France At The 1980 Summer Olympics

France competed at the ''' 1980 Summer Olympics ''' in Moscow under the IOC Country Code FRA. It was the eighteenth appearance of the Europe an nation, which made its Olympic debut in 1896 .

MEDALS

France finished in eighth position in the final medal rankings

Gold

Thierry Rey — Judo, Men's Extra Lightweight (60 kg)

Angelo Parisi — Judo, Men's Heavyweight

Pascale Hachin-Trinquet — Fencing, Women's Foil Individual

Philippe Bonnin , Bruno Boscherie , Didier Flament , Pascal Jolyot and Frédéric Pietruszka — Fencing, Men's Foil Team Competition

Philippe Boisse , Philippe Riboud , Patrick Picot , Hubert Gardas and Michel Salesse — Fencing, Men's Épée Team Competition

Isabelle Bégard , Véronique Brouquier , Pascale Hachin-Trinquet , Brigitte Gaudin-Latrille and Christine Muzio — Fencing, Women's Foil Team Competition

Silver

Alain Lebas — Canoeing, Men's K1 1.000 metres Kayak Singles

Yavé Cahard — Cycling, Men's 1.000 metres Sprint (Scratch)

Alain Bondue — Cycling, Men's 4.000 metres Individual Pursuit

Pascal Jolyot — Fencing, Men's Foil Individual

Angelo Parisi — Judo, Men's Open Class

Bronze

Bernard Tchoullouyan — Judo, Men's Half Middleweight (78 kg)

Philippe Riboud — Fencing, Men's Épée Individual

Antoine Richard , Hermann Panzo , Patrick Barré and Pascal Barré — Athletics, Men's 4x100 metres Relay

RESULTS BY EVENT

Boxing

Men's Bantamweight (54 kg)

Ali Ben Maghenia

# First Round — Bye

# Second Round — Defeated Pushkardhoj Shahi (Nepal) walk-over

# Third Round — Lost to John Siryakibbe (Uganda) on points (0-5)

Men's Featherweight (57 kg)

Daniel Londas

# First Round — Bye

# Second Round — Lost to Viktor Rybakov (Soviet Union) on points (0-5)

Modern Pentathlon

Men's Individual Competition:

Paul Four — 5.196 pts (→ 12th place)

Joël Bouzou — 5.107 pts (→ 20th place)

Alain Cortes — 5.042 pts (→ 23rd place)

Men's Team Competition:

Four, Bouzou, and Cortes — 15.345 pts (→ 5th place)

Swimming

Men's 100m Freestyle

René Ecuyer

Heats — 52,09

Semi-Finals — 51,62

Final — 52,01 (→ 7th place)

Men's 200m Freestyle

Mark Lazzaro

Heats — DNS

Paskal Laget

Heats — 1.56,01 (→ did not advance)

Fabien Noël

Heats — 1.53,25 (→ did not advance)

Men's 100m Butterfly

Xavier Savin

Final — 55,66 (→ 7th place)

Men's 4x200m Freestyle Relay

Fabien Noël , Mark Lazzaro , Dominique Petit , and Paskal Laget

Final — 7.36,08 (→ 8th place)

Men's 4x100m Medley Relay

Frédéric Delcourt , Olivier Borios , Xavier Savin , and René Ecuyer

Final — 3.49,19 (→ 5th place)

Women's 100m Freestyle

Guylaine Berger

Final — 57,88 (→ 7th place)

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