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The 1980 Winter Olympics, formally known as the XIII Olympic Winter Games, took place February 13 through 24, 1980 in Lake Placid, New York, United States. A total of 1,072 athletes representing 37 National Olympic Committees took part. There were 38 medal events contested at these Olympics.

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

Biathlon

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's 10 km details	Frank Ullrich  East Germany	Vladimir Alikin  Soviet Union	Anatoly Alyabyev  Soviet Union
Men's 20 km details	Anatoly Alyabyev  Soviet Union	Frank Ullrich  East Germany	Eberhard Rösch  East Germany
Men's 4 × 7.5 km details	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 Hans Estner Franz Bernreiter

Bobsleigh

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Two-man details	Switzerland (SUI) Erich Schärer Joseph Benz	East Germany (GDR) Bernhard Germeshausen Hans-Jürgen Gerhardt	East Germany (GDR) Meinhard Nehmer Bogdan Musioł
Four-man details	East Germany (GDR) Meinhard Nehmer Bogdan Musioł 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

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's 15 km details	Thomas Wassberg  Sweden	Juha Mieto  Finland	Ove Aunli  Norway
Men's 30 km details	Nikolay Zimyatov  Soviet Union	Vasily Rochev  Soviet Union	Ivan Lebanov  Bulgaria
Men's 50 km details	Nikolay Zimyatov  Soviet Union	Juha Mieto  Finland	Aleksandr Zavyalov  Soviet Union
Men's 4 × 10 km details	Soviet Union (URS) Vasily Rochev Nikolay Bazhukov Yevgeny Belyaev Nikolay Zimyatov	Norway (NOR) Lars Erik Eriksen Per Knut Aaland Ove Aunli Oddvar Brå	Finland (FIN) Harri Kirvesniemi Pertti Teurajärvi Matti Pitkänen Juha Mieto
Women's 5 km details	Raisa Smetanina  Soviet Union	Hilkka Riihivuori  Finland	Květoslava Jeriová  Czechoslovakia
Women's 10 km details	Barbara Petzold  East Germany	Hilkka Riihivuori  Finland	Helena Takalo  Finland
Women's 4 × 5 km details	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 Myrmæl Berit Aunli

Figure skating

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

Ice Hockey

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

Nordic combined

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

Ski jumping

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's normal hill details	Toni Innauer  Austria	Manfred Deckert  East Germany Hirokazu Yagi  Japan	Not awarded
Men's large hill details	Jouko Törmänen  Finland	Hubert Neuper  Austria	Jari Puikkonen  Finland

Speed skating

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

Medal leaders

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

Athlete	Nation	Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Eric Heiden	United States	Speed skating	5	0	0	5
Nikolay Zimyatov	Soviet Union	Cross-country skiing	3	0	0	3
Anatoly Alyabyev	Soviet Union	Biathlon	2	1	0	3
Hanni Wenzel	Liechtenstein (LIE)	Alpine skiing	2	1	0	3
Frank Ullrich	East Germany (GDR)	Biathlon	1	2	0	3
Juha Mieto	Finland (FIN)	Cross-country skiing	0	2	1	3
Barbara Petzold	East Germany (GDR)	Cross-country skiing	2	0	0	2
Ingemar Stenmark	Sweden	Alpine skiing	2	0	0	2

See also

• 1980 Winter Olympics medal table

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External links

• "Lake Placid 1980". Olympics.com. International Olympic Committee.

• Lists of Winter Olympic medalists by year
• 1980 Winter Olympics
• Medalists at the 1980 Winter Olympics