Athletics at the 1980 Summer Paralympics consisted of 275 events.

The Games saw 1,973 Para athletes from 43 countries compete in 13 sports.

[1] The full list of sports was; archery, Para athletics, dartchery, lawn bowls, goalball, shooting Para sport, Para swimming, table tennis, sitting volleyball, weightlifting, wheelchair basketball, wheelchair fencing and wrestling.

Germany, Canada and Great Britain rounded out the top 5 on the medals chart.

[1] Bahamas, Jamaica, Kenya, Kuwait, Luxembourg, Sudan and Zimbabwe won their first ever medals in this competition.