1980 Summer Olympics / Participant (Cuba)

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Cuba took part in the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow with a delegation of 208 athletes (175 men and 33 women) in 92 competitions in 19 sports. It was Cuba's 13th participation in the Summer Olympics.

The Cuban athletes won eight gold, seven silver and five bronze medals, placing Cuba in fourth place in the medal table. Olympic champions were the athlete María Caridad Colón in the javelin, the weightlifter Daniel Núñez in the bantamweight and the boxers Juan Bautista Hernández in the bantamweight, Ángel Herrera in the lightweight, Andrés Aldama in the welterweight, Armando Martínez in the light middleweight, José Gómez Mustelier in the middleweight and Teófilo in the heavyweight . A total of ten medals were won by the Cuban boxers. The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was Teófilo Stevenson.

Participants by sport

basketball basketball

Men
Women

Boxing Boxing

fencing fencing

Men
  • Heriberto González
    Foil: 17th place
    Epee: 38th place
    Foil team: 7th place
    Epee team: 10th place
  • Efigenio Favier
    Foil: 27th place
    Epee: 18th place
    Foil team: 7th place
    Epee team: 10th place
Women

Soccer Soccer

Weightlifting Weightlifting

Handball Handball

hockey hockey

Judo Judo

canoe canoe

Men
  • Jorge Colome
    Single kayak 500 m: eliminated in the quarterfinals
    Single kayak 1000 m: eliminated in the quarterfinals
  • José Marrero
    Two-person kayak 500 m: eliminated in the semifinals
    Two-person kayak 1000 m: 6th place
  • Reynaldo Cunill
    Two-person kayak 500 m: eliminated in the semifinals
    Two-person kayak 1000 m: 6th place

athletics athletics

Men
  • Silvio Leonard
    100 m: silver
    200 m: 4th place
    4 x 100 meter relay: eliminated in the run-up
  • Osvaldo Lara
    100 m: 5th place
    200 m: 8th place
    4 x 100 meter relay: eliminated in the run-up
  • Tomás González
    100 m: eliminated in the quarterfinals
    200 m: eliminated in the quarterfinals
    4 x 100 meter relay: eliminated in the run-up
Women

Cycling Cycling

Wrestling Wrestling

  • Leonel Perez
    Bantamweight, Greco-Roman: eliminated in the 2nd round
  • José Poll
    Light Heavyweight, Greco-Roman: 6th place
  • Arturo Díaz
    Super heavyweight, Greco-Roman: 6th place
    Super heavyweight, freestyle: 8th place
  • Luis Ocaña
    Flyweight, freestyle: eliminated in the 2nd round
  • José Ramos
    Lightweight, freestyle: eliminated in the 3rd round
  • Rafael Gomez
    Light heavyweight, freestyle: eliminated in the 3rd round

rowing rowing

Men
  • Wenceslao Borroto
    Four without a helmsman: 11th place
    Eighth with helmsman: 8th place
  • Ismael Carbonell
    Four without a helmsman: 11th place
    Eighth with helmsman: 8th place
  • Jorge Álvarez
    Four without a helmsman: 11th place
    Eighth with helmsman: 8th place
  • Francisco Mora
    Four with helmsman: 12th place
    Eighth with helmsman: 8th place
  • Juan Bueno
    Four with helmsman: 12th place
    Eighth with helmsman: 8th place
  • Juan Alfonso
    Four with helmsman: 12th place
    Eighth with helmsman: 8th place
  • Antonio Riaño
    Four with helmsman: 12th place
    Eighth with helmsman: 8th place
  • Enrique Carrillo
    Four with helmsman: 12th place
    Eighth with helmsman: 8th place

shoot shoot

  • Miguel Valdes
    Small-bore rifle three-position fight 50 m: 16th place
    Small bore rifle lying 50 m: 38th place
  • Adelso Peña
    Small bore rifle, three-position fight, 50 m: 20th place
    Small bore rifle lying 50 m: 15th place

sailing sailing

do gymnastics do gymnastics

Men
  • Casimiro Suarez
    Individual all-around: 19th place
    Floor: 15th place
    Horse jump: 12th place
    Bars: 28th place
    Horizontal bar: 6th place
    Rings: 44th place
    Pommel horse: 60th place
    Individual all-around: 7th place
  • Miguel Arroyo
    Individual all-around: 22nd place
    Floor: 61st place
    Horse jump: 25th place
    Bars: 21st place
    Horizontal bar: 26th place
    Rings: 39th place
    Pommel horse: 34th place
    Individual all-around: 7th place
  • Roberto Richards
    Individual all-around: 23rd place
    Floor: 65th place
    Horse jump: 41st place
    Bars: 6th place
    Horizontal bar: 23rd place
    Rings: 50th place
    Pommel horse: 18th place
    Individual all-around: 7th place
  • Enrique Bravo
    Individual all-around: 41st place
    Floor: 48th place
    Horse jump: 35th place
    Bars: 47th place
    Horizontal bar: 23rd place
    Rings: 58th place
    Pommel horse: 27th place
    Individual all-around: 7th place
  • Mario Castro
    Individual all-around: 46th place
    Floor: 30th place
    Horse jump: 49th place
    Bars: 24th place
    Horizontal bar: 53rd place
    Rings: 41st place
    Pommel horse: 50th place
    Individual all-around: 7th place
  • Jorge Roche
    Individual all-around: 65th place
    Floor: 61st place
    Horse jump: 65th place
    Bars: 65th place
    Horizontal bar: 65th place
    Rings: 42nd place
    Pommel horse: 42nd place
    Individual all-around: 7th place

volleyball volleyball

Men
Women

Water polo Water polo

Diving Diving

Men
Women

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Participant in the 1980 Olympic Games
Africa

Algeria  • Angola  • Ethiopia  • Benin  • Botswana  • Guinea  • Cameroon  • Kuwait  • Lesotho  • Libya  • Madagascar  • Mali  • Mozambique  • Nigeria  • Zambia  • Senegal  • Seychelles  • Sierra Leone  • Zimbabwe  • Tanzania  • Uganda  • People's Republic of the Congo

America

Brazil  • Costa Rica  • Dominican Republic  • Ecuador  • Guatemala  • Guyana  • Jamaica  • Colombia  • Cuba  • Mexico  • Nicaragua  • Peru  • Puerto Rico  • Trinidad and Tobago  • Venezuela

Asia

Afghanistan  • Burma  • India  • Iraq  • Jordan  • Laos  • Lebanon  • Mongolia  • Nepal  • North Korea  • Sri Lanka  • Syria  • Vietnam

Europe

Andorra  • Belgium  • Bulgaria  • Denmark  • GDR  • Finland  • France  • Greece  • Great Britain  • Iceland  • Ireland  • Italy  • Yugoslavia  • Luxembourg  • Malta  • Netherlands  • Austria  • Poland  • Portugal  • Romania  • San Marino  • Sweden  • Switzerland  • Soviet Union  • Spain  • Czechoslovakia  • Hungary  • Cyprus

Oceania

Australia  • New Zealand

Olympic history of Cuba
Summer:

1900  • 1904  • 1908  • 1912  • 1920  • 1924  • 1928  • 1932  • 1936  • 1948  • 1952  • 1956  • 1960  • 1964  • 1968  • 1972  • 1976  • 1980  • 1984  • 1988  • 1992  • 1996  • 2000  • 2004  • 2008  • 2012  • 2016

Winter:

no participation so far

Youth
games:
Summer:

2010  • 2014  • 2018

Winter:

no participation so far

Others:

Standard Bearer  • Medal Winner