Figure skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Figure skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics took place at the Olympic Center Arena in Lake Placid, New York, United States.

Medal table

Participating NOCs

Twenty nations sent figure skaters to compete in the events at Lake Placid.

Results

Men

Note: Soviet officials withdrew Kovalev from the competition after he placed 5th in compulsory figures.

Referee:

• Sonia Bianchetti

Assistant Referee:

• Elemér Terták

Judges:

• Alice Pinos
• Walburga Grimm
• Tatiana Danilenko
• Ramona McIntyre
• Alain Calmat
• Britta Lindgren
• Sally-Anne Stapleford
• Elfride Beyer
• Tsukasa Kimura
• Jacqueline Kendall-Baker (substitute)

Ladies

Referee:

• Benjamin T. Wright

Assistant Referee:

• Donald H. Gilchrist

Judges:

• Wolfgang Kunz
• Ludwig Gassner
• Kinuko Ueno
• Charles U. Foster
• Radovan Lipovšćak
• Leena Vainio
• Giorgio Siniscalco
• Ingrid Linke
• Markus Germann
• Sergei Kononykhin (substitute)

Pairs

Medal favorites Tai Babilonia / Randy Gardner were forced to withdraw before the competition due to an injury to Gardner.

Referee:

• Hermann Schiechtl

Assistant Referee:

• Oskar Madl

Judges:

• Walburga Grimm
• Hugh C. Graham Jr.
• Alain Calmat
• Dennis McFarlane
• Jacqueline Kendall-Baker
• Milan Duchón
• Elfriede Beyer
• Kinuko Ueno
• Sergei Kononykhin
• Ludwig Gassner (substitute)

Ice dance

Referee:

• Lawrence Demmy

Assistant Referee:

• Edith Shoemaker

Judges:

• Wolfgang Kunz
• Virginia LeFevre
• Igor Kabanov
• Gerhardt Bubník
• Pál Vásárhelyi
• Rudolf Zorn
• Suzanne Francis
• Brenda Long
• Lysiane Lauret
• Tsukasa Kimura (substitute)

References

External links

• Official Olympic Report
• Results of Winter Olympics (archived)
• 1980 Winter Olympics (with links to all figure skating results)