1980 Summer Olympics / Participant (Benin)

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Benin participated in the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow , USSR , with a delegation of 16 athletes (15 men and one woman).

Participants by sport

Boxing

• Firmin Abissi

  Bantamweight: 17th place

• Barthelémy Adoukonu

  Featherweight, 9th place

• Patrice Martin

  Lightweight: 17th place

• Aurélien Agnan

  Light welterweight: 17th place

• Pierre Sotoumey

  Welterweight: 17th place

• Roger Houangni

  Light middleweight: 17th place

• Étienne Loco Gbodolle

  Middleweight: 17th place

athletics

• Pascal Aho

  100 meters: heats

  200 meters: heats

• Léopold Hounkanrin

  400 meters: heats

• Adam Assimi

  800 meters: heats

• Damien Degboe

  1,500 meters: heats

• Amadou Alimi

  5,000 meters: heats

• Théophile Hounou

  Long jump: 26th place in qualification

• Henri Dagba

  Triple jump: 18th place in qualification

• Inoussa Dangou

  Javelin: 17th place in qualification

• Edwige Bancole

  Women, 100 meters: heats

Web links

• Benin Olympic team from 1980 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )