Kuwait at the 1980 Summer Olympics

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Kuwait at the Olympic Games
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IOC code:   KUW
1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow
Medals	Gold 0	Silver 0	Bronze 0	Total 0
Summer Olympic Games appearances
1968 • 1972 • 1976 • 1980 • 1984 • 1988 • 1992 • 1996 • 2000 • 2004

Kuwait competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR.

Contents 1 Results by event 1.1 Football (soccer) 1.1.1 Men's Team Competition 1.2 Diving 1.3 Handball 1.3.1 Men's Team Competition 1.4 Swimming 2 Reference

[edit] Results by event

[edit] Football (soccer)

[edit] Men's Team Competition

• Preliminary Round (Group B)

• Defeated Nigeria (3-1)
• Drew with Colombia (1-1)
• Drew with Czechoslovakia (0-0)

• Quarter Finals

• Lost to Soviet Union (1-2) → Eliminated

• Team Roster

• Ahmad al-Trabulsi
• Mahboub Mubarak
• Jamal al-Qabendi
• Waleed al-Mubarak
• Saed al-Houti
• Fathi Marzouq
• Abdulla al-Biloushi
• Jasem Sultan
• Mu'ayed al-Haddad
• Hamad Bohamad
• Yousef al-Suwayed
• Ahmad Hasan
• Humoud al-Shemmari
• Sami al-Hashash
• Faisal al-Daakhjl
• Abdulnabi al-Khaldi

[edit] Diving

Men's Platform

• Abdullah Mayouf

• Preliminary Round — 326.34 points (→ 23th place, did not advance)

[edit] Handball

[edit] Men's Team Competition

• Preliminary Round (Group B)

• Lost to Romania (12-32)
• Lost to Soviet Union (11-38)
• Lost to Switzerland (14-32)
• Lost to Yugoslavia (10-44)
• Lost to Algeria (17-30)

• Classification Match

• 11th/12 th place: Lost to Cuba (23-32) → 12th place

• Team Roster

• Faraj al-Mutairi
• Khalid Shahzadah
• Saleh Najem
• Fawzi al-Shuwairbat
• Jasem al-Deyab
• Ismaeel Shahzadah
• Jasem al-Qassar
• Majid al-Khamis
• Abdelaziz al-Anjari
• Mond al-Qassar
• Musa'ed al-Randi
• Khamis Bashir
• Abdullah al-Qena'i
• Ahmad al-Emran

[edit] Swimming

Men's 100m Freestyle

• Adham Hemdan

• Heats — 53,00 (→ did not advance)

Men's 200m Freestyle

• Adham Hemdan

• Heats — 2.07,51 (→ did not advance)

[edit] Reference

• Official Olympic Reports

Nations at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union

Afghanistan • Algeria • Andorra • Angola • Australia • Austria • Belgium • Benin • Botswana • Brazil • Bulgaria • Burma • Cameroon • Colombia • Congo • Costa Rica • Cuba • Cyprus • Czechoslovakia • Denmark • Dominican Republic • Ecuador • Ethiopia • Finland • France • East Germany • Great Britain • Greece • Guatemala • Guinea • Guyana • Hungary • India • Iraq • Ireland • Italy • Jamaica • Jordan • North Korea • Kuwait • Laos • Lebanon • Lesotho • Liberia • Libya • Luxembourg • Madagascar • Mali • Malta • Mexico • Mongolia • Mozambique • Nepal • Netherlands • New Zealand • Nicaragua • Nigeria • Peru • Poland • Portugal • Puerto Rico • Romania • San Marino • Sierra Leone • Senegal • Seychelles • Soviet Union • Spain • Sri Lanka • Suriname • Sweden • Switzerland • Syria • Tanzania • Trinidad‑Tobago • Uganda • Venezuela • Vietnam • Yugoslavia • Zambia • Zimbabwe