United States at the 1980 Winter Olympics

United States at the 1980 Winter Olympics
Flag of the United States
IOC code	USA
NOC	United States Olympic Committee
in Lake Placid
Competitors	101 (76 men, 25 women) in 10 sports
Flag bearer	Scott Hamilton (figure skating)
Medals Ranked 3rd	Gold Silver Bronze Total 6 4 2 12
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
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Other related appearances
1906 Intercalated Games

The United States was the host nation for the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	United States men's national ice hockey team Bill Baker   Mark Johnson   Buzz Schneider Neal Broten   Rob McClanahan   Dave Silk Dave Christian   Ken Morrow   Eric Strobel Steve Christoff   Jack O'Callahan   Bob Suter Jim Craig   Mike Ramsey   Phil Verchota Mike Eruzione   Mark Pavelich   Mark Wells John Harrington   Steve Janaszak	Ice hockey	Men's competition
Gold	Heiden, EricEric Heiden	Speed skating	Men's 500 metres
Gold	Heiden, EricEric Heiden	Speed skating	Men's 1500 metres
Gold	Heiden, EricEric Heiden	Speed skating	Men's 1000 metres
Gold	Heiden, EricEric Heiden	Speed skating	Men's 5000 metres
Gold	Heiden, EricEric Heiden	Speed skating	Men's 10000 metres
Silver	Mahre, PhilPhil Mahre	Alpine skiing	Men's slalom
Silver	Fratianne, LindaLinda Fratianne	Figure skating	Ladies' singles
Silver	Poulos-Mueller, LeahLeah Poulos-Mueller	Speed skating	Women's 500 metres
Silver	Poulos-Mueller, LeahLeah Poulos-Mueller	Speed skating	Women's 1000 metres
Bronze	Tickner, CharlesCharles Tickner	Figure skating	Men's singles
Bronze	Heiden, BethBeth Heiden	Speed skating	Women's 3000 metres

Alpine skiing

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Karl Anderson	Downhill					DNF	–
Andy Mill						1:49.07	16
John Winkelman							9
Phil Mahre						1:48.88	14
Pete Patterson					1:47.04	5
Pete Patterson	Giant Slalom	DNF	–	–	–	DNF	–
Cary Adgate		1:22.48	23	DNF	–	DNF	–
Steve Mahre		1:21.86	15	1:23.08	15	2:44.94	15
John Winkelman							19
Phil Mahre	1:21.74	14	1:22.59	10	2:44.33	10
Steve Mahre	Slalom	DNF	–	–	–	DNF	–
Bill Taylor		DNF	–	–	–	DNF	–
Pete Patterson		DNF	–	–	–	DNF	–
Phil Mahre		53.31	1	51.45	8	1:44.76

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Holly Flanders	Downhill					1:40.96	14
Cindy Nelson						1:39.69	7
Heidi Preuss						1:39.51	4
Tamara McKinney	Giant Slalom	DNF	–	–	–	DNF	–
Heidi Preuss		1:17.54	15	1:30.83	20	2:48.37	17
Cindy Nelson		1:17.42	13	1:29.90	14	2:47.32	13
Christin Cooper		1:16.61	9	1:28.10	7	2:44.71	7
Tamara McKinney	Slalom	DNF	–	–	–	DNF	–
Abbi Fisher		45.10	14	DNF	–	DNF	–
Cindy Nelson		44.96	12	45.89	13	1:30.85	11
Christin Cooper		44.23	7	45.05	7	1:29.28	8

Biathlon

Men

Event	Athlete	Misses ^1	Time	Rank
10 km Sprint	Peter Hoag	4	38:53.44	45
	Donald Nielsen	6	38:51.02	44
	Lyle Nelson	2	35:40.56	19

Event	Athlete	Time	Penalties	Adjusted time ^2	Rank
20 km	Johnny Ruger	1'12:30.80	21	1'33:30.80	45
	Glenn Jobe	1'15:36.52	6	1'21:36.52	38
	Martin Hagen	1'13:02.95	8	1'21:02.95	36

Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Misses ^1	Time	Rank
Martin Hagen Lyle Nelson Donald Nielsen Peter Hoag	0	1'39:24.29	8

¹ A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target.

² One minute added per close miss (a hit in the outer ring), two minutes added per complete miss.

Bobsleigh

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
USA-1	Brent Rushlaw Joe Tyler	Two-man	1:02.90	5	1:02.81	3	1:02.99	5	1:03.42	8	4:12.12	6
USA-2	Howard Siler Dick Nalley	Two-man	1:03.04	6	1:03.04	6	1:02.65	2	1:03.00	5	4:11.73	5

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
USA-1	Bob Hickey Jeff Jordan Willie Davenport Jeff Gadley	Four-man	1:01.49	12	1:01.81	14	1:01.04	13	1:01.77	14	4:06.11	12
USA-2	Howard Siler Joe Tyler Jeff Jost Dick Nalley	Four-man	1:01.49	12	1:01.69	13	1:01.30	14	1:01.72	12	4:06.20	13

Cross-country skiing

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
15 km	Jim Galanes	44:46.48	33
	Tim Caldwell	44:30.41	25
	Stan Dunklee	44:03.84	22
	Bill Koch	43:38.56	16
30 km	Bill Koch	DNF	–
	Doug Peterson	1'38:29.86	45
	Jim Galanes	1'36:15.17	41
	Stan Dunklee	1'33:48.02	30
50 km	Doug Peterson	DNF	–
	Stan Dunklee	2'42:20.20	33
	Jim Galanes	2'37:09.64	20
	Bill Koch	2'34:31.62	13

Men's 4 × 10 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Time	Rank
Bill Koch Tim Caldwell Jim Galanes Stan Dunklee	2'04:12.17	8

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
5 km	Betsy Haines	17:27.75	37
	Leslie Bancroft-Krichko	16:39.71	33
	Beth Paxson	16:20.93	26
	Alison Owen-Spencer	16:05.04	22
10 km	Lynn von der Heide-Spencer-Galanes	33:13.89	31
	Leslie Bancroft-Krichko	33:04.71	28
	Beth Paxson	33:01.60	25
	Alison Owen-Spencer	32:41.33	22

Women's 4 × 5 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Time	Rank
Alison Owen-Spencer Beth Paxson Leslie Bancroft-Krichko Lynn von der Heide-Spencer-Galanes	1'06:55.41	7

Figure skating

Men

Athlete	CF	SP	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Scott Hamilton	8	4	4	181.78	45	5
David Santee	3	3	5	185.52	34	4
Charles Tickner	2	5	3	187.06	28

Women

Athlete	CF	SP	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Sandy Lenz	11	6	7	172.74	82	9
Lisa-Marie Allen	8	3	4	179.42	45	5
Linda Fratianne	3	1	2	188.30	16

Pairs

Athletes	SP	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Tai Babilonia Randy Gardner	DNS	–	–	DNS	–
Sheryl Franks Michael Botticelli	7	7	133.84	64	7
Kitty Carruthers Peter Carruthers	5	5	137.38	46	5

Ice Dancing

Athletes	CD	FD	Points	Places	Rank
Stacey Smith John Summers	8	8	188.38	75	9
Judy Blumberg Michael Seibert	7	7	190.30	66	7

Ice hockey

First Round - Blue Division

	Team advanced to the Final Round
	Team advanced to Consolation Round

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Sweden	5	4	0	1	26	7	9
United States	5	4	0	1	25	10	9
Czechoslovakia	5	3	2	0	34	16	6
Romania	5	1	3	1	13	29	3
West Germany	5	1	4	0	21	30	2
Norway	5	0	4	1	9	36	1

All times are local (UTC-5).

12 February 1980 17:21

Sweden

2 – 2 (1–0, 0–1, 1–1)

United States

Olympic Fieldhouse, Lake Placid

				Referee: Dombrovski
	Andersson (Molin, Lundqvist) - 11:04 1 – 0 1 – 1 39:32 - Silk (Ramsey, Johnson) T. Eriksson (Lückner) - 44:45 2 – 1 2 – 2 59:33 - Baker (Pavelich, Schneider)
	8 min	Penalties	6 min
	36	Shots	29

14 February 1980 20:30

United States

7 – 3 (2–2, 2–0, 3–1)

Czechoslovakia

Olympic Fieldhouse, Lake Placid

				Referee: Lindgren
	0 – 1 02:23 - Pouzar (Kaberle, Nový) Eruzione (Broten) - 4:39 1 – 1 Pavelich (Schneider, Harrington) - 5:45 2 – 1 2 – 2 12:07 - M. Šťastný (P. Šťastný) Schneider (Pavelich) - 24:33 3 – 2 Johnson (McClanahan) - 35:28 4 – 2 Verchota (Christian) - 42:59 5 – 2 Schneider (Harrington) - 43:59 6 – 2 6 – 3 45:36 - Novák (Lukáč) McClanahan (Johnson) - 50:54 7 – 3
	10 min	Penalties	10 min
	27	Shots	31

16 February 1980 13:00

United States

5 – 1 (0–1, 3–0, 2–0)

Norway

Olympic Arena, Lake Placid

				Referee: Karl-Gustav Kaisla
	0 – 1 04:19 - Myhre (Løsåmoen) Eruzione (PP) - 20:41 1 – 1 Johnson (Christian, McClanahan) - 24:51 2 – 1 Silk (Pavelich, Morrow) - 33:31 3 – 1 Wells (Silk, Verchota) - 44:28 4 – 1 Morrow (McClanahan, Strobel) - 51:29 5 – 1
	16 min	Penalties	18 min
	43	Shots	22

18 February 1980 20:30

United States

7 – 2 (2–0, 2–1, 3–1)

Romania

Olympic Fieldhouse, Lake Placid

				Referee: Dombrovski
	Schneider (Pavelich, Harrington) - 12:03 1 – 0 Strobel (Schneider, Ramesy) - 15:52 2 – 0 Wells (Verchota, Morrow) - 29:34 3 – 0 3 – 1 33:40 - Tureanu (Nistor) (PP) Schneider (Harrington) - 37:05 4 – 1 Christoff (O'Callahan) (PP) - 43:14 5 – 1 5 – 2 52:48 - Halauca (Moroşan) Broten (Eruzione) - 56:12 6 – 2 McClanahan (Johnson) - 58:09 7 – 2
	6 min	Penalties	10 min
	51	Shots	21

20 February 1980 20:30

West Germany

2 – 4 (2–0, 0–2, 0–2)

United States

Olympic Fieldhouse, Lake Placid

				Referee: Haley
	Kretschmer - 01:50 1 – 0 Kiessling (Höfner, Kretschmer) (PP) - 19:45 2 – 0 2 – 1 27:40 - McClanahan (Johnson, Christian) 2 – 2 38:31 - Broten (Strobel, Eruzione) 2 – 3 41:17 - McClanahan (Johnson, Christian) 2 – 4 44:17 - Verchota (Christian, Wells)
	8 min	Penalties	16 min
	26	Shots	32

Final round

The top two teams from each group play the top two teams from the other group once. Points from previous games against their own group carry over, excluding teams who failed to make the medal round.

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
United States	3	2	0	1	10	7	5
Soviet Union	3	2	1	0	16	8	4
Sweden	3	0	1	2	7	14	2
Finland	3	0	2	1	7	11	1

22 February 1980 17:00

United States

4 – 3 (2–2, 0–1, 2–0)

Soviet Union

Olympic Fieldhouse, Lake Placid

				Referee: Karl-Gustav Kaisla
	0 – 1 09:12 - Krutov (Kasatonov) Schneider (Pavelich) - 14:03 1 – 1 1 – 2 17:34 - Makarov (A. Golikov) Johnson (Christian, Silk) - 19:59 2 – 2 2 – 3 22:18 - Maltsev (Krutov) (PP) Johnson (Silk) (PP) - 48:39 3 – 3 Eruzione (Pavelich, Harrington) - 50:00 4 – 3
	6 min	Penalties	6 min
	16	Shots	39

24 February 1980 11:00

United States

4 – 2 (0–1, 1–1, 3–0)

Finland

Olympic Fieldhouse, Lake Placid

				Referee: Vladimir Šubrt
	0 – 1 09:20 - Porvari (Leinonen, Litma) Christoff - 24:39 1 – 1 1 – 2 26:30 - Leinonen (Haapalainen, Kiimalainen) (PP) Verchota (Christian) - 42:25 2 – 2 McClanahan (Johnson, Christian) - 46:05 3 – 2 Johnson (Christoff) (SH) - 56:25 4 – 2
	10 min	Penalties	4 min
	29	Shots	23

Carried over group match:

• Sweden 2–2 USA

Leading scorers

Rank	Player	GP	G	A	Pts
9th	Mark Johnson	7	5	6	11

Gold:

Bill Baker – A Neal Broten Dave Christian Steve Christoff Jim Craig Mike Eruzione – C John Harrington Steve Janaszak Mark Johnson Rob McClanahan Ken Morrow Jack O'Callahan Mark Pavelich Mike Ramsey Buzz Schneider Dave Silk Eric Strobel Bob Suter Phil Verchota Mark Wells

Luge

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Richard Stithem	45.418	22	45.938	19	46.245	21	45.491	17	3:03.092	20
John Fee	45.328	21	45.407	15	46.032	20	45.345	15	3:02.112	14
Jeff Tucker	45.158	17	45.311	13	45.427	14	45.400	16	3:01.296	12

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes	Run 1		Run 2		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Richard Healey Ty Danco	40.386	12	40.955	12	1:21.341	11
Frank Masley Raymond Bateman	48.241	19	40.612	11	1:28.853	18

Women

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Susan Charlesworth	41.018	24	DNF	–	–	–	–	–	DNF	–
Donna Burke	40.663	19	40.931	17	40.943	16	41.148	21	2:43.685	17
Debra Genovese	40.497	16	40.811	16	40.799	15	40.819	15	2:42.926	15

Nordic combined

Events:

• normal hill ski jumping (Three jumps, best two counted and shown here.)
• 15 km cross-country skiing

Athlete	Event	Ski Jumping				Cross-country			Total
		Distance 1	Distance 2	Points	Rank	Time	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Gary Crawford	Individual	66.0	71.0	161.7	29	52:21.3	178.480	25	340.180	28
Kerry Lynch		69.0	74.5	180.3	20	49:44.3	202.030	12	382.330	18
Mike Devecka		69.0	71.5	174.5	22	DNF	–	–	DNF	–
Walter Malmquist		79.5	84.0	221.8	2	52:54.5	173.500	27	395.300	12

Ski jumping

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
		Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Jim Denney	Normal hill	70.0	93.2	75.0	99.7	192.9	36
Jeff Davis		80.0	105.7	84.0	120.6	226.3	17
Chris McNeill		79.0	110.1	74.5	102.4	212.5	23
Jim Maki		81.0	113.8	72.0	94.9	208.7	26
Jeff Davis	Large hill	96.0	99.6	83.0	76.9	176.5	44
Reed Zuehlke		98.0	100.4	79.0	68.8	169.2	45
Walter Malmquist		97.0	104.0	95.5	101.4	205.4	27
Jim Denney		109.0	123.8	104.0	115.3	239.1	8

Speed skating

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Jim Chapin	39.74	24
	Dan Immerfall	38.69	5
	Eric Heiden	38.03 OR
1000 m	Craig Kressler	1:18.37	11
	Peter Mueller	1:17.11	5
	Eric Heiden	1:15.18 OR
1500 m	Craig Kressler	2:00.60	18
	Tom Plant	2:00.57	17
	Eric Heiden	1:55.44 OR
5000 m	Craig Kressler	7:25.43	18
	Mike Woods	7:10.39	7
	Eric Heiden	7:02.29 OR
10,000 m	Craig Kressler	DNF	–
	Mike Woods	14:39.53	4
	Eric Heiden	14:28.13 WR

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Sarah Docter	44.48	23
	Beth Heiden	43.18	7
	Leah Poulos-Mueller	42.26
1000 m	Sarah Docter	1:28.80	14
	Beth Heiden	1:27.01	5
	Leah Poulos-Mueller	1:25.41
1500 m	Sarah Docter	2:15.11	13
	Mary Docter	2:14.74	12
	Beth Heiden	2:13.10	7
3000 m	Sarah Docter	4:43.30	10
	Mary Docter	4:39.29	6
	Beth Heiden	4:33.77

References

• Official Olympic Reports
• Olympic Winter Games 1980, full results by sports-reference.com
• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2009-06-22.