Football
- Men's team competition
- Preliminary Round (Group A)
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- Defeated Venezuela (4-0)
- Defeated Zambia (3-1)
- Defeated Cuba (8-0)
- Quarter Final
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- Defeated Kuwait (2-1)
- Semi Final
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- Lost to East Germany (0-1)
- Bronze Medal Match
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- Defeated Yugoslavia (1-0) → 3 ! Bronze Medal
Team Roster
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- Rinat Dasaev
- Tengiz Sulakvelidze
- Aleksandr Chivadze
- Vagiz Khidiiatullin
- Oleg Romantsev
- Sergei Shavlo
- Sergei Andreev
- Vladimir Bessonov
- Yuri Gavrilov
- Fiodor Cherenkov
- Valeri Gazzaev
- Vladimir Pilgui
- Sergei Nikulin
- Khoren Hovhannisyan
- Aleksandr Prokopenko
- Revaz Chelebadze
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