# 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

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Soviet Union | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 2 | East Germany | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | Great Britain | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | United States | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 5 | Hungary | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | West Germany | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (6 entries) | Totals (6 entries) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 |

## Participating NOCs

Twenty nations sent figure skaters to compete in the events at Lake Placid.
* Australia
* Austria
* Canada
* China
* Czechoslovakia
* East Germany
* Finland
* France
* Great Britain
* Hungary
* Italy
* Japan
* South Korea
* Soviet Union
* Spain
* Sweden
* Switzerland
* United States
* West Germany
* Yugoslavia

## Results
### Men

| Rank | Name | Nation | CF | SP | FS | Points | Places |
| 1 | Robin Cousins | Great Britain | 4 | 1 | 1 | 189.48 | 13 |
| 2 | Jan Hoffmann | East Germany | 1 | 2 | 2 | 189.72 | 15 |
| 3 | Charles Tickner | United States | 2 | 5 | 3 | 187.06 | 28 |
| 4 | David Santee | United States | 3 | 3 | 5 | 185.52 | 34 |
| 5 | Scott Hamilton | United States | 8 | 4 | 4 | 181.78 | 45 |
| 6 | Igor Bobrin | Soviet Union | 7 | 6 | 8 | 177.40 | 55 |
| 7 | Jean-Christophe Simond | France | 6 | 10 | 9 | 175.00 | 64 |
| 8 | Mitsuru Matsumura | Japan | 11 | 7 | 7 | 172.28 | 75 |
| 9 | Fumio Igarashi | Japan | 13 | 8 | 6 | 172.04 | 77 |
| 10 | Konstantin Kokora | Soviet Union | 10 | 11 | 10 | 168.18 | 91 |
| 11 | Hermann Schulz | East Germany | 9 | 9 | 13 | 166.70 | 98 |
| 12 | Brian Pockar | Canada | 12 | 12 | 12 | 163.26 | 107 |
| 13 | Rudi Cerne | West Germany | 15 | 13 | 11 | 159.30 | 116 |
| 14 | Thomas Öberg | Sweden | 14 | 14 | 14 | 149.80 | 127 |
| 15 | Christopher Howarth | Great Britain | 16 | 15 | 15 | 145.66 | 134 |
| 16 | Xu Zhaoxiao | China | 17 | 16 | 16 | 117.16 | 144 |
| WD | Vladimir Kovalev | Soviet Union | 5 | | | | |
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

| Rank | Name | Nation | CF | SP | FS | Points | Places |
| 1 | Anett Pötzsch | East Germany | 1 | 4 | 3 | 189.00 | 11 |
| 2 | Linda Fratianne | United States | 3 | 1 | 2 | 188.30 | 16 |
| 3 | Dagmar Lurz | West Germany | 2 | 5 | 6 | 183.04 | 28 |
| 4 | Denise Biellmann | Switzerland | 12 | 2 | 1 | 180.06 | 43 |
| 5 | Lisa-Marie Allen | United States | 8 | 3 | 4 | 179.42 | 45 |
| 6 | Emi Watanabe | Japan | 4 | 8 | 5 | 179.04 | 48 |
| 7 | Claudia Kristofics-Binder | Austria | 5 | 7 | 9 | 176.88 | 60 |
| 8 | Susanna Driano | Italy | 6 | 14 | 10 | 172.82 | 77 |
| 9 | Sandy Lenz | United States | 11 | 6 | 7 | 172.74 | 82 |
| 10 | Kristiina Wegelius | Finland | 7 | 11 | 12 | 172.04 | 87 |
| 11 | Sanda Dubravčić | Yugoslavia | 13 | 10 | 8 | 170.30 | 100 |
| 12 | Karena Richardson | Great Britain | 10 | 9 | 14 | 168.94 | 109 |
| 13 | Karin Riediger | West Germany | 15 | 13 | 11 | 166.32 | 120 |
| 14 | Danielle Rieder | Switzerland | 9 | 15 | 16 | 165.46 | 125 |
| 15 | Heather Kemkaran | Canada | 16 | 12 | 15 | 164.64 | 128 |
| 16 | Kira Ivanova | Soviet Union | 18 | 16 | 13 | 161.54 | 144 |
| 17 | Susan Broman | Finland | 14 | 17 | 17 | 157.54 | 152 |
| 18 | Christina Riegel | West Germany | 17 | 19 | 18 | 149.50 | 162 |
| 19 | Franca Bianconi | Italy | 19 | 18 | 19 | 144.82 | 134 |
| 20 | Shin Hae-sook | South Korea | 20 | 22 | 22 | 128.18 | 134 |
| 21 | Gloria Mas | Spain | 21 | 20 | 21 | 126.56 | 190 |
| 22 | Bao Zhenghua | China | 22 | 21 | 20 | 126.96 | 191 |
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.
| Rank | Name | Nation | SP | FS | Points | Places |
| 1 | Irina Rodnina / Alexander Zaitsev | Soviet Union | 1 | 1 | 147.26 | 9 |
| 2 | Marina Cherkasova / Sergei Shakhrai | Soviet Union | 2 | 2 | 143.80 | 19 |
| 3 | Manuela Mager / Uwe Bewersdorff | East Germany | 4 | 3 | 140.52 | 33 |
| 4 | Marina Pestova / Stanislav Leonovich | Soviet Union | 3 | 4 | 141.14 | 31 |
| 5 | Kitty Carruthers / Peter Carruthers | United States | 5 | 5 | 137.38 | 46 |
| 6 | Sabine Baeß / Tassilo Thierbach | East Germany | 6 | 6 | 136.00 | 53 |
| 7 | Sheryl Franks / Michael Botticelli | United States | 7 | 7 | 133.84 | 64 |
| 8 | Christina Riegel / Andreas Nischwitz | West Germany | 8 | 8 | 131.70 | 71 |
| 9 | Barbara Underhill / Paul Martini | Canada | 9 | 9 | 129.36 | 78 |
| 10 | Susy Garland / Robert Daw | Great Britain | 11 | 10 | 124.36 | 91 |
| 11 | Elizabeth Cain / Peter Cain | Australia | 10 | 11 | 121.30 | 98 |
| WD | Tai Babilonia / Randy Gardner | United States | | | | |
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

| Rank | Name | Nation | CD | FD | Points | Places |
| 1 | Natalia Linichuk / Gennadi Karponosov | Soviet Union | 1 | 2 | 205.48 | 13 |
| 2 | Krisztina Regőczy / András Sallay | Hungary | 2 | 1 | 204.52 | 14 |
| 3 | Irina Moiseeva / Andrei Minenkov | Soviet Union | 3 | 3 | 201.86 | 27 |
| 4 | Liliana Řeháková / Stanislav Drastich | Czechoslovakia | 4 | 4 | 198.02 | 39 |
| 5 | Jayne Torvill / Christopher Dean | Great Britain | 5 | 5 | 197.12 | 42 |
| 6 | Lorna Wighton / John Dowding | Canada | 6 | 6 | 193.80 | 54 |
| 7 | Judy Blumberg / Michael Seibert | United States | 7 | 7 | 190.30 | 66 |
| 8 | Natalia Bestemianova / Andrei Bukin | Soviet Union | 9 | 9 | 188.18 | 75 |
| 9 | Stacey Smith / John Summers | United States | 8 | 8 | 188.38 | 75 |
| 10 | Henriette Fröschl / Christian Steiner | West Germany | 10 | 10 | 178.38 | 94 |
| 11 | Susanne Handschmann / Peter Handschmann | Austria | 11 | 11 | 177.78 | 96 |
| 12 | Karen Barber / Nicky Slater | Great Britain | 12 | 12 | 176.92 | 104 |
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)