1980 Winter Olympics

Template:Olympics infobox 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.

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.
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.

See the medal winners, ordered by sport:

(Host nation in bold.)

1980 Winter Olympics medal count					Image:Olympische Ringe.svg
Pos	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Image:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg USSR	10	6	6	22
2	Image:Flag of East Germany.svg East Germany	9	7	7	23
3	Image:Flag of the United States.svg United States	6	4	2	12
4	Image:Flag of Austria.svg Austria	3	2	2	7
5	Image:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden	3	0	1	4
6	Image:Flag of Liechtenstein.svg Liechtenstein	2	2	0	4
7	Image:Flag of Finland.svg Finland	1	5	3	9
8	Image:Flag of Norway.svg Norway	1	3	6	10
9	Image:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands	1	2	1	4
10	Image:Flag of Switzerland.svg Switzerland	1	1	3	5
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