Tanzania at the 1980 Summer Olympics

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Tanzania at the 1980 Summer Olympics
IOC code	TAN
NOC	Tanzania Olympic Committee
in Moscow
Competitors	41 (36 men and 5 women) in 3 sports
Medals Ranked 28th	Gold 0 Silver 2 Bronze 0 Total 2
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
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Tanzania competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR. The nation won its first ever Olympic medals at these Games.

Medalists[edit]

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Silver	Suleiman Nyambui	Athletics	Men's 5000 m	1 Aug
Silver	Filbert Bayi	Athletics	Men's 3000 m steeplechase	31 July

Athletics[edit]

Men

Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Mwalimu Ali	100 m	10.86	6	did not advance
	200 m	21.83	5	did not advance
Zakariah Barie	5000 m	13:49.4	9 Q	—		13:44.9	7	did not advance
	10000 m	DNF		did not advance
Filbert Bayi	3000 m steeplechase	8:21.4	1 Q	—		8:16.2	1 Q	8:12.4
David Lukuba	100 m	10.74	5	did not advance
	200 m	21.76	4	did not advance
Musa Luliga	800 m	1:49.6	5 Q	—		1:51.5	7	did not advance
Leodigard Martin	10000 m	30:33.4	11	did not advance
	Marathon	—						2:18:21	23
Peter Mwita	100 m	11.07	6	did not advance
Emmanuel Ndiemandoi	Marathon	—						2:16:47	14
Suleiman Nyambui	5000 m	13:45.4	2 Q	—		13:30.2	5 Q	13:21.6
	10000 m	DNS		did not advance
Gidamis Shahanga	Marathon	—						2:16:47	15

Field events

Women

Track & road events

Boxing[edit]

Men

Athlete	Event	1 Round	2 Round	3 Round	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Emmanuel Mlundwa	Flyweight	—	Talal Elchawa (SYR) W TKO-2	Hugh Russell (IRL) L 0-5	did not advance
Geraldi Issaick	Bantamweight	BYE	Jorge Monar (BEN) W 3-2	Ganapathy Manoharan (IND) W TKO-2	Juan Hernández (CUB) L TKO-1	did not advance		5
Issack Mabushi	Featherweight	BYE	Barri McGuigan (IRL) L TKO-3	did not advance
Omari Golaya	Lightweight	—	Kalervo Alanenpää (SWE) W 5-0	Kazimierz Adach (POL) L 0-5	did not advance
William Lyimo	Light Welterweight	—	BYE	Khast Jamgan (MGL) W 5-0	Anthony Willis (GBR) L TKO-3	did not advance		5
Lucas Msomba	Welterweight	—	Elio Diaz (VEN) W 4-1	Karl-Heinz Krüger (GDR) L 0-5	did not advance
Leonidas Njunwa	Light Middleweight	—	BYE	Imad Idriss (SYR) W TKO-3	Detlef Kästner (GDR) L 0-5	did not advance		5
Michael Nassoro	Light Heavyweight	—		Slobodan Kacar (YUG) L TKO-2	did not advance
William Isangura	Heavyweight	—		Grzegorz Skrzecz (POL) L KO-1	did not advance

Field hockey[edit]

Men's Competition[edit]

Team Roster

• Leopold Gracias
• Benedict Mendes
• Soter da Silva
• Abraham Sykes
• Yusuf Manwar
• Singh Jaypal
• Mohamed Manji
• Rajabu Rajab
• Jasbir Virdee
• Islam Islam
• Pirbhai Erfan
• Hira Adnan
• Stephen d'Silva
• Frederick Furtado
• Taherali Hassanali
• Anoop Mukundan
• Patrick Toto
• Julias Peter

Preliminary round

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
Spain	5	4	1	0	33	3	9
India	5	3	2	0	39	6	8
Soviet Union	5	3	0	2	30	11	6
Poland	5	2	1	2	19	15	5
Cuba	5	1	0	4	7	42	2
Tanzania	5	0	0	5	3	54	0

20 July India  18 – 0  Tanzania

21 July Tanzania  0 – 12 Spain

23 July Tanzania  0 – 4  Cuba

24 July Soviet Union  11 – 2  Tanzania

26 July Tanzania  1 – 9  Poland

Fifth place match

26 July Cuba  4 – 1  Tanzania

References[edit]