1980 Summer Olympics / Participant (Iceland)

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Iceland participated in the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow with a delegation of nine male athletes in eleven competitions in three sports. None of the athletes managed to win a medal. The standard bearer at the opening ceremony was weightlifter Birgir Borgþórsson .

Participants by sport

Weightlifting

• Þorsteinn Leifsson

  Light heavyweight: eliminated in the 1st round

• Guðmundur Helgason

  Middle heavyweight: eliminated in the 2nd round

• Birgir Borgþórsson

  1st heavyweight: eliminated in the 1st round

Judo

• Halldór Guðbjörnsson

  Lightweight: eliminated in the last sixteen

• Bjarni Friðriksson

  Light Heavyweight: Eliminated in the quarterfinals

athletics

• Oddur Sigurðsson

  100 m: heats

  400 m: heats

• Jón Didriksson

  800 m: heats

  1500 m: heats

• Hreinn Halldórsson

  Shot put: 10th place

• Óskar Jakobsson

  Shot put: 11th place

  Discus throw: eliminated in qualification

Web links

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