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XIII GAMES - LAKE PLACID 1980
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Date: 13 - 14 February.
Nations: 37.
Athletes: 1,072 (233 women, 839 men).
Sports: 6.
Events: 38.
Official opening of the Games by:
Vice-President Walter Mondale.
Olympic flame: Dr Charles Morgan Kerr.
Olympic oath: Eric Heiden (speed skating).
Official oath:
Terry McDermott (speed skating).
Number of medal-winning nations: 19.
National medal total:
1. USSR 22 (10, 6, 6).
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For the first time artificial
snow machines were used at the Games.
Nikolay Zimyatov (USSR) earned three cross country golds; Ingemar
Stenmark (Sweden) triumphed in the slalom and the giant slalom; Hanni
Wenzel won two golds and a silver in Alpine skiing for Liechtenstein;
Aleksandr Tikhonov won his fourth straight biathlon gold.
Yugoslavia competed in Alpine skiing, ski
jumping and, for the first time, figure skating (Dubravčić debuted) and
biathlon (Burger), while the best ranking of any Yugoslav Winter
Olympians so far was achieved by Bojan Križaj with the 4th
place in the slalom. He missed a medal by 2 hundredths of a second.
Candidate cities: Vancouver and Garibaldi withdrew before the
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The most
successful athlete: American Eric Heiden (speed skating) with five
gold medals |
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- Skiing
- Skating
- Ice Hockey
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Country |
Gold |
Silver |
Bronze |
Total |
Pts |
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USSR |
10 |
6 |
6 |
22 |
48 |
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GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC |
9 |
7 |
7 |
23 |
48 |
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USA |
6 |
4 |
2 |
12 |
28 |
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FINLAND |
1 |
5 |
3 |
9 |
16 |
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AUSTRIA |
3 |
2 |
2 |
7 |
15 |
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NORWAY |
1 |
3 |
6 |
10 |
15 |
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SWEDEN |
3 |
0 |
1 |
4 |
10 |
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LIECHTENSTEIN |
2 |
2 |
0 |
4 |
10 |
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NETHERLANDS |
1 |
2 |
1 |
4 |
8 |
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SWITZERLAND |
1 |
1 |
3 |
5 |
8 |
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FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY |
0 |
2 |
3 |
5 |
7 |
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ITALY |
0 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
4 |
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GREAT BRITAIN |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
3 |
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CANADA |
0 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
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JAPAN |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
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HUNGARY |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
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CZECHOSLOVAKIA |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
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FRANCE |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
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BULGARIA |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
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TOTAL |
38 |
39 |
38 |
115 |
230 |
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Nineteen nations won medals. An
average number of medals won per nation was 6.1. The most successful
nation won 19.1 per cent of the total number of medals. |
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