1980 Summer Olympics / Participant (Libya)

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Libya took part in the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow , then the Soviet Union and now Russia , with 29 athletes, 27 men and 2 women, in 5 sports.

The road cyclist Nuri Kaheil carried the Libyan flag at the opening ceremony. The Libyan athletes could not win medals in 1980.

Participants by sport

Weightlifting

discipline	Men
Flyweight	Almabruk Mahmud Mahmud (15.)
Bantamweight	Ali Shalabi (17.)

athletics

discipline	Men
200 m	Ahmed Mohamed Sallouma (preliminary round)
800 m	Salem El-Margini (preliminary round)
1500 m	Marzouk Mabrouk (preliminary round)
marathon	Issa Chetoui (2:38:01 h, 44th) Enemri Najem Al-Marghani (2:42:27 h, 49th)
4 × 400 m relay	Bashir Al-Fellah , Salem El-Margini, Ahmed Mohamed Sallouma and El-Mehdi Sallah Diab (preliminary round)

Cycling

discipline	Men
Road racing	El-Munsif Ben Youssef Ali Hamid El-Aila Mohamed Ganfud Nuri Kaheil
Team time trial	Ali Hamid El-Aila Mohamed El-Kamaa Nuri Kaheil Khalid Shebani
Track cycling (sprint)	Fawzi Abdussalam
Track bike race (1000 m time trial)	Khalid Shebani

swim

discipline	Men	Women
100 m freestyle	Abdulwahab Werfeli (36th)	Nadia Fezzani (preliminary round)
100 m butterfly		Nadia Fezzani (preliminary round)
200 m freestyle		Soad Fezzani (preliminary round)
400 m freestyle		Soad Fezzani (preliminary round)
100 m back		Soad Fezzani (preliminary round)

volleyball

team	opponent	Result	Overall rank
Kamaluddin Badi Adnan El-Khuja Samid Sagar Miloud Zakka Ahmed Zoubi Awad Zakka Ahmed El-Faghei Jamal Zarugh Mustafa El-Musbah	Romania Poland Brazil Yugoslavia	0: 3 0: 3 0: 3 0: 3	10th after 3-0 against Italy

Individual evidence

1. ^ Sports Reference. Retrieved September 10, 2017 . 
2. ^ Sports Reference. Retrieved September 10, 2017 .