List of 1980 Winter Olympics medal winners

The 1980 Winter Olympics, officially called the XIII Olympic Winter Games, took place February 13 through 24, 1980 in Lake Placid, New York, United States.

Venues for the events were the Olympic Center (later renamed Herb Brooks Arena), Whiteface Mountain, Mt. Van Hoevenberg Olympic Bobsled Run, the Olympic Ski Jumps, the Cascade Cross Country Ski Center, and the Lake Placid High School Speed Skating Oval.

Alpine skiing

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's downhill	Leonhard Stock  Austria	Peter Wirnsberger  Austria	Steve Podborski  Canada
Men's slalom	Ingemar Stenmark  Sweden	Phillip Mahre  United States	Jacques Luthy  Switzerland
Men's giant slalom	Ingemar Stenmark  Sweden	Andreas Wenzel  Liechtenstein	Hans Enn  Austria
Women's downhill	Annemarie Moser-Proll  Austria	Hanni Wenzel  Liechtenstein	Marie-Theres Nadig  Switzerland
Women's slalom	Hanni Wenzel  Liechtenstein	Christa Kinshofer Guethlein  West Germany	Erika Hess  Switzerland
Women's giant slalom	Hanni Wenzel  Liechtenstein	Irene Epple  West Germany	Perrine Pelen  France

Biathlon

Biathlon at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's 10 km	Frank Ullrich  East Germany	Vladimir Alikin  Soviet Union	Anatoly Aliyabyev  Soviet Union
Men's 20 km	Anatoly Aliyabyev  Soviet Union	Frank Ullrich  East Germany	Eberhard Rösch  East Germany
Men's 4 × 7.5 km	Soviet Union (URS) Vladimir Alikin Aleksandr Tikhonov Vladimir Barnashov Anatoly Alyabyev	East Germany (GDR) Mathias Jung Klaus Siebert Frank Ullrich Eberhard Rösch	West Germany (FRG) Gerhard Winkler Peter Angerer Hansi Estner Franz Bernreiter

Bobsleigh

Bob run during the 1980 Winter Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Two-man	Switzerland (SUI) Erich Schärer Joseph Benz	East Germany (GDR) Bernhard Germeshausen Hans Jürgen Gerhardt	East Germany (GDR) Meinhard Nehmer Bogdan Musiol
Four-man	East Germany (GDR) Meinhard Nehmer Bogdan Musiol Bernhard Germeshausen Hans Jürgen Gerhardt	Switzerland (SUI) Erich Schärer Ulrich Bächli Rudolf Marti Joseph Benz	East Germany (GDR) Horst Schönau Roland Wetzig Detlef Richter Andreas Kirchner

Cross-country skiing

Nordic skiing at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's 15 km	Thomas Wassberg  Sweden	Juha Mieto  Finland	Ove Aunli  Norway
Men's 30 km	Nikolay Zimyatov  Soviet Union	Vasily Rovchev  Soviet Union	Ivan Lebanov  Bulgaria
Men's 50 km	Nikolay Zimyatov  Soviet Union	Juha Mieto  Finland	Aleksandr Zavyalov  Soviet Union
Men's 4 × 10 km	Soviet Union (URS) Vasily Rochev Nikolay Bazhukov Yevgeny Belyaev Nikolay Zimyatov	Norway (NOR) Lars Erik Eriksen Per Knut Aaland Ove Aunli Oddvar Braa	Finland (FIN) Harri Kirvesniemi Pertti Teurajarvi Matti Pitkänen Juha Mieto
Women's 5 km	Raisa Smetanina  Soviet Union	Hilkka Riihivuori  Finland	Květoslava Jeriová  Czechoslovakia
Women's 10 km	Barbara Petzold  East Germany	Hilkka Riihivuori  Finland	Helena Takalo  Finland
Women's 4 × 5 km	East Germany (GDR) Marlies Rostock Carola Anding Veronika Schmidt Barbara Petzold	Soviet Union (URS) Nina Baldycheva Nina Rocheva Galina Kulakova Raisa Smetanina	Norway (NOR) Brit Pettersen Anette Bøe Marit Myrmael Berit Aunli

Figure skating

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Robin Cousins  Great Britain	Jan Hoffmann  East Germany	Charles Tickner  United States
Ladies	Anett Pötzsch  East Germany	Linda Fratianne  United States	Dagmar Lurz  West Germany
Pairs	Soviet Union (URS) Irina Rodnina Aleksandr Zaytsev	Soviet Union (URS) Marina Cherkasova Sergey Shakray	East Germany (GDR) Manuela Mager Uwe Bewersdorff
Ice dancing	Soviet Union (URS) Natalya Linichuk Gennady Karponosov	Hungary (HUN) Krisztina Regőczy Andras Sallay	Soviet Union (URS) Irina Moiseyeva Andrey Minenkov

Ice Hockey

Dave Christian's jersey from the 1980 USA hockey team

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's tournament[1]	United States (USA) Jim Craig Steve Janaszak Jack O'Callahan Bill Baker Ken Morrow Mike Ramsey Bob Suter Dave Christian Dave Silk Eric Strobel Mark Johnson Rob McClanahan John Harrington Mark Pavelich Buzz Schneider Steve Christoff Neal Broten Mike Eruzione Mark Wells Phil Verchota	Soviet Union (URS) Vladislav Tretiak Vladimir Myshkin Alexei Kasatonov Viacheslav Fetisov Valeri Vasiliev Sergei Starikov Zinetula Bilyaletdinov Vasili Pervukhin Boris Mikhailov Vladimir Petrov Valeri Kharlamov Sergei Makarov Vladimir Golikov Aleksandr Golikov Aleksandr Maltsev Yuri Lebedev Vladimir Krutov Aleksandr Skvortsov Viktor Zhluktov Helmuts Balderis	Sweden (SWE) Pelle Lindbergh William Löfqvist Sture Andersson Jan Eriksson Thomas Eriksson Tomas Jonsson Tommy Samuelsson Mats Waltin Ulf Weinstock Bo Berglund Håkan Eriksson Leif Holmgren Bengt Lundholm Per Lundqvist Harald Lückner Lars Molin Lennart Norberg Mats Näslund Dan Söderström Mats Åhlberg

Luge

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles[2]	Bernhard Glass  East Germany	Paul Hildgartner  Italy	Anton Winkler  West Germany
Doubles[3]	East Germany (GDR) Hans Rinn Norbert Hahn	Italy (ITA) Peter Gschnitzer Karl Brunner	Austria (AUT) Georg Fluckinger Karl Schrott
Women's singles[4]	Vera Zozuļa  Soviet Union	Melitta Sollmann  East Germany	Ingrīda Amantova  Soviet Union

Nordic combined

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's individual[5]	Ulrich Wehling  East Germany	Jouko Karjalainen  Finland	Konrad Winkler  East Germany

Ski jumping

MacKenzie Intervale Ski Jumping Complex

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's normal hill[6]	Toni Innauer  Austria	Manfred Deckert  East Germany Hirokazu Yagi  Japan
Men's large hill	Jouko Törmänen  Finland	Hubert Neuper  Austria	Jari Puikkonen  Finland

Speed skating

Skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's 500 metres[7]	Eric Heiden  United States	Yevgeny Kulikov  Soviet Union	Lieuwe de Boer  Netherlands
Men's 1,000 metres[8]	Eric Heiden  United States	Gaétan Boucher  Canada	Vladimir Lobanov  Soviet Union Frode Rønning  Norway
Men's 1,500 metres[9]	Eric Heiden  United States	Kay Arne Stenshjemmet  Norway	Terje Andersen  Norway
Men's 5,000 metres[10]	Eric Heiden  United States	Kay Arne Stenshjemmet  Norway	Tom Erik Oxholm  Norway
Men's 10,000 metres[11]	Eric Heiden  United States	Piet Kleine  Netherlands	Tom Erik Oxholm  Norway
Women's 500 metres[12]	Karin Enke-Kania  East Germany	Leah Poulos-Mueller  United States	Nataliya Petrusyova  Soviet Union
Women's 1,000 metres[13]	Nataliya Petrusyova  Soviet Union	Leah Poulos-Mueller  United States	Sylvia Albrecht  East Germany
Women's 1,500 metres[14]	Annie Borckink  Netherlands	Ria Visser  Netherlands	Sabine Becker  East Germany
Women's 3,000 metres[15]	Bjørg Eva Jensen  Norway	Sabine Becker  East Germany	Beth Heiden  United States

Medal leaders

Russian biathlete Anatoly Alyabyev's three medals (two gold, one bronze) from the 1980 Winter Olympics.

Athletes that won at least two gold medals or at least three total medals are listed below.

Athlete	Nation	Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Heiden, EricEric Heiden	United States	Speed skating	5	0	0	5
Zimyatov, NikolayNikolay Zimyatov	Soviet Union	Cross-country skiing	3	0	0	3
Alyabyev, AnatolyAnatoly Alyabyev	Soviet Union	Biathlon	2	1	0	3
Wenzel, HanniHanni Wenzel	Liechtenstein (LIE)	Alpine skiing	2	1	0	3
Ullrich, FrankFrank Ullrich	East Germany (GDR)	Biathlon	1	2	0	3
Mieto, JuhaJuha Mieto	Finland (FIN)	Cross-country skiing	0	2	1	3
Petzold, BarbaraBarbara Petzold	East Germany (GDR)	Cross-country skiing	2	0	0	2
Stenmark, IngemarIngemar Stenmark	Sweden	Alpine skiing	2	0	0	2

References

General

• "Results and Medalists". Olympic.org. International Olympic Committee.

Specific

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