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Greece competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR. Greek athletes have competed in every Summer Olympic Games. Of the four nations that have been to every Summer Games (the others being Australia, Great Britain, and Switzerland), Greece was the only one to compete under its national flag at Moscow, as the other three and several other nations competed under the Olympic flag (New Zealand flew the flag of the New Zealand Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association) in protest of the USSR's involvement in the Afghan Civil War.[1][2]

Medalists

Gold

Bronze

Results by event

Athletics

Men's 100 metres

  • Heat – 10.70
  • Quarterfinals – 10.62 (→ did not advance)

Men's 200 metres

  • Heat – 21.98 (→ did not advance)

Men's Marathon

  • Final – 2:18:02 (→ 20th place)

Men's 20 km Walk

  • Final – 1:36:53.4 (→ 15th place)

Men's 50 km Walk

  • Final – 4:24:36 (→ 12th place)

Men's Long Jump

  • Qualification – 7.74 m (→ did not advance)

Women's Long Jump

  • Qualifying Round – 6.37 m (→ did not advance, 15th place)

Women's Javelin Throw

  • Qualification – no mark (→ did not advance)

Water polo

Men's Team Competition

  • Preliminary Round (Group A)
  • Lost to Netherlands (7–8)
  • Lost to Romania (4–6)
  • Lost to Hungary (5–8)
  • Final Round (Group B)
  • Defeated Sweden (9–5)
  • Defeated Bulgaria (6–4)
  • Lost to Australia (2–4)
  • Lost to Italy (3–4)
  • Lost to Romania (8–11) → 10th place
  • Team Roster

Weightlifting

Heavyweight (100–110 kg)

Bantamweight (–56 kg)

Flyweight (–52 kg)

Middle Heavyweight (82.5–90 kg)

Lightweight (60–67.5 kg)

Wrestling

Greco-Roman Light-Heavyweight (82–90 kg)

Greco-Roman Heavyweight (90–100 kg)

Greco-Roman Flyweight (48–52 kg)

Freestyle Featherweight (57–62 kg)

Greco-Roman Featherweight (57–62 kg)

Sailing

Triplehanded Keelboat

Singlehanded Dinghy (Finn Class)

Shooting

Mixed Skeet

Mixed 50m Rifle, Prone

Rowing

Coxless Pairs

Single Sculls

References

  1. ^ "Olympedia – Greece at the 1980 Summer Olympics".
  2. ^ "Olympics' Original Site in Greece Offered as the Permanent Home". The New York Times. 3 February 1980.
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greece_at_the_1980_Summer_Olympics