Cuba at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Men's 100 metres

• Silvio Leonard
  • Heat — 10.33
  • Quarterfinals — 10.16
  • Semifinals — 10.40
  • Final — 10.25 (→ Silver Medal)
• Osvaldo Lara
  • Heat — 10.39
  • Quarterfinals — 10.21
  • Semifinals — 10.34
  • Final — 10.43 (→ 5th place)
• Tomás González
  • Heat — 10.65
  • Quarterfinals — 10.44 (→ did not advance)

Men's 200 metres

• Silvio Leonard
• Osvaldo Lara
• Tomás González

Men's 400 metres

• Alberto Juantorena

Men's Marathon

• Radamés González
  • Final — did not finish (→ no ranking)

Men's 110 m Hurdles

• Alejandro Casañas
  • Heat — 13.46
  • Semifinals — 13.44
  • Final — 13.40 (→ Silver Medal)

Men's 4×100 metres Relay

• Osvaldo Lara, Alejandro Casañas, Silvio Leonard, and Tomás González

Men's High Jump

• Francisco Centelles
  • Qualification — 2.10 m (→ did not advance)

Men's Long Jump

• David Giralt
  • Qualification — 7.57 m (→ did not advance)

Men's Triple Jump

• Armando Herrera
  • Qualification — 16.49 m
  • Final — 15.90 m (→ 11th place)
• Alejandro Herrera
  • Qualification — no mark (→ no ranking)

Men's Discus Throw

• Luis Delís
  • Qualification — 62.20 m
  • Final — 66.32 m (→ Bronze Medal)
• José Santa Cruz
  • Qualification — 60.14 m
  • Final — 61.52 m (→ 10th place)

Men's Hammer Throw

• Armando Orozco
  • Qualification — 72.28 m
  • Final Round — 68.68 m (→ 11th place)

Women's Shot Put

• María Elena Sarría
  • Final — 19.37 m (→ 9th place)

Women's Discus Throw

• Carmen Romero
  • Qualification — 58.60 m
  • Final — 60.86 m (→ 10th place)
• María Cristina Betancourt
  • Qualification — 57.62 m (→ did not advance)

Women's Javelin Throw

• María Caridad Colón
  • Qualification — 62.42 m
  • Final — 68.40 m (→ Gold Medal)

Men's Team Competition

• Preliminary Round (Group C)
  • Defeated Australia (83-76)
  • Defeated Sweden (71-59)
  • Lost to Italy (72-79)
• Semi Final Round (Group A)
  • Lost to Brazil (93-94)
  • Lost to Yugoslavia (84-112)
  • Lost to Spain (95-96)
  • Lost to Soviet Union (90-109) → 6th place
• Team Roster:
  • Jorge More
  • Ruperto Herrera
  • Alejandro Ortiz
  • Noangel Luaces
  • Generoso Márquez
  • Raúl Duboy
  • Pedro Abreu
  • Miguel Calderón
  • Tomás Herrera
  • Daniel Scott
  • Alejandro Urgelles
  • Félix Morales

Women's Team Competition

• Team Roster:
  • Andrea Borrell
  • Barbara Becquer
  • Caridad Despaigne
  • Inocenta Corvea
  • María de los Santos
  • María Moret
  • Matilde Charro
  • Nancy Atiez
  • Santa Margarita Skeet
  • Sonia de la Paz
  • Vicenta Salmon
  • Virginia Pérez

Men's Light Flyweight (48 kg)

• Hipólito Ramos → Silver Medal
  1. First Round — Bye
  2. Second Round — Defeated Farid Salman Mahdi (Iraq) on points (5-0)
  3. Quarter Finals — Defeated György Gedó (Hungary) on points (5-0)
  4. Semi Finals — Defeated Ismail Mustafov (Bulgaria) on points (4-1)
  5. Final — Lost to Shamil Sabirov (Soviet Union) on points (2-3)

Men's Flyweight (51 kg)

• Jorge Hernández
  1. First Round — Bye
  2. Second Round — Lost to Viktor Miroshnichenko (Soviet Union) on points (1-4)

Men's Bantamweight (54 kg)

• Juan Hernández → Gold Medal
  1. First Round — Bye
  2. Second Round — Defeated Sándor Farkas (Hungary) on points (4-1)
  3. Third Round — Defeated Ayele Mohammed (Ethiopia) after referee stopped contest in second round
  4. Quarter Finals — Defeated Geraldi Issaick (Tanzania) after referee stopped contest in first round
  5. Semi Finals — Defeated Michael Anthony (Guyana) on points (5-0)
  6. Final — Defeated Bernardo Piñango (Venezuela) on points (5-0)

Men's Featherweight (57 kg)

• Adolfo Horta → Silver Medal
  1. First Round — Bye
  2. Second Round — Defeated Odd Bengtsson (Sweden) on points (5-0)
  3. Third Round — Defeated Titi Cercel (Romania) on points (5-0)
  4. Quarter Finals — Defeated Luis Pizarro (Puerto Rico) on points (5-0)
  5. Semi Finals — Defeated Krzysztof Kosedowski (Poland) retired
  6. Final — Lost to Rudi Fink (East Germany) on points (1-4)

Men's Lightweight (60 kg)

• Ángel Herrera → Gold Medal
  1. First Round — Defeated Carlo Russolillo (Italy) on points (5-0)
  2. Second Round — Defeated Geza Tumbas (Yugoslavia) on points (5-0)
  3. Quarter Finals — Defeated Galsandorj Batbileg (Mongolia) on points (5-0)
  4. Semi Finals — Defeated Kazimierz Adach (Poland) on points (5-0)
  5. Final — Defeated Viktor Demyanenko (Soviet Union) after referee stopped contest in third round

Men's Light-Welterweight (63,5 kg)

• José Aguilar → Bronze Medal
  1. First Round — Defeated Martin Brerton (Ireland) after referee stopped contest in first round
  2. Second Round — Defeated Ryu Bun-Hwa (North Korea) on points (4-1)
  3. Quarter Finals — Defeated Farouk Jawad (Iraq) after referee stopped contest in third round
  4. Semi Finals — Lost to Serik Konakbaev (Soviet Union) on points (1-4)

Men's Heavyweight (+ 81 kg)

• Teófilo Stevenson → Gold Medal
  1. First Round — Defeated Solomon Ataga (Nigeria) after knock-out in first round
  2. Quarter Finals — Defeated Grzegorz Skrzecz (Poland) after knock-out in third round
  3. Semi Finals — Defeated István Lévai (Hungary) on points (5-0)
  4. Final — Defeated Piotr Zaev (Soviet Union) on points (4-1)

Three cyclists represented Cuba in 1980.

Individual road race

• Gregorio Aldo Arencibia
• Carlos Cardet
• Antonio Quintero

Men's Springboard

• Rolando Ruiz
  • Preliminary Round — 489.24 points (→ did not advance)

12 fencers, 8 men and 4 women, represented Cuba in 1980.

Men's foil

• Heriberto González
• Efigenio Favier
• Guillermo Betancourt

Men's team foil

• Efigenio Favier, Guillermo Betancourt, Heriberto González, Pedro Hernández

Men's épée

• Efigenio Favier
• Guillermo Betancourt
• Heriberto González

Men's team épée

• Efigenio Favier, Guillermo Betancourt, Heriberto González, Pedro Hernández

Men's sabre

• José Laverdecia
• Jesús Ortíz
• Manuel Ortíz

Men's team sabre

• Manuel Ortíz, Jesús Ortíz, José Laverdecia, Guzman Salazar

Women's foil

• Clara Alfonso
• Marlene Font
• Margarita Rodríguez

Women's team foil

• Margarita Rodríguez, Marlene Font, María Esther García, Clara Alfonso

Men's Team Competition

• Preliminary Round (Group A)
  • Defeated Zambia (1-0)
  • Defeated Venezuela (2-1)
  • Lost to Soviet Union (0-8)
• Quarter Finals
  • Lost to Czechoslovakia (0-3)
• Team Roster
  • José Reinoso
  • Miguel López
  • Raimundo Frometa
  • Luís Sanchez
  • Luís Dreke
  • Roberto Espinosa
  • Andres Roldan
  • Amado Povea
  • Dagoberto Lara
  • Ramon Núñez
  • Luis Hernández
  • Roberto Pereira
  • Regino Delgado
  • Jorge Masso
  • Fermín Madera
  • Carlos Loredo

Men's Team Competition

• Preliminary Round (Group A)
  • Lost to Denmark (18-30)
  • Lost to Poland (19-34)
  • Lost to East Germany (20-27)
  • Drew with Spain (24-24)
  • Lost to Hungary (22-26)
• Classification Match
  • 11th/12th place: Defeated Kuwait (32-24) → 11th place
• Team Roster
  • Pablo Pedroso
  • Roberto Casuso
  • Jesús Agramonte
  • Miguel Izquierdo
  • José Neninger
  • Juan Llanes
  • Juan Querol
  • Juan Prendes
  • Sabino Medina
  • Roberto Zulueta
  • Moisés Casales
  • Ibrain Crombet
  • Lázaro Jiménez
  • Lázaro Pedroso

Men's Team Competition

• Preliminary Round
  • Cuba — Poland 1-7
  • Cuba — Soviet Union 2-11
  • Cuba — Tanzania 4-0
  • Cuba — India 0-13
  • Cuba — Spain 0-11
• Classification Match
  • 5th-6th place: Cuba — Tanzania 4-1 → 5th place
• Team Roster:
  • Ángel Mora
  • Severo Frometa
  • Bernabé Izquierdo
  • Edgardo Vázquez
  • Héctor Pedroso
  • Tomás Varela
  • Raúl García
  • Jorge Mico
  • Rodolfo Delgado
  • Lazaro Hernández
  • Juan Blanco
  • Juan Caballero
  • Roberto Ramírez
  • Ángel Fontane
  • Ricardo Campos
  • Juan Ríos

Men's Extra-Lightweight

• José Rodríguez

Men's Half-Lightweight

• Héctor Rodríguez

Men's Lightweight

• Ricardo Tuero

Men's Half-Middleweight

• Juan Ferrer

Men's Middleweight

• Isaac Azcuy

Men's Half-Heavyweight

• Rolando José Tornes

Men's Team Competition

• Preliminary Round (Group A)
  • Defeated Italy (3-0)
  • Lost to Bulgaria (1-3)
  • Lost to Czechoslovakia (2-3)
  • Lost to Soviet Union (0-3)
• Classification Matches
  • 5th/8th place: Lost to Yugoslavia (2-3)
  • 7th/8th place: Defeated Czechoslovakia (3-1) → 7th place
• Team Roster
  • Diego Lapera
  • Víctor García
  • Luis Oviedo
  • Ernesto Martínez
  • Ricardo Leyva
  • Jorge Garbey
  • Raúl Vilches
  • Carlos Salas
  • Antonio Pérez
  • Leonel Marshall Steward, Sr.
  • Carlos Ruiz
  • José David

Women's Team Competition

• Preliminary Round (Group A)
  • Lost to East Germany (1-3)
  • Defeated Peru (3-0)
  • Lost to Soviet Union (0-3)
• Classification Match
  • 5th/6th place: Defeated Peru (3-1) → 5th place
• Team Roster
  • Mercedes Pérez
  • Imilsis Téllez
  • Ana Díaz
  • Mercedes Pomares
  • Mavis Guilarte
  • Libertad González
  • Erenia Díaz
  • Maura Alfonso
  • Josefina Capote
  • Nelly Barnet
  • Ana María García
  • Lucila Urgelles

Men's Team Competition

• Preliminary Round (Group C)
  • Drew with Yugoslavia (6-6)
  • Defeated Australia (6-4)
  • Defeated Bulgaria (7-1)
• Final Round (Group A)
  • Drew with Yugoslavia (7-7)
  • Drew with Netherlands (7-7)
  • Lost to Soviet Union (5-8)
  • Lost to Hungary (5-7)
  • Lost to Spain (7-9) → 5th place
• Team Roster
  • Oscar Periche
  • Orlando Cowley
  • Bárbaro Díaz
  • Lazaro Costa
  • Pedro Rodríguez
  • Nelson Domínguez
  • Jorge Rizo
  • Arturo Ramos
  • Carlos Benítez
  • Gerardo Rodríguez
  • Oriel Domínguez