In the second time the nation competed in Olympic archery, Yugoslavia again entered only one man. He came in eleventh place, missing a top eight finish by eight points.

Men's Individual Competition:

• Zoran Matković – 2410 points (11th place)

Men's 200 metres

• Aleksandar Popović
  • Heat – 21.65
  • Quarterfinals – 21.66 (→ did not advance)

Men's 400 metres

• Josip Alebić
  • Heat – 47.61
  • Quarterfinals – 46.60 (→ did not advance)

Men's 800 metres

• Milovan Savić
  • Heat – 1:49.2
  • Semifinals – 1:47.6 (→ did not advance)

Men's 1,500 metres

• Dragan Zdravković
  • Heat – 3:44.0
  • Semifinals – 3:43.4
  • Final – 3:43.1 (→ 9th place)

Men's 4x400 metres Relay

• Zeijko Knapić, Milovan Savić, Rok Kopitar, and Josip Alebić
  • Heat – 3:05.3 (→ did not advance)

Men's 110 m Hurdles

• Borisav Pisić
  • Heat – 14.13
  • Semifinals – 14.16 (→ did not advance)
• Petar Vukičević
  • Heat – 14.19
  • Semifinals – 14.12 (→ did not advance)

Men's 400 m Hurdles

• Rok Kopitar
  • Heat – 50.34
  • Semifinals – 50.55
  • Final – 49.67 (→ 5th place)

Men's High Jump

• Vaso Komnenić
  • Qualification – 2.21 m
  • Final – 2.24 m (→ 6th place)

Men's Long Jump

• Nenad Stekić
  • Qualification – 5.75 m (→ did not advance)

Men's Triple Jump

• Milan Spasojević
  • Qualification – 16.48 m
  • Final – 16.09 m (→ 10th place)

Men's Shot Put

• Vladimir Milic
  • Qualification – 20.56 m
  • Final – 20.07 m (→ 8th place)

Women's 1,500 metres

• Breda Pergar
  • Heat – 4:13.2 (→ did not advance)

Women's High Jump

• Lidija Benedetič
  • Qualification – 1.80 m (→ did not advance)

Men's Bantamweight (– 54 kg)

• Fazlija Sacirović
  1. First Round – Bye
  2. Second Round – Lost to Veli Koota (Finland) after referee stopped contest in second round

Men's Featherweight (– 57 kg)

• Dejan Marović
  1. First Round – Bye
  2. Second Round – Defeated Miroslav Šandor (Czechoslovakia) on points (5–0)
  3. Third Round – Lost to Krzysztof Kosedowski (Poland) on points (1–4)

Men's Lightweight (– 60 kg)

• Geza Tumbas
  1. First Round – Defeated Norman Stevens (Australia) on points (4–1)
  2. Second Round – Lost to Angel Herrera (Cuba) on points (0–5)

Men's Light-Welterweight (– 63,5 kg)

• Ace Rusevski
  1. First Round – Defeated Margarit Anastasov (Bulgaria) on points (4–1)
  2. Second Round – Defeated Boualem Bel Alouane (Algeria) on points (5–0)
  3. Quarter Finals – Lost to Patrizio Oliva (Italy) on points (2–3)

Men's Heavyweight (+ 81 kg)

• Aziz Salihu
  1. First Round – Lost to Piotr Zaev (Soviet Union) on points (0–5)

Four cyclists represented Yugoslavia in 1980.

Individual road race

• Bruno Bulić
• Vinko Polončič
• Bojan Ropret
• Bojan Udovič

Team time trial

• Bruno Bulić
• Vinko Polončič
• Bojan Ropret
• Bojan Udovič

Men's team competition edit

PRELIMINARY ROUND (GROUP D)

July 21, 1980
Yugoslavia – Finland 2–0 (0–0) Dinamo Stadium, Minsk

July 23, 1980
Yugoslavia – Costa Rica 3–2 (2–1) Dinamo Stadium, Minsk

July 25, 1980
Yugoslavia – Iraq 1–1 (0–0) Dinamo Stadium, Minsk

FINAL STANDINGS GROUP D:

1. Yugoslavia          3 2 1 0 ( 6- 3) 5 *
2. Iraq                3 1 2 0 ( 4- 1) 4 *
3. Finland             3 1 1 1 ( 3- 2) 3
4. Costa Rica          3 0 0 3 ( 2- 9) 0

* Qualified for quarter-finals

QUARTER-FINALS

July 27, 1980
Yugoslavia – Algeria 3–0 (2–0) Dinamo Stadium, Minsk

SEMI-FINALS

July 29, 1980
Czechoslovakia – Yugoslavia 2–0 (2–0) Dynamo Stadium, Moscow

BRONZE MEDAL GAME

August 1, 1980 
Yugoslavia – Soviet Union 0–2 (0–0) Dynamo Stadium, Moscow

• Team Roster
  • Dragan Pantelić
  • Nikica Cukrov
  • Ivan Gudelj
  • Miloš Hrstić
  • Milan Jovin
  • Nikica Klinčarski
  • Mišo Krstičević
  • Dževad Šećerbegović
  • Vladimir Matijević
  • Ante Miročević
  • Dušan Pešić
  • Tomislav Ivković
  • Boro Primorac
  • Srebrenko Repčić
  • Miloš Šestić
  • Zlatko Vujović
  • Zoran Vujović

Men's team competition edit

• Preliminary Round (Group B)
  • Defeated Algeria (22–18)
  • Defeated Switzerland (26–21)
  • Defeated Romania (23–21)
  • Defeated Kuwait (44–10)
  • Lost to Soviet Union (17–22)
• Classification Match
  • 5th/6th place: Lost to Spain (23–24) → 6th place
• Team Roster
  • Zlatan Arnautović
  • Momir Rnic
  • Enver Koso
  • Drago Jovović
  • Stjepan Obran
  • Jasmin Mrkonja
  • Petar Mahne
  • Pavel Jurina
  • Goran Nerić
  • Jovica Cvetković
  • Velibor Nenadić
  • Adnan Dizdar
  • Mile Isaković
  • Jovica Elezović

Men's Heavyweight

• Radomir Kovacevic
  • Bronze medal

Men's Flying Dutchman

• Danko Mandić
  • Final standing – 9th place
• Zoran Kalebić
  • Final standing – 9th place

Men's Finn class

• Minski Fabras
  • Final standing – 11th place

Men's 200m Freestyle

• Borut Petrič
  • Final – 1.56,51 (→ did not advance)

Men's 1.500m Freestyle

• Borut Petrič
  • Final – 15.21,78 (→ 5th place)

Men's team competition edit

• Preliminary Round (Group B)
  • Lost to Poland (1–3)
  • Defeated Brazil (3–2)
  • Lost to Romania (1–3)
  • Defeated Libya (3–0)
• Classification Matches
  • 5th/8th place: Defeated Cuba (3–2)
  • 5th/6th place: Lost to Brazil (2–3) → 6th place
• Team Roster
  • Vladimir Bogoevski
  • Vladimir Trifunović
  • Aleksandar Tacevski
  • Zdravko Kuljić
  • Goran Srbinovski
  • Slobodan Lozančić
  • Ivica Jelić
  • Boro Jović
  • Radovan Malević
  • Miodrag Mitić
  • Ljubomir Travica
  • Mladen Kašić

Men's team competition edit

• Preliminary Round (Group C)
  • Drew with Cuba (6–6)
  • Defeated Bulgaria (9–2)
  • Defeated Australia (9–2)
• Final Round (Group A)
  • Drew with Cuba (7–7)
  • Defeated Hungary (8–7)
  • Defeated Netherlands (5–4)
  • Defeated Spain (7–6)
  • Lost to Soviet Union (7–8) → Silver Medal
• Team Roster
  • Luka Vezilić
  • Zoran Gopcević
  • Damir Polić
  • Ratko Rudić
  • Zoran Mustur
  • Zoran Roje
  • Milivoj Bebić
  • Slobodan Trifunović
  • Boško Lozica
  • Predrag Manojlović
  • Milorad Krivokapić

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database