1980 Dakar Rally also known as the 1980 Paris-Dakar Rally was the 2nd running of the Dakar Rally

Dakar Rally

The Dakar Rally is an annual rally raid type of off-road automobile race, organised by the Amaury Sport Organisation...

 event. The 1980 event saw vehicle manufacturers, such as Yamaha, Volkswagen, Lada and BMW, taking part, and the introduction of a category for trucks.

216 competitors started the rally. Cyril Neveu won for the second time in succession on a Yamaha. Kotulinsky and Patrick Zaniroli won the car class.

Stages

Stage	Date	From	To	Total (km)
1	1 January	Paris Paris Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...	Olivet Olivet, Loiret Olivet is a commune in the Loiret department in north-central France.-Geography:Olivet is located in the septentrional bend of the Loire, which crosses from east to west. Olivet belongs to the vallée de la Loire sector between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes-sur-Loire, which was in 2000 inscribed by...
2	2 January	Olivet Olivet, Loiret Olivet is a commune in the Loiret department in north-central France.-Geography:Olivet is located in the septentrional bend of the Loire, which crosses from east to west. Olivet belongs to the vallée de la Loire sector between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes-sur-Loire, which was in 2000 inscribed by...	Marseille Marseille Marseille , known in antiquity as Massalia , is the second largest city in France, after Paris, with a population of 852,395 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Marseille extends beyond the city limits with a population of over 1,420,000 on an area of...
	3–5 January	Transportation to Africa
3	6 January	Algiers Algiers ' is the capital and largest city of Algeria. According to the 1998 census, the population of the city proper was 1,519,570 and that of the urban agglomeration was 2,135,630. In 2009, the population was about 3,500,000...	In Salah In Salah Historical weather records for In Salah: -External links:* *...	957
4	7 January	In Salah	Reggane Reggane Reggane from berber argan is a town in the Adrar Province of central Algeria, in the Sahara Desert. It is the southernmost town of the Tuat....	270
5	8 January	Reggane	Bordj Badji Mokhtar	630
6	9 January	Bordj Badji Mokhtar	Gao Gao Gao is a town in eastern Mali on the River Niger lying ESE of Timbuktu. Situated on the left bank of the river at the junction with the Tilemsi valley, it is the capital of the Gao Region and had a population of 86,663 in 2009....	675
	10 January	Rest day in Gao
7	11 January	Gao	Mopti Mopti Mopti is a city at the confluence of the Niger and the Bani in Mali, between Timbuktu and Ségou. The city lies on three islands linked by dykes: the New Town, the Old Town and Medina Coura. As a result it is sometimes known as the "Venice of Mali".-History:The city of Mopti derives its name from...	595
8	12 January	Mopti	Niono Niono Niono is a town and commune located in the Ségou Region of Mali. It is the seat of the Niono Cercle. As of 2004 there are approximately 50,000 inhabitants in the commune, while the town itself measures some 4,900 people. The town is the capital of Niono Cercle, one of six subdivisions of Segou...
9	13 January	Niono	Tombouctou Tombouctou Tombouctou may be:* Tombouctou Region in northern Mali* The French name for the city of Timbuktu, which gives its name to the region...	570
10	14 January	Tombouctou	Gao	424
11	15 January	Gao	Bobo-Dioulasso Bobo-Dioulasso Bobo-Dioulasso is a city with a population of about 435,543 , the second largest city in Burkina Faso, Africa, after Ouagadougou, the nation's capital. The name means literally, "home of the Jula who speak Bobo," and is possibly a creation of the French who misunderstood the identity complexities...	1300
12	16 January	Bobo-Dioulasso	Kolokani Kolokani Kolokani is a town of approximately 13,000 inhabitants in Mali's Koulikoro Region.It is the capital of the Cercle of Kolokani, which consists of 10 rural communes . The cercle of Kolokani has an area of 14,380 km² and a population of 163,886 inhabitants....	120
	17 January	Rest day in Kolokani
13	18 January	Kolokani	Nioro du Sahel Nioro du Sahel Nioro du Sahel often referred to as simply Nioro is a town and commune in the Kayes Region of western Mali, 241 km from the city of Kayes. It is located 275 miles north-west of the capital Bamako...	280
14	19 January	Nioro du Sahel	Kayes Kayes Kayes is a city in western Mali on the Sénégal River, with a population of roughly 100,000 people. Kayes is the capital of the administrative region of the same name. The name "Kayes" comes from the Soninké word "karré", which describes a low humid place that floods in rainy season...	247
15	20 January	Kayes	Bakel Bakel, Senegal Bakel is a town of approximately 15,000 inhabitants located in the eastern part of Senegal, West Africa. The town is located along the Sénégal River, from the Malian border and linked by canoe ferry to the town of Gouray, Mauritania. It is one of the three departmental capitals in the region of...	68
16	21 January	Bakel	Linguère Linguère - Transport :The town was the terminus of a branch railway. The Train Station is now in ruins and the tracks are non-existent as they have been ripped up and used by locals as part of fences.- Infrastructure :...	370
17	22 January	Linguère	Lompoul	87
18	23 January	Lompoul	Dakar Dakar Dakar is the capital city and largest city of Senegal. It is located on the Cap-Vert Peninsula on the Atlantic coast and is the westernmost city on the African mainland...	120