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1980 IAAF World Cross Country Championships

Field	Value
Name	1980 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
Organisers	IAAF
Edition	8th
Date	March 9
Host city	Paris, France France
Location	Hippodrome de Longchamp
Nations participating	28
Athletes participating	381
Races	3
Distances	12.58 km – Senior men
7.41 km – Junior men
4.82 km – Senior women
Previous	1979 Limerick
Next	1981 Madrid

7.41 km – Junior men 4.82 km – Senior women The 1980 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Paris, France, at the Hippodrome de Longchamp on March 9, 1980. A report on the event was given in the Evening Times. | access-date = October 18, 2013

Complete results for men, |access-date=October 18, 2013 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016110442/http://mypage.bluewin.ch/tomtytom/iccu/wxc_iaaf/wxc_SM1980S.html |archive-date=October 16, 2007 junior men, |access-date=October 18, 2013 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016110007/http://mypage.bluewin.ch/tomtytom/iccu/wxc_iaaf/wxc_JM1980S.html |archive-date=October 16, 2007 women, |access-date=October 18, 2013 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016110825/http://mypage.bluewin.ch/tomtytom/iccu/wxc_iaaf/wxc_SW1980S.html |archive-date=October 16, 2007 medallists, | access-date = October 9, 2013 and the results of British athletes |access-date=October 9, 2013 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927091955/http://www.iaaf.net/mm/Document/Competitions/Competition/2008WXC_Facts_Figures_1816.pdf |archive-date=September 27, 2013 were published.

Medallists

Senior women	URS	15	ENG	49	USA	49

Race results

Senior men's race (12.58 km)

Main article: 1980 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race

Rank		width=20%	Athlete		width=15%	Country		width=10%	Time	Full results
	Craig Virgin
	Hans-Jürgen Orthmann
	Nick Rose
4	Léon Schots
5	John Robson
6	Aleksandr Antipov
7	Leonid Moseyev
8	Antonio Prieto
9	Steve Jones
10	Bernie Ford
11	Karel Lismont
12	Daniel Dillon

(Barry Knight)	(92)

|| 100 |-

(Guy Arbogast)	(DNF)

|| 163 |-

(Robert Lismont)	(DNF)

|| 175

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Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result

Junior men's race (7.41 km)

Main article: 1980 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race

Rank		width=20%	Athlete		width=15%	Country		width=10%	Time	Full results
	Jorge García
	Valeriy Gryaznov
	Ed Eyestone
4	Denis Stark
5	Tom Downs
6	Sergey Kiselyov
7	Ildar Denikeyev
8	Guy Léfèvre
9	Andrea Prassedi
10	Paul Davies-Hale
11	William Graham
12	Gary Huckwell

(Dmitriy Ditlashok)	(52)

|| 50 |-

(Farron Fields)	(88)

|| 75 |-

(Francisco Erneta)	(61)

|| 79

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Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result

Senior women's race (4.82 km)

Main article: 1980 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior women's race

Rank		width=20%	Athlete		width=15%	Country		width=10%	Time	Full results
	Grete Waitz
	Irina Bondarchuk
	Yelena Chernysheva
4	Giana Romanova
5	Jan Merrill
6	Svetlana Ulmasova
7	Penny Forse
8	Ellen Wessinghage
9	Kath Binns
10	Margaret Groos
11	Raisa Smekhnova
12	Cristina Tomasini

(Tatyana Sychova)	(45)

|| 15 |-

(Angela Mason)	(80)

|| 49 |-

(Ellison Goodall)	(35)

|| 49

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Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result

Medal table (unofficial)

Note: Totals include both individual and team medals, with medals in the team competition counting as one medal.

Participation

An unofficial count yields the participation of 381 athletes from 28 countries. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.

(17)
(21)
(18)
(3)
(2)
(16)
(21)
(9)
(21)
(4)
(21)
(4)
(20)
(7)
(14)
(19)
(7)
(5)
(8)
(21)
(17)
ESP (21)
(8)
(3)
(14)
(21)
(20)
(19)

References

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