Venezuela at the 1980 Summer Olympics
IOC code	VEN
NOC	Venezuelan Olympic Committee
Website	cov.com.ve (in Spanish)
in Moscow
Competitors	37 in 7 sports
Flag bearer	Antonio Esparragoza
Medals Ranked 32nd	Gold 0 Silver 1 Bronze 0 Total 1
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
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Venezuela competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR. 37 competitors, all men, took part in 20 events in 7 sports.^[1]

• Bernardo Piñango — Boxing, Men's Bantamweight (– 54 kg)

Men's 800 metres

• William Wuycke

• Heat — 1:48.5
• Semifinals — 1:47.4 (→ did not advance)

Men's Light Flyweight (– 48 kg)

• Pedro Manuel Nieves

• First Round — Defeated Singkham Phongprathith (Laos) after referee stopped contest in first round
• Second Round — Lost to Dietmar Geilich (East Germany) on points (0-5)

Men's Flyweight (– 51 kg)

• Ramon Armando Guevara

• First Round — Defeated Nyama Narantuya (Mongolia) on points (5-0)
• Second Round — Lost to Yo Ryon-Sik (North Korea) on points (1-4)

Men's Bantamweight (– 54 kg)

• Bernardo Piñango → Silver Medal

• First Round — Bye
• Second Round — Defeated Ernesto Alguera (Nicaragua) on points (4-1)
• Third Round — Defeated Veli Koota (Finland) after diskwalification in second round
• Quarter Finals — Defeated John Siryakibbe (Uganda) after knock-out in second round
• Semi Finals — Defeated Dumitru Cipere (Romania) on points (3-2)
• Final — Lost to Juan Hernández (Cuba) on points (0-5)

Men's Featherweight (– 57 kg)

• Antonio Esparragoza

• First Round — Bye
• Second Round — Lost to Peter Joseph Hanlon (Great Britain) on points (1-4)

Men's Lightweight (– 60 kg)

• Nelson René Trujillo

• First Round — Lost to Sean Doyle (Ireland) after referee stopped contest in second round

Men's Light-Welterweight (– 63,5 kg)

• Nelson José Rodriguez

• First Round — Lost to John Munduga (Uganda) on points (1-4)

Five cyclists represented Venezuela in 1980.

Individual road race

• Jesús Torres
• Mario Medina
• Olinto Silva
• Juan Arroyo

Team time trial

• Claudio Pérez
• Olinto Silva
• Juan Arroyo
• Mario Medina

• Preliminary Round (Group A)

• Lost to Soviet Union (0-4)
• Lost to Cuba (1-2)
• Defeated Zambia (2-1)

• Quarter Finals

• Did not advance

• Team Roster

• Eustorgio Sánchez
• Ordan Aguirre
• Emilio Campos
• Pedro Acosta
• Mauro Cichero
• Robert Elie
• Alexis Peña
• Asdrubal José Sanchez
• Iker Joseba Zubizarreta
• Bernardo Añor
• Angel Castillo
• César Armando Semidey
• Rodolfo Carvajal
• Pedro Juan Febles
• Nelson José Carrero
• Juan José Vidal

Men's 100m Freestyle

• Alberto Eugenio Mestre

• Heats — 52,62 (→ did not advance)

Men's 200m Freestyle

• Jean Marc Francois Carezis

• Heats — 1.54,76 (→ did not advance)

• Rafael Vidal

• Heats — DNS

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database