1980 Winter Olympics

The XIII. Winter Olympics 1980 in Lake Placid, USA, discharged. It was already the second Winter Games in the U.S. and in Lake Placid after 1932.

Vancouver in Canada, the only other candidate for the Winter Games, pulled his application before the vote.

Sports facilities

In Reitstadion of Lake Placid ( Lake Placid Equestrian Stadium ), the opening ceremony was held.

In the Olympic Center (later renamed Herb Brooks Arena), as already found in the Games in 1932 - the Hockey Games instead.

The Alpine ski competitions were carried out the bobsled and luge disciplines on the Olympic bobsleigh run Mt Van Hoevenberg in Whiteface Mountain.

Figure skating took place in the Olympic Fieldhouse.

The Cascade Cross Country Ski Center started the cross-country skiers, biathletes and Nordic combined, ski jumps were called Olympic ski jumps.

On the Lake Placid High School Speedskating Oval contests of speed skaters were held.

Mascot

The mascot of the games were " Roni " and " Ronny ", two raccoons. The rings on the face of raccoons, reminiscent of the goggles and masks that are worn by many winter sports athletes during a competition.

Highlights

  • Playing at home, the ice hockey team of the United States won a totally unexpected gold medal. A sensational victory over the USSR ( Miracle on Ice) made ​​this possible.

Outstanding athletes

  • Eric Heiden (USA) won all five speed skating competitions, but he broke the Olympic record in each case, on the 10,000 - meter course also the world record.
  • Hanni Wenzel ( Liechtenstein ) won in the three Alpine Skibewerben two gold and one silver medal.
  • Ulrich Wehling (GDR) in the Nordic combined and Irina Rodnina (URS ) in figure skating each won for the third consecutive Olympic gold medals in their sports.
  • Alexander Tikhonov (URS ) won after 1968, 1972 and 1976, the fourth gold medal in a row in the biathlon relay.

Participant

  • Andorra Andorra ( 3)
  • Belgium Belgium (3)
  • Bulgaria 1971 Bulgaria ( 32)
  • Federal Republic of Germany Federal Republic of Germany (80 )
  • Democratic Republic of Germany DDR 1949 (53 )
  • Finland Finland ( 53)
  • France (22 )
  • Greece 1975 Greece (3)
  • Iceland Iceland (6 )
  • Italy Italy ( 46)
  • Yugoslavia Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ( 15)
  • Liechtenstein Liechtenstein ( 7)
  • Netherlands Netherlands (29 )
  • Norway Norway ( 63)
  • Austria Austria (43 )
  • Poland Poland ( 30)
  • Romania 1965 Romania ( 35)
  • Sweden Sweden (61 )
  • Switzerland Switzerland (44 )
  • Soviet Union 1955 Soviet Union ( 86)
  • Spain ( 8)
  • Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia (41 )
  • Hungary 1957 Hungary ( 3)
  • United Kingdom United Kingdom (48 )
  • Cyprus Cyprus ( 3)
  • Argentina Argentina ( 12)
  • Bolivia Bolivia ( 12)
  • Costa Rica Costa Rica ( 3)
  • Canada Canada ( 58)
  • United States of America (101 )
  • Japan Japan (50 )
  • Lebanon Lebanon ( 3)
  • Mongolia Mongolia ( 3)
  • Flag of South Korea South Korea ( 24)
  • China Republic 1928 People's Republic of China ( 24)
  • Australia (9 )
  • New Zealand New Zealand ( 5)

A total of 1121 athletes from 37 countries participated in the competitions. These were 140 less than it was at the Games in Innsbruck.

As with the previous two Winter Games, no athlete participated from Africa. For the first time, Cyprus has participated; for Costa Rica and the People's Republic of China, it was the debut at the Winter Olympics.

Competitions

  • Bob
  • Biathlon
  • Hockey
  • Figure skating
  • Speed ​​Skating
  • Luge
  • Alpine Skiing
  • Nordic skiing
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