Editing 1980 Summer Olympics (section)

===Gymnastics===
{{Main|Gymnastics at the 1980 Summer Olympics}}
* Soviet gymnast [[Alexander Dityatin]] won a medal in each of the eight gymnastics events, including three titles. He was the first athlete to win eight medals at an Olympics. He scored several 10s, the first perfect scores in men's gymnastics since [[1924 Summer Olympics|1924]].
* [[Nikolai Andrianov]], who had won gold on floor at both Munich and Montreal, was pipped this time by Roland Bruckner of East Germany. Andrianov retained the vault title he had won in Montreal.
* [[Zoltán Magyar]] (Hungary) retained the Olympic title on pommel horse that he had won in Montreal. He was also a three-time world champion and three-time European champion on this piece of apparatus.
* In the team competition, the USSR won the gold medal for the eighth consecutive time, continuing the "gold" series that started in 1952.
* In the women's gymnastics event finals, a Romanian gymnast medals on each piece of apparatus for the first time:
** Balance Beam – [[Nadia Comăneci]] (gold)
** Floor – [[Nadia Comăneci]] (gold)
** Uneven Bar – [[Emilia Eberle]] (silver) & [[Melita Ruhn]] (bronze)
** Vault – [[Melita Ruhn]] (bronze)
* Before the Los Angeles Olympics, the United States gymnastics federation proposed a change in the rules so that a head judge cannot interfere and meddle in the scoring of competitors.