Cuba at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Sporting event delegation

Cuba at the
1980 Summer Olympics

IOC code| CUB
NOC| Cuban Olympic Committee
in Moscow
Competitors| 207 (175 men and 32 women) in 19 sports
Flag bearer | Teófilo Stevenson
Medals
Ranked 4th|

Gold

Silver

Bronze

Total

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Cuba competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union. 207 competitors, 175 men and 32 women, took part in 92 events in 19 sports.[1]

## Medalists

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### Gold

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* María Caridad Colón — Athletics, Women's Javelin Throw
* Juan Hernández — Boxing, Men's Bantamweight
* Ángel Herrera — Boxing, Men's Lightweight
* Andrés Aldama — Boxing, Men's Welterweight
* Armando Martínez — Boxing, Men's Light Middleweight
* José Gómez Mustelier — Boxing, Men's Middleweight
* Teófilo Stevenson — Boxing, Men's Heavyweight
* Daniel Núñez — Weightlifting, Men's Bantamweight

### Silver

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* Silvio Leonard — Athletics, Men's 100 metres
* Alejandro Casañas — Athletics, Men's 110 metres Hurdles
* Hipólito Ramos — Boxing, Men's Light Flyweight
* Adolfo Horta — Boxing, Men's Featherweight
* Jose Rodríguez — Judo, Men's Extra Lightweight (60 kg)
* Juan Ferrer — Judo, Men's Half Middleweight (78 kg)
* Isaac Azcuy — Judo, Men's Middleweight (86 kg)

### Bronze

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* Luis Delis — Athletics, Men's Discus Throw
* José Aguilar — Boxing, Men's Light Welterweight
* Ricardo Rojas — Boxing, Men's Light Heavyweight
* Roberto Castrillo — Shooting, Men's Skeet Shooting
* Alberto Blanco — Weightlifting, Men's 100 kg

## Athletics

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Main article: Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Men's 100 metres

* Silvio Leonard
* Heat -- 10.33
* Quarterfinals -- 10.16
* Semifinals -- 10.40
* Final -- 10.25 (→  Silver Medal)
* Osvaldo Lara
* Heat -- 10.39
* Quarterfinals -- 10.21
* Semifinals -- 10.34
* Final -- 10.43 (→ 5th place)
* Tomás González
* Heat -- 10.65
* Quarterfinals -- 10.44 (→ did not advance)

Men's 200 metres

* Silvio Leonard
* Osvaldo Lara
* Tomás González

Men's 400 metres

* Alberto Juantorena

Men's Marathon

* Radamés González
* Final -- did not finish (→ no ranking)

Men's 110 m Hurdles

* Alejandro Casañas
* Heat -- 13.46
* Semifinals -- 13.44
* Final -- 13.40 (→  Silver Medal)

Men's 4×100 metres Relay

* Osvaldo Lara, Alejandro Casañas, Silvio Leonard, and Tomás González

Men's High Jump

* Francisco Centelles
* Qualification -- 2.10 m (→ did not advance)

Men's Long Jump

* David Giralt
* Qualification -- 7.57 m (→ did not advance)

Men's Triple Jump

* Armando Herrera
* Qualification -- 16.49 m
* Final -- 15.90 m (→ 11th place)
* Alejandro Herrera
* Qualification -- no mark (→ no ranking)

Men's Discus Throw

* Luis Delís
* Qualification -- 62.20 m
* Final -- 66.32 m (→  Bronze Medal)
* José Santa Cruz
* Qualification -- 60.14 m
* Final -- 61.52 m (→ 10th place)

Men's Hammer Throw

* Armando Orozco
* Qualification -- 72.28 m
* Final Round -- 68.68 m (→ 11th place)

Women's Shot Put

* María Elena Sarría
* Final -- 19.37 m (→ 9th place)

Women's Discus Throw

* Carmen Romero
* Qualification -- 58.60 m
* Final -- 60.86 m (→ 10th place)
* María Cristina Betancourt
* Qualification -- 57.62 m (→ did not advance)

Women's Javelin Throw

* María Caridad Colón
* Qualification -- 62.42 m
* Final -- 68.40 m (→  Gold Medal)

## Basketball

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Main article: Basketball at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Men's Team Competition

* Preliminary Round (Group C)
* Defeated Australia (83-76)
* Defeated Sweden (71-59)
* Lost to Italy (72-79)
* Semi Final Round (Group A)
* Lost to Brazil (93-94)
* Lost to Yugoslavia (84-112)
* Lost to Spain (95-96)
* Lost to Soviet Union (90-109) → 6th place
* Team Roster:
* Jorge More
* Ruperto Herrera
* Alejandro Ortiz
* Noangel Luaces
* Generoso Márquez
* Raúl Duboy
* Pedro Abreu
* Miguel Calderón
* Tomás Herrera
* Daniel Scott
* Alejandro Urgelles
* Félix Morales

Women's Team Competition

* Team Roster:
* Andrea Borrell
* Barbara Becquer
* Caridad Despaigne
* Inocenta Corvea
* María de los Santos
* María Moret
* Matilde Charro
* Nancy Atiez
* Santa Margarita Skeet
* Sonia de la Paz
* Vicenta Salmon
* Virginia Pérez

## Boxing

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Main article: Boxing at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Men's Light Flyweight (48 kg)

* Hipólito Ramos →  Silver Medal
1. First Round -- Bye
2. Second Round -- Defeated Farid Salman Mahdi (Iraq) on points (5-0)
3. Quarter Finals -- Defeated György Gedó (Hungary) on points (5-0)
4. Semi Finals -- Defeated Ismail Mustafov (Bulgaria) on points (4-1)
5. Final -- Lost to Shamil Sabirov (Soviet Union) on points (2-3)

Men's Flyweight (51 kg)

* Jorge Hernández
1. First Round -- Bye
2. Second Round -- Lost to Viktor Miroshnichenko (Soviet Union) on points (1-4)

Men's Bantamweight (54 kg)

* Juan Hernández →  Gold Medal
1. First Round -- Bye
2. Second Round -- Defeated Sándor Farkas (Hungary) on points (4-1)
3. Third Round -- Defeated Ayele Mohammed (Ethiopia) after referee stopped contest in second round
4. Quarter Finals -- Defeated Geraldi Issaick (Tanzania) after referee stopped contest in first round
5. Semi Finals -- Defeated Michael Anthony (Guyana) on points (5-0)
6. Final -- Defeated Bernardo Piñango (Venezuela) on points (5-0)

Men's Featherweight (57 kg)

* Adolfo Horta →  Silver Medal
1. First Round -- Bye
2. Second Round -- Defeated Odd Bengtsson (Sweden) on points (5-0)
3. Third Round -- Defeated Titi Cercel (Romania) on points (5-0)
4. Quarter Finals -- Defeated Luis Pizarro (Puerto Rico) on points (5-0)
5. Semi Finals -- Defeated Krzysztof Kosedowski (Poland) retired
6. Final -- Lost to Rudi Fink (East Germany) on points (1-4)

Men's Lightweight (60 kg)

* Ángel Herrera →  Gold Medal
1. First Round -- Defeated Carlo Russolillo (Italy) on points (5-0)
2. Second Round -- Defeated Geza Tumbas (Yugoslavia) on points (5-0)
3. Quarter Finals -- Defeated Galsandorj Batbileg (Mongolia) on points (5-0)
4. Semi Finals -- Defeated Kazimierz Adach (Poland) on points (5-0)
5. Final -- Defeated Viktor Demyanenko (Soviet Union) after referee stopped contest in third round

Men's Light-Welterweight (63,5 kg)

* José Aguilar →  Bronze Medal
1. First Round -- Defeated Martin Brerton (Ireland) after referee stopped contest in first round
2. Second Round -- Defeated Ryu Bun-Hwa (North Korea) on points (4-1)
3. Quarter Finals -- Defeated Farouk Jawad (Iraq) after referee stopped contest in third round
4. Semi Finals -- Lost to Serik Konakbaev (Soviet Union) on points (1-4)

Men's Heavyweight (+ 81 kg)

* Teófilo Stevenson →  Gold Medal
1. First Round -- Defeated Solomon Ataga (Nigeria) after knock-out in first round
2. Quarter Finals -- Defeated Grzegorz Skrzecz (Poland) after knock-out in third round
3. Semi Finals -- Defeated István Lévai (Hungary) on points (5-0)
4. Final -- Defeated Piotr Zaev (Soviet Union) on points (4-1)

## Canoeing

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Main article: Canoeing at the 1980 Summer Olympics

## Cycling

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Main article: Cycling at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Three cyclists represented Cuba in 1980.

Individual road race

* Gregorio Aldo Arencibia
* Carlos Cardet
* Antonio Quintero

## Diving

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Main article: Diving at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Men's Springboard

* Rolando Ruiz
* Preliminary Round -- 489.24 points (→ did not advance)

## Fencing

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Main article: Fencing at the 1980 Summer Olympics

12 fencers, 8 men and 4 women, represented Cuba in 1980.

Men's foil

* Heriberto González
* Efigenio Favier
* Guillermo Betancourt

Men's team foil

* Efigenio Favier, Guillermo Betancourt, Heriberto González, Pedro Hernández

Men's épée

* Efigenio Favier
* Guillermo Betancourt
* Heriberto González

Men's team épée

* Efigenio Favier, Guillermo Betancourt, Heriberto González, Pedro Hernández

Men's sabre

* José Laverdecia
* Jesús Ortíz
* Manuel Ortíz

Men's team sabre

* Manuel Ortíz, Jesús Ortíz, José Laverdecia, Guzman Salazar

Women's foil

* Clara Alfonso
* Marlene Font
* Margarita Rodríguez

Women's team foil

* Margarita Rodríguez, Marlene Font, María Esther García, Clara Alfonso

## Football

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Main article: Football at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Men's Team Competition

* Preliminary Round (Group A)
* Defeated Zambia (1-0)
* Defeated Venezuela (2-1)
* Lost to Soviet Union (0-8)
* Quarter Finals
* Lost to Czechoslovakia (0-3)
* Team Roster
* José Reinoso
* Miguel López
* Raimundo Frometa
* Luís Sanchez
* Luís Dreke
* Roberto Espinosa
* Andres Roldan
* Amado Povea
* Dagoberto Lara
* Ramon Núñez
* Luis Hernández
* Roberto Pereira
* Regino Delgado
* Jorge Masso
* Fermín Madera[citation needed]
* Carlos Loredo

## Gymnastics

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Main article: Gymnastics at the 1980 Summer Olympics

## Handball

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Main article: Handball at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Men's Team Competition

* Preliminary Round (Group A)
* Lost to Denmark (18-30)
* Lost to Poland (19-34)
* Lost to East Germany (20-27)
* Drew with Spain (24-24)
* Lost to Hungary (22-26)
* Classification Match
* 11th/12th place: Defeated Kuwait (32-24) → 11th place
* Team Roster
* Pablo Pedroso
* Roberto Casuso
* Jesús Agramonte
* Miguel Izquierdo
* José Neninger
* Juan Llanes
* Juan Querol
* Juan Prendes
* Sabino Medina
* Roberto Zulueta
* Moisés Casales
* Ibrain Crombet
* Lázaro Jiménez
* Lázaro Pedroso

## Hockey

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Main article: Field hockey at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Men's Team Competition

* Preliminary Round
* Cuba -- Poland 1-7
* Cuba -- Soviet Union 2-11
* Cuba -- Tanzania 4-0
* Cuba -- India 0-13
* Cuba -- Spain 0-11
* Classification Match
* 5th-6th place: Cuba -- Tanzania 4-1 → 5th place
* Team Roster:
* Ángel Mora
* Severo Frometa
* Bernabé Izquierdo
* Edgardo Vázquez
* Héctor Pedroso
* Tomás Varela
* Raúl García
* Jorge Mico
* Rodolfo Delgado
* Lazaro Hernández
* Juan Blanco
* Juan Caballero
* Roberto Ramírez
* Ángel Fontane
* Ricardo Campos
* Juan Ríos

## Judo

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Main article: Judo at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Men's Extra-Lightweight

* José Rodríguez

Men's Half-Lightweight

* Héctor Rodríguez

Men's Lightweight

* Ricardo Tuero

Men's Half-Middleweight

* Juan Ferrer

Men's Middleweight

* Isaac Azcuy

Men's Half-Heavyweight

* Rolando José Tornes

## Rowing

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Main article: Rowing at the 1980 Summer Olympics

## Sailing

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Main article: Sailing at the 1980 Summer Olympics

## Shooting

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Main article: Shooting at the 1980 Summer Olympics

## Volleyball

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Main article: Volleyball at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Men's Team Competition

* Preliminary Round (Group A)
* Defeated Italy (3-0)
* Lost to Bulgaria (1-3)
* Lost to Czechoslovakia (2-3)
* Lost to Soviet Union (0-3)
* Classification Matches
* 5th/8th place: Lost to Yugoslavia (2-3)
* 7th/8th place: Defeated Czechoslovakia (3-1) → 7th place
* Team Roster
* Diego Lapera
* Víctor García
* Luis Oviedo
* Ernesto Martínez
* Ricardo Leyva
* Jorge Garbey
* Raúl Vilches
* Carlos Salas
* Antonio Pérez
* Leonel Marshall Steward, Sr.
* Carlos Ruiz
* José David

Women's Team Competition

* Preliminary Round (Group A)
* Lost to East Germany (1-3)
* Defeated Peru (3-0)
* Lost to Soviet Union (0-3)
* Classification Match
* 5th/6th place: Defeated Peru (3-1) → 5th place
* Team Roster
* Mercedes Pérez
* Imilsis Téllez
* Ana Díaz
* Mercedes Pomares
* Mavis Guilarte
* Libertad González
* Erenia Díaz
* Maura Alfonso
* Josefina Capote
* Nelly Barnet
* Ana María García
* Lucila Urgelles

## Water polo

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Main article: Water polo at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Men's Team Competition

* Preliminary Round (Group C)
* Drew with Yugoslavia (6-6)
* Defeated Australia (6-4)
* Defeated Bulgaria (7-1)
* Final Round (Group A)
* Drew with Yugoslavia (7-7)
* Drew with Netherlands (7-7)
* Lost to Soviet Union (5-8)
* Lost to Hungary (5-7)
* Lost to Spain (7-9) → 5th place
* Team Roster
* Oscar Periche
* Orlando Cowley
* Bárbaro Díaz
* Lazaro Costa
* Pedro Rodríguez
* Nelson Domínguez
* Jorge Rizo
* Arturo Ramos
* Carlos Benítez
* Gerardo Rodríguez
* Oriel Domínguez

## Weightlifting

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Main article: Weightlifting at the 1980 Summer Olympics

## Wrestling

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Main article: Wrestling at the 1980 Summer Olympics

## References

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1. ^ "Cuba at the 1980 Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17. Retrieved 2011-04-18.

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