Alpine skiing at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Template:Short description Template:Short description Template:Alpine skiing at the 1980 Winter Olympics Alpine Skiing at the 1980 Winter Olympics consisted of six alpine skiing events. The races were held February 14–23 at Whiteface Mountain in Wilmington, New York, northeast of host Lake Placid.

This was the first Olympics in which the women's giant slalom consisted of two runs, rather than one, and both GS events ran only one run per day. This was the last Olympics which also served as World Championships for alpine skiing.

Medal summary

Eight nations won medals in Alpine skiing, with Liechtenstein leading the medal table, winning two gold, and two silver. Hanni Wenzel led the individual medal table, finishing on the podium in all three women's events, with two gold and one silver. Ingemar Stenmark was the leading male medalist, with two golds.

Wenzel's two gold medals were the first, and to date, only, won by Liechtenstein at the Olympics.

Medal table

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Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Downhill Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:45.50	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:46.12	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:46.62
Giant slalom Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:40.74	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:41.49	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:42.51
Slalom Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:44.26	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:44.76	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:45.06

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Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Downhill Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:37.52	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:38.22	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:38.36
Giant slalom Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:41.66	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:42.12	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:42.41
Slalom Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:25.09	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:26.50	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:27.89

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Course information

Date	Race	Start Elevation	Finish Elevation	Vertical Drop	Course Length	Average Gradient
Thu 14-Feb	Downhill – men
Sun 17-Feb	Downhill – women
Mon 18-Feb	Giant slalom – men  (1st run)
Tue 19-Feb	Giant slalom – men  (2nd run)
Wed 20-Feb	Giant slalom – women  (1st run)
Thu 21-Feb	Giant slalom – women  (2nd run)
Fri 22-Feb	Slalom – men  (2 runs)
Sat 23-Feb	Slalom – women  (2 runs)

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Participating nations

Thirty nations sent alpine skiers to compete in the events in Lake Placid. China, Costa Rica and Cyprus made their Olympic alpine skiing debuts. Below is a list of the competing nations; in parentheses are the number of national competitors.

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World championships

From 1948 through these Olympics in 1980, the alpine skiing events at the Winter Olympics also served as the World Championships, held every two years. With the addition of the giant slalom, the combined event was dropped for 1950 and 1952, but returned as a World Championship event in 1954 as a "paper race" which used the results from the three events. During the Olympics from 1956 through 1980, World Championship medals were awarded by the FIS for the combined event. The combined returned as a separate event at the World Championships in 1982 and at the Olympics in 1988.

Combined

Men's Combined

Medal	Athlete	Points	DH	GS	SL
	Template:Flagicon Phil Mahre (USA)	45.53	14	10
	Template:Flagicon Andreas Wenzel (LIE)	60.15	20		12
	Template:Flagicon Leonhard Stock (AUT)	76.33		26	18
4	Template:Flagicon Bohumir Zeman (TCH)	81.57	13	19	14
5	Template:Flagicon Francisco Fernández-Ochoa (ESP)	118.37	27	22	22
6	Template:Flagicon Antony Guss (AUS)	259.15	26	41	32

• Downhill: 14 February, Giant slalom: 18–19 February, Slalom: 22 February

Women's Combined

Medal	Athlete	Points	DH	GS	SL
	Template:Flagicon Hanni Wenzel (LIE)	5.57
	Template:Flagicon Cindy Nelson (USA)	95.04	7	13	11
	Template:Flagicon Ingrid Eberle (AUT)	102.40	6	14	13
4	Template:Flagicon Kathy Kreiner (CAN)	119.46	5	9	15
5	Template:Flagicon Petra Wenzel (LIE)	145.73	23	19	14
6	Template:Flagicon Valentina Iliffe (GBR)	254.96	25	31	16

• Downhill: 17 February, Giant slalom: 20–21 February, Slalom: 23 February

See also

• Alpine skiing at the 1980 Winter Paralympics

External links

• FIS-Ski.com - results - 1980 Olympics - Lake Placid, NY, USA
• FIS-Ski.com - results - 1980 World Championships - Lake Placid, NY, USA
• Whiteface Mountain – official site