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The 1980 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIII Olympic Winter Games, were held in 1980 in Lake Placid, New York, United States of America. Another candidate city was Vancouver-Garibaldi, British Columbia, Canada; they withdrew before the final vote. Lake Placid is a village of 2,638 in the Adirondack Mountains in Essex County, New York, near the center of the Town of North Elba and named after an adjacent lake. ...
February 13 is the 44th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...
February 24 is the 55th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...
Walter Frederick Fritz Mondale (born January 5, 1928) is an American politician and member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. ...
The Olympic Oath is taken by an athlete and a judge at the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games. ...
Eric Arthur Heiden (born June 15, 1958) is an American speed skater who won all the distances and thus an unprecedented five gold medals at the 1980 Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid, New York, United States. ...
The Olympic Oath is taken by an athlete and a judge at the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games. ...
Richard Terrance (Terry) McDermott (born 20 September 1940 in Essexville, Michigan) is a former speedskater representing the United States. ...
The Olympic Flame at the Athens 2004 Summer Olympics The Olympic Flame, Olympic Fire, Olympic Torch, Olympic Light, Olympic Eye, and Olympic Sun is a symbol of the Olympic Games. ...
Charles H Kerr Company Publishers was established in Chicago, Illinois in 1886 by Charles Hope Kerr, originally to promote his Unitarian and vegetarian views. ...
The Olympiako Stadio Athinas Spyros Louis in Athens, used in the 2004 Summer Olympics. ...
Lake Placid Equestrian Stadium is a equestrian stadium in Lake Placid, New York. ...
1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...
Lake Placid is a village of 2,638 in the Adirondack Mountains in Essex County, New York, near the center of the Town of North Elba and named after an adjacent lake. ...
Vancouver (pronounced: ) is a Canadian city in the province of British Columbia. ...
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Highlights - This was the second time the Games were held in Lake Placid.
- First use of artificial snow in Olympic competition.
- Although they did not get any medals, the People's Republic of China returned to the Olympics Games after the IOC agreed to designate the ROC "Chinese Taipei".
- Ingemar Stenmark won both the giant slalom and the slalom.
- Hanni Wenzel won the women's giant slalom and slalom, making Liechtenstein the smallest country to produce an Olympic champion.
- Ulrich Wehling of the East Germany and Irina Rodnina won their respective events for the third time.
- Aleksandr Tikhonov of the USSR earned his fourth straight gold medal.
- Nikolay Zimyatov of the USSR earned three gold medals in cross-country skiing.
- Eric Heiden won all five speed skating races at all distances, a new record for individual gold medals won at a single Olympics. He also set world records in all five events.
- Robin Cousins won gold for Great Britain in the men's ice skating
- An upstart United States ice hockey team, made up primarily of collegiate players, won the gold medal, defeating the heavily favored Soviet team and then Finland in the medal round. Their defeat of the Soviet team in the medal round became known as the "Miracle on Ice" in the US press. A film about the event, called Miracle, was released in 2004.
(Redirected from 1932 Winter Games) The III Olympic Winter Games were held in Lake Placid, New York, USA and opened on February 4, 1932. ...
The terrain of Taiwan is mostly mountainous in the east but gradually changes to gently sloping plains in the west. ...
Ingemar Stenmark (born March 18, 1956 in Joesjö, Storumans kommun) was a Swedish Slalom and Giant Slalom skier, competing for Fjällvinden Tärnaby. ...
Hanni Wenzel (born in Straubing, Germany on December 14, 1956) is an alpine skier from Liechtenstein. ...
Ulrich Wehling (born July 8, 1952 in Halle) is a retired German skier who won the Nordic combined event in the Winter Olympics three consecutive times, in 1972, 1976, and 1980. ...
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Irina Konstantinovna Rodnina (born September 12, 1949, Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet figure skater. ...
Aleksandr Tikhonov (born January 2, 1947). ...
Nikolay Zimyatov (born 28 July 1955 in Moscow) was one of the most successful Soviet/Russian male cross-country skiers ever. ...
Eric Arthur Heiden (born June 15, 1958) is an American speed skater who won all the distances and thus an unprecedented five gold medals at the 1980 Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid, New York, United States. ...
Robin Cousins was a British figure skater who won a gold medal at the 1980 Winter Olympics. ...
Ice hockey, known simply as hockey in areas where it is more common than field hockey, is a team sport played on ice. ...
The 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team celebrates the goal that led them to victory over the USSR. The Miracle on Ice is the popular nickname for the mens ice hockey game in the 1980 Olympic Winter Games, in which a team of amateur and collegiate players from the...
Miracle (2004) is an American biographical sports film about an event that took place during the 1980 Winter Olympics, dubbed the Miracle on Ice, involving the United States mens hockey team, which was largely made up of college hockey players, lead by player-turned-head coach, Herb Brooks, that...
Medals awarded See the medal winners, ordered by sport: The 1980 Winter Olympic Games Alpine skiing results // Mens events Downhill Giant Slalom Slalom Womens events Downhill Giant Slalom Slalom Categories: | ...
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1980 Winter Olympic Games Figure skating List of IOC country codes // Women Men Pairs Medal favorites Tai Babilonia and Randy Gardner were forced to withdraw before the competition due to an injury to Gardner. ...
At the 1980 Winter Olympics hosted in Lake Placid, New York, one Ice Hockey event was held: Mens Ice Hockey. ...
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At the 1980 Winter Olympics, ten Nordic skiing events were contested, seven Cross country skiing events, two Ski Jumping and one Nordic combined. ...
The 1980 Winter Olympic Games Cross country skiing results // Mens events 15 km This extremely close race in electronic timing led to the International Ski Federation having all cross-country competitions being timed to the 1/10th second. ...
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Medal count (Host nation highlighted) | Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total | | 1 |
 USSR | 10 | 6 | 6 | 22 | | 2 |
 East Germany (GDR) | 9 | 7 | 7 | 23 | | 3 |
 United States | 6 | 4 | 2 | 12 | | 4 |
 Austria | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | | 5 |
 Sweden | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | | 6 |
 Liechtenstein | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | | 7 |
 Finland | 1 | 5 | 3 | 9 | | 8 |
 Norway | 1 | 3 | 6 | 10 | | 9 |
 Netherlands | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | | 10 |
 Switzerland | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | - Further information: 1980 Winter Olympics medal count
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See also See also: 1980 Winter Olympics The 1980 Winter Paralympic Games were the second winter Paralympics and they were held in Geilo, Norway. ...
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