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Syria at the 1980 Summer Olympics

sporting event delegation

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ2507990 ↗
Source-derived summary

Syria competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR. The country returned to the Olympic Games after missing the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. The youngest participant was the wrestler Mohamed Moutei Nakdali, the oldest was the sports shooter Adnan Houjeij. The Syrian team did not win any medals.

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Syria at the 1980 Summer Olympics” as sporting event delegation. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Syria, Summer and Olympics.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1980, 1976—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Syria, Summer and Olympics providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Syria at the 1980 Summer Olympics”, the useful work is to connect “sporting event delegation” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2507990. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1980 and 1976.

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This entry incorporates text from “Syria at the 1980 Summer Olympics” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.