West Germany at the 1980 Winter Olympics explained

Noc:	FRG
Nocname:	German Olympic Sports Confederation
Games:	Winter Olympics
Year:	1980
Flagcaption:	Flag of Germany
Website:
Location:	Lake Placid
Competitors:	80 (61 men, 19 women)
Sports:	10
Flagbearer:	Urban Hettich (Nordic combined)
Rank:	12
Gold:	0
Silver:	2
Bronze:	3
Appearances:	auto
App Begin Year:	1968
App End Year:	1988
See also:	(1896–1936, 1952, 1992–) (1952) (1956–1964)

West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany) competed at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, United States.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
			Women's giant slalom
			Women's slalom
			Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay
			Women's singles
			Men's individual

Alpine skiing

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

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Michael Veith	Downhill					1:50.00	23
Sepp Ferstl	Giant Slalom	1:25.86	39	1:27.17	34	2:53.03	34
Albert Burger		1:22.59	24	1:23.53	19	2:46.12	20
Frank Wörndl		1:21.70	13	1:23.88	22	2:45.58	17
Sepp Ferstl	Slalom	1:01.77	30	57.53	25	1:59.30	25
Albert Burger		56.98	24	DSQ	-	DSQ	-
Frank Wörndl		55.30	13	51.89	10	1:47.19	10
Christian Neureuther		54.37	5	50.77	3	1:45.14	5

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Monika Bader	Downhill					1:41.96	21
Irene Epple						1:41.68	19
Evi Mittermaier						1:41.26	17
Marianne Zechmeister						1:39.96	9
Regine Mösenlechner	Giant Slalom	1:17.70	16	DNF	-	DNF	-
Maria Epple		1:16.20	8	1:29.36	11	2:45.56	8
Christa Kinshofer-Güthlein		1:15.19	3	1:27.44	5	2:42.63	5
Irene Epple		1:14.75	2	1:27.37	4	2:42.12
Regine Mösenlechner	Slalom	DNF	-	-	-	DNF	-
Pamela Behr		DNF	-	-	-	DNF	-
Irene Epple		45.14	15	DNF	-	DNF	-
Christa Kinshofer-Güthlein		42.74	2	43.76	2	1:26.50

Biathlon

See main article: Biathlon at the 1980 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Misses ¹	Time	Rank
10 km Sprint	Fritz Fischer	4	36:29.87	27
	Gerd Winkler	1	34:24.16	10
	Peter Angerer	4	34:13.43	8

Event	Athlete	Time	Penalties	Adjusted time ²	Rank
20 km	Gerd Winkler	1'10:48.57	7	1'17:48.57	30
	Alois Kanamüller	1'11:34.80	6	1'17:34.80	29
	Peter Angerer	1'08:07.60	8	1'16:07.60	27

Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay

¹A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target.
²One minute added per close miss (a hit in the outer ring), two minutes added per complete miss.

Bobsleigh

See main article: Bobsleigh at the 1980 Winter Olympics.

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Sled	Athletes	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
FRG-1	Peter Hell Heinz Busche	Two-man	1:03.87	12	1:03.63	7	1:02.91	4	1:03.33	7	4:13.74	8
FRG-2	Georg Großmann Alexander Wernsdorfer	Two-man	1:03.50	7	1:04.93	20	1:03.85	13	1:03.85	10	4:16.13	12

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Sled	Athletes	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
FRG-1	Peter Hell Hans Wagner Heinz Busche Walter Barfuß	Four-man	1:01.14	8	1:01.22	8	1:00.57	8	1:01.47	11	4:04.40	7
FRG-2	Alois Schnorbus Lothar Pongratz Jürgen Hofmann Martin Meinberg	Four-man	1:01.54	14	1:01.47	11	1:00.93	10	1:01.21	8	4:05.15	10

Cross-country skiing

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

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
15 km	Dieter Notz	44:54.11	36
	Peter Zipfel	44:38.23	26
	Wolfgang Müller	44:02.54	21
	Jochen Behle	43:16.05	12
30 km	Peter Zipfel	1'36:06.95	40
	Wolfgang Müller	1'35:37.46	37
	Josef Schneider	1'34:05.33	31
	Dieter Notz	1'31:58.27	22
50 km	Josef Schneider	2'40:49.68	29
	Franz Schöbel	2'40:25.96	28
	Dieter Notz	2'37:47.41	22
	Peter Zipfel	2'37:09.74	21

Men's 4 × 10 km relay

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
5 km	Karin Jäger	16:38.47	32
5 km	Susi Riermeier	16:31.07	31
10 km	Karin Jäger	33:01.76	26
10 km	Susi Riermeier	32:37.57	21

Figure skating

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

Men

Women

Athlete	CF	SP	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Christina Riegel	17	19	18	149.50	162	18
Karin Riediger	15	13	11	166.32	120	13
Dagmar Lurz	2	5	6	183.04	28

Pairs

Ice Dancing

Ice hockey

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

First round - Blue Division

	Team advanced to the Final Round
	Team advanced to Consolation round

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	5	4	0	1	26	7	9
	5	4	0	1	25	10	9
	5	3	2	0	34	16	6
	5	1	3	1	13	29	3
	5	1	4	0	21	30	2
	5	0	4	1	9	36	1

All times are local (UTC-5).

Team roster

Bernd Englbrecht

Sigmund Suttner

Udo Kiessling

Harald Krüll

Klaus Auhuber

Horst-Peter Kretschmer

Joachim Reil

Peter Scharf

Rainer Philipp

Franz Reindl

Martin Hinterstocker

Uli Egen

Gerd Truntschka

Hans Zach

Hermann Hinterstocker

Ernst Höfner

Vladimir Vacatko

Martin Wild

Holger Meitinger
Head coach: Hans Rampf

Luge

See main article: Luge at the 1980 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Anton Wembacher	44.308	13	44.549	7	44.835	9	44.320	6	2:58.012	8
Gerhard Böhmer	44.010	8	44.741	9	44.305	5	44.584	9	2:57.769	7
Anton Winkler	43.885	7	44.045	5	44.310	6	44.305	4	2:56.545

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes	Run 1		Run 2		Total
Athletes	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Anton Winkler Anton Wembacher	39.916	6	40.096	5	1:20.012	6
Hans Brandner Balthasar Schwarm	39.814	4	40.249	7	1:20.063	7

Women

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Andrea Fendt	40.234	14	40.458	13	40.215	12	40.848	14	2:43.391	12
Elisabeth Demleitner	39.568	6	39.460	2	39.466	3	39.424	5	2:37.918	4

Nordic combined

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

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
Athlete	Event	Distance 1	Distance 2	Points	Rank	Time	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Hermann Weinbuch	Individual	73.5	75.0	187.8	17	50:14.9	197.440	17	385.240	16
Günther Abel		72.5	78.5	184.9	18	50:53.7	191.620	22	376.520	20
Urban Hettich		75.0	71.5	174.2	23	48:09.0	216.325	4	390.525	14
Hubert Schwarz		81.0	84.5	219.6	3	51:54.2	182.545	23	402.145	9

Ski jumping

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

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Hubert Schwarz	Normal hill	80.0	113.2	72.0	95.9	209.1	25
Peter Leitner	Normal hill	81.0	114.3	77.5	108.7	223.0	19
Hermann Weinbuch	Large hill	85.0	83.2	80.0	72.2	155.4	48
Hubert Schwarz		104.5	115.5	78.0	66.4	181.9	41
Peter Leitner		106.0	116.6	98.0	104.9	221.5	18

Speed skating

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

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
1000 m	Herbert Schwarz	1:44.23	39
1500 m	Herbert Schwarz	1:59.58	12

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
500 m	Brigitte Flierl	45.28	28
	Monika Gawenus-Holzner-Pflug	44.59	25
	Sigrid Smuda	44.11	17
1000 m	Brigitte Flierl	1:33.61	33
	Sigrid Smuda	1:30.29	23
	Monika Gawenus-Holzner-Pflug	1:30.13	21
1500 m	Sigrid Smuda	2:18.86	22
3000 m	Sigrid Smuda	4:53.55	19