For the
1980 Summer Olympics
The 1980 Summer Olympics (russian: Летние Олимпийские игры 1980, Letniye Olimpiyskiye igry 1980), officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad (russian: Игры XXII Олимпиады, Igry XXII Olimpiady) and commo ...
, a total of twenty-eight sports venues were used. The first venue used for the Games was built in 1923. With the creation of the
Spartakiad
The Spartakiad (or Spartakiade) was an international sports event that was sponsored by the Soviet Union. Five international Spartakiades were held from 1928 to 1937. Later Spartakiads were organized as national sport events of the Eastern Bloc ...
in
Moscow
Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...
in 1928, more venues were constructed. Central Lenin Stadium Grand Arena was built in 1956 for that year's versions of the Spartkiad. A plan in 1971 to construct more sports venues by 1990 was initiated, but accelerated in 1974 when Moscow was awarded the 1980 Games. The new venues to be used for the Games were completed in 1979. During the Games themselves at the permanent road cycling venue, the first ever constructed, the largest margin of victory was recorded in the individual road race cycling event since 1928. The Grand Arena hosted the football final that was played in a rainstorm for the third straight Olympics. After the 1991 break of the Soviet Union, the venues in Kiev, Minsk, and Tallinn would be located in Ukraine, Belarus, and Estonia, respectively. Luzhniki Stadium, formerly Grand Arena, continues to be used, and it was affected by the
Luzhniki disaster
The Luzhniki disaster was a deadly human crush that took place at the Grand Sports Arena of the Central Lenin Stadium (russian: Большая спортивная арена Центрального стадиона им. В. И. Ленина ...
in 1982. The stadium served as host for the IAAF World Championships in Athletics in 2013. Another venue, the Moscow Canoeing and Rowing Basin, served as host to the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in 2014. In December 2010, Russia was awarded the 2018 FIFA World Cup with Luzhniki Stadium and Dynamo Stadium proposed as venues for those events.
Venues
Central Lenin Stadium Area
Olympiysky Sports Complex
CSKA Area
Dynamo Stadium
Krylatskoye Park
Other venues in Moscow
Football venues
Outside in Moscow
Before the Olympics
The oldest venue for the games was Republican Stadium in Kiev, which was constructed in 1923.
Dynamo Central Stadium's Grand Arena in Moscow was constructed in 1928 for the first
Spartakiad
The Spartakiad (or Spartakiade) was an international sports event that was sponsored by the Soviet Union. Five international Spartakiades were held from 1928 to 1937. Later Spartakiads were organized as national sport events of the Eastern Bloc ...
.
Young Pioneers Stadium was constructed between 1932 and 1934.
For the 1956 Spartakiad, four venues were constructed, most notably Central Lenin Stadium Grand Arena (now Luzhniki Stadium) in 1956. The Canoeing and Rowing Basin was constructed in 1973 for the
European Rowing Championships
The European Rowing Championships is an international Rowing regatta organised by FISA (the International Rowing Federation) for European rowing nations, plus Israel which, though not a member of the European federation is treated as a European ...
.
Moscow first bid for the
Olympic Games
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in 1970 for the
1976 Summer Olympics
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, losing out to
Montreal, Quebec
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.
[Aldaver.com IOC voting history: 1896-2016.]
Accessed 21 November 2010. Four years later, it beat out
Los Angeles
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for the 1980 Summer Games.
One of the new venues constructed was the cycling circuit at the Krylatskoye Sports Circuit that was the first permanent venue for road cycling.
Plans to build some of the venues used for the 1980 Games were in place in 1971 with expected completion to be in 1990, a year before the fall of the Soviet Union.
[1980 Summer Olympics official report.]
Volume 2. Part 1. p. 42. Accessed 21 November 2010. These were done in six different venues and the new venues were completed by 1979.
During the Olympics
The
men's individual road race cycling event featured the largest margin of victory in the event since
1928
Events January
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when gold medalist
Sergei Sukhoruchenkov of the
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...
pulled away from the pack with remaining though that event was an individual time trial event. At the Olimpiysky Sports Complex Swimming Pool during the
men's springboard diving final, the noise of the
men's 100 m butterfly which was going on at the same time, created issues during one Soviet diver
Aleksandr Portnov's dives.
[Wallechinsky, David and Jaime Loucky (2008). "Diving: Men's Springboard". In ''The Complete Book of the Olympics: 2008 Edition''. London: Aurum Press Limited. p. 542.] Portnov turned a two-and-a-half backward somersault into a belly flop.
He protested immediately, was awarded as redive which he did perfectly and won gold.
Similar protests from divers representing
East Germany
East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state ...
,
Italy
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, and
Mexico
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followed, but they were disallowed.
This resulted in protests outside of the Soviet Embassy in
Mexico City
Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America. One of the world's alpha cities, it is located in the Valley o ...
because of the decision.
Luzhniki hosted the football final that was held for the third straight Olympics in a rainstorm. In that final,
Czechoslovakia
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defeated East Germany 1–0 in a game that had four cautions and two expulsions.
After the Olympics
Moscow hosted the
World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
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in
1981
Events January
* January 1
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** Palau becomes a self-governing territory.
* January 10 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensiv ...
. The city also hosted the
World Amateur Boxing Championships
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eight years later.
Following the 1991
dissolution of the Soviet Union
The dissolution of the Soviet Union, also negatively connoted as rus, Разва́л Сове́тского Сою́за, r=Razvál Sovétskogo Soyúza, ''Ruining of the Soviet Union''. was the process of internal disintegration within the Sov ...
, the erstwhile Olympic venues were divided between four of the new states. The regatta in Tallinn was now in
Estonia
Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...
,
Dynama Stadium in Minsk was now in
Belarus
Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known as Byelorussia (from Russian ). officially the Republic of Belarus,; rus, Республика Беларусь, Respublika Belarus. is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by R ...
, and the Kiev Republican Stadium is called
Olimpiyskiy National Sports Complex
The Olympic National Sports Complex (also known as Olympic Stadium; uk, Національний спортивний комплекс "Олімпійський", translit=Natsionalnyi sportyvnyi kompleks "Olimpiiskyi") is a multi-use sports ...
in
Ukraine
Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...
.
Luzhniki Stadium, then as Grand Lenin Stadium, had a
human crush
Crowd collapses and crushes are catastrophic incidents that can occur when a body of people becomes dangerously overcrowded. When a body of people reaches or exceeds the density of , the pressure on each individual can cause the crowd to collapse ...
disaster on 20 October 1982 during a second round
UEFA Cup
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football match between
FC Spartak Moscow
FC Spartak Moscow (russian: Футбольный клуб «Спартак» Москва, Futbolʹnyy klub «Spartak» Moskva, ) is a Russian professional football club based in Moscow. Having won 12 Soviet championships (second only to Dyna ...
and
HFC Haarlem of the
Netherlands
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. The disaster has since become known as the
Luzhniki disaster
The Luzhniki disaster was a deadly human crush that took place at the Grand Sports Arena of the Central Lenin Stadium (russian: Большая спортивная арена Центрального стадиона им. В. И. Ленина ...
. Luzhniki served as host for the
World Championships in Athletics
The World Athletics Championships (until 2019 known as the World Championships in Athletics) are a biennial athletics competition organized by World Athletics (formerly IAAF, International Association of Athletics Federations). Alongside the Ol ...
in
2013
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. In December 2010, Russia was awarded the
2018 FIFA World Cup
The 2018 FIFA World Cup was the 21st FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial world championship for men's national Association football, football teams organized by FIFA. It took place in Russia from 14 June to 15 July 2018, after the country was awa ...
with Luzhniki and Dynamo Grand Stadium being proposed as venues for the Cup.
The Moscow Canoeing and Rowing Basin served as host for the
ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
The ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships are an international event in canoe racing, one of two Summer Olympic sport events organized by the International Canoe Federation (the other being the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships). The World Cham ...
2014
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.
ICF Bidding Questionnaire: 2014 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships Moscow.
Accessed 21 November 2010.
References
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