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from 21 to 29 July 1980.

Qualification

* Notes: :1. United States was the 1979 NORCECA Championship runners-up (champions Cuba, were already qualified as World champions), but together with China (1979 Asian champion), Japan (1976 Olympic champion) and other countries, boycotted the games. :2. Brazil, Bulgaria and Hungary replaced China, Japan and the United States.

Format

The tournament was played in two different stages. In the (first stage), the eight participants were divided into two pools of four teams. A single round-robin format was played within each pool to determine the teams position in the pool. The (second stage) was played in a single elimination format, where the preliminary round two highest ranked teams in each group advanced to the semifinals and the two lowest ranked teams advanced to the 5th–8th place semifinals.

Pools composition

Rosters

Venues

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* Druzhba Multipurpose Arena,