United States at the 1980 Winter Olympics explained

Noc:	USA
Nocname:	United States Olympic Committee
Games:	Winter Olympics
Year:	1980
Flagcaption:	Flag of the United States
Location:	Lake Placid
Competitors:	101 (76 men, 25 women)
Sports:	10
Flagbearer:	Scott Hamilton (opening)
Rank:	3
Gold:	6
Silver:	4
Bronze:	2
Appearances:	auto

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

Medalists

The following U.S. competitors won medals at the games. In the by discipline sections below, medalists' names are bolded.

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Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
		Speed skating	Men's 500 meters
		Speed skating	Men's 5000 meters
		Speed skating	Men's 1000 meters
		Speed skating	Men's 1500 meters
		Speed skating	Men's 10,000 meters
		Ice hockey	Men's tournament
		Speed skating	Women's 500 meters
		Speed skating	Women's 1000 meters
		Alpine skiing	Men's slalom
		Figure skating	Women's singles
		Speed skating	Women's 3000 meters
		Figure skating	Men's singles

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Medals by sport
Sport				Total
Speed skating	5	2	1	8
Ice hockey	1	0	0	1
Figure skating	0	1	1	2
Alpine skiing	0	1	0	1
Total	style=background:gold	6	style=background:silver	4	style=background:#c96	2	12

Medals by gender
Gender				Total	Percentage
Male	6	1	1	8	66.7%
Female	0	3	1	4	33.3%
Total	style=background:gold	6	style=background:silver	4	style=background:#c96	2	12	100%

Multiple medalists
Name	Sport				Total
Eric Heiden	Speed skating	5	0	0	5
Leah Poulos-Mueller	Speed skating	0	2	0	2

Alpine skiing

See main article: Alpine skiing at the 1980 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Karl Anderson	align=left rowspan=4	Downhill
Phil Mahre	1:48.88	14
Andy Mill	1:49.07	16
Pete Patterson	1:47.04	5
Cary Adgate	align=left rowspan=4	Giant slalom	1:22.48	23
Phil Mahre	1:21.74	14	1:22.59	10	2:44.33	10
Steve Mahre	1:21.86	15	1:23.08	15	2:44.94	15
Pete Patterson
Phil Mahre	align=left rowspan=4	Slalom	53.31	1	51.45	8	1:44.76
Steve Mahre
Pete Patterson
Bill Taylor

Women

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Holly Flanders	align=left rowspan=3	Downhill	1:40.96	14
Cindy Nelson	1:39.69	7
Heidi Preuss	1:39.51	4
Christin Cooper	align=left rowspan=4	Giant slalom	1:16.61	9	1:28.10	7	2:44.71	7
Tamara McKinney
Cindy Nelson	1:17.42	13	1:29.90	14	2:47.32	13
Heidi Preuss	1:17.54	15	1:30.83	20	2:48.37	17
Abbi Fisher	align=left rowspan=4	Slalom	45.10	14
Christin Cooper	44.23	7	45.05	7	1:29.28	8
Tamara McKinney
Cindy Nelson	44.96	12	45.89	13	1:30.85	11

Biathlon

See main article: Biathlon at the 1980 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Time	Misses	Rank
Martin Hagen	align=left rowspan=3	Individual	1:21:02.95	8 (0+4+4+0)	36
Glenn Jobe	1:21:36.52	6 (1+0+0+5)	38
Johnny Ruger	1:33:30.80	21 (8+4+6+3)	45
Peter Hoag	align=left rowspan=3	Sprint	38:53.44	4 (2+2)	45
Lyle Nelson	35:40.56	2 (1+1)	19
Donald Nielsen	38:51.02	6 (2+4)	44
Peter Hoag Martin Hagen Lyle Nelson Donald Nielsen	Relay	1:39:24.29	13 (0+5 0+8)	8

Bobsleigh

See main article: Bobsleigh at the 1980 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Brent Rushlaw Joe Tyler	align=left rowspan=2	Two-man	1:02.90	5	1:02.81	3	1:02.99	5	1:03.42	8	4:12.12	6
Howard Siler Dick Nalley	1:03.04	6	1:03.04	6	1:02.65	2	1:03.00	5	4:11.73	5
Bob Hickey Jeff Jordan Willie Davenport Jeff Gadley	align=left rowspan=2	Four-man	1:01.49	12	1:01.81	14	1:01.04	13	1:01.77	14	4:06.11	12
Howard Siler Joe Tyler Jeff Jost Dick Nalley	1:01.49	12	1:01.69	13	1:01.30	14	1:01.72	12	4:06.20	13

Cross-country skiing

See main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1980 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Tim Caldwell	align=left rowspan=4	15 km	44:30.41	25
Stan Dunklee	44:03.84	22
Jim Galanes	44:46.48	33
Bill Koch	43:38.56	16
Stan Dunklee	align=left rowspan=4	30 km	1:33:48.02	30
Jim Galanes	1:36:15.17	41
Bill Koch
Doug Peterson	1:38:29.86	45
Stan Dunklee	align=left rowspan=4	50 km	2:42:20.20	33
Jim Galanes	2:37:09.64	20
Bill Koch	2:34:31.62	13
Doug Peterson
Tim Caldwell Stan Dunklee Jim Galanes Bill Koch	4 × 10 km relay	2:04:12.17	8

Women

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Leslie Bancroft-Krichko	align=left rowspan=4	5 km	16:39.71	33
Betsy Haines	17:27.75	37
Beth Paxson	16:20.93	26
Alison Owen-Spencer	16:05.04	22
Leslie Bancroft-Krichko	align=left rowspan=4	10 km	33:04.71	28
Beth Paxson	33:01.60	25
Alison Owen-Spencer	32:41.33	22
Lynn von der Heide-Spencer-Galanes	33:13.89	31
Leslie Bancroft-Krichko Alison Owen-Spencer Beth Paxson Lynn von der Heide-Spencer-Galanes	4 × 5 km relay	1:06:55.41	7

Figure skating

See main article: Figure skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics.

Individual

Athlete	Event				Total
		Rank	Rank	Rank	Points	Places	Rank
Scott Hamilton	align=left rowspan=3	Men's singles	8	4	4	181.78	45	5
David Santee	3	3	5	185.52	34	4
Charles Tickner	2	5	3	187.06	28
Lisa-Marie Allen	align=left rowspan=3	Ladies' singles	8	3	4	179.42	45	5
Linda Fratianne	3	1	2	188.30	16
Sandy Lenz	11	6	7	172.74	82	9

Mixed

Athlete	Event	/	/	Total
		Rank	Rank	Points	Places	Rank
Tai Babilonia Randy Gardner	align=left rowspan=3	Pairs
Kitty Carruthers Peter Carruthers	5	5	137.38	46	5
Sheryl Franks Michael Botticelli	7	7	133.84	64	7
Judy Blumberg Michael Seibert	align=left rowspan=2	Ice dancing	7	7	190.30	66	7
Stacey Smith John Summers	8	8	188.38	75	9

Ice hockey

See main article: Ice hockey at the 1980 Winter Olympics.

Summary

Roster

• 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

First Round

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Final round

See also: Miracle on Ice.

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Luge

See main article: Luge at the 1980 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
John Fee	align=left rowspan=3	Singles	45.328	21	45.407	15	46.032	20	45.345	15	3:02.112	14
Richard Stithem	45.418	22	45.938	19	46.245	21	45.491	17	3:03.092	20
Jeff Tucker	45.158	17	45.311	13	45.427	14	45.400	16	3:01.296	12
Raymond Bateman Frank Masley	align=left rowspan=2	Doubles	48.241	19	40.612	11	1:28.853	18
Ty Danco Richard Healey	40.386	12	40.955	12	1:21.341	11

Women

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

Nordic combined

See main article: Nordic combined at the 1980 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Ski Jumping				Cross-country			Total
		Jump 1	Jump 2	Total	Rank	Time	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Gary Crawford	align=left rowspan=4	Individual	78.8	82.9	161.7	29	52:21.3	178.480	25	340.180	28
Mike Devecka	88.6	85.9	174.5	22
Kerry Lynch	87.6	92.7	180.3	20	49:44.3	202.030	12	382.330	18
Walter Malmquist	108.4	113.4	221.8	2	52:54.5	173.500	27	395.300	12

Ski jumping

See main article: Ski jumping at the 1980 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
		Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Jeff Davis	align=left rowspan=4	Normal hill	80.0	105.7	84.0	120.6	226.3	17
Jim Denney	70.0	93.2	75.0	99.7	192.9	36
Jim Maki	81.0	113.8	72.0	94.9	208.7	26
Chris McNeill	79.0	110.1	74.5	102.4	212.5	23
Jeff Davis	align=left rowspan=4	Large hill	96.0	99.6	83.0	76.9	176.5	44
Jim Denney	109.0	123.8	104.0	115.3	239.1	8
Walter Malmquist	97.0	104.0	95.5	101.4	205.4	27
Reed Zuehlke	98.0	100.4	79.0	68.8	169.2	45

Speed skating

See main article: Speed skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Jim Chapin	align=left rowspan=3	500 m	39.74	24
Eric Heiden	38.03
Dan Immerfall	38.69	5
Eric Heiden	align=left rowspan=3	1000 m	1:15.18
Craig Kressler	1:18.37	11
Peter Mueller	1:17.11	5
Eric Heiden	align=left rowspan=3	1500 m	1:55.44
Craig Kressler	2:00.60	18
Tom Plant	2:00.57	17
Eric Heiden	align=left rowspan=3	5000 m	7:02.29
Craig Kressler	7:25.43	18
Mike Woods	7:10.39	7
Eric Heiden	align=left rowspan=3	10,000 m	14:28.13
Craig Kressler
Mike Woods	14:39.53	4

Women

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Sarah Docter	align=left rowspan=3	500 m	44.48	23
Beth Heiden	43.18	7
Leah Poulos-Mueller	42.26
Sarah Docter	align=left rowspan=3	1000 m	1:28.80	14
Beth Heiden	1:27.01	5
Leah Poulos-Mueller	1:25.41
Mary Docter	align=left rowspan=3	1500 m	2:14.74	12
Sarah Docter	2:15.11	13
Beth Heiden	2:13.10	7
Mary Docter	align=left rowspan=3	3000 m	4:39.29	6
Sarah Docter	4:43.30	10
Beth Heiden	4:33.77

References

• Official Olympic Reports
• Olympic Winter Games 1980, full results by sports-reference.com
• Web site: Olympic Medal Winners . . 2009-06-22.