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1980 Winter Olympic Games

Highlights

The second time the Games were held in Lake Placid.
First use of artificial snow in Olympic competition.
Ingemar Stenmark won both the giant slalom and the slalom.
Hanni Wenzel won the women's giant slalom and slalom, making Liechtenstein the smallest country to produce an Olympic champion.
Ulrich Wehling and Irina Rodnina won their respective events for the third time.
Aleksandr Tikhonov earned his fourth straight gold medal.
Nikolay Zimyatov earned three gold medals in cross-country skiing.
Eric Heiden won all five speed skating races.
An upstart United States ice hockey team, made up primarily of collegiate players, won the gold medal, defeating Finland in the final. Their extraordinary upset victory over the heavily favored Soviet team in the semifinal became known as the "Miracle On Ice" in the US press. This event was made into a movie called Miracle.

See the medal winners, ordered by sport:

Pos Country Gold Silver Bronze Total

1 Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 10 6 6 22

2 German Democratic Republic 9 7 7 23

3 United States of America 6 4 2 12

4 Austria 3 2 2 7

5 Sweden 3 0 1 4

6 Liechtenstein 2 2 0 4

7 Finland 1 5 3 9

8 Norway 1 3 6 10

9 Netherlands 1 2 1 4

10 Switzerland 1 1 3 5

11 Great Britain 1 0 0 1

12 Federal Republic of Germany 0 2 3 5

13 Italy 0 2 0 2

14 Canada 0 1 1 2

15 Hungary 0 1 0 1

16 France 0 0 1 1

17 Czechoslovakia 0 0 1 1

18 Bulgaria 0 0 1 1

19 Japan 0 0 1 1