Greece competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR. Greek athletes have competed in every Summer Olympic Games. Of the five nations that have been to every Summer Games (the others being Australia, Britain, France and Switzerland), Greece was the only one to compete under its national flag at Moscow, as the other five and several other nations competed under the Olympic flag (New Zealand flew the flag of the New Zealand Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association) in protest of the USSR's involvement in the Afghan Civil War.
Medalists
Gold Stelios Mygiakis – Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Featherweight
Bronze Georgios Khatziioannidis – Wrestling, Men's freestyle Featherweight Tasos Boudouris, Tasos Gavrilis and Aristidis Rapanakis – Sailing, Men's Soling Team Competition
Results by event
Athletics Men's 100 metres Lambros Kefalas Heat – 10.70 Quarterfinals – 10.62 (→ did not advance)
Men's 200 metres Nikolaos Angelopoulos Heat – 21.98 (→ did not advance)
Men's Marathon Michael Koussis Final – 2:18:02 (→ 20th place)
Men's 20 km Walk Aristidis Karageorgos Final – 1:36:53.4 (→ 15th place)
Men's 50 km Walk Aristidis Karageorgos Final – 4:24:36 (→ 12th place)
Men's Long Jump Dimitrios Delifotis Qualification – 7.74 m (→ did not advance)
Women's Long Jump Maroula Lambrou Qualifying Round – 6.37 m (→ did not advance, 15th place)
Women's Javelin Throw Sofia Sakorafa Qualification – no mark (→ did not advance)
Water polo
Men's team competition Preliminary Round (Group A) Lost to Netherlands (7–8) Lost to Romania (4–6) Lost to Hungary (5–8) Final Round (Group B) Defeated Sweden (9–5) Defeated Bulgaria (6–4) Lost to Australia (2–4) Lost to Italy (3–4) Lost to Romania (8–11) → 10th place Team Roster Ioannis Vossos Thomas Karalogos Sotirios Stathakis Spyros Kapralos Kiriakos Giannopoulos Aris Kefalogiannis Ioannis Garifallos Andreas Gounas Antonios Aronis Markellos Sitarenios Ioannis Giannouris
Weightlifting Heavyweight (100–110 kg) Dimitrios Zarzavatsidis
Bantamweight (–56 kg) Ioannis-Sidiropoulos
Flyweight (–52 kg) Ioannis Katsaidonis
Middle Heavyweight (82.5–90 kg) Nikos Iliadis
Lightweight (60–67.5 kg) Pavlos Lespouridis
Wrestling
Greco-Roman Light-Heavyweight (82–90 kg) Georgios Pozidis
Greco-Roman Heavyweight (90–100 kg) Georgios Pozidis
Greco-Roman Flyweight (48–52 kg) Charalambos Cholidis
Freestyle Featherweight (57–62 kg) Georgios Khatziioannidis – Bronze Medal
Greco-Roman Featherweight (57–62 kg) Stelios Mygiakis – Gold Medal
Sailing
Triplehanded Keelboat Aristidis Rapanakis – Bronze Medal Anastasios Gavrilis – Bronze Medal Tasos Bountouris – Bronze Medal
Singlehanded Dinghy (Finn Class) Ilias Khatzipavlis
Shooting
Mixed Skeet Petros Pappas Rodolfos Georgios-Alexakosalso competed at the 1984 Olympics
Mixed 50m Rifle, Prone Athanasios Papageorgiou
Rowing
Coxless Pairs Georgios Kourkoumbas Nikolaos Ioannidis
Single Sculls Kostas Kontomanolis
References
sports-reference Official Olympic Reports International Olympic Committee results database