The Sports Almanac



1980 Winter Olympics
Lake Palcid, United States

MEDAL TOTAL LEADERS

EAST GERMANY - 23 Medals
SOVIET UNION - 22 Medals
UNITED STATES - 12 Medals

Biathlon Bobsled Ice Hockey
Luge Figure Skating Speed Skating
Alpine Skiing Cross Country Skiing Nordic Combined
Ski Jumping



1980 Lake Placid Overall Medal Standings
RANK
 COUNTRY
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
 TOTAL
1
 East Germany 9
 7
 7
 23
2
 Soviet Union
 10
 6
 6
 22
3
 United States 6
 4
 2
 12
4
 Norway 1
 3
 6
 10
5
 Finland 1
 5
 3
 9
6
 Austria 3
 2
 2
 7
7
 Switzerland 1
 1
 3
 5
8
 West Germany
 0
 2
 3
 5
9
 Sweden
 3
 0
 1
 4
10
 Liechtenstein 2
 2
 0
 4
11
 Netherlands 1
 2
 1
 4
12
 Italy
 0
 2
 0
 2
13
 Canada 0
 1
 1
 2
14
 Great Britain
 1
 0
 0
 1
15
 Hungary
 0
 1
 0
 1
16
 Japan 0
 1
 0
 1
17
 France
 0
 0
 1
 1
18
 Bulgaria
 0
 0
 1
 1
19
 Czechoslovakia
 0
 0
 1
 1

1980 Lake Placid Biathlon
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Individual Anatoly Alyabyev - Soviet Union
 Frank Ullrich - East Germany
 Eberhard Rösch - East Germany
Sprint
 Frank Ullrich - East Germany Vladimir Alikin - Soviet Union
 Anatoly Alyabyev - Soviet Union
Relay Soviet Union
 East Germany
 West Germany

1980 Lake Placid Boblsed
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Two-Man
 Switzerland
 East Germany
 East Germany
Four-Man
 East Germany
 Swizterland
 East Germany

1980 Lake Placid Ice Hockey
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Men's
 United States
 Soviet Union
 Sweden

1980 Lake Placid Luge
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Men's Singles
 Bernhard Glass - East Germany
 Paul Hildgartner - Italy
 Anton Winkler - West Germany
Women's Singles
 Vera Zozuļa - Soviet Union
 Melitta Sollmann - East Germany
 Ingrīda Amantova - Soviet Union
Doubles
 Hans Rinn, Norbert Hahn - East Germany
 Peter Gschnitzer, Karl Brunner - Italy
 Georg Fluckinger, Karl Schrott - Austria

1980 Lake Placid Figure Skating
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Men's Singles Robin Cousins - Great Britain
 Jan Hoffmann - East Germany
 Charles Tickner - United States
Women's Singles Anett Pötzsch - East Germany
 Linda Fratianne - United States
 Dagmar Lurz - West Germany
Pairs Irina Rodnina, Alexander Zaitsev - Soviet Union
 Marina Cherkasova, Sergei Shakhrai - Soviet Union
 Manuela Mager, Uwe Bewersdorff - East Germany
Ice Dancing Natalia Linichuk, Gennadi Karponosov - Soviet Union
 Krisztina Regőczy, András Sallay - Hungary
 Irina Moiseeva, Andrei Minenkov - Soviet Union

1980 Lake Placid Speed Skating
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Men's 500 Meters Eric Heiden - United States
 Yevgeny Kulikov - Soviet Union
 Lieuwe de Boer - Netherlands
Women's 500 Meters Karin Enke - East Germany
 Leah Poulos-Mueller - United States
 Nataliya Petrusyova - Soviet Union
Men's 1000 Meters Eric Heiden - United States Gaétan Boucher - Canada
 Vladimir Lobanov - Soviet Union
Frode Rønning - Norway
Women's 1000 Meters Nataliya Petrusyova - Soviet Union Leah Poulos-Mueller - United States Sylvia Albrecht - East Germany
Men's 1500 Meters Eric Heiden - United States Kay Stenshjemmet - Norway
 Terje Andersen - Norway
Women's 1500 Meters Annie Borckink - Netherlands
 Ria Visser - Netherlands
 Sabine Becker - East Germany
Women's 3000 Meters
 Bjørg Eva Jensen - Norway
 Sabine Becker - East Germany Beth Heiden - United States
Men's 5000 Meters
 Eric Heiden - United States Kay Stenshjemmet - Norway Tom Erik Oxholm - Norway
Men's 10000 Meters
 Eric Heiden - United States Piet Kleine - Netherlands
 Tom Erik Oxholm - Norway

1980 Lake Placid Alpine Skiing
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Men's Downhill
 Leonhard Stock - Austria
 Peter Wirnsberger - Austria
 Steve Podborski - Canada
Women's Downhill Annemarie Moser-Pröll - Austria
 Hanni Wenzel - Liechtenstein Marie-Theres Nadig - Switzerland
Men's Slalom Ingemar Stenmark - Sweden
 Phil Mahre - United States
 Jacques Lüthy - Switzerland
Women's Slalom Hanni Wenzel - Liechtenstein Christa Kinshofer - West Germany
 Erika Hess - Switzerland
Men's Giant Slalom Ingemar Stenmark - Sweden Andreas Wenzel - Liechtenstein
 Hans Enn - Austria
Women's Giant Slalom
 Hanni Wenzel - Liechtenstein Irene Epple - West Germany
 Perrine Pelen - France

1980 Lake Placid Cross Country Skiing
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Women's 5KM
 Raisa Smetanina - Soviet Union
 Hikka Riihivuori - Finland
 Kvĕta Jeriová - Czechoslovakia
Women's 10KM Barbara Petzold - East Germany
 Hikka Riihivuori - Finland Helena Takalo - Finland
Men's 15KM Thomas Wassberg - Sweden
 Juha Mieto - Finland
 Ove Aunli - Norway
Men's 30KM
 Nikolay Zimyatov - Soviet Union
 Vasily Rochev - Soviet Union
 Ivan Lebanov - Bulgaria
Men's 50KM Nikolay Zimyatov - Soviet Union Juha Mieto - Finland Alexander Zavyalov - Soviet Union
Men's Relay Soviet Union
 Norway
 Finland
Women's Relay East Germany
 Soviet Union
 Norway

1980 Lake Placid Nordic Combined
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Individual
 Ulrich Wehling - East Germany
 Jouko Karjalainen - Finland
 Konrad Winkler - East Germany

1980 Lake Placid Ski Jumping
EVENT
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
Normal Hill
 Toni Innauer - Austria
 Hirokazu Yagi - Japan
Manfred Deckert - East Germany
 None Awarded
Large Hill
 Jouko Tömänen - Finland
 Hubert Neuper - Austria
 Jari Puikkonen - Finland