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Host City: Moskva, Soviet Union
Venue(s): Trade Union's Equestrian Complex, Bitsevsky Park, Moskva
Date Started: July 24, 1980
Date Finished: July 24, 1980
Format: 4,000 metre cross-country.
| Gold: | Anatoly Starostin |
| Silver: | Tamás Szombathelyi |
| Bronze: | Pavel Lednyov |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | T | PTS | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Danny Nightingale | 26 | Great Britain | GBR | 12:55.6 | 1,240 | |
| 2 | Pierpaolo Cristofori | 24 | Italy | ITA | 12:57.0 | 1,234 | |
| 3 | Jan Olesiński | 23 | Poland | POL | 13:00.7 | 1,225 | |
| 4 | Pavel Lednyov | 37 | Soviet Union | URS | 13:07.7 | 1,204 | |
| 5 | Janusz Pyciak-Peciak | 31 | Poland | POL | 13:07.8 | 1,204 | |
| 6 | Svante Rasmuson | 24 | Sweden | SWE | 13:14.8 | 1,183 | |
| 7 | Milan Kadlec | 21 | Czechoslovakia | TCH | 13:16.1 | 1,177 | |
| 8 | Anatoly Starostin | 20 | Soviet Union | URS | 13:17.2 | 1,174 | |
| 9 | Tibor Maracskó | 31 | Hungary | HUN | 13:18.7 | 1,171 | |
| 10 | Yevgeny Lipeyev | 22 | Soviet Union | URS | 13:25.2 | 1,150 | |
| 11 | Tamás Szombathelyi | 27 | Hungary | HUN | 13:27.6 | 1,144 | |
| 12 | Nigel Clark | 24 | Great Britain | GBR | 13:28.3 | 1,141 | |
| 13 | Jerome Hartigan | 22 | Ireland | IRL | 13:30.0 | 1,135 | |
| 14 | Sackville Currie | 24 | Ireland | IRL | 13:36.7 | 1,117 | |
| 15 | Jussi Pelli | 25 | Finland | FIN | 13:39.4 | 1,108 | |
| 16 | Gyula Galovici | 24 | Romania | ROU | 13:40.2 | 1,105 | |
| 17 | Ivar Sisniega | 22 | Mexico | MEX | 13:41.3 | 1,102 | |
| 18 | Joël Bouzou | 24 | France | FRA | 13:42.0 | 1,099 | |
| 19 | Jan Bártů | 25 | Czechoslovakia | TCH | 13:43.9 | 1,096 | |
| 20 | Mark Hartigan | 24 | Ireland | IRL | 13:44.9 | 1,093 | |
| 21 | Peter Whiteside | 28 | Great Britain | GBR | 13:48.2 | 1,081 | |
| 22 | Heikki Hulkkonen | 25 | Finland | FIN | 13:48.4 | 1,081 | |
| 23 | Alain Cortes | 28 | France | FRA | 13:49.7 | 1,078 | |
| 24 | Marek Bajan | 23 | Poland | POL | 13:52.8 | 1,069 | |
| 25 | Bohumil Starnovský | 26 | Czechoslovakia | TCH | 13:53.3 | 1,066 | |
| 26 | Robert Barrie | 28 | Australia | AUS | 13:57.9 | 1,054 | |
| 27 | Pekka Santanen | 22 | Finland | FIN | 13:58.0 | 1,051 | |
| 28 | Brian Newth | 33 | New Zealand | NZL | 14:01.1 | 1,042 | |
| 29 | George Horvath | 20 | Sweden | SWE | 14:02.1 | 1,039 | |
| 30 | László Horváth | 34 | Hungary | HUN | 14:02.7 | 1,039 | |
| 31 | Simeon Monev | 23 | Bulgaria | BUL | 14:04.4 | 1,033 | |
| 32 | Lennart Pettersson | 29 | Sweden | SWE | 14:06.1 | 1,027 | |
| 33 | Federico Galera | 27 | Spain | ESP | 14:06.7 | 1,027 | |
| 34 | José Serrano | 23 | Spain | ESP | 14:08.2 | 1,021 | |
| 35 | Dumitru Spîrlea | 29 | Romania | ROU | 14:09.3 | 1,018 | |
| 36 | Cezar Răducanu | 22 | Romania | ROU | 14:14.7 | 1,003 | |
| 37 | Nikolay Nikolov | 26 | Bulgaria | BUL | 14:17.8 | 994 | |
| 38 | Borislav Batikov | 21 | Bulgaria | BUL | 14:21.5 | 982 | |
| 39 | Paul Four | 24 | France | FRA | 14:33.1 | 946 | |
| 40 | Alexander Topay | 24 | Austria | AUT | 14:35.1 | 940 | |
| 41 | Manuel Montesinos | 22 | Spain | ESP | 14:46.4 | 907 | |
| 42 | Jens Lohmann | 24 | Mexico | MEX | 14:48.6 | 901 | |
| 43 | Helmut Wieser | 26 | Austria | AUT | 15:03.0 | 856 |