1980 Winter Olympics / Figure Skating
Figure skating at the 1980 Olympic Winter Games |
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venue | Lake Placid |
Competition venue | Olympic Center |
Nations | 20th |
Athletes | 84 (40 , 44 ) |
date | 16.-23. February 1980 |
decisions | 4th |
← Innsbruck 1976 |
With the XIII. The 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid hosted four figure skating competitions. The venue was the Olympic Center .
Balance sheet
Medal table
space | country | total | |||
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1 | Soviet Union | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4th |
2 | GDR | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
3 | Great Britain | 1 | - | - | 1 |
4th | United States | - | 1 | 1 | 2 |
5 | Hungary | - | 1 | - | 1 |
6th | BR Germany | - | - | 1 | 1 |
Medalist
competitor | gold | silver | bronze |
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Men's | Robin cousins | Jan Hoffmann | Charles Tickner |
Ladies | Anett Pötzsch | Linda Fratianne | Dagmar Lurz |
Couples | Irina Rodnina / Alexander Saizew | Marina Cherkassova / Sergei Shachrai | Manuela Mager / Uwe Bewersdorf |
Ice dance | Natalja Linitschuk / Gennady Karponosov | Krisztina Regőczy / András Sallay | Irina Moissejewa / Andrei Minenkow |
Results
- K = freestyle
- KP = short program
- P = compulsory
- PT = compulsory dance
- Pz = place number
- Pts = points
Men's
space | country | athlete | P | KP | K | Pz | Pt. |
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1 | GBR | Robin cousins | 4th | 1 | 1 | 13 | 189.48 |
2 | GDR | Jan Hoffmann | 1 | 2 | 2 | 15th | 189.72 |
3 | United States | Charles Tickner | 2 | 5 | 3 | 28 | 187.06 |
4th | United States | David Santee | 3 | 3 | 5 | 34 | 185.52 |
5 | United States | Scott Hamilton | 8th | 4th | 4th | 45 | 181.78 |
6th | URS | Igor Bobrin | 7th | 6th | 8th | 55 | 177.40 |
7th | FRA | Jean-Christophe Simond | 6th | 10 | 6th | 64 | 175.00 |
8th | JPN | Mitsuru Matsumura | 11 | 7th | 7th | 75 | 172.28 |
9 | JPN | Fumio Igarashi | 13 | 8th | 6th | 77 | 172.04 |
10 | URS | Constantine Kokora | 10 | 11 | 10 | 91 | 168.18 |
11 | GDR | Hermann Schulz | 9 | 9 | 13 | 98 | 166.70 |
12 | CAN | Brian Pockar | 12 | 12 | 12 | 107 | 163.26 |
13 | FRG | Rudi Cerne | 15th | 13 | 11 | 116 | 159.30 |
14th | SWE | Thomas Öberg | 14th | 14th | 14th | 127 | 149.80 |
15th | GBR | Christopher Howarth | 16 | 15th | 15th | 134 | 145.66 |
16 | CHN | Xu Zhaoxiao | 17th | 16 | 16 | 144 | 117.16 |
URS | Vladimir Kovalyov | 5 | withdrawn |
Date: February 21.
Runners from Austria and Switzerland did not start.
In a preview it was stated that Charles Tickner was the great hope of the Americans and a great unknown to the Europeans. Jan Hoffmann was already a European and World Champion, but never an Olympic Champion - he had been pursuing this title since 1968 (Grenoble). After the short program, Hoffmann was still in the lead, but Cousins had made a giant leap to second place (one grade 6!), Tickner was third and he had “home advantage”, but he disappointed in the freestyle with an average performance. In the duel for gold, the better skater won - Cousins and Hoffmann ran one after the other. The Englishman ran almost flawlessly, his main accent was on the artistic impression, but he had to worry because he had put the triple Rittberger on both legs, the Lutz had only jumped twice. Hoffmann lost gold in the B-note, where it was twice 5.6 and once even 5.5. He had presented the greatest difficulty with five triples, but despite a clear improvement in the dance elements, the elegance was lacking. After Tickner's performance it was clear that this was only enough for bronze - only the grading provided some amusement, because some jury members seemed to have applied the principle of chance here. The freestyle was already a talent show for tomorrow, because some of the runners (cousins, Hoffmann and also the absent Kowaljow) were about to end their careers, others (Matsumura, Igarashi and Bobrin, who came up with an idiosyncratic performance) were possibly the medal winners of the Future.
Ladies
space | country | sportswoman | P | KP | K | Pz | Pt. |
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1 | GDR | Anett Pötzsch | 1 | 4th | 3 | 11 | 189.00 |
2 | United States | Linda Fratianne | 3 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 188.30 |
3 | FRG | Dagmar Lurz | 2 | 5 | 6th | 28 | 183.04 |
4th | SUI | Denise Biellmann | 12 | 1 | 1 | 43 | 180.06 |
5 | United States | Lisa-Marie Allen | 8th | 3 | 4th | 45 | 179.42 |
6th | JPN | Emi Watanabe | 4th | 8th | 5 | 48 | 179.04 |
7th | AUT | Claudia Kristofics-Binder | 5 | 7th | 9 | 60 | 176.88 |
8th | ITA | Susanna Driano | 6th | 14th | 10 | 77 | 172.82 |
9 | United States | Sandy Lenz | 11 | 6th | 7th | 82 | 172.74 |
10 | FIN | Kristiina Wegelius | 7th | 11 | 12 | 87 | 172.04 |
11 | YUG | Sanda Dubravčić | 13 | 10 | 8th | 100 | 170.30 |
12 | GBR | Karena Richardson | 10 | 9 | 4th | 109 | 168.94 |
13 | FRG | Karin Riediger | 15th | 13 | 11 | 120 | 166.32 |
14th | SUI | Danielle Rieder | 9 | 15th | 16 | 125 | 165.46 |
15th | CAN | Heather Kemkaran | 16 | 12 | 15th | 128 | 164.64 |
16 | URS | Kira Ivanova | 18th | 16 | 13 | 144 | 161.54 |
17th | FIN | Susan Broman | 14th | 17th | 17th | 152 | 157.54 |
18th | FRG | Tina Riegel | 17th | 19th | 18th | 162 | 149.50 |
19th | ITA | Franca Bianconi | 19th | 18th | 19th | 171 | 144.82 |
20th | COR | Shin Hae-sook | 20th | 22nd | 22nd | 186 | 128.18 |
21st | ESP | Gloria Mas-Gil | 21st | 20th | 21st | 190 | 126.56 |
22nd | CHN | Bao Zhenghua | 22nd | 21st | 20th | 191 | 126.96 |
Date: February 23
Anett Pötzsch surprisingly won by defeating the reigning world champion Linda Fratianne. There was no majority from the Eastern Bloc among the judges . Contrary to expectations, Linda Fratianne could not win the freestyle. So the backlog from the compulsory program was too great. Another surprise was Denise Biellmann, who won the short program and the freestyle.
It was the hundredth Olympic gold medal for the GDR (of which the summer athletes had won 76).
The level of this competition did not match some of the performances of previous runners.
From the US point of view (especially after the failure of the pair runners Babilonia / Gardner) everything was bet on Fratianne, whereby the home advantage should have been decisive (although Fratianne had not been able to convince in the US championships before).
The winner showed a sporty, fast-paced freestyle, which, however, did not achieve the charisma of Fratianne in dance.
Biellmann was the last to start, she jumped four triple , she jumped the triple Lutz as the only one of all runners - and she again showed fantastic new creations of pirouettes.
Kristofic-Binder (she reminded one of a student who only starts to study in the last minute before the exam) was ranked 5th after the compulsory and the short program and fulfilled the expectations placed in her with final rank 7. She started as the penultimate of the penultimate group and didn't seem as nervous as in previous competitions. After the short program, the final score was already given for the medals.
Couples
space | country | Pair | KP | K | Pz | Pt. |
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1 | URS | Irina Rodnina / Alexander Saizew | 1 | 1 | 9 | 147.26 |
2 | URS | Marina Cherkassova / Sergei Shachrai | 2 | 2 | 19th | 143.80 |
3 | GDR | Manuela Mager / Uwe Bewersdorf | 4th | 3 | 33 | 140.52 |
4th | URS | Marina Pestowa / Stanislaw Leonowitsch | 3 | 4th | 31 | 141.14 |
5 | United States | Caitlin Carruthers / Peter Carruthers | 5 | 5 | 46 | 137.38 |
6th | GDR | Sabine Baeß / Tassilo Thierbach | 6th | 6th | 53 | 136.00 |
7th | United States | Sheryl Franks / Michael Botticelli | 7th | 7th | 64 | 133.84 |
8th | FRG | Tina Riegel / Andreas Nischwitz | 8th | 8th | 71 | 131.70 |
9 | CAN | Barbara Underhill / Paul Martini | 9 | 9 | 78 | 129.36 |
10 | GBR | Susan Garland / Robert Daw | 11 | 10 | 91 | 124.36 |
11 | OUT | Elizabeth Cain / Peter Cain | 10 | 11 | 98 | 131.70 |
United States | Tai Babilonia / Randy Gardner | withdrawn |
Date: February 17th - the short program was on the program on February 15th at 5:30 pm local time.
The professional world had expected an exciting duel between the URS couple Irina Rodnina / Alexander Saizew and Tai Babilonia / Randy Gardner from the USA, it was said, “Here two worlds would collide - on the one hand elegance, harmony, artistry, there youth "Swing, grace". But it did not happen because when Gardner was running in for the short program on February 15, a groin strain he had suffered two weeks ago became acute: he fell on two double flips with which he had never had any problems. The duo got on the ice as planned, Gardner made another attempt, after which he had to give up. However, it would not have been easy for Babilonia / Gardner to defeat Rodnina / Saizew, because the Soviet couple showed a strong performance in the short program, received grades between 5.7 and 5.9 and were ranked first by all judges; there was a triple tour for the URS, because Cherkassova / Shakhtai and Pestova / Leonowitsch followed.
With this victory, Irina Rodnina discontinued the three Olympic gold medals (1928, 1932, 1936) won by Sonja Henie . The Norwegian had won this individually , however , and Rodnina had won this gold eight years ago in Sapporo with Alexei Ulanow , in 1976 she had already won with Saizew.
The winning couple didn't have to go out of their way in the freestyle, a lot was more of a routine - the challenge that might have arisen from the involvement of Babilonia / Gardner was missing - so it was not surprising that none of the judges drew the highest marks. Rank 3 was controversial, the majority of the better places decided in favor of the GDR couple Mager / Bewersdorff, which impressed with a decidedly sporty program.
Ice dance
space | country | Pair | PT | K | Pz | Pt. |
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1 | URS | Natalja Linitschuk / Gennady Karponosov | 1 | 2 | 13 | 205.48 |
2 | HUN | Krisztina Regőczy / András Sallay | 2 | 1 | 14th | 204.52 |
3 | URS | Irina Moissejewa / Andrei Minenkow | 3 | 3 | 27 | 201.86 |
4th | TCH | Liliane Řeháková / Stanislav Drastich | 4th | 4th | 39 | 198.02 |
5 | GBR | Jayne Torvill / Christopher Dean | 5 | 5 | 42 | 197.12 |
6th | CAN | Lorna Wighton / John Dowding | 6th | 6th | 54 | 193.80 |
7th | United States | Judy Blumberg / Michael Seibert | 7th | 7th | 66 | 190.30 |
8th | URS | Natalja Bestemjanowa / Andrei Bukin | 9 | 9 | 75 | 188.18 |
9 | United States | Stacey Smith / John Summers | 8th | 8th | 75 | 188.38 |
10 | FRG | Henriette Fröschl / Christian Steiner | 10 | 10 | 94 | 178.38 |
11 | AUT | Susanne Handschmann / Peter Handschmann | 11 | 11 | 96 | 177.78 |
12 | GBR | Karen Barber / Nicky Slater | 12 | 12 | 104 | 176.92 |
Date: February 19th.
The Austrian siblings Handschmann had hoped for a place in the top ten, but already in the first compulsory dance it got out of step with the “Starlight Waltz”. The bottom line was that the effort he had made was not worth it because it had its costumes made at the Vienna Opera. The ranking of the first three after two compulsory dances was identical to the final result, i.e. Linitschuk / Karponossow before Regőczy / Sallay and Moissejewa / Minenkow. At the freestyle, the grades were again criticized, the audience expressed their displeasure with those for their declared favorites Regőczy / Sallay, whose lively, original presentation was given weaker marks than that of the Russian winning couple, in which the lady even slipped once. The British judge unabashedly showed a ridiculously low grade for Moissejewa / Minenkow, but it wasn't enough to win a medal for "his" duo Torvill / Dean.
Web links
- Figure skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Hoffmann fights for his gold" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 19, 1980, p. 14 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ Column 5: “The highlight of the men's freestyle” . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 21, 1980, p. 14 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ "Poet beat the artist" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 23, 1980, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ Column 5: “Fratianne Favorite” . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 21, 1980, p. 14 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ Middle right: "World champion couple failed", penultimate and last paragraph . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 17, 1980, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ "Pötzsch got 100th gold for GDR" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 25, 1980, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ "Poet beat the artist" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 23, 1980, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ “Two worlds want gold medals. Rodnina-Saizew against US stars ” . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 15, 1980, p. 07 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ Middle right: "World champion couple failed" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 17, 1980, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ “Again and again Rodnina” . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 19, 1980, p. 14 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ middle right: "World Champion Couple failed"; from the last paragraph in column 1 of the article . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 17, 1980, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ “Opera costumes were useless. Handschmann remained penultimate ” . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 21, 1980, p. 14 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).