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The winners and runners-up of each group met in a play-off match to qualify for the 1980 Summer Olympics tournament held in Moscow. Three teams qualified – Kuwait, Malaysia and Iran. However, due to the American-led political boycott, Malaysia and Iran did not enter the Final Tournament and were replaced by Iraq and Syria respectively. [1]
The first ethnic Korean athletes to win medals did so at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, when Sohn Kee-chung and Nam Sung-yong won gold and bronze respectively in the men's marathon as members of the Japanese team. As Korea was under Japanese rule at that time, making them both Japanese subjects, the IOC credits both medals to Japan. South ...
1984 →. The 1980 AFC Asian Cup was the 7th edition of the men's AFC Asian Cup, a quadrennial international football tournament organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). [1] The finals were hosted by Kuwait between 15 and 30 September 1980. The field of ten teams was split into two groups of five each.
The Merdeka Tournament is Asia`s oldest football tournament which invited football playing nations to compete since 1957. [6][7][8][9] The tournament also was once called the ‘Mini Asia Cup’ around the 1960s to 1980s, which was founded by the former AFC President, Tunku Abdul Rahman. [10][11] At that time, the FIFA president, Sir Stanley ...
Opened. December 1980. Pool. Length. 50 m. Lanes. 8. Jamsil Indoor Swimming Pool (Korean: 잠실 제1수영장; Hanja: 蠶室第1水泳場) is an aquatics venue located in Seoul, South Korea. It hosted the swimming, diving, water polo, synchronized swimming, and the swimming part of the modern pentathlon events at the 1988 Summer Olympics and ...
South Korea. 1–1. Malaysia. Kuwait City, Kuwait. Choi Soon-ho 68'. Zulkifli 90'. 19 September 1980 AFC Asian Cup. (Group B) South Korea.
South Korea avoided a round-of-16 clash with pre-Asian Cup favorite Japan after drawing with Malaysia 3-3 on Thursday. Jurgen Klinsmann's team advanced as the runner-up in Group E after conceding ...
World Wrestling Federation expands. Hulk Hogan was the WWF's top star during the 1980s boom. Here he is in March 1989. In 1982, Vince McMahon purchased the WWF from his ailing father, Vincent J. McMahon. On December 23, 1983, the younger McMahon signed AWA superstar Hulk Hogan, who previously wrestled with the WWF from 1979 to 1981, to return ...