The men's quadruple sculls rowing competition at the 1980 Summer Olympics took place at Krylatskoye Sports Complex Canoeing and Rowing Basin, Moscow, Soviet Union. The event was held from 20 to 27 July.

Heats Winner of each heat advanced to final. The remaining teams must compete in repechage for the remaining spots in the final.

Heat One RankRowersCountryTime 1 Milan Arežina, Darko Zibar, Dragan Obradović, Nikola Stefanović 6:13.96 2 Joan Solano, Jesús González, Manuel Vera Vázquez, Julio Oliver 6:18.61 3 Reiner Modest, Per Rasmussen, Morten Espersen, Ole Bloch Jensen 6:19.28 4 Siegfried Sageder, Bruno Flecker, Rainer Holzhaider, Michael Sageder 6:19.28 5 José Cláudio Lazzarotto, Ronaldo de Carvalho, Ricardo de Carvalho, Waldemar Trombetta 6:25.84 6 Andrzej Skowroński, Zbigniew Andruszkiewicz, Ryszard Burak, Stanisław Wierzbicki 6:27.24

Heat Two RankRowersCountryTime 1 Frank Dundr, Carsten Bunk, Uwe Heppner, Martin Winter 6:01.68 2 Mincho Nikolov, Lyubomir Petrov, Ivo Rusev, Bogdan Dobrev 6:01.68 3 Christian Marquis, Jean Raymond Peltier, Charles Imbert, Roland Weill 6:11.33 4 Yuriy Shapochka, Evgeni Barbakov, Valeri Kleshnyov, Mykola Dovhan 6:14.67 5 Victor Scheffers, Jeroen Vervoort, Rob Robbers, Ronald Vervoort 6:28.25 6 Roberto Quintero, César Herrera, Nelson Simon, Horacio Cabrera 6:39.28

Repechage

Heat One RankRowersCountryTime 1 Christian Marquis, Jean Raymond Peltier, Charles Imbert, Roland Weill 5:59.54 2 Joan Solano, Jesús González, Manuel Vera Vázquez, Julio Oliver 6:00.77 3 Victor Scheffers, Jeroen Vervoort, Rob Robbers, Ronald Vervoort 6:05.19 4 Siegfried Sageder, Bruno Flecker, Rainer Holzhaider, Michael Sageder 6:16.22 5 Andrzej Skowroński, Zbigniew Andruszkiewicz, Ryszard Burak, Stanisław Wierzbicki 6:16.69

Heat Two RankRowersCountryTime 1 Yuriy Shapochka, Evgeni Barbakov, Valeri Kleshnyov, Mykola Dovhan 5:57.82 2 Mincho Nikolov, Lyubomir Petrov, Ivo Rusev, Bogdan Dobrev 6:00.78 3 Reiner Modest, Per Rasmussen, Morten Espersen, Ole Bloch Jensen 6:02.60 4 José Cláudio Lazzarotto, Ronaldo de Carvalho, Ricardo de Carvalho, Waldemar Trombetta 6:11.96 5 Roberto Quintero, César Herrera, Nelson Simon, Horacio Cabrera 6:25.64

Finals

Finals A RankRowersCountryTime Frank Dundr, Carsten Bunk, Uwe Heppner, Martin Winter 5:49.81 Yuriy Shapochka, Evgeni Barbakov, Valeri Kleshnyov, Mykola Dovhan 5:51.47 Mincho Nikolov, Lyubomir Petrov, Ivo Rusev, Bogdan Dobrev 5:52.38 4 Christian Marquis, Jean Raymond Peltier, Charles Imbert, Roland Weill 5:53.45 5 Joan Solano, Jesús González, Manuel Vera Vázquez, Julio Oliver 6:01.19 6 Milan Arežina, Darko Zibar, Dragan Obradović, Nikola Stefanović 6:10.76

Finals B RankRowersCountryTime 7 Andrzej Skowroński, Zbigniew Andruszkiewicz, Ryszard Burak, Stanisław Wierzbicki 5:58.63 8 Victor Scheffers, Jeroen Vervoort, Rob Robbers, Ronald Vervoort 6:02.58 9 Reiner Modest, Per Rasmussen, Morten Espersen, Ole Bloch Jensen 6:05.38 10 Siegfried Sageder, Bruno Flecker, Rainer Holzhaider, Michael Sageder 6:06.27 11 José Cláudio Lazzarotto, Ronaldo de Carvalho, Ricardo de Carvalho, Waldemar Trombetta 6:06.58 12 Roberto Quintero, César Herrera, Nelson Simon, Horacio Cabrera 6:16.65

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