The Olympic Games of summer 1980 , Plays of XXIIe Olympiad of the modern era, were celebrated with Moscow, in Russia.

Organization

• Cities candidates: Los Angeles (the United States)

Striking facts

• Following the Boycott launched on the initiative of the the United States of America in order to express against the invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union, only 80 countries - that is to say the weakest figure of the participation since 1956 - took share with the Plays of Moscow

• Aleksandr Dityakin gained a medal in each test of gymnastics, becoming thus the only athlete to obtain eight medals during the same edition of the Plays.

Sports and disciplines

• Athletics, to see detailed results
• Oar, to see detailed results
• Basketball, to see detailed results
• Boxing, to see detailed results
• Canoe, to see detailed results
• Cycling, to see detailed results
• Fencing, to see detailed results
• Football, to see detailed results
• Gymnastic, to see detailed results
• Haltérophilie, to see detailed results
• Handball, to see detailed results
• Field hockey, to see detailed results
• Judo, to see detailed results
• Fight, to see detailed results
• Swimming, to see detailed results
• modern Pentathlon, to see detailed results
• equestrian Sports, to see detailed results
• Shooting, to see detailed results
• Shooting with the arc, to see detailed results
• Veil, to see detailed results
• Volley ball, to see detailed results
• Water polo, to see detailed results

80 delegations

Medals

See too

• Olympic Games

• Olympic Games of summer

External bond

The page of the Moscow Olympic Games on the official site of the CIO.

• http://80.ruz.net Moscow - 80

Simple: 1980 Summer Olympics

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