# 1980 World Figure Skating Championships

The 1980 World Figure Skating Championships were held in Dortmund, West Germany from March 11 to 16. At the event, sanctioned by the International Skating Union, medals were awarded in men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance.

## Medal tables
### Medalists

| Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men | Jan Hoffmann | Robin Cousins | Charles Tickner |
| Ladies | Anett Pötzsch | Dagmar Lurz | Linda Fratianne |
| Pair skating | Marina Cherkasova / Sergei Shakhrai | Manuela Mager / Uwe Bewersdorf | Marina Pestova / Stanislav Leonovich |
| Ice dance | Krisztina Regőczy / András Sallay | Natalia Linichuk / Gennadi Karponosov | Irina Moiseyeva / Andrei Minenkov |

### Medals by country

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

## Results
### Men

| Rank | Name | Nation | CP | SP | FS | SP+FS | Points | Placings |
| 1 | Jan Hoffmann | East Germany | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 189.94 | 11 |
| 2 | Robin Cousins | United Kingdom | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 188.82 | 17 |
| 3 | Charles Tickner | United States | 3 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 185.12 | 30 |
| 4 | David Santee | United States | 2 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 185.16 | 32 |
| 5 | Scott Hamilton | United States | 8 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 179.94 | 49 |
| 6 | Mitsuru Matsumura | Japan | 9 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 177.14 | 58 |
| 7 | Igor Bobrin | Soviet Union | 6 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 176.66 | 59 |
| 8 | Fumio Igarashi | Japan | 13 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 171.86 | 82 |
| 9 | Brian Pockar | Canada | 10 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 171.56 | 83 |
| 10 | Hermann Schulz | East Germany | 7 | 8 | 11 | 11 | 171.08 | 88 |
| 11 | Rudi Cerne | West Germany | 12 | 11 | 9 | 9 | 170.60 | 91 |
| 12 | Mario Liebers | East Germany | 11 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 166.86 | 108 |
| 13 | Jean-Christophe Simond | France | 4 | 14 | 16 | 15 | 164.56 | 115 |
| 14 | Alexander Fadeev | Soviet Union | 16 | 15 | 14 | 14 | 158.84 | 129 |
| 15 | Grzegorz Filipowski | Poland | 18 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 160.12 | 129 |
| 16 | Jozef Sabovčík | Czechoslovakia | 14 | 16 | 15 | 16 | 155.82 | 142 |
| 17 | William Schober | Australia | 19 | 19 | 17 | 17 | 144.60 | 161 |
| 18 | Helmut Kristofics-Binder | Austria | 17 | 20 | 19 | 19 | 142.90 | 166 |
| 19 | Thomas Öberg | Sweden | 15 | 18 | 20 | 20 | 142.44 | 167 |
| 20 | Eric Krol | Belgium | 21 | 17 | 18 | 18 | 140.32 | 172 |
| 21 | Miljan Begovic | Yugoslavia | 20 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 127.68 | 189 |
| 22 | Wang Zhili | China | 22 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 111.56 | 198 |
Referee:
* Sonia Bianchetti Italy
Assistant Referee:
* Benjamin T. Wright United States
Judges:
* Geoffrey Yates United Kingdom
* Tatiana Danilenko Soviet Union
* Jane Sullivan United States
* David Dore Canada
* Walburga Grimm East Germany
* Eva von Gamm West Germany
* Monique Georgelin France
* Tsukasa Kimura Japan
* Marie-Louise von Friedrichs Sweden
* Václav Skála Czechoslovakia

### Ladies

*: better placed due to the majority of the better placings
| Rank | Name | Nation | CP | SP | FS | SP+FS | Points | Placings |
| 1 | Anett Pötzsch | East Germany | 1 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 188.38 | 12 |
| 2 | Dagmar Lurz | West Germany | 2 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 186.22 | 23* |
| 3 | Linda Fratianne | United States | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 187.04 | 22 |
| 4 | Emi Watanabe | Japan | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 184.82 | 33 |
| 5 | Claudia Kristofics-Binder | Austria | 3 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 180.48 | 47 |
| 6 | Denise Biellmann | Switzerland | 10 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 178.56 | 57 |
| 7 | Lisa-Marie Allen | United States | 8 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 178.22 | 58 |
| 8 | Kristiina Wegelius | Finland | 6 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 172.68 | 79 |
| 9 | Deborah Cottrill | United Kingdom | 9 | 8 | 14 | 10 | 172.14 | 85 |
| 10 | Katarina Witt | East Germany | 20 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 170.86 | 95* |
| 11 | Elaine Zayak | United States | 22 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 170.70 | 94 |
| 12 | Sanda Dubravčić | Yugoslavia | 12 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 169.30 | 107 |
| 13 | Carola Weißenberg | East Germany | 13 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 168.68 | 111 |
| 14 | Tracey Wainman | Canada | 21 | 17 | 10 | 14 | 164.00 | 128 |
| 15 | Sonja Stanek | Austria | 16 | 22 | 16 | 16 | 158.90 | 142 |
| 16 | Renata Baierová | Czechoslovakia | 23 | 19 | 15 | 15 | 158.20 | 143 |
| 17 | Susan Broman | Finland | 17 | 16 | 18 | 17 | 156.68 | 158 |
| 18 | Anne-Sophie de Kristoffy | France | 14 | 21 | 19 | 20 | 155.72 | 160 |
| 19 | Christina Riegel | West Germany | 18 | 26 | 17 | 18 | 154.90 | 164 |
| 20 | Yoko Yakushi | Japan | 25 | 18 | 21 | 19 | 151.48 | 179 |
| 21 | Reiko Kobayashi | Japan | 19 | 25 | 22 | 21 | 150.74 | 188 |
| 22 | Anita Siegfried | Switzerland | 26 | 23 | 20 | 22 | 147.98 | 194 |
| 23 | Bodil Olsson | Sweden | 28 | 24 | 23 | 23 | 144.64 | 208 |
| 24 | Belinda Coulthard | Australia | 27 | 27 | 24 | 24 | 140.82 | 216 |
| 25 | Rudina Pasveer | Netherlands | 24 | 28 | 26 | 25 | 136.12 | 222 |
| 26 | Barbara Toffolo | Italy | 30 | 29 | 27 | 26 | 129.60 | 237 |
| 27 | Hanne Gamborg | Denmark | 29 | 31 | 25 | 27 | 128.52 | 240 |
| 28 | Shin Hea-sook | South Korea | 31 | 32 | 28 | 29 | 119.50 | 255 |
| 29 | Liu Zhiying | China | 32 | 30 | 29 | 28 | 117.56 | 258 |
| WD | Danielle Rieder | Switzerland | 7 | 13 | | | | |
| WD | Elena Vodorezova | Soviet Union | 11 | 15 | | | | |
| WD | Karin Riediger | West Germany | 15 | 20 | | | | |
Referee:
* Elemér Terták Hungary
Assistant Referee:
* Donald H. Gilchrist Canada
Judges:
* Yvonne Tutt United States
* Ludwig Gassner Austria
* Liudmila Kubashevskaia Soviet Union
* Giorgio Siniscalco Italy
* Jürg Wilhelm Switzerland
* Ingrid Linke East Germany
* Junko Hiramatsu Japan
* Elsbeth Bon Netherlands
* Gerhard Frey West Germany
* Hely Abbondati Finland

### Pairs

| Rank | Name | Nation | SP | FS | Points | Placings |
| 1 | Marina Cherkasova / Sergei Shakhrai | Soviet Union | 1 | 1 | 144.64 | 10 |
| 2 | Manuela Mager / Uwe Bewersdorf | East Germany | 2 | 2 | 142.92 | 20 |
| 3 | Marina Pestova / Stanislav Leonovich | Soviet Union | 3 | 3 | 141.08 | 25 |
| 4 | Sabine Baeß / Tassilo Thierbach | East Germany | 4 | 4 | 138.98 | 38 |
| 5 | Christina Riegel / Andreas Nischwitz | West Germany | 6 | 5 | 135.92 | 46 |
| 6 | Veronika Pershina / Marat Akbarov | Soviet Union | 5 | 7 | 134.32 | 55 |
| 7 | Kitty Carruthers / Peter Carruthers | United States | 8 | 6 | 134.10 | 58 |
| 8 | Ingrid Spieglová / Alan Spiegl | Czechoslovakia | 7 | 8 | 130.56 | 76 |
| 9 | Cornelia Haufe / Kersten Bellmann | East Germany | 9 | 10 | 128.14 | 84 |
| 10 | Sheryl Franks / Michael Botticelli | United States | 10 | 11 | 127.68 | 90 |
| 11 | Barbara Underhill / Paul Martini | Canada | 11 | 9 | 127.86 | 91 |
| 12 | Yukiko Okabe / Takashi Mura | Japan | 12 | 13 | 119.74 | 113 |
| 13 | Susan Garland / Robert Daw | United Kingdom | 13 | 12 | 119.06 | 115 |
| 14 | Elizabeth Cain / Peter Cain | Australia | 14 | 14 | 116.38 | 123 |
| 15 | Luan Bo / Yao Bin | China | 15 | 15 | 88.06 | 135 |
Referee:
* Oskar Madl Austria
Assistant Referee:
* Eugen Romminger West Germany
Judges:
* Tiasha Andrée Yugoslavia
* Liudmila Kubashevskaya Soviet Union
* Sally-Anne Stapleford United Kingdom
* Václav Skála Czechoslovakia
* Audrey Williams Canada
* Junko Hiramatsu Japan
* Helga von Wiecki East Germany
* Willi Wenz West Germany
* Mary Louise Wright United States
* Thérèse Maisel France

### Ice dance

| Rank | Name | Nation | CD | FD | Points | Placings |
| 1 | Krisztina Regőczy / András Sallay | Hungary | 2 | 1 | 205.58 | 13 |
| 2 | Natalia Linichuk / Gennadi Karponosov | Soviet Union | 1 | 3 | 204.50 | 18 |
| 3 | Irina Moiseeva / Andrei Minenkov | Soviet Union | 3 | 2 | 202.42 | 24 |
| 4 | Jayne Torvill / Christopher Dean | United Kingdom | 4 | 4 | 199.12 | 35 |
| 5 | Lorna Wighton / John Dowding | Canada | 5 | 6 | 195.18 | 48 |
| 6 | Judy Blumberg / Michael Seibert | United States | 6 | 5 | 194.12 | 52 |
| 7 | Natalia Karamysheva / Rostislav Sinitsyn | Soviet Union | 7 | 7 | 189.66 | 63 |
| 8 | Stacey Smith / John Summers | United States | 8 | 8 | 187.12 | 72 |
| 9 | Henriette Fröschl / Christian Steiner | West Germany | 9 | 9 | 184.02 | 80 |
| 10 | Karen Barber / Nicky Slater | United Kingdom | 10 | 10 | 178.94 | 92 |
| 11 | Jana Berankova / Jan Bartak | Czechoslovakia | 11 | 11 | 176.16 | 97 |
| 12 | Nathalie Herve / Pierre Bechu | France | 12 | 12 | 171.24 | 108 |
| 13 | Marie McNeil / Robert McCall | Canada | 13 | 13 | 168.58 | 116 |
| 14 | Jindra Holá / Karol Foltán | Czechoslovakia | 14 | 15 | 162.60 | 132 |
| 15 | Noriko Sato / Tadeyuki Takahashi | Japan | 15 | 14 | 162.02 | 133 |
| 16 | Gabriella Remport / Sándor Nagy | Hungary | 16 | 16 | 159.52 | 142 |
| 17 | Paola Casalotti / Sergio Ceserani | Italy | 17 | 17 | 158.50 | 150 |
Referee:
* Lawrence Demmy United Kingdom
Assistant Referee:
* Erika Schiechtl West Germany
Judges:
* Oskar Urban Czechoslovakia
* Elaine DeMore United States
* Willi Wenz West Germany
* Ferenc Kertész Hungary
* Lysiane Lauret France
* Pamela Davis United Kingdom
* Igor Kabanov Soviet Union
* Suzanne Francis Canada
* Tsukasa Kimura Japan
* Cia Bordogna Italy