Athletics at the Games of the XXIII Olympiad
Athletes during the men’s 400 meters event
No. of events	41
Competitors	1,273 from 124 nations
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At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, 41 events in athletics were contested. There were a total number of 1273 participating athletes from 124 countries. Women's marathon, women's 3000 meters, and women's 400 meters hurdles debuted at these Games.

Athletics at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
Wheelchair races
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Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	16	15	9	40
2	West Germany (FRG)	4	2	5	11
3	Great Britain (GBR)	3	7	6	16
4	Romania (ROU)	3	3	4	10
5	Italy (ITA)	3	1	3	7
6	Finland (FIN)	2	1	1	4
7	Mexico (MEX)	2	1	0	3
8	Morocco (MAR)	2	0	0	2
9	France (FRA)	1	1	2	4
10	Australia (AUS)	1	1	1	3
11	Portugal (POR)	1	0	2	3
12	Kenya (KEN)	1	0	1	2
13	Brazil (BRA)	1	0	0	1
	Netherlands (NED)	1	0	0	1
15	Canada (CAN)	0	2	3	5
16	Sweden (SWE)	0	2	1	3
17	Jamaica (JAM)	0	1	2	3
18	Ireland (IRL)	0	1	0	1
	Ivory Coast (CIV)	0	1	0	1
	Norway (NOR)	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	0	1
22	China (CHN)	0	0	1	1
	Nigeria (NGR)	0	0	1	1
	Spain (ESP)	0	0	1	1
Totals (24 entries)		41	41	43	125

Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Carl Lewis  United States	9.99	Sam Graddy  United States	10.19	Ben Johnson  Canada	10.22
200 metres details	Carl Lewis  United States	19.80 OR	Kirk Baptiste  United States	19.96	Thomas Jefferson  United States	20.26
400 metres details	Alonzo Babers  United States	44.27	Gabriel Tiacoh  Ivory Coast	44.54	Antonio McKay  United States	44.71
800 metres details	Joaquim Cruz  Brazil	1:43.00 OR	Sebastian Coe  Great Britain	1:43.64	Earl Jones  United States	1:43.83
1500 metres details	Sebastian Coe  Great Britain	3:32.53 OR	Steve Cram  Great Britain	3:33.40	José Manuel Abascal  Spain	3:34.30
5000 metres details	Saïd Aouita  Morocco	13:05.59 OR	Markus Ryffel  Switzerland	13:07.54	António Leitão  Portugal	13:09.20
10,000 metres details	Alberto Cova  Italy	27:47.54	Mike McLeod  Great Britain	28:06.22	Mike Musyoki  Kenya	28:06.46
110 metres hurdles details	Roger Kingdom  United States	13.20 OR	Greg Foster  United States	13.23	Arto Bryggare  Finland	13.40
400 metres hurdles details	Edwin Moses  United States	47.75	Danny Harris  United States	48.13	Harald Schmid  West Germany	48.19
3000 metres steeplechase details	Julius Korir  Kenya	8:11.80	Joseph Mahmoud  France	8:13.31	Brian Diemer  United States	8:14.06
4 × 100 metres relay details	United States (USA) Sam Graddy Ron Brown Calvin Smith Carl Lewis	37.83 WR	Jamaica (JAM) Al Lawrence Greg Meghoo Don Quarrie Ray Stewart Norman Edwards*	38.62	Canada (CAN) Ben Johnson Tony Sharpe Desai Williams Sterling Hinds	38.70
4 × 400 metres relay details	United States (USA) Sunder Nix Ray Armstead Alonzo Babers Antonio McKay Walter McCoy* Willie Smith*	2:57.91	Great Britain (GBR) Kriss Akabusi Garry Cook Todd Bennett Phil Brown	2:59.13	Nigeria (NGR) Sunday Uti Moses Ugbusien Rotimi Peters Innocent Egbunike	2:59.32
Marathon details	Carlos Lopes  Portugal	2:09:21 OR	John Treacy  Ireland	2:09:56	Charlie Spedding  Great Britain	2:09:58
20 kilometres walk details	Ernesto Canto  Mexico	1:23:13	Raúl González  Mexico	1:23:20	Maurizio Damilano  Italy	1:23:26
50 kilometres walk details	Raúl González  Mexico	3:47:26	Bo Gustafsson  Sweden	3:53:19	Sandro Bellucci  Italy	3:53:45
High jump details	Dietmar Mögenburg  West Germany	2.35 m	Patrik Sjöberg  Sweden	2.33 m	Jianhua Zhu  China	2.31 m
Pole vault details	Pierre Quinon  France	5.75 m	Mike Tully  United States	5.65 m	Earl Bell  United States	5.60 m
					Thierry Vigneron  France
Long jump details	Carl Lewis  United States	8.54 m	Gary Honey  Australia	8.24 m	Giovanni Evangelisti  Italy	8.24 m
Triple jump details	Al Joyner  United States	17.26 m	Mike Conley  United States	17.18 m	Keith Connor  Great Britain	16.87 m
Shot put details	Alessandro Andrei  Italy	21.26 m	Michael Carter  United States	21.09 m	Dave Laut  United States	20.97 m
Discus throw details	Rolf Danneberg  West Germany	66.60 m	Mac Wilkins  United States	66.30 m	John Powell  United States	65.46 m
Hammer throw details	Juha Tiainen  Finland	78.08 m	Karl-Hans Riehm  West Germany	77.98 m	Klaus Ploghaus  West Germany	76.68 m
Javelin throw details	Arto Härkönen  Finland	86.76 m	David Ottley  Great Britain	85.74 m	Kenth Eldebrink  Sweden	83.72 m
Decathlon details	Daley Thompson  Great Britain	8798 EWR	Jürgen Hingsen  West Germany	8673	Siegfried Wentz  West Germany	8412

Women

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Evelyn Ashford  United States	10.97	Alice Brown  United States	11.13	Merlene Ottey  Jamaica	11.16
200 metres details	Valerie Brisco-Hooks  United States	21.81 OR	Florence Griffith  United States	22.04	Merlene Ottey  Jamaica	22.09
400 metres details	Valerie Brisco-Hooks  United States	48.83	Chandra Cheeseborough  United States	49.05	Kathy Smallwood-Cook  Great Britain	49.42
800 metres details	Doina Melinte  Romania	1:57.60	Kim Gallagher  United States	1:58.63	Fiţa Lovin  Romania	1:58.83
1500 metres details	Gabriella Dorio  Italy	4:03.25	Doina Melinte  Romania	4:03.76	Maricica Puică  Romania	4:04.15
3000 metres details	Maricica Puică  Romania	8:35.96	Wendy Smith-Sly  Great Britain	8:39.47	Lynn Williams  Canada	8:42.14
100 metres hurdles details	Benita Fitzgerald  United States	12.84	Shirley Strong  Great Britain	12.88	Michèle Chardonnet  France	13.06
					Kim Turner  United States
400 metres hurdles details	Nawal El Moutawakel  Morocco	54.61	Judi Brown  United States	55.20	Cristieana Cojocaru  Romania	55.41
4 × 100 metres relay details	United States (USA) Alice Brown Jeanette Bolden Chandra Cheeseborough Evelyn Ashford	41.65	Canada (CAN) Angela Bailey Marita Payne Angella Taylor-Issajenko France Gareau	42.77	Great Britain (GBR) Simmone Jacobs Kathy Smallwood-Cook Beverley Goddard Heather Hunte	43.11
4 × 400 metres relay details	United States (USA) Lillie Leatherwood Sherri Howard Valerie Brisco-Hooks Chandra Cheeseborough Diane Dixon* Denean Howard*	3:18.29	Canada (CAN) Charmaine Crooks Jillian Richardson Molly Killingbeck Marita Payne Dana Wright*	3:21.21	West Germany (FRG) Heike Schulte-Mattler Ute Thimm Heide-Elke Gaugel Gaby Bußmann Nicole Leistenschneider* Christina Sussiek*	3:22.98
Marathon details	Joan Benoit  United States	2:24:52	Grete Waitz  Norway	2:26:18	Rosa Mota  Portugal	2:26:57
High jump details	Ulrike Meyfarth  West Germany	2.02 m	Sara Simeoni  Italy	2.00 m	Joni Huntley  United States	1.97 m
Long jump details	Anişoara Cuşmir-Stanciu  Romania	6.96 m	Vali Ionescu  Romania	6.81 m	Susan Hearnshaw  Great Britain	6.80 m
Shot put details	Claudia Losch  West Germany	20.48 m	Mihaela Loghin  Romania	20.47 m	Gael Martin  Australia	19.19 m
Discus throw details	Ria Stalman  Netherlands	65.36 m	Leslie Deniz  United States	64.86 m	Florenţa Crăciunescu  Romania	63.64 m
Javelin throw details	Tessa Sanderson  Great Britain	69.56 m	Tiina Lillak  Finland	69.00 m	Fatima Whitbread  Great Britain	67.14 m
Heptathlon details	Glynis Nunn  Australia	6390	Jackie Joyner  United States	6385	Sabine Everts  West Germany	6363

• * Athletes who ran in preliminary round and also received medals.