1980 Summer Olympics / Participant (Ireland)

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Ireland took part in the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow with a delegation of 47 athletes (44 men and 3 women) in 38 competitions in eleven sports.

David Wilkins and James Wilkinson secured silver medal in sailing in the Flying Dutchman boat class , while boxer Hugh Russell won the bronze flyweight medal the only other medal for Ireland at the Games.

Participants by sport

Archery

Men

• Willie Swords

  Singles: 31st place

• Jim Conroy

  Singles: 37th place

Women

• Hazel Greene-Pereira

  Individual: 19th place

Boxing

• Gerry Hawkins

  Light flyweight: eliminated in the round of 16

• Hugh Russell

  Flyweight: bronze

• Phil Sutcliffe

  Bantamweight: eliminated in the 1st round

• Barry McGuigan

  Featherweight: eliminated in the second round

• Seán Doyle

  Lightweight: eliminated in the last sixteen

• Martin Brerton

  Light welterweight: eliminated in the 1st round

• PJ Davitt

  Welterweight: eliminated in the 1st round

Judo

• Alonzo Henderson

  Lightweight: eliminated in the last sixteen

• Dave McManus

  Light middleweight: eliminated in the hope round

canoe

• Declan Burns

  Single kayak 500 m: eliminated in the quarterfinals

• Ian Pringle

  Single kayak 1000 m: eliminated in the quarterfinals

athletics

Men

• Ray Flynn

  1500 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Eamonn Coghlan

  5000 m: 4th place

• Mick O'Shea

  5000 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

• John Treacy

  5000 m: 7th place

  10,000 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Richard Hooper

  Marathon: 38th place

• Patrick Hooper

  Marathon: 42nd place

• Seán Egan

  Hammer throw: 16th place

Modern pentathlon

• Jerome Hartigan

  Singles: 39th place

  Team: 12th place

• Sackville Currie

  Singles: 42nd place

  Team: 12th place

• Mark Hartigan

  Individual: 43rd place

  Team: 12th place

Cycling

• Billy Kerr

  Road race: 41st place

• Stephen Roche

  Road race: 45th place

• Tony Lally

  Road Race: Race not finished

rowing

Men

• Pat Gannon

  Two without a helmsman: 7th place

• Willie Ryan

  Two without a helmsman: 7th place

• Denis Rice

  Two with a helmsman: 11th place

• Christy O'Brien

  Two with a helmsman: 11th place

• Liam Williams

  Two with a helmsman: 11th place

• Iain Kennedy

  Four with helmsman: 11th place

• Patrick McDonagh

  Four with helmsman: 11th place

• Ted Ryan

  Four with helmsman: 11th place

• Davey Gray

  Four with helmsman: 11th place

• Noel Graham

  Four with helmsman: 11th place

Women

• Frances Cryan

  One: 7th place

shoot

• Ken Stanford

  Rapid fire pistol 25 m: 33rd place

  Free pistol 50 m: 25th place

• Thomas Hewitt

  Trap: 11th place

• Albert Thompson

  Skeet: 32nd place

• Nick Cooney

  Skeet: 41st place

swim

Men

• Kevin Williamson

  200 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

  400 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

• David Cummins

  200 m back: eliminated in the preliminary run

  100 m butterfly: eliminated in the preliminary run

  200 m butterfly: eliminated in the preliminary run

Women

• Catherine Bohan

  100 m chest: eliminated in the preliminary run

  200 m chest: eliminated in the preliminary run

  400 m individual medley: eliminated in the preliminary run

sailing

• David Wilkins

  Flying Dutchman: silver

• James Wilkinson

  Flying Dutchman: silver

Web links

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