# Mexico at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Mexico competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR. 45 competitors, 36 men and 9 women, took part in 43 events in 12 sports.

## Medalists
### Silver

* Carlos Girón — Diving, Men's Springboard

### Bronze

* Joaquin Pérez — Equestrian, Jumping Individual (mixed)
* David Bárcena Ríos, Manuel Mendivil, José Pérez and Fabián Vázquez — Equestrian, Three-day Event Team Competition
* Jesús Gómez, Joaquin Pérez, Gerardo Tazzer and Alberto Valdés — Equestrian, Jumping Team Competition

## Athletics

Men's 10,000 metres
* Enrique Aquino
   * Heat — 29:21.3 (→ did not advance)
* Rodolfo Gómez
   * Heat — 29:25.7 (→ did not advance)
* José Gómez
   * Heat — 29:53.6 (→ did not advance)
Men's Marathon
* Rodolfo Gómez
   * Final — 2:12:39 (→ 6th place)
Men's 20 km Walk
* Raúl González
   * Final — 1:27:48.6 (→ 6th place)
* Daniel Bautista
   * Final — DSQ (→ no ranking)
* Domingo Colín
   * Final — DSQ (→ no ranking)
Men's 50 km Walk
* Raúl González
   * Final — did not finish (→ no ranking)
* Daniel Bautista
   * Final — did not finish (→ no ranking)
* Martín Bermúdez
   * Final — did not finish (→ no ranking)

## Boxing

Men's Light Flyweight (– 48 kg)
* Gilberto Sosa
   * First Round — Defeated Vandui Bayasgalan (Mongolia) on points (4-1)
   * Second Round — Lost to Li Byong-Uk (North Korea) on points (2-3)
Men's Flyweight (– 51 kg)
* Roman Gilberto
   * First Round — Bye
   * Second Round — Defeated Alberto Mercado (Puerto Rico) after referee stopped contest in first round
   * Quarter Finals — Lost to Petar Lesov (Bulgaria) on points (1-4)
Men's Bantamweight (– 54 kg)
* Daniel Zaragoza
   * First Round — Bye
   * Second Round — Defeated Philip Sutcliffe Snr (Ireland) on points (5-0)
   * Third Round — Defeated Raymond Gilbody (Great Britain) on points (4-1)
   * Quarter Finals — Lost to Michael Anthony (Guyana) after referee stopped contest in second round
Men's Featherweight (– 57 kg)
* Carlos González
   * First Round — Defeated Nidal Haddad (Syria) on points (5-0)
   * Second Round — Defeated Ravsal Otgonbayar (Mongolia) on points (3-2)
   * Third Round — Lost to Rudi Fink (East Germany) after knock-out in first round

## Diving

Men's Springboard
* Carlos Girón
   * Heats — 580.20 points (→ 1st place)
   * Final — 892.140 points (→ Silver Medal)
* Francisco Rueda
   * Preliminary Round — 495.63 points (→ 14th place, did not advance)
* Jorge Mondragón
   * Heats — 454.17 points (→ 20th place, did not advance)
Men's Platform
* Carlos Girón
   * Heats — 515.37 points (→ 5th place)
   * Final — 809.805 points (→ 4th place)
* Francisco Rueda
   * Preliminary Round — 428.52 points (→ 15th place, did not advance)
* Salvador Sobrino
   * Preliminary Round — 456.87 points (→ 11th place, did not advance)

## Modern pentathlon

Two male pentathletes represented Mexico in 1980.

### Individual

* Ivar Sisniega
* Jens Lohmann

## Swimming

Women's 100 m Breaststroke
* Elke Holtz
   * Heats — 1:15.89 (→ did not advance)
Women's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay
* Isabel Reuss, Dagmar Erdman, Teresa Rivera, and Helen Plachinski
   * Heats — 3.56,87
   * Final — 3.55,41 (→ 6th place)
Women's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay
* Teresa Rivera, Elke Holtz, Dagmar Erdman, and Helen Plachinski
   * Heats — 4.25,95 (→ did not advance)

## Wrestling

Men's freestyle 48 kg
* Jorge Frías
   * Eliminated in Third Round
Men's Greco-Roman 48 kg
* Alfredo Olvera
   * Sixth place