1980 Summer Olympics / Participant (Venezuela)

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Venezuela took part in the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow with a delegation of 37 male athletes in 20 competitions in seven sports. Boxer Bernardo Piñango managed to win the only medal in bantamweight with silver.

Participants by sport

Boxing

• Pedro Nieves

  Light flyweight: eliminated in the round of 16

• Armando Guevara

  Flyweight: eliminated in the round of 16

• Bernardo Piñango

  Bantam weight: silver

• Antonio Esparragoza

  Featherweight: eliminated in the 1st round

• Nelson Trujillo

  Lightweight: eliminated in the 1st round

• Nelson Rodríguez

  Light welterweight: eliminated in the 1st round

• Elio Díaz

  Welterweight: eliminated in the 1st round

• Jackson Rivera

  Light middleweight: eliminated in the last sixteen

• Jesús Cabeza

  Middleweight: eliminated in the last sixteen

Soccer

• eliminated in the group stage

  Pedro Acosta

  Ordan Aguirre

  Bernardo Añor

  Emilio Campos

  Nelson Carrero

  Rodolfo Carvajal

  Angel de Jesus

  Mauro Cichero

  Roberto Elie

  Pedro Febles

  Alexis Peña

  Fernando Pereira

  Asdrúbal Sánchez

  Eustorgio Sánchez

  Juan José Vidal

  Iker Zubizarreta

Weightlifting

• Humberto Fuentes

  Flyweight: 11th place

athletics

• William Wuycke

  800 m: eliminated in the semi-finals

Cycling

• Jesús Torres

  Road race: 20th place

• Mario Medina

  Road race: 34th place

  Team time trial: 18th place

• Olinto Silva

  Road Race: Race not finished

  Team time trial: 18th place

• Juan Arroyo

  Road Race: Race not finished

  Team time trial: 18th place

• Claudio Perez

  Team time trial: 18th place

shoot

• Julio Jesús de las Casas

  Skeet: 11th place

• Juan Lavieri

  Skeet: 33rd place

swim

• Alberto Mestre

  100 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

  200 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Jean-Marie François

  200 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

  400 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Rafael Vidal

  100 m butterfly: eliminated in the preliminary run

  200 m butterfly: eliminated in the preliminary run

Web links

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