Rowing at the 1980 Summer Olympics - Men's coxless fours

Men's coxless four at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Venue	Canoeing and Rowing Basin, Krylatskoye, Moscow
Date	20–27 July
Competitors	44 from 11 nations
Medalists
01 ! Siegfried Brietzke Andreas Decker Stefan Semmler Jürgen Thiele  East Germany 02 ! Aleksey Kamkin Valeriy Dolinin Aleksandr Kulagin Vitali Eliseev  Soviet Union 03 ! John Beattie Ian McNuff David Townsend Martin Cross  Great Britain
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01 !		Siegfried Brietzke Andreas Decker Stefan Semmler Jürgen Thiele	East Germany
02 !		Aleksey Kamkin Valeriy Dolinin Aleksandr Kulagin Vitali Eliseev	Soviet Union
03 !		John Beattie Ian McNuff David Townsend Martin Cross	Great Britain

The Men's coxless four (M4-) 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.

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

The top two teams in each repechage heat qualified for the final.