Liberty Bell Classic

For the baseball tournament, see Liberty Bell Classic (baseball).

The Liberty Bell Classic was a 1980 track and field athletics event organized by The Athletics Congress as part of the 1980 Olympic boycott and held at Franklin Field in Philadelphia on July 16 and 17, 1980.^[1] It was named after Philadelphia's Liberty Bell.

The U.S. Congress voted $10 million to fund "alternative Olympics" in several Olympic sports, to which athletes from boycotting countries would be invited.^[1] Besides the Liberty Bell Classic, the U.S. Gymnastics Federation held an "International Invitational" in Hartford, Connecticut. Earlier in the year, the United States had considered holding other games in Côte d'Ivoire, Italy, Japan, West Germany or China.^[2]

The IAAF prohibited any official track and field meets that would clash with the Olympic meet, and so the Liberty Bell began three days before the Moscow Games opened (ten days before the Olympic athletics events began).^[1] The Liberty Bell came the day after the prestigious Bislett Games in Oslo and many eligible athletes declined to compete, including 17 of the 34 champions at the US Olympic Trials.^[1] However, the winning performances in two events (men's 110 m hurdles and 400 m hurdles) were better than those in Moscow.

Participants

Athletes from 29 countries participated in the event, many of which had taken part in the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics, including:

Medal summary

Athletics

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 meters	Mel Lattany United States (USA)	10.31	Harvey Glance United States (USA)	10.31	Willie Gault United States (USA)	10.33
200 meters	James Butler United States (USA)	20.65	Fred Taylor United States (USA)	20.66	Desai Williams Canada (CAN)	20.92
400 meters	Billy Konchellah Kenya (KEN)	45.59	Hassan El Kachief Sudan (SUD)	45.60	Bill Green United States (USA)	45.79
800 meters	Don Paige United States (USA)	1:47.19	Omer Khalifa Sudan (SUD)	1:47.27	Randy Wilson United States (USA)	1:48.03
1500 meters	Steve Scott United States (USA)	3:40.19	Omer Khalifa Sudan (SUD)	3:40.34	Mike Durkin United States (USA)	3:41.40
5000 meters	Kip Rono Kenya (KEN)	13:37.52	Hillary Tuwei Kenya (KEN)	13:45.77	Greg Duhaime Canada (CAN)	13:45.77
110 meter hurdles	Renaldo Nehemiah United States (USA)	13.31	Tonie Campbell United States (USA)	13.68	Hans-Gerd Klein West Germany (FRG)	13.94
400 meter hurdles	James Walker United States (USA)	48.6	David Lee United States (USA)	49.1	Bart Williams United States (USA)	50.0
4 × 100 meter relay	United States (USA)	38.61	Canada (CAN)	39.54	Thailand (THA)	41.29
4 × 400 meter relay	United States (USA)	3:03.20	Kenya (KEN)	3:05.72	Sudan (SUD)	3:04.76
High jump	Benn Fields United States (USA)	2.26 m	Nat Page United States (USA)	2.26 m	Dietmar Mögenburg West Germany (FRG) Carlo Thränhardt West Germany (FRG)	2.22 m
Long jump	Larry Myricks United States (USA)	8.20 m	Larry Doubley United States (USA)	7.95 m	Carl Lewis United States (USA)	7.77 m
Triple jump	Zhou Zhenxian China (CHN)	16.90 m	Greg Caldwell United States (USA)	16.75 m	Steve Hanna Bahamas (BAH)	16.42 m
Pole vault	Tom Hintnaus United States (USA)	5.50 m	Steve Lawry United States (USA)	5.33 m	Zhang Cheng China (CHN)	5.18 m
Shot put	Youssef Nagui Asaad Egypt (EGY)	19.69 m	Ian Pyka United States (USA)	19.58 m	only two competitors entered
Discus throw	Ben Plucknett United States (USA)	61.46 m	Al Oerter United States (USA)	60.76 m	Alwin Wagner West Germany (FRG)	59.48 m
Javelin throw	Shen Maomao China (CHN)	89.12 m	Tom Petranoff United States (USA)	84.56 m	Gheorghe Megelea Canada (CAN)	79.24 m
Hammer throw	Scott Neilson Canada (CAN)	72.62 m	Boris Djerassi United States (USA)	71.34 m	Andy Bessette United States (USA)	69.08 m
Decathlon	Bobby Coffman United States (USA)	8058	Lee Palles United States (USA)	8009	Wang Kangqiang China (CHN)	7015

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 meters	Chandra Cheeseborough United States (USA)	11.27	Jeanette Bolden United States (USA)	11.41	Karen Hawkins United States (USA)	11.43
200 meters	Angella Taylor Canada (CAN)	22.77	Chandra Cheeseborough United States (USA)	22.84	Karen Hawkins United States (USA)	23.41
400 meters	Gwen Gardner United States (USA)	52.04	Charmaine Crooks Canada (CAN)	52.33	Roberta Belle United States (USA)	52.34
800 meters	Yvonne Mondesire Canada (CAN)	2:02.34	Robin Campbell United States (USA)	2:02.53	Ann Mackie-Morelli Canada (CAN)	2:02.63
1500 meters	Mary Decker United States (USA)	4:00.87	Julie Brown United States (USA)	4:10.37	Francie Larrieu United States (USA)	4:10.39
100 meter hurdles	Stephanie Hightower United States (USA)	13.08	Benita Fitzgerald United States (USA)	13.17	Esther Rot Israel (ISR)	13.20
4 × 100 meter relay	United States (USA)	44.57	West Germany (FRG)	45.26	Thailand (THA)	46.90
4 × 400 meter relay	United States (USA)	3:32.69	Canada (CAN)	3:33.50
High jump	Zheng Dazhen China (CHN)	1.92 m	Brigitte Reid Canada (CAN)	1.84 m	Paula Girven United States (USA)	1.80 m
Long jump	Kathy McMillan United States (USA)	6.65 m	Carol Lewis United States (USA)	6.60 m	Shonel Ferguson Bahamas (BAH)	6.48 m
Shot put	Shen Lijuan China (CHN)	17.09 m	Ann Turbyne United States (USA)	16.24 m	Lu Cheng China (CHN)	15.98 m
Discus throw	Xie Jianhua China (CHN)	56.56 m	Lucette Moreau Canada (CAN)	55.20 m	Lorna Griffin United States (USA)	53.52 m
Javelin throw	Laurie Kern Canada (CAN)	57.42 m	Tang Guoli China (CHN)	55.30 m	Li Baolian China (CHN)	54.94 m
Pentathlon	Diane Konihowski Canada (CAN)	4640	Marlene Harmon United States (USA)	4346	Linda Waltman United States (USA)	4314

References

Sources

Citations

1 2 3 4 Marshall, Joe (28 July 1980). "...and meanwhile in Philadelphia". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved 3 August 2016.
↑ Secret US plot to steal Moscow's Olympic flame, Daily Telegraph

Olympic Games scandals and controversies

Boycotts	1936 1956 1964 1976 1980 1984 1988

Alternative competitions	Intercalated Games (1906) People's Olympiad (1936) Games of the New Emerging Forces (1963) Liberty Bell Classic (1980) Friendship Games (1984) Goodwill Games (1986–2001)

Events	Football match between Peru and Austria (1936) "Blood in the Water" water-polo match (1956) Tlatelolco massacre (1968) Black Power salute (1968) Munich massacre (1972) Basketball gold-medal match controversy (1972) Kozakiewicz's gesture (1980) Centennial Olympic Park bombing (1996) Winter Olympic bid scandal (1998) Figure-skating judging scandal (2002) Underage gymnasts controversy (2008) Death of Nodar Kumritashvili (2010) Quadruple jump controversy (2010) One minute of silence campaign (2012) LGBT rights protests (2014) Sochi Ladies' singles judging controversy (2014) Ireland Summer Olympics ticket scandal (2016) Lochtegate (2016) Rule 40 (2016)

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