Below is a list of all the winners of the 1980 Winter Olympics , held from February 13-24, 1980 in Lake Placid , USA . In total, 1072 athletes took part in the competition - 840 men and 232 women, representing 37 countries ( national Olympic committees ). 38 sets of awards were awarded in 10 Olympic sports . In ski biathlon , ski jumping , bobsled , biathlon and hockey, only men played medals, and figure skating was the only sport at this Winter Olympics, where men and women competed in pairs. The winners of the Games in Lake Placid were athletes from 19 countries - while 11 of these countries managed to win at least one gold medal. The winner of the general medal standings was the USSR team that won 22 medals of which 10 gold, 6 silver and 6 bronze medals.
Biathlon
| Competition | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men: Individual | Anatoly Alyabyev ( URS ) | Frank Ulrich ( GDR ) | Eberhard Rösch ( GDR ) |
| Men: Sprint | Frank Ulrich ( GDR ) | Vladimir Alikin ( URS ) | Anatoly Alyabyev ( URS ) |
| Men: 4 × 7.5 km relay | the USSR Vladimir Alikin Alexander Tikhonov Vladimir Barnashov Anatoly Alyabyev | GDR Matthias Jung Klaus Siebert Frank Ulrich Eberhard Rösch | Germany Franz Bernreiter Hansi Estner Peter Angerer Gerhard Winkler |
Bobsleigh
| Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Double men | Switzerland Erich Scherer Joseph Benz | GDR Bernhard Hermeshausen Hans-Jürgen Gerhardt | GDR Meinhard Nemer Bogdan Muziol |
| Four men | GDR Meinhard Nemer Bogdan Muziol Bernhard Hermeshausen Hans-Jürgen Gerhardt | Switzerland Erich Scherer Ulrich Behli Rudolph Marty Joseph Benz | GDR Horst Schönau Roland Wetzig Detlef Richter Andreas Kirchner |
Alpine skiing
| Competition | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men: Downhill | Leonard Stoke ( AUT ) | Peter Wirnsberger ( AUT ) | Steve Podborski ( CAN ) |
| Men: Giant Slalom | Ingemar Stenmark ( SWE ) | Andreas Wenzel ( LIE ) | Hans Ann ( AUT ) |
| Men: Slalom | Ingemar Stenmark ( SWE ) | Phil Mare ( USA ) | Jacques Luti ( SUI ) |
| Women: Downhill | Annemarie Moser Prel ( AUT ) | Hanni Wenzel ( LIE ) | Marie-Therese Nadig ( SUI ) |
| Women: Giant Slalom | Hanni Wenzel ( LIE ) | Irene Apple ( FRG ) | Perrin Pelan ( FRA ) |
| Women: Slalom | Hanni Wenzel ( LIE ) | Krista Kinshofer ( FRG ) | Erica Hess ( SUI ) |
Speed Skating
| Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men: 500 meters see details | Eric Hayden USA | Evgeny Kulikov the USSR | Liuwe de Boer Netherlands |
| Men: 1000 meters see details | Eric Hayden USA | Gaetan Boucher Canada | Vladimir Lobanov the USSR |
| Frode Ronning Norway | |||
| Men: 1500 meters see details | Eric Hayden USA | Kai Arne Stensjemmet Norway | Terje Andersen Norway |
| Men: 5000 meters see details | Eric Hayden USA | Kai Arne Stensjemmet Norway | Tom Eric Oxholm Norway |
| Men: 10,000 meters see details | Eric Hayden USA | Pete Kleine Netherlands | Tom Eric Oxholm Norway |
| Women: 500 meters see details | Karin Enke GDR | Lea Poulos USA | Natalya Petrusova the USSR |
| Women: 1000 meters see details | Natalya Petrusova the USSR | Lea Poulos USA | Sylvia Albrecht GDR |
| Women: 1500 meters see details | Annie Borkink Netherlands | Ria Visser Netherlands | Sabina Becker GDR |
| Women: 3000 meters see details | Björg Eva Jensen Norway | Sabina Becker GDR | Beth Hayden USA |
Cross country skiing
| Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men: 15 km see details | Thomas Wassberg Sweden | Juha mieto Finland | Uwe Aunley Norway |
| Men: 30 km see details | Nikolay Zimyatov the USSR | Vasily Rochev Sr. the USSR | Ivan Lebanov Bulgaria |
| Men: 50 km see details | Nikolay Zimyatov the USSR | Juha mieto Finland | Alexander Zavyalov the USSR |
| Men: 4 × 10 km relay see details | the USSR Vasily Rochev Sr. Nikolay Bazhukov Evgeny Belyaev Nikolay Zimyatov | Norway Lars Eric Ericksen Per Knut Olann Uwe Aunley Oddwar Bro | Finland Harry kirvesniemi Pertti Teurajärvi Matti Pitkianen Juha mieto |
| Women: 5 km see details | Raisa Smetanina the USSR | Hilkka Riihivuori Finland | Kveta Yeriova Czechoslovakia |
| Women: 10 km see details | Barbara Petzold GDR | Hilkka Riihivuori Finland | Helena Takalo Finland |
| Women: 4 × 5 km relay see details | GDR Marlies Rostock Carola Anding Veronica Hesse Barbara Petzold | the USSR Nina Fedorova-Baldycheva Nina Rocheva Galina Kulakova Raisa Smetanina | Norway Britt Pettersen Anette Boe Marit Murmel Berit Earley |
Nordic Combined
| Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Normal springboard / 15 km | Ulrich Welling GDR | Yuko Karjalainen Finland | Conrad Winkler GDR |
Ski Jumping
| Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Normal springboard see details | Tony innauer Austria | Manfred Dekert GDR | not awarded |
| Hirokazu Yagi Japan | |||
| Big springboard see details | Youko Turmyanen Finland | Hubert Neuper Austria | Jari Puikkonen Finland |
Luge
| Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Loners (men) | Bernhard Glass GDR | Paul Hildgartner Italy | Anton Winkler Germany |
| Single (women) | Vera Zozulya the USSR | Melitta Solman GDR | Ingrida Amantova the USSR |
| Deuces | GDR Hans Wrynn Norbert han | Italy Peter Gschnitzer Karl Brunner | Austria Georg Flukkinger Karl Schrott |
Figure Skating
| Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men's single skating | Robin Cousins Great Britain | Ian Hoffman GDR | Charles Tickner USA |
| Women's single skating | Anette Patch GDR | Linda Fratiani USA | Dagmar Lurz Germany |
| Pair skating | Irina Rodnina Alexander Zaitsev the USSR | Marina Cherkasova Sergey Shakhrai the USSR | Manuela Mager Uwe Beversdorf GDR |
| Dancing on Ice | Natalya Linichuk Gennady Karponosov the USSR | Christina Regetsi Andras Shallai Hungary | Irina Moiseeva Andrey Minenkov the USSR |
Hockey
| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| USA team Jim Craig Steve Yanasak Dave Christian Ken Morrow Mike Ramsey Bill baker Bob Sooter Jack O'Callahan Mark Johnson Buzz Schneider Rob McClanahan Mark Pavelich , Phil Werkot , Mike Eruzione Dave Silk John Harrington Steve Kristoff Neil Brotin Mark Wells Eric Strobl | USSR national team Vladislav Tretyak , Vladimir Myshkin , Vyacheslav Fetisov , Vasily Pervukhin , Alexey Kasatonov , Sergey Starikov , Zinetula Bilyaletdinov , Valery Vasiliev , Alexander Golikov , Vladimir Krutov , Boris Mikhailov , Sergey Makarov , Valery Kharlamov , Victor Zhluktov , Alexander Maltsev , Helmut Balderis , Yuri Lebedev , Vladimir Golikov , Alexander Skvortsov , Vladimir Petrov | Sweden national team Pelle Lindbergh , William Löfquist , Thomas Junsson , Ulf Weinstock , Mats Valtin , Thomas Ericsson , Sture Andersson , Ian Ericsson Tommy Samuelsson , Mats Olberg Mats Neslund , Per Lundquist , Leif Holmgren , Lars Mulin , Dan Söderström , Boo Berglund Hokan Ericsson , Lennart Nurberg , Bengt Lundholm , Harald Luckner |
About winners
- The true hero of the 1980 games was the 21-year-old American skater Eric Hayden , who won all 5 distances - a unique case in the history of sports. With five gold medals, Hayden could single-handedly take 3rd place in the overall standings, only the USSR and the German Democratic Republic ahead. Younger sister Erica Beth Hayden won bronze at a distance of 3000 m.
- In the 15 km separate ski race, Thomas Wassberg had to show better time to win than the Finn Juha Mieto - 41 minutes and 57.64 seconds. Wassberg stopped the stopwatch at the finish line at 41: 57.63, ahead of the Finn by one hundredth of a second - the smallest interval between the first and second place in the history of skiing at the Olympics. The unprecedented nature of this incident and the dramatic nature of the situation were largely the reason for the deregistration of hundredths of a second in cross-country skiing.
- For the first time in the history of the Olympics, artificial snow was used.
- 3 gold medals on the account of the Soviet skier Nikolai Zimyatov .
- For the fourth time in a row, the Soviet biathlete Alexander Tikhonov won the Olympic gold relay.
- Soviet figure skater Irina Rodnina and East German double- wrestler Ulrich Welling won their third consecutive gold medal.
- One of the main sensations of the Olympics was the victory of the US hockey team , composed of students and amateurs, over the seemingly invincible Soviet team , which had won five Olympics in a row before that. This victory with a score of 4: 3 was called the “ Miracle on Ice ” and opened the way for Americans to gold medals, which they won not without difficulty.
- The only gold medals in Liechtenstein’s Olympic history were won by 23-year-old skier Hanni Wenzel , which allowed the small alpine country to occupy a high 6th place in the overall medal standings, ahead of such recognized sports powers as Norway , Finland , Switzerland , Italy , France , Germany . In addition, thanks to Wenzel, Liechtenstein became the most sparsely populated country in the history of the Olympic Games, which was able to win gold.
- For the first time, a sprint was included in the biathlon program of the Winter Olympics. The first champion in the new discipline was Frank Ulrich of the GDR .
- The Soviet skater Marina Cherkasova at the time of the Olympics was only 15 years old and 3 months old, which did not stop her from winning silver together with Sergei Shakhrai .
- The silver of the dance couple Kristina Regetsi and Andras Shallai became the first and so far the only Olympic medal of Hungary at the Winter Olympics after 1956 .
- The bronze of the 22-year-old skier Ivan Lebanov at a distance of 30 km was the first medal at the Winter Olympics in the history of Bulgaria . Prior to this, Bulgarian athletes participated in the Winter Games 9 times, but always remained without awards.
- The legendary Soviet skier Galina Kulakova won her eighth and last Olympic medal - silver in the relay.