1980 Winter Olympics / Ice Hockey

Ice hockey at the 1980 Olympic Winter Games
information
venue	Lake Placid
Competition venue	Olympic Center , Olympic Arena
Teams	12
Nations	12
Athletes	239 (239 )
date	14.-23. February 1980
decisions	1
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The Olympic Winter Games in 1980 were held in Lake Placid in the state of New York in the United States instead. The Olympic ice hockey tournament was held from February 12 to 24. Twelve teams took part in this tournament.

The eight teams in Group A of the 1979 Ice Hockey World Championship and the best four teams in Group B were eligible to participate . For the GDR (B group second) and Switzerland (B group fifth), both of which did not participate, Japan (B group sixth) moved up. Since there was no ice hockey world championship for the first time this year , the Thayer Tutt Trophy was introduced as a replacement for those nations that did not qualify for the Olympics . Switzerland became the winner.

The mode of competition has been changed compared to previous Olympic tournaments. First of all, they played in two preliminary round groups with six teams each, then the first and second placed reached the final round, in which the medals were played, taking their direct comparisons with them. The two third-placed players played for fifth place.

For many observers, the ice hockey tournament brought the biggest surprise since Britain won the Olympic Games in 1936 . The host USA won their second Olympic gold medal, and in what has become legendary as Miracle on Ice , they beat the top favorites from the USSR. In contrast, neither Czechoslovakia nor Canada reached the final round and finished fifth and sixth respectively. For record Olympic champions Canada - after not participating in 1972 and 1976 for the first time in twelve years - it was the worst result so far at all Olympic tournaments and world championships.

Men's Olympic ice hockey tournament

Preliminary round

Group A

February 12, 1980	Canada	-	Netherlands	10: 1	(2: 1.2: 0.6: 0)
	Finland	-	Poland	4: 5	(0: 1.3: 4.1: 0)
	USSR	-	Japan	16: 0	(8: 0.5: 0.3: 0)
February 14, 1980	USSR	-	Netherlands	17: 4	(8: 1.7: 1.2: 2)
	Canada	-	Poland	5: 1	(1: 0.2: 1.2: 0)
	Finland	-	Japan	6: 3	(2: 0.2: 2.2: 1)
February 16, 1980	Netherlands	-	Japan	3: 3	(1: 3.1: 0.1: 0)
	USSR	-	Poland	8: 1	(5: 1.1: 0.2: 0)
	Canada	-	Finland	3: 4	(1: 2.0: 1.2: 1)
February 18, 1980	Canada	-	Japan	6-0	(2: 0.2: 0.2: 0)
	Poland	-	Netherlands	3: 5	(1: 3.1: 2.1: 0)
	USSR	-	Finland	4: 2	(0: 1.1: 0.3: 1)
February 20, 1980	Poland	-	Japan	5: 1	(3: 0.1: 0.1: 1)
	Finland	-	Netherlands	10: 3	(2: 1.2: 1.6: 1)
	USSR	-	Canada	6: 4	(1: 1.1: 2.4: 1)

Closing table

Pl	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff	Pt.
1.	Soviet Union	5	5	0	0	51:11	+40	10-0
2.	Finland	5	3	0	2	26:18	+ 08	06: 4
3.	Canada	5	3	0	2	28:12	+16	06: 4
4th	Poland	5	2	0	3	15:23	- 08	04: 6
5.	Netherlands	5	1	1	3	16:43	-27	03: 7
6th	Japan	5	0	1	4th	07:36	-29	01: 9

Group B

February 12, 1980	Czechoslovakia	-	Norway	11: 0	(0: 0.5: 0.6: 0)
	BR Germany	-	Romania	4: 6	(1: 1.3: 2.0: 3)
	United States	-	Sweden	2: 2	(0: 1.1: 0.1: 1)
February 14, 1980	Sweden	-	Romania	8-0	(3: 0.4: 0.1: 0)
	BR Germany	-	Norway	10: 4	(5: 2.3: 1.2: 1)
	United States	-	Czechoslovakia	7: 3	(2: 2.2: 0.3: 1)
February 16, 1980	United States	-	Norway	5: 1	(0: 1.3: 0.2: 0)
	Czechoslovakia	-	Romania	7: 2	(2: 0.3: 1.2: 1)
	Sweden	-	BR Germany	5: 2	(1: 0.4: 1.0: 1)
February 18, 1980	Sweden	-	Norway	7: 1	(2: 0.4: 0.1: 1)
	Czechoslovakia	-	BR Germany	11: 3	(2: 2.4: 0.5: 1)
	United States	-	Romania	7: 2	(2: 0.2: 1.3: 1)
February 20, 1980	Romania	-	Norway	3: 3	(1: 1.0: 1.2: 1)
	Sweden	-	Czechoslovakia	4: 2	(2: 0.1: 0.1: 2)
	United States	-	BR Germany	4: 2	(0: 2.2: 0.2: 0)

Closing table

Pl	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff	Pt.
1.	Sweden	5	4th	1	0	26: 07	+19	9: 1
2.	United States	5	4th	1	0	25:10	+15	9: 1
3.	Czechoslovakia	5	3	0	2	34:16	+18	6: 4
4th	Romania	5	1	1	3	13:29	-16	3: 7
5.	BR Germany	5	1	0	4th	21:30	- 09	2: 8
6th	Norway	5	0	1	4th	09:36	-27	1: 9

Play for 5th place

February 22, 1980

Czechoslovakia

-

Canada

6: 1

(5: 0.0: 1.1: 0)

Final round for places 1–4

February 22, 1980	Finland	-	Sweden	3: 3	(1: 0.1: 1.1: 2)
	United States	-	USSR	4: 3	(2: 2.0: 1.2: 0)
February 24, 1980	United States	-	Finland	4: 2	(0: 1.1: 1.3: 0)
	USSR	-	Sweden	9: 2	(4: 0.5: 0.0: 2)

direct comparisons of the preliminary round have been adopted

Final table of the final round

Pl	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff	Pt.
1.	United States	3	2	1	0	10: 07	+3	5: 1
2.	Soviet Union	3	2	0	1	16: 07	+9	4: 2
3.	Sweden	3	0	2	1	07:14	-7	2: 4
4th	Finland	3	0	1	2	07:11	-4	1: 5

Final placement and squad of the teams

placement	team	player
	United States	Bill Baker , Neal Broten , David Christian , Steven Christoff , Jim Craig , Mike Eruzione , John Harrington , Mark Johnson , Robert McClanahan , Ken Morrow , Jack O'Callahan , Mark Pavelich , Mike Ramsey , Buzz Schneider , Dave Silk , Bob Suter , Eric Strobel , Phil Verchota , Mark Wells , Steve Janaszak
	USSR	Helmut Balderis , Sinetula Bilyaletdinov , Valeri Kharlamov , Vyacheslav Fetisov , Alexander Golikov , Vladimir Golikov , Alexei Kassatonow , Vladimir Krutov , Yuri Lebedev , Sergei Makarov , Alexander Maltsev , Boris Mikhailov , Vladimir Myshkin , Vasily Pervukhin , Vladimir Petrov , Alexander Skvortsov , Sergei Starikov , Valery Vasilyev , Viktor Schluktow , Vladislav Tretyak
	Sweden	Mats Åhlberg , Sture Andersson , Bo Berglund , Jan Eriksson , Håkan Eriksson , Thomas Eriksson , Leif Holmgren , Tomas Jonsson , Per-Eric Lindbergh , Bengt Lundholm , Per Lundqvist , William Löfqvist , Lars Molin , Mats Näslund , Lennart Norberg , Tommy Samuelsson , Dan Söderström , Mats Waltin , Ulf Weinstock
4th	Finland	Antero Kivelä , Jorma Valtonen , Seppo Suoraniemi , Olli Saarinen , Hannu Haapalainen , Tapio Levo , Kari Eloranta , Lasse Litma , Esa Peltonen , Ismo Villa , Mikko Leinonen , Markku Kiimalainen , Jari Kurri , Jukka Koskilahti , Hannu Koskinen , Reijo Leppänen , Markku Hakulinen , Jukka Porvari , Jarmo Mäkitalo , Timo Susi
5	Czechoslovakia	Jiří Králík , Karel Lang , January Neliba , Miroslav Ďuriš , Milan Chalupa , Arnold Kadlec , Miroslav Dvořák , František Kaberle , Jiri Bubla , Milan Nový , Jiří Novák , Miroslav Fryčer , Marián Šťastný , Anton Šťastný , Vincent Lukáč , Karel Holý , Jaroslav Pouzar , Bohuslav Ebermann , Vladimír Martinec , Peter Šťastný
6th	Canada	Bob Dupuis , Paul Pageau , Warren Anderson , Brad Pirie , Randy Gregg , Tim Watters , Joe Grant , Don Spring , Terry O'Malley , Ron Davidson , Glenn Anderson , Kevin Maxwell , Jim Nill , John Devaney , Paul MacLean , Dan D ' Alvise , Ken Berry , Dave Hindmarch , Kevin Primeau , Stelio Zupancich
7th	Poland	Henryk Wojtynek , PaweĹ Łukaszka , Andrzej Ujwary , Henryk Janiszewski , Henryk Gruth , Andrzej Janczy , Jerzy Potz , Ludwik Synowiec , Marek Marcińczak , Stefan Chowaniec , Wieslaw Jobczyk , Tadeusz Obłój , Dariusz Sikora , Leszek Kokoszka , Andrzej Zabawa , Henryk Pytel , Stanislaw Klocek , Leszek Jachna , Bogdan Dziubiński , Andrzej Małysiak
8th	Romania	Valerian Netedu , Gheorghe Hutan , Mihail Lucian Popescu , Ion Berdilă , Şandor Gal , Elöd Antal , Istvan Antal , Doru Morosan , George Justinian , Doru Tureanu , Dumitru Axinte , Marian Costea , Constantin Nistor , Alexandru Hălăucă , László Sólyom , Béla Nagy , Traian Cazan , Adrian Olenici , Marian Pisaru , Zoltan Nagy
9	Netherlands	Ted Lenssen , John de Bruyn , Patrick Kolijn , George Peternousek , Al Pluymers , Rick van Gog , Henk Hille , Frank van Soldt , Harrie van Heumen , Larry van Wieren , Ron Berteling , Dick Decloe , Jack de Heer , Jan Janssen , Klaas van den Broek , Leo Koopmans , Brian de Bruijn , Chuck Huizinga , Corky de Graauw , Willem Klooster
10	BR Germany	Bernhard Englbrecht , Sigmund Suttner , Udo Kießling , Harald Krüll , Klaus Auhuber , Horst-Peter Kretschmer , Joachim Reil , Peter Scharf , Rainer Philipp , Franz Reindl , Marcus Kuhl , Martin Hinterstocker , Uli Egen , Gerd Truntschka , Hans Zach , Hermann Hinterstocker , Ernst Höfner , Vladimír Vacátko , Martin Wild , Holger Meitinger
11	Norway	Jim Marthinsen , Thore Walberg , Nils Nilsen , Thor Martinsen , Trond Abrahamsen , Rune Molberg , Øivind Løsåmoen , Erik Pedersen , Øystein Jarlsbo , Håkon Lundenes , Geir Myhre , Morten Johansen , Morten Sethereng , Knut Andresen , gates Falch Nilsen , Tom Røymark , Vidar Johansen , Petter Thoresen , Knut Fjeldsgaard , Stephen Foyn
12	Japan	Minoru Misawa , Takeshi Iwamoto , Hiroshi Hori , Iwao Nakayama , Norio Ito , Hitoshi Nakamura , Tadamitsu Fujii , Koji Wakasa , Yoshiaki Kyoya , Katsutoshi Kawamura , Takeshi Azuma , Satoru Misawa , Mikio Matsuda , Sadaki Honma , Hideo Sakurai , Tsutomu Hanzawa , Hideo Urabe , Osamu Wakabayashi , Mikio Hosoi , Yoshio Hoshino

Trivia

The club of the winning goal scorer in the game between the USA and the Soviet Union, captain Mike Eruzione , was sold several times, most recently for € 236,000.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ WORLD: Winter Olympic Games: cult ice hockey sticks auctioned for 235,000 euros . In: THE WORLD . February 23, 2018 ( welt.de [accessed June 2, 2018]).

Web links

Commons : Ice Hockey at the 1980 Winter Olympics  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ice hockey at the 1980 Olympic Games in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )