See also:
1980 Winter Paralympics[?]
The
Games of the XIII Olympic Winter Games were held in
1980 in
Lake Placid,
United States of America. Another candidate city was
Vancouver-
Garibaldi,
Canada; they withdrew before the final vote.
- The second time[?] the Games were held in Lake Placid.
- First use of artificial snow in Olympic competition.
- 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[?] and Irina Rodnina[?] won their respective events for the third time.
- Aleksandr Tikhonov[?] earned his fourth straight gold medal.
- Nikolay Zimyatov[?] earned three gold medals in cross-country skiing.
- Eric Heiden won all five speed skating races.
- An unfancied amateur United States ice hockey team win the gold medal, defeating Finland in the final. Their extraordinary upset victory over the heavy favourite Soviet team in the semifinal becomes known as "The Miracle On Ice[?]" in the US press.
See the medal winners, ordered by sport:
Summer Olympics
1896 | 1900 | 1904 | 1906 | 1908 | 1912 | 1920 | 1924 | 1928 | 1932 | 1936 | 1948 | 1952 | 1956 | 1960 | 1964 | 1968 | 1972 | 1976 | 1980 | 1984 | 1988 | 1992 | 1996 | 2000 | 2004 | 2008 | 2012
Winter Olympics
1924 | 1928 | 1932 | 1936 | 1948 | 1952 | 1956 | 1960 | 1964 | 1968 | 1972 | 1976 | 1980 | 1984 | 1988 | 1992 | 1994 | 1998 | 2002 | 2006 | 2010