Costa Rica at the 1980 Summer Olympics
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Results by event


Archery Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows.Paterson ''Encyclopaedia of Archery'' p. 17 The word comes from the Latin ''arcus'', meaning bow. Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat. In m ...

In its second archery competition at the Olympics, Costa Rica again entered two men. Men's Individual Competition: * Juan Wedel — 2146 points (→ 35th place) *
Jorge Murillo Jorge Mario Murillo Valdes is a Colombian swimmer. He competed at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships and at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. He competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics The , officially the and also known as , ...
— 2127 points (→ 36th place)


Football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...


Preliminary round (group D)

July 21, 1980 Costa Rica - Iraq 0-3 (0-1) Republican Stadium, Kyiv July 23, 1980 Yugoslavia - Costa Rica 3-2 (2-1) Dinamo Stadium, Minsk July 25, 1980 Finland - Costa Rica 3-0 (1-0) Republican Stadium, Kyiv


Final standings group D

# Yugoslavia 3 2 1 0 ( 6- 3) 5 * # Iraq 3 1 2 0 ( 4- 1) 4 * # Finland 3 1 1 1 ( 3- 2) 3 # Costa Rica 3 0 0 3 ( 2- 9) 0 * Qualified for quarter-finals


Team roster

Head coach:
Antonio Moyano Antonio Moyano Carrasquilla (born 13 July 2000) is a Spanish footballer who plays for AD Alcorcón as a central midfielder. Club career Born in Montilla, Córdoba, Andalusia, Moyano represented Córdoba CF as a youth. On 4 November 2016, aged ...


Judo is an unarmed gendai budō, modern Japanese martial art, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally.『日本大百科全書』電子版【柔道】(CD-ROM version of Encyclopedia Nipponi ...

* Ronny Sanabria * Alvaro Sanabria * Manuel Chavez


Swimming Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, or other liquid, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Locomotion is achieved through coordinated movement of the limbs and the body to achieve hydrodynamic thrust that r ...

Women's 100m Butterfly * Maria del Milagro Paris ** Final — 1.02,89 (→ 7th place)


References


Official Olympic Reports
Nations at the 1980 Summer Olympics
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