1980 Summer Olympics / Participant (Costa Rica)

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Costa Rica took part in the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow with a delegation of 29 athletes (28 men and one woman) in 18 competitions in five sports. None of the athletes managed to win a medal.

Participants by sport

Archery

Men

• Juan Wedel

  Singles: 35th place

• Jorge Murillo

  Individual: 36th place

Judo

• Ronny Sanabria

  Super lightweight: eliminated in the round of 16

• Alvaro Sanabria

  Half light weight: eliminated in the 1st round

• Manuel Chavez

  Lightweight: eliminated in the 1st round

Soccer

• eliminated in the group stage

  Carlos Jiménez

  Carlos toppings

  Dennis Marshall

  Francisco Hernández

  Herberth Quesada

  Javier Masís

  Jorge White

  Julio Morales

  Luis Fernández

  Marvin Obando

  Minor Alpízar

  Omar Arroyo

  Ricardo García

  Roger Alvarez

  William Avila

  Tomas Velásquez

shoot

• Marco Hidalgo

  Rapid fire pistol 25 m: 31st place

• Mariano Lara

  Free pistol 50 m: 26th place

• Rodrigo Ruiz

  Free pistol 50 m: 29th place

• Mauricio Alvarado

  Small bore rifle, three-position fight, 50 m: 38th place

  Small bore rifle lying 50 m: 54th place

• Roger Cartín

  Small bore rifle, three-position fight 50 m: 39th place

  Small bore rifle lying 50 m: 53rd place

• Alvaro Guardia

  Skeet: 44th place

swim

Men

• Andrey Aguilar

  200 m chest: eliminated in the preliminary run

  100 m butterfly: eliminated in the preliminary run

  200 m butterfly: eliminated in the preliminary run

  400 m individual medley: eliminated in the preliminary run

Women

• Maria París

  100 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

  100 m back: eliminated in the preliminary run

  100 m butterfly: 7th place

  200 m butterfly: eliminated in the preliminary run

Web links

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