0	1	1
Totals (24 entries)		41	41	43	125

Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Carl Lewis   United States	9.99	Sam Graddy   United States	10.19	Ben Johnson   Canada	10.22
200 metres details	Carl Lewis   United States	19.80 OR	Kirk Baptiste   United States	19.96	Thomas Jefferson   United States	20.26
400 metres details	Alonzo Babers   United States	44.27	Gabriel Tiacoh   Ivory Coast	44.54	Antonio McKay   United States	44.71
800 metres details	Joaquim Cruz   Brazil	1:43.00 OR	Sebastian Coe   Great Britain	1:43.64	Earl Jones   United States	1:43.83
1500 metres details	Sebastian Coe   Great Britain	3:32.53 OR	Steve Cram   Great Britain	3:33.40	José Manuel Abascal   Spain	3:34.30
5000 metres details	Saïd Aouita   Morocco	13:05.59 OR	Markus Ryffel   Switzerland	13:07.54	António Leitão   Portugal	13:09.20
10,000 metres details	Alberto Cova   Italy	27:47.54	Mike McLeod   Great Britain	28:06.22	Michael Musyoki   Kenya	28:06.46
110 metres hurdles details	Roger Kingdom   United States	13.20 OR	Greg Foster   United States	13.23	Arto Bryggare   Finland	13.40
400 metres hurdles details	Edwin Moses   United States	47.75	Danny Harris   United States	48.13	Harald Schmid   West Germany	48.19
3000 metres steeplechase details	Julius Korir   Kenya	8:11.80	Joseph Mahmoud   France	8:13.31	Brian Diemer   United States	8:14.06
4 × 100 metres relay details	United States  (USA) Sam Graddy Ron Brown Calvin Smith Carl Lewis	37.83 WR	Jamaica  (JAM) Al Lawrence Greg Meghoo Don Quarrie Ray Stewart Norman Edwards*	38.62	Canada  (CAN) Ben Johnson Tony Sharpe Desai Williams Sterling Hinds	38.70
4 × 400 metres relay details	United States  (USA) Sunder Nix Ray Armstead Alonzo Babers Antonio McKay Walter McCoy* Willie Smith*	2:57.91	Great Britain  (GBR) Kriss Akabusi Garry Cook Todd Bennett Phil Brown	2:59.13	Nigeria  (NGR) Sunday Uti Moses Ugbusien Rotimi Peters Innocent Egbunike	2:59.32
Marathon details	Carlos Lopes   Portugal	2:09:21 OR	John Treacy   Ireland	2:09:56	Charlie Spedding   Great Britain	2:09:58
20 kilometres walk details	Ernesto Canto   Mexico	1:23:13 OR	Raúl González   Mexico	1:23:20	Maurizio Damilano   Italy	1:23:26
50 kilometres walk details	Raúl González   Mexico	3:47:26 OR	Bo Gustafsson   Sweden	3:53:19	Sandro Bellucci   Italy	3:53:45
High jump details	Dietmar Mögenburg   West Germany	2.35 m	Patrik Sjöberg   Sweden	2.33 m	Zhu Jianhua   China	2.31 m
Pole vault details	Pierre Quinon   France	5.75 m	Mike Tully   United States	5.65 m	Earl Bell   United States	5.60 m
					Thierry Vigneron   France
Long jump details	Carl Lewis   United States	8.54 m	Gary Honey   Australia	8.24 m	Giovanni Evangelisti   Italy	8.24 m
Triple jump details	Al Joyner   United States	17.26 m	Mike Conley   United States	17.18 m	Keith Connor   Great Britain	16.87 m
Shot put details	Alessandro Andrei   Italy	21.26 m	Michael Carter   United States	21.09 m	Dave Laut   United States	20.97 m
Discus throw details	Rolf Danneberg   West Germany	66.60 m	Mac Wilkins   United States	66.30 m	John Powell   United States	65.46 m
Hammer throw details	Juha Tiainen   Finland	78.08 m	Karl-Hans Riehm   West Germany	77.98 m	Klaus Ploghaus   West Germany	76.68 m
Javelin throw details	Arto Härkönen   Finland	86.76 m	David Ottley   Great Britain	85.74 m	Kenth Eldebrink   Sweden	83.72 m
Decathlon details	Daley Thompson   Great Britain	8798 EWR	Jürgen Hingsen   West Germany	8673	Siegfried Wentz   West Germany	8412

Women

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Evelyn Ashford   United States	10.97 OR	Alice Brown   United States	11.13	Merlene Ottey   Jamaica	11.16
200 metres details	Valerie Brisco-Hooks   United States	21.81 OR	Florence Griffith   United States	22.04	Merlene Ottey   Jamaica	22.09
400 metres details	Valerie Brisco-Hooks   United States	48.83 OR	Chandra Cheeseborough   United States	49.05	Kathy Smallwood-Cook   Great Britain	49.42
800 metres details	Doina Melinte   Romania	1:57.60	Kim Gallagher   United States	1:58.63	Fița Lovin   Romania	1:58.83
1500 metres details	Gabriella Dorio   Italy	4:03.25	Doina Melinte   Romania	4:03.76	Maricica Puică   Romania	4:04.15
3000 metres details	Maricica Puică   Romania	8:35.96 OR	Wendy Sly   Great Britain	8:39.47	Lynn Williams   Canada	8:42.14
100 metres hurdles details	Benita Fitzgerald   United States	12.84	Shirley Strong   Great Britain	12.88	Michèle Chardonnet   France	13.06
					Kim Turner   United States
400 metres hurdles details	Nawal El Moutawakel   Morocco	54.61 OR	Judi Brown   United States	55.20	Cristieana Cojocaru   Romania	55.41
4 × 100 metres relay details	United States  (USA) Alice Brown Jeanette Bolden Chandra Cheeseborough Evelyn Ashford	41.65	Canada  (CAN) Angela Bailey Marita Payne Angella Taylor-Issajenko France Gareau	42.77	Great Britain  (GBR) Simmone Jacobs Kathy Smallwood-Cook Beverley Goddard Heather Hunte	43.11
4 × 400 metres relay details	United States  (USA) Lillie Leatherwood Sherri Howard Valerie Brisco-Hooks Chandra Cheeseborough Diane Dixon* Denean Howard*	3:18.29 OR	Canada  (CAN) Charmaine Crooks Jillian Richardson Molly Killingbeck Marita Payne Dana Wright*	3:21.21	West Germany  (FRG) Heike Schulte-Mattler Ute Thimm Heidi-Elke Gaugel Gaby Bußmann Nicole Leistenschneider* Christina Sussiek*	3:22.98
Marathon details	Joan Benoit   United States	2:24:52 OR	Grete Waitz   Norway	2:26:18	Rosa Mota   Portugal	2:26:57
High jump details	Ulrike Meyfarth   West Germany	2.02 m OR	Sara Simeoni   Italy	2.00 m	Joni Huntley   United States	1.97 m
Long jump details	Anișoara Cușmir-Stanciu   Romania	6.96 m	Vali Ionescu   Romania	6.81 m	Sue Hearnshaw   Great Britain	6.80 m
Shot put details	Claudia Losch   West Germany	20.48 m	Mihaela Loghin   Romania	20.47 m	Gael Martin   Australia	19.19 m
Discus throw details	Ria Stalman   Netherlands	65.36 m	Leslie Deniz   United States	64.86 m	Florența Crăciunescu   Romania	63.64 m
Javelin throw details	Tessa Sanderson   Great Britain	69.56 m OR	Tiina Lillak   Finland	69.00 m	Fatima Whitbread   Great Britain	67.14 m
Heptathlon details	Glynis Nunn   Australia	6390 OR	Jackie Joyner   United States	6385	Sabine Everts   West Germany	6363

• * Athletes who ran in preliminary round and also received medals.

See also

• Athletics at the Friendship Games
• 1984 in athletics (track and field)

External links

• Athletics Australia