1980 Summer Olympics / Participant (Belgium)

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Belgium took part in the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow with a delegation of 59 athletes (43 men and 16 women) in 51 competitions in ten sports. The only medal winner was judoka Robert Van de Walle , who won the gold medal in the light heavyweight division.

Participants by sport

Archery

Men

• Robert Cogniaux
• Willy Van Den Bossche

fencing

Men Stéphane Ganeff Thierry Soumagne

Women Micheline Borghs

Weightlifting

Men

• Giuseppe Chiapparo
• Hugo De Grauwe
• Serge Van Cottom

Judo

Men

• Robert Van de Walle

  Gold light heavyweight

canoe

Men Jacky Alders Jos Broeckx Theo Claessens Gaëtan Frys Paul Stinckens

Women Marleen Kuppens

athletics

Men Jacques Borlée Fons Brijdenbach Eddy De Leeuw Patrick Desruelles Alex Hagelsteens Karel Lismont Guy Moreau Miel Puttemans Danny Roelandt Henri Schoofs Marc Smet Rik Vandenberghe

Women Lea Alaerts Regina Berg Anne Michel Chris Soetewey Anne-Marie Van Nuffel Karin Verguts Raisin Wallez

Cycling

Men

• Jan Blomme
• Luc De Smet
• Patrick you Chau
• Diederik Foubert
• Jan Nevens
• Marc Sergeant
• Jozef Simons
• Joseph Smeets
• Ronald Van Avermaet
• Gerrit Van Gestel
• Leo Wellens
• Jan Wijnants

Wrestling

Men

• Julien Mewis
• Oscar Segers
• Jacques Van Lancker

shoot

• Gilbert Hoef
• Odette Meuter
• Christian Raynaud

swim

Men Franky De Groote

Women Brigitte Bosmans Christel Fechner Marion Michel Yolande Van der Straeten Carine Verbauwen Pascale Verbauwen

Web links

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