1980 Summer Olympics torch relay

none 1980 Summer Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Russia) Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Soviet Union (now Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus, Estonia, Russia) 5000 km 5,435 June 19, 1980 July 19, 1980 Boris Tutschin Paal J Kahrs Arkitekter AS The 1980 Summer Olympics torch relay was run from June 19, 1980 until July 19, 1980 prior to the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. The route covered around 5000 km and involved over 5,435 torchbearers. Basketball player and Olympic champion Sergei Belov lit the cauldron at the opening ceremony.Olympic Games 1980 Moscow http://www.olympic-museum.de/torches/olympic-games-torch-1980.php Olympic Games Museum Olympic-museum.de 6 April 2019 Route RouteMapOlympia Patras Corinth Athens Thebes Larissa Veria Thessaloniki SerresGreece 500 center Greece Olympia left Olympia, Greece 37.63 21.629 Greece Patras left Patras 38.24 21.73 Greece Corinth left Corinth (modern city) 37.94 22.93 Greece Athens Athens 37.98 23.73 Greece Thebes Thebes, Greece 38.32 23.32 Greece Larissa Larissa 39.64 22.42 Greece Veria left Veria 40.52 22.21 Greece Thessaloniki Thessaloniki 40.63 22.94 Greece Serres Serres 41.09 23.54Blagoevgrad Sofia Plovdiv Shipka Veliko Tarnovo Pleven RuseBulgaria 500 center Bulgaria Blagoevgrad Blagoevgrad 42.02 23.09 Bulgaria Sofia Sofia 42.69 23.32 Bulgaria Plovdiv Plovdiv 42.14 24.75 Bulgaria Shipka Shipka (town) 42.71 25.33 Bulgaria Veliko Tarnovo Veliko Tarnovo 43.08 25.63 Bulgaria Pleven Pleven 43.42 24.6 Bulgaria Ruse Ruse, Bulgaria 43.85 25.96Giurgiu Bucharest Ploiești Buzău Bacău Roman IașiRomania 500 center Romania Giurgiu Giurgiu 43.89 25.97 Romania Bucharest Bucharest 44.43 26.10 Romania Ploiești left Ploiești 44.94 26.02 Romania Buzău Buzău 45.15 26.82 Romania Bacău Bacău 46.56 26.91 Romania Roman left Roman, Romania 46.93 26.93 Romania Iași Iași 47.16 27.59Leușeni Chișinău Bălți Chernivtsi Khmelnytskyi Vinnytsia Zhytomyr Kiev Lubny Poltava Chutove Raion Kharkiv Belgorod Kursk Kromy Orel Tula Serpukhov Podolsk Moscow July 20: Offshoots of the flame taken to competition sites:Vorontsov, Oleg. "1980 Moscow Torch: The Unknown History", Journal of Olympic History, May 2002, pages 24–30. Retrieved from the Olympic World Library on 27 September 2025."The Relay", Official Report of the Organizing Committee of the Games of the XXII Olympiad, Moscow, 1980, Volume 2, pages 268–278. Retrieved from the LA84 Digital Library on 27 September 2025. Minsk Leningrad Tallinn KievEuropean USSR 500 center European USSR Leușeni left Leușeni, Hîncești 46.82 28.19 European USSR Chișinău Kiev 47 28.92 European USSR Bălți Bălți 47.78 27.92 European USSR Chernivtsi left Chernivtsi 48.29 25.94 European USSR Khmelnytskyi left Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine 49.42 26.99 European USSR Vinnytsia bottom Vinnytsia 49.23 28.47 European USSR Zhytomyr left Zhytomyr 50.25 28.66 European USSR Kiev top Kiev 50.45 30.52 European USSR Lubny top Lubny 50.01 33 European USSR Poltava left Poltava 49.59 34.55 European USSR Chutove Raion bottom Chutove Raion 49.7 35.17 European USSR Kharkiv Kharkiv 49.99 36.23 European USSR Belgorod top Belgorod 50.6 36.59 European USSR Kursk Kursk 51.7 36.16 European USSR Kromy left Kromy, Oryol Oblast 52.69 35.78 European USSR Orel Orel, Russia 52.96 36.06 European USSR Tula Tula, Russia 54.19 37.62 European USSR Serpukhov Serpukhov 54.92 37.42 European USSR Podolsk left Podolsk 55.43 37.55 European USSR Minsk Minsk 53.9 27.56 European USSR Leningrad Saint Petersburg 59.93 30.34 European USSR Tallinn Tallinn 59.44 24.75 European USSR Moscow top Moscow 55.76 37.62 References External links IOC website for 1980 torch relay Torch Relay, 1980 Summer Olympics Category:Summer Olympics torch relays