Tanzania at the 1980 Summer Olympics
From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
| Tanzania at the Olympic Games | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
||||||||||
| At the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow | ||||||||||
| Competitors | 41 (36 men and 5 women) in 3 sports | |||||||||
| Medals Rank: 28 |
Gold 0 |
Silver 2 |
Bronze 0 |
Total 2 |
||||||
| Olympic history (summary) | ||||||||||
| Summer Games | ||||||||||
|
*As Tanganyika |
||||||||||
Tanzania competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR. The nation won its first ever Olympic medals at these Games.
Contents
Medalists
Silver
- Suleiman Nyambui — Athletics, Men's 5,000 metres
- Filbert Bayi — Athletics, Men's 3,000 metres Steeplechase
Results by event
Athletics
<templatestyles src="Module:Hatnote/styles.css"></templatestyles>
Men's 100 metres
-
- Heat — 10.74 (→ did not advance)
-
- Heat — 10.86 (→ did not advance)
Men's 200 metres
-
- Heat — 21.76 (→ did not advance)
-
- Heat — 21.83 (→ did not advance)
Men's 800 metres
-
- Heat — 1:49.6
- Semifinals — 1:51.5 (→ did not advance)
Men's 5,000 metres
-
- Heat — 13:45.4
- Semi Final — 13:30.2
- Final — 13:21.6 (→ Silver Medal)
-
- Heat — 13:49.4
- Semi Final — 13:44.9 (→ did not advance)
Men's 10,000 metres
-
- Heat — 30:33.4 (→ did not advance)
-
- Heat — did not finish (→ did not advance)
-
- Heat — did not finish (→ did not advance)
Men's Marathon
-
- Final — 2:16:47 (→ 14th place)
-
- Final — 2:16:47 (→ 15th place)
-
- Final — 2:18:21 (→ 23rd place)
Men's 3,000 m Steeplechase
-
- Heat — 8:21.4
- Semifinals — 8:16.2
- Final — 8:12.4 (→ Silver Medal)
Men's Javelin Throw
-
- Qualification — 71.58 m (→ did not advance, 16th place)
Women's 100 metres
-
- Heat — 11.77 (→ did not advance)
Women's 800 metres
-
- Heat — 2:05.2 (→ did not advance)
-
- Heat — 2:11.1 (→ did not advance)
Women's 1,500 metres
-
- Heat — 4:20.9 (→ did not advance)
Boxing
<templatestyles src="Module:Hatnote/styles.css"></templatestyles>
Men's Flyweight (– 51 kg)
-
- First Round — Defeated Talal Elchawa (Syria) after referee stopped contest in second round
- Second Round — Lost to Hugh Russell (Ireland) on points (5-0)
Men's Bantamweight (– 54 kg)
-
- First Round — Bye
- Second Round — Defeated Jorge Monar (Ecuador) on points (3-2)
- Third Round — Defeated Ganapathy Manoharan (India) after referee stopped contest in second round
- Quarter Finals — Lost to Juan Hernández (Cuba) after referee stopped contest in first round
Men's Featherweight (– 57 kg)
-
- First Round — Bye
- Second Round — Lost to Barri McGuigan (Ireland) after referee stopped contest in third round
Men's Lightweight (– 60 kg)
-
- First Round — Defeated Kalervo Alanenpää (Sweden) on points (5-0)
- Second Round — Lost to Kazimierz Adach (Poland) on points (0-5)
Men's Light-Welterweight (– 63,5 kg)
-
- First Round — Bye
- Second Round — Defeated Khast Jamgan (Mongolia) on points (5-0)
- Quarter Finals — Lost to Anthony Willis (Great Britain) after knock-out in third round
Men's Light-Middleweight (– 71 kg)
-
- First Round — Bye
- Second Round — Defeated to Imad Idriss (Syria) after disqualification in third round
- Quarter Finals — Lost to Detlef Kästner (East Germany) on points (5-0)
Men's Heavyweight (+ 81 kg)
-
- First Round — Lost to Grzegorz Skrzecz (Poland) after referee stopped contest in first round
Hockey
<templatestyles src="Module:Hatnote/styles.css"></templatestyles>
Men's Team Competition
- Preliminary Round
-
- Tanzania — India 0-18
- Tanzania — Spain 0-12
- Tanzania — Cuba 0-4
- Tanzania — Soviet Union 2-11
- Tanzania — Poland 1-9
- Classification Match
-
- 5th-6th place: Tanzania — Cuba 1-4 → 6th place
- Team Roster:
