Olympic Winter Games 1980 / Alpine skiing

Alpine skiing at the 1980 Olympic Winter Games
information
venue	Wilmington
Competition venue	Whiteface Mountain
Nations	30th
Athletes	174 (108 , 66 )
date	14.-23. February 1980
decisions	6th
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With the XIII. At the 1980 Olympic Games in Lake Placid , six alpine skiing competitions were held. Whiteface Mountain was the venue for all races . The top three in downhill, giant slalom and slalom received not only Olympic medals but also world championship medals, as these competitions were also classified as the 26th  Alpine World Ski Championships. In the Alpine Combined, only World Championship medals were awarded.

Allegations against the ski industry

There were allegations of manipulation against the industry in advance. It was said that the outfitters (especially ski manufacturers) would make faster skis available to certain runners and slower skis to others and thus influence the results. Especially Irene Epple with an Austrian product had achieved slow times, which had raised these doubts.

Olympic record

Medal table

space	country				total
1	Liechtenstein	2	2	-	4th
2	Austria	2	1	1	4th
3	Sweden	2	-	-	2
4th	Germany	-	2	-	2
5	United States	-	1	-	1
6th	Switzerland	-	-	3	3
7th	France	-	-	1	1
	Canada	-	-	1	1

Medalist

Men competitor gold silver bronze Departure Leonhard Stock Peter Wirnsberger Steve Podborski Giant slalom Ingemar Stenmark Andreas Wenzel Hans Enn slalom Ingemar Stenmark Phil Mahre Jacques Lüthy

Women competitor gold silver bronze Departure Annemarie Moser-Pröll Hanni Wenzel Marie-Theres Nadig Giant slalom Hanni Wenzel Irene Epple Perrine Pelen slalom Hanni Wenzel Christa Kinshofer Erika Hess

Results men

Departure

→ Main article : 1980 Winter Olympics / Alpine skiing - Downhill (men)

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	AUT	Leonhard Stock	1: 45.50
2	AUT	Peter Wirnsberger	1: 46.12
3	CAN	Steve Podborski	1: 46.62
4th	SUI	Peter Müller	1: 46.75
5	United States	Pete Patterson	1: 47.04
6th	ITA	Herbert Plank	1: 47.13
7th	AUT	Werner Grissmann	1: 47.21
8th	URS	Valery Zyganov	1: 47.34
9	AUT	Harti Weirather	1: 47.70
10	CAN	Dave Murray	1: 47.95
18th	SUI	Urs Räber	1: 49.16
20th	LIE	Andreas Wenzel	1: 49.71
23	FRG	Michael Veith	1: 50.00
24	SUI	Erwin Josi	1: 50.03

Date: February 14, 11:30 a.m.
Start: 1313 m, Finish: 481 m
Difference in altitude: 832 m, Track length: 3009 m
Gates: 34

Olympic Champion 1976 : Franz Klammer (AUT) - not in the Austrian Olympic squad / World Champion 1978: Josef Walcher (AUT) - not included

47 participants, 42 of them in the rating. Retired u. a .: Ken Read (CAN), Toni Bürgler (SUI).

The race did not start with Harti Weirather drawn as No. 1 , but with six so-called star drivers (with No. 42, Bolivian Scott Alan Sánchez was the first to take to the track). At temperatures of minus 10 ° C there had been a light drifting snow. But No. 1 was also a bad number that day, Weirather had no chance of a good time.

The favorites, due to the current World Cup score, were Peter Müller, who led with 96 points ahead of Ken Read (81) and Harti Weirather (64). Behind Walcher and Håker (60 each) were Wirnsberger (57) and Plank (56); The next one was Podborski (23), a long way off, and Stock had only picked up eleven points once (in the first race in Wengen) with fifth place due to his injury story. He was practically only nominated as a substitute by the ÖSV , but was able to set the best times in the training sessions and internal qualifications, whereupon he was allowed to go to the start, with which the originally intended Josef Walcher had to watch. For Stock it was the first ever victory in a major race . Franz Klammer, the Olympic champion on Patscherkofel in 1976, was not in the Austrian squad due to an almost permanent lack of World Cup results.

Giant slalom

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	SWE	Ingemar Stenmark	2: 40.74
2	LIE	Andreas Wenzel	2: 41.49
3	AUT	Hans Enn	2: 42.51
4th	YUG	Bojan Križaj	2: 42.53
5	SUI	Jacques Lüthy	2: 42.75
6th	ITA	Bruno Nöckler	2: 42.95
7th	SUI	Joël Gaspoz	2: 43.05
8th	YUG	Boris Strel	2: 43.24
9	URS	Alexander Shirov	2: 44.07
10	United States	Phil Mahre	2: 44.33
13	AUT	Christian Orlainsky	2: 44.70
17th	FRG	Frank Wörndl	2: 45.58
18th	AUT	Anton Steiner	2: 45.76
20th	FRG	Albert Burger	2: 46.12
26th	AUT	Leonhard Stock	2: 47.40

Specification Top Ten:
Stenmark: 1: 20.49 / 1: 20.25
Wenzel: 1: 20.17 / 1: 21.32
Enn: 1: 20.31 / 1: 22.20
Križaj: 1: 21.28 / 1: 21.25
Lüthy: 1: 21.55 / 1: 21.20
Nöckler: 1: 20.99 / 1: 21.96
Gaspoz: 1: 21.10 / 1: 21.95
Strel: 1:21 ,
45/1 : 21.79 Shirov: 2: 44.07 - 1: 31: 21.53 / 1: 22.54
Phil Mahre: 2: 44.33 - 1: 21.74 / 1: 22.59

Other important runners:
11. Jarle Halsnes (NOR) 2: 44.49 - 1: 21.64 / 1: 22.85
12. Jure Franko (YUG) 2: 44.63 - 1: 21.50 / 1: 23.13
13. Orlainsky 2: 44.70 - 1: 21.92 / 1: 22.78
15. ex aequo Steve Mahre (USA) 2: 44.94 - 1: 21.86 / 1: 23.08 & Vladimir Andrejew (URS) 1: 22.19 / 1: 22.75
17.Wörndl 2: 45.58 - 1: 21.70 / 1: 23.88
18. Steiner 2: 45.76 - 1: 21.93 / 1: 23, 83
19. Bohumír Zeman (ČSSR) 2: 45.96 - 1: 22.25 / 1: 23.71
20. Burger 2: 46.12 - 1: 22.59 / 1: 23.53
22. Francisco Fernández Ochoa (SPA) 2: 46.58 - 1: 23.11 / 1: 23.47
26th floor 2: 47.40 1: 22.97 / 1: 24.43
27th Petar Popangelow (BUL) 2: 48.12 - 1: 23.80 / 1: 24.32
28. Stig beach (SWE) 2: 48.62 to 1: 23.37 / 1: 25.25
34. Sepp Ferstl (FRG) 2: 53.03 to 1: 25.86 / 1: 27.17
39. Konrad Bartelski (GBR) 2: 57.70 - 1: 27.71 / 1: 29.99

1st run: February 18, 11 a.m.
Piste: "Parkway"
Start: 876 m, Finish: 481 m
Difference in altitude: 395 m, Track length: 1354 m
Gates: 56

Running times: 1) Wenzel 1: 20.17; 2) Enn 1: 20.31; 3) Mark 1: 20.49; 4) Nöckler 1: 20.99; 5) Gaspoz 1: 21.10; 6) Zyganow 1: 21.22; 7) Križaj 1: 21.28; 8) Strel 1: 21.45; 9) Jure Franko 1: 21.50; 10) Shirov 1: 21.53; 11) Lüthy 1: 21.55; furthermore 13 Wörndl 1: 21.70; 14) Phil Mahre 1: 21.74; 15 Steve Mahre 1: 21.86; 16) Orlainsky 1: 21.92; 17) Anton Steiner 1: 21.93; 19) Gros 1: 22.15; 23) Burger 1: 22.59; 26) Floor 1: 22.97; 34) Ferstl 1: 25.86.

2nd run: February 19, 11 a.m.
Piste: “Truway”
Start: 876 m, finish: 481 m,
altitude difference: 395 m, route length: 1303 m,
gates: 55

Running times: 1) Stenmark 1: 20.25; 2) Lüthy 1: 21.20; 3) Križaj 1: 21.25; 4) Wenzel 1: 21.32; 5) Strel 1: 21.79; 6) Gaspoz 1: 21.95; 7) Nöckler 1: 21.96; 8) Enn 1: 22.20; 9) Shirov 1: 22.54: 10) Phil Mahre 1: 22.59; further 12) Orlainsky 1: 22.78; 17) Ochoa 1: 23.47; 18) Burger 1: 23.53; 20) Anton Steiner 1: 23.83; 21) Worndl 1: 23.88; 22) Steve Mahre 1: 23.98; 27) Floor 1: 24.43; 33) Ferstl 1: 27.1

Olympic Champion 1976: Heini Hemmi (SUI) - career ended / World Champion 1978 : Ingemar Stenmark (SWE)

78 participants, 54 of them in the rating. Retired u. a .: 1st run: Jean-Luc Fournier (SUI), Peter Lüscher (SUI), Mauro Bernadi (ITA); disqu .: Paul Frommelt (LIE).

2nd run: Piero Gros (ITA), Valeri Zyganow (URS), Jože Kuralt (YUG).

Stenmark was the clear favorite because he had won the three World Cup competitions so far and was leading with 75 points ahead of Lüthy (51) and Križaj 35; Enn (27) was in 5th place, Wenzel (14) in 10th place. Winner Stenmark was already well ahead in the first run, but got into trouble near the finish line - so it turned out that from the last intermediate time Enn was the fastest in 28.46 seconds before Wenzel in 28.73 seconds the Swede was only measured with 29.52 seconds - and thus "only" came third. - Already in the first run Fournier, Bernadi and Lüscher (this one due to a fall shortly before the finish line) were eliminated.

Since the second run had started with the “super bibbo rule”, the medal ranks seemed to have been awarded for the time being, but Hans Enn suddenly had to tremble: The sixth-placed Valeri Zyganow had the second-best intermediate time, but fell in the penultimate goal; Križaj followed immediately, who failed on the podium by 0.02 seconds.

slalom

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	SWE	Ingemar Stenmark	1: 44.26
2	United States	Phil Mahre	1: 44.76
3	SUI	Jacques Lüthy	1: 45.06
4th	AUT	Hans Enn	1: 45.12
5	FRG	Christian Neureuther	1: 45.14
6th	BUL	Petar Popangelov	1: 45.40
7th	AUT	Anton Steiner	1: 45.41
8th	ITA	Gustav Thöni	1: 45.99
9	URS	Vladimir Andreyev	1: 46.65
10	FRG	Frank Wörndl	1: 47.19
12	LIE	Andreas Wenzel	1: 47.80
18th	AUT	Leonhard Stock	1: 50.41
23	SUI	Jean-Luc Fournier	1: 53.48
25th	FRG	Sepp Ferstl	1: 59.30

Specification Top Ten: 01 Stenmark 53.89 / 50.37
02 Phil Mahre 53.31 / 51.45
03 Lüthy 53.70 / 51.36
04 Enn 53.70 / 51.42
05 Neureuther 54.37 / 50.77
06 Popangelow 54.84 / 50.56
07 Steiner 54.56 / 50.85
08 Gustav Thöni 54.79 / 51.20
09 Andrejew (URS) 106.65 - 54.97 / 51.68
10. Wörndl 107.19 - 55.30 / 51.89

Other important runners:
11th Paul Arne Skajem (NOR) 107.21 - 55.11 / 52.10
12th Wenzel 107.80 - 54.63 / 53.17
13th Jože Kuralt (YUG) 107.99 - 55, 05 / 52.94
14. Bohumír Zeman (Czechoslovakia) from 108.87 to 56.56 / 52.31
18th floor from 110.41 to 56.43 / 53.98
22 Francisco Fernández Ochoa (SPA) 111.61-57 , 31 / 54.30
23. Fournier 113.48 - 58.95 / 54.53
25. Ferstl 119.30 - 61.77 / 57.53
Date: February 22, 10:00 a.m.
Start: 876 m, finish : 667 m
altitude difference: 209 m, route length: 549 m
gates: 66 (1st run), 60 (2nd run)

Olympic Champion 1976 : Piero Gros (ITA) / World Champion 1978 : Ingemar Stenmark (SWE).

Ranking first run: 1) Phil Mahre 53.81; 2) ex aequo Lüthy & Enn 53.70; 4) stenum 53.89; 5) Neureuther 54.37; 6) Anton Steiner 54.56, 7) Wenzel 54.63; 8) Thöni 54.79; 9) Popangelow 54.84; 10) Andreev 54.97; 11) Kuralt 55.05; furthermore 13) Wörndl 55.30; 14) Bernardi 55.40; 15) Strel 55.44; 16) Beach 55.64; 18) floor 56.43; 24) burger 56.98; 26) Ochoa 57.31; 28) Fournier 58.95; 30) Ferstl 61.77
Ranking list second run: 1) Stenmark 50.37; 2) Popangelow 50.56; 3) Neureuther 50.77; 4) Anton Steiner 50.85; 5) Thöni 51.20; 6) Lüthy 51.46; 7) Enn 51.42; 8) Phil Mahre 51.45; 9) Andreev 51.68; 10) Worndl 51.89; further 13) Kuralt 52.94; 14) Wenzel 53.17; 18) floor 53.98; 20) Ochoa 54.30; 24) Ferstl 57.53

79 participants, 37 of them in the rating. Retired u. a .: 1st run: Joël Gaspoz , Peter Lüscher (both SUI), Steve Mahre (USA), Bruno Nöckler , Paolo De Chiesa (both ITA), Alexander Schirow (URS), Paul Frommelt (LIE), Konrad Bartelski (GBR ); disqualified: Christian Orlainsky (AUT), Bojan Križaj (YUG).
2nd run: Mauro Bernardi (ITA), Boris Strel (YUG), Stig Strand (SWE); disqualified: Albert Burger (FRG).

Although Stenmark was also the “gold favorite” for the slalom among ski journalists, the previous five season slaloms had been highly controversial (in contrast to the giant slalom, there had been “only” two Stenmark victories), which was 88 in the ranking Knocked down 85 points from Križaj; the other places were taken by Wenzel (51) and Lüthy (43) - Phil Mahre was 10th with 29 points.
The Swede, fourth after the first run, however, still managed to win a clear victory. The balance of the Austrians was "despite" the possible medal for Enn (0.06 sec. Back - but which on the other hand was compensated by the luck from the previous giant slalom, when he secured bronze with 0.02 sec.), Satisfactory, whereby Orlainsky had missed a big chance due to his concentration error just before the finish in the first run (there could have been the fastest time). Leonhard Stock drove two safety runs to get combination bronze. Actually Križaj had achieved the fourth-best time in the first half, but made a goal error because of an outside influence; the Yugoslav team leadership did not raise any objection (which would have included the possible possibility of a repeat run; this incident was reminiscent of Grenoble in 1968, when Karl Schranz had suffered a similar mishap). For the Swiss team, Lüthy's bronze medal was the first men's medal in an Olympic slalom since Edy Reinalter's gold in 1948.

Results women

Departure

space	country	sportswoman	Time (min)
1	AUT	Annemarie Moser-Pröll	1: 37.52
2	LIE	Hanni Wenzel	1: 38.22
3	SUI	Marie-Theres Nadig	1: 38.36
4th	United States	Heidi Preuss	1: 39.51
5	CAN	Kathy Kreiner	1: 39.53
6th	AUT	Ingrid Eberle	1: 39.63
7th	NOR	Torill Fjeldstad	1: 39.69
	United States	Cindy Nelson
9	FRG	Marianne Zechmeister	1: 39.96
10	TCH	Jana Gantnerová-Šoltýsová	1: 40.71
11	SUI	Bernadette Zurbriggen	1: 40.74
17th	FRG	Evi Mittermaier	1: 41.26
	SUI	Doris De Agostini
19th	FRG	Irene Epple	1: 41.68
20th	SUI	Annemarie Bischofberger	1: 41.93
21st	FRG	Monika Bader	1: 41.96
22nd	AUT	Cornelia Pröll	1: 42.44
23	LIE	Petra Wenzel	1: 42.50

Other important placements: 10th Jana Šoltýsová (ČSSR) 1: 40.71; 11. Laurie Graham (CAN) 1: 40.74; 14. Holly Flanders (USA) 1: 40.96

Date: February 17, 11:30 a.m.
Start: 1181 m, Finish: 481 m
Difference in altitude: 700 m, route length: 2698 m
Gates: 34

Olympic champion 1976 : Rosi Mittermaier (FRG) - career already ended; World Champion 1978 : Annemarie Moser-Pröll (AUT)

28 participants, 27 of them in the evaluation. Eliminated: Caroline Attia (FRA).

The season balance of Marie-Theres Nadig, which had six of the possible seven overall victories (Moser-Pröll had won this other victory) with a maximum of 125 points against the Austrian (100) up to the descent here on Whiteface Mountain, made clear her favorite position . Hanni Wenzel was third with 66 points.
Nadig had the last training session in 1: 46.76 ahead of Moser-Pröll (1: 47.04), Preuss (1: 48.01), De Agostini (1: 48.29), Conny Pröll (1: 48.58), Irene Epple (1: 48.65), Flanders (1: 48.81), Nelson (1: 48.97), Bernadette Zurbriggen (1: 49.26) and Wenzel (1: 49.30), but Moser-Pröll drove the final part upright and with swings. The race took place at 20 degrees Celsius - and this cold was multiplied on the drive, where there were gusts of wind at 50 km / h. For the time being, there was even a threat of the race being postponed before the jury approved the start at the scheduled time. In the first statements, Nadig stated that the strong headwind cost her a second in the middle part.

Giant slalom

space	country	sportswoman	Time (min)
1	LIE	Hanni Wenzel	2: 41.66
2	FRG	Irene Epple	2: 42.12
3	FRA	Perrine Pelen	2: 42.41
4th	FRA	Fabienne Serrat	2: 42.42
5	FRG	Christa Kinshofer	2: 42.63
6th	AUT	Annemarie Moser-Pröll	2: 43.19
7th	United States	Christin Cooper	2: 44.71
8th	FRG	Maria Epple	2: 45.56
9	CAN	Kathy Kreiner	2: 45.75
10	ITA	Claudia Giordani	2: 46.27
14th	AUT	Ingrid Eberle	2: 47.42
16	SUI	Brigitte Nansoz	2: 48.20
19th	LIE	Petra Wenzel	2: 49.03

Specification of the top eight:
01 Hanni Wenzel 1: 14.33 / 1: 27.33
02 Irene Epple 1: 14.75 / 1: 27.37
03 Pelen 1: 15.45 / 1: 26.96
04 Serrat 1: 15.43 / 1: 26.99
05 Kinshofer 1: 15.19 / 1: 27.44
05 Moser-Pröll 1: 15.64 / 1: 27.55
07 Cooper 1: 16.61 / 1: 28.10
08 Maria Epple 1: 16.20 / 1: 29.36

Other important runners and best of their nations:
9. Kathy Kreiner (CAN) 2: 45.75 - 1: 17.19 / 1: 28.56
10. Claudia Giordani (ITA) 2: 46.27 - 1: 17.72 / 1 : 28.55
13. Cindy Nelson (USA) 2: 47.32 - 1: 17.42 / 1: 29.90
14. Eberle 2: 47.42 - 1: 18.18 / 1: 29.24
15. Ann Melander (SWE) 2: 47.63 - 1: 16.84 / 1: 30.79
16. Nansoz 2: 48.20 - 1: 18.09 / 1: 30.11
18. Blanca Fernández Ochoa (SPA) 2: 48.99 - 1: 18.37 / 1: 30.62
19. Petra Wenzel 2: 49.03 1: 18.75 / 1: 30.28
20. Metka Jerman (YUG) 2: 49.21 - 1: 18.79 / 1: 30.42
21. Jana Gantnerová-Šoltýsová (ČSSR) 2: 49.65 - 1: 18.60 / 1: 31.05
22. Torill Fjeldstad (NOR) 2: 49.66 - 1: 18.26 / 1: 31.40

1st run: February 20, 11:00 a.m.
Piste: "Parkway"
Start: 845 m, Finish: 481 m
Difference in altitude: 364 m, route length: 1231 m
Gates: 50

Status after the first run:
1. Hanni Wenzel 1: 14.33; 2. Irene Epple 1: 14.75; 3. Kinshofer 1:15, 19; 4. Erika Hess 1:15, 27; 5. Serrat 1: 15.43; 6. Pelen 1: 15.45; 7. Moser-Proell 1: 15.64; 8. Maria Epple 1: 16-20; 9. Cooper 1: 16.61; 10. Melander (SWE) 1: 16.64; furthermore: 17. Mösenlechner 1: 17.70; 18. Nansoz 1: 18.09; 19. Eberle 1: 18.18; 21. Sölkner 1: 18.30; 26. Petra Wenzel 1: 18.75.

2nd run: February 21, 11:00 am
Slope: "Truway"
Start: 876 m, finish: 512 m Difference in
altitude: 364 m
Goals: 59

Ranking in the 2nd run:
1st Pelen 1: 26.96; 2. Serrat 1: 26.99; 3. Hanni Wenzel 1: 27.33; 4. Irene Epple 1: 27.37; 5. Kinshofer 1: 27.44; 6. Moser-Proell 1: 27.55; 7. Cooper 1: 28.10; 8. Giordani 1: 28.55; 9. Kreiner 1: 28.56; 10. Eberle 1: 29–24; 11. Maria Epple 1: 29.36: furthermore 14. Nelson 1: 29.90; 16. Nansoz 1: 30.11; 17. Petra Wenzel 1: 30-28

Olympic Champion 1976 : Kathy Kreiner (CAN) - career ended / World Champion 1978 : Maria Epple (FRG)

47 participants, 35 of them in the rating. Retired u. a .: Wanda Bieler (ITA), Ursula Konzett (LIE), Tamara McKinney (USA), Regina Sackl (AUT), Marie-Theres Nadig (SUI) (all in the 1st run); Erika Hess (SUI), Regine Mösenlechner (FRG), Maria Rosa Quario , Daniela Zini (both ITA) (all in the 2nd run) - not started for the 2nd run: Lea Sölkner (AUT)

Wenzel with four wins and a 5th place (111 points in the World Cup ranking list) was the clear favorite; Pelen was second with 86 points, ahead of Hess (70). Irene Epple was placed behind Giordani (36) with 34 points (equal to Moser-Pröll).
After the first run, the runners from at least 5th place no longer had a chance of gold. Due to falls, u. a. Nadig and Sackl (both in the same place) as well as McKinney, Zini and Konzett were eliminated. Striking in the second run was the battle for the bronze medal, whereby in the narrow French duel Perinne Pelen versus Fabienne Serrat, after only 2/100 seconds in favor of Serrats after run one, Pelen was now 3/100 seconds faster and therefore 0.01 for them sec. made the difference. (Such a close duel in the medal ranks had been recorded in the fight for gold in the women's slalom in 1972.) Moser-Pröll might also have achieved the bronze medal (in the meantime she had been in second place in this run), but - as in the first run - it fell back in the lower (flat) part of the route. Because of her illness Lea Sölkner did not take part in the second run.

slalom

space	country	sportswoman	Time (min)
1	LIE	Hanni Wenzel	1: 25.09
2	FRG	Christa Kinshofer	1: 26.50
3	SUI	Erika Hess	1: 27.89
4th	ITA	Maria Rosa Quario	1: 27.92
5	ITA	Claudia Giordani	1: 29.12
6th	URS	Nadezhda Patrakeyeva	1: 29.20
7th	ITA	Daniela Zini	1: 29.22
8th	United States	Christin Cooper	1: 29.28
9	SWE	Ann Melander	1: 29.82
10	ITA	Wilma Gatta	1: 29.94
13	AUT	Ingrid Eberle	1: 31.71
14th	LIE	Petra Wenzel	1: 33.34

Specification of the top ten:
01 Hanni Wenzel 42.50 / 42.59
02 Kinshofer 42.74 / 43.76
03 Erika Hess 43.50 / 44.39
04 Quario 43.63 / 44.29
05 Giordani 44.42 / 44 , 70
06 Patrakejewa 43.42 / 45.78
07 Zini 45.08 / 44.14
08 Cooper 44.23 / 45.05
09 Ann Melander (SWE) 89.82 - 44.51 / 45.31
10 Wilma Gatta ( ITA) 89.94 - 44.46 / 45.48

Other important runners or best of their nations:
11. Cindy Nelson (USA) 90.95 - 44.96 / 45.89
13. Eberle 91.71 - 93.34 - 45.21 / 46.50
14. Petra Wenzel 47.47 / 45.87
15. Kathy Kreiner (CAN) 94.78 - 48.06 / 46.72
16. Valentina Iliffe (GBR) 98.56 - 48.88 / 49.68 +13.47

Date: February 23, 10:00 a.m.
Start: 845 m, Finish: 667 m
Difference in altitude: 178 m, Track length: 465 m
Gates: 52 (1st run), 53 (2nd run)

Ranking first run:
1st Hanni Wenzel 42.50; 2. Kinshofer 42.74; 3. Patrakeyeva 43.42; 4. Pelen 43.46; 5. Hess 43.50; 6th quario 43.63; 7. Cooper 44.23; 8. Serrat 44.40; 9. Giordani 44.42; 10. Wilma Gatta 44.46; 11. Ann Melander 44.51; 12. Nelson 44.96; 13. Zini 45.08; 14. Abbi Fisher 45.10; 15. Irene Epple 45.14; 16. Eberle 45.21; 17. Nansoz 45.52; also 19. Petra Wenzel 47.47; 20. Kreiner 48.06 - there were only 25 runners left for the second run

Ranking second run:
1st Hanni Wenzel 42.59; 2. Kinshofer 43.76; 3. Zini 44.14; 4th Quario 44.29; 5. Hess 44.39; 6. Giordani 44.70; 7. Cooper 45.05; 8. Melander 45.31; 9. Åsa Svedmark (SWE) 45.45; 10th Gatta 45.48; 11. Patrakeyeva 45.78; 12. Petra Wenzel 45.87; 13. Nelson 45.89; 14. Eberle 46.50; 15. Kreiner 46.72

Olympic Champion 1976 : Rosi Mittermaier (FRG) - career ended / World Champion 1978 : Lea Sölkner (AUT)

47 participants, 19 of them in the rating. Retired u. a .: Marie-Theres Nadig (SUI), Regina Sackl , Lea Sölkner , Annemarie Moser-Pröll (all AUT), Pamela Behr , Regine Mösenlechner (both FRG), Ursula Konzett (LIE), Torill Fjeldstad (NOR), Jana Gantnerová (TCH / ČSSR), Anne-Flore Rey (FRA), Tamara McKinney (USA) (all in the 1st run); Perrine Pelen , Fabienne Serrat (both FRA), Irene Epple (FRG), Abigail Fisher (USA) (all in the 2nd run).

The favorites were the previous season winners Perinne Pelen (110 points) and Hanni Wenzel (82 - the latter was third in the ranking behind Moser-Pröll with 83), but in view of the surprises Erika Hess (with 37 points in 6th place), Fabienne Serrat and Claudia Giordani in focus. On the part of the ÖSV women, only Moser-Pröll (due to their third place in the intermediate placement) had expected more; Regina Sackl had not been in the top six in any of the season's slaloms, Lea Sölkner had only just got over a feverish cold and Ingrid Eberle's goal of a combination medal had to be factored in. In terms of gold, the second run came to a head in a duel between Wenzel and Kinshofer, who is actually known as a giant slalom specialist. The German ranks 10th in Bad Gastein and Maribor and 11th in St. Gervais (17 points). A major attack on Patrakeyeva, surprisingly in third place, was expected from Pelen; But Pelen fell, and since the URS runner showed too bad a performance, the way was clear for Hess. Of the Austrians, only Eberle came into the rankings, all others were eliminated after the first run due to a fall.

World Championship

Combination (men)

space	country	athlete	Points
1	United States	Phil Mahre	045.53
2	LIE	Andreas Wenzel	060.15
3	AUT	Leonhard Stock	076.33
4th	TCH	Bohumír Zeman	081.57
5	ESP	Francisco Fernández Ochoa	118.37
6th	OUT	Antony cast	259.15

World Champion 1978 : Andreas Wenzel (LIE)

No Olympic medals were awarded for the combined competition, only World Cup medals. The positions were determined according to a point system from the results of the downhill, giant slalom and slalom.

Combination (women)

space	country	sportswoman	Points
1	LIE	Hanni Wenzel	005.57
2	United States	Cindy Nelson	095.04
3	AUT	Ingrid Eberle	102.40
4th	CAN	Kathy Kreiner	119.46
5	LIE	Petra Wenzel	145.73
6th	GBR	Valentina Iliffe	254.96

World Champion 1978 : Annemarie Moser-Pröll (AUT)

No Olympic medals were awarded for the combined competition, only World Cup medals. The positions were determined according to a point system from the results of the downhill, giant slalom and slalom.

Web links

• Overview of all races in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Alpine skiing at the 1980 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Columns 2 and 3, below (box): “Manipulation of the industry in downhill skiing” . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 18, 1980, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
2. ↑ "Stocks Triumph Before Wirnsberger" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 15, 1980, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
3. ↑ "'In the 2nd run I go all out'" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 19, 1980, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
4. ↑ Columns 4 and 5, middle: "Steiner, Orlainsky im Sog Stenmarks" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 22, 1980, p. 19 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
5. ↑ Middle left: "Bronze within reach" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 23, 1980, p. 11 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
6. ^ "No second Schranz case" in "Kärntner Tageszeitung" No. 45 of February 23, 1980, page 20, column 2
7. ↑ Middle: "Moser with hidden cards" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 17, 1980, p. 11 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
8. ↑ "Olympic victory - at my age!"; Introductory sentences as well as the penultimate paragraph . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 18, 1980, p. 9 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
9. ↑ Middle: "0.45 is missing on bronze" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 21, 1980, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
10. ↑ "'I'm driving too imprecisely down below'" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 22, 1980, p. 19 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
11. ↑ "Wenzel, Pelen, Moser or a surprise" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 23, 1980, p. 11 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
12. ↑ "Hanni got gold again" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 24, 1980, p. 9 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).