Figure skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics explained

Figure skating at the XIII Winter Olympics
Comptype:	Olympic Games
Championmen:	Robin Cousins
Championladies:	Anett Pötzsch
Championpairs:	Irina Rodnina / Alexander Zaitsev
Championdance:	Natalia Linichuk / Gennadi Karponossov
Previouscomp:	1976 Winter Olympics
Nextcomp:	1984 Winter Olympics

Figure skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics took place at the Olympic Center Arena in Lake Placid, New York, United States.^[1]

Participating NOCs

Twenty nations sent figure skaters to compete in the events at Lake Placid.

Results

Men

Rank	Name	Nation	CF	SP	FS	Points	Places
1			4	1	1	189.48	13
2			1	2	2	189.72	15
3			2	5	3	187.06	28
4			3	3	5	185.52	34
5			8	4	4	181.78	45
6			7	6	8	177.40	55
7			6	10	9	175.00	64
8			11	7	7	172.28	75
9			13	8	6	172.04	77
10			10	11	10	168.18	91
11			9	9	13	166.70	98
12			12	12	12	163.26	107
13			15	13	11	159.30	116
14			14	14	14	149.80	127
15			16	15	15	145.66	134
16			17	16	16	117.16	144
WD			5

Note: Soviet officials withdrew Kovalev from the competition after he placed 5th in compulsory figures.^[2]

Referee:

• Sonia Bianchetti

Assistant Referee:

• Elemér Terták

Judges:

• Alice Pinos
• Walburga Grimm
• Tatiana Danilenko
• Ramona McIntyre
• Alain Calmat
• Britta Lindgren
• Sally-Anne Stapleford
• Elfride Beyer
• Tsukasa Kimura
• Jacqueline Kendall-Baker (substitute)

Ladies

Rank	Name	Nation	CF	SP	FS	Points	Places
1			1	4	3	189.00	11
2			3	1	2	188.30	16
3			2	5	6	183.04	28
4			12	2	1	180.06	43
5			8	3	4	179.42	45
6			4	8	5	179.04	48
7			5	7	9	176.88	60
8			6	14	10	172.82	77
9			11	6	7	172.74	82
10			7	11	12	172.04	87
11			13	10	8	170.30	100
12			10	9	14	168.94	109
13			15	13	11	166.32	120
14			9	15	16	165.46	125
15			16	12	15	164.64	128
16			18	16	13	161.54	144
17			14	17	17	157.54	152
18			17	19	18	149.50	162
19			19	18	19	144.82	134
20			20	22	22	128.18	134
21			21	20	21	126.56	190
22			22	21	20	126.96	191

Referee:

• Benjamin T. Wright

Assistant Referee:

• Donald H. Gilchrist

Judges:

• Wolfgang Kunz
• Ludwig Gassner
• Kinuko Ueno
• Charles U. Foster
• Radovan Lipovšćak
• Leena Vainio
• Giorgio Siniscalco
• Ingrid Linke
• Markus Germann
• Sergei Kononykhin (substitute)

Pairs

Medal favorites Tai Babilonia / Randy Gardner were forced to withdraw before the competition due to an injury to Gardner.

Rank	Name	Nation	SP	FS	Points	Places
1			1	1	147.26	9
2			2	2	143.80	19
3			4	3	140.52	33
4			3	4	141.14	31
5			5	5	137.38	46
6			6	6	136.00	53
7			7	7	133.84	64
8			8	8	131.70	71
9			9	9	129.36	78
10			11	10	124.36	91
11			10	11	121.30	98
WD

Referee:

• Hermann Schiechtl

Assistant Referee:

• Oskar Madl

Judges:

• Walburga Grimm
• Hugh C. Graham Jr.
• Alain Calmat
• Dennis McFarlane
• Jacqueline Kendall-Baker
• Milan Duchón
• Elfriede Beyer
• Kinuko Ueno
• Sergei Kononykhin
• Ludwig Gassner (substitute)

Ice dance

Rank	Name	Nation	CD	FD	Points	Places
1			1	2	205.48	13
2			2	1	204.52	14
3			3	3	201.86	27
4			4	4	198.02	39
5			5	5	197.12	42
6			6	6	193.80	54
7			7	7	190.30	66
8			9	9	188.18	75
9			8	8	188.38	75
10			10	10	178.38	94
11			11	11	177.78	96
12			12	12	176.92	104

Referee:

• Lawrence Demmy

Assistant Referee:

• Edith Shoemaker

Judges:

• Wolfgang Kunz
• Virginia LeFevre
• Igor Kabanov
• Gerhardt Bubník
• Pál Vásárhelyi
• Rudolf Zorn
• Suzanne Francis
• Brenda Long
• Lysiane Lauret
• Tsukasa Kimura (substitute)

External links

• Official Olympic Report
• Results of Winter Olympics (archived)
• 1980 Winter Olympics (with links to all figure skating results)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Figure Skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics . Olympedia . 31 December 2020.
2. https://web.archive.org/web/20200418071554/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ko/vladimir-kovalyov-1.html Vladmir Kovalyov