Canada at the 1980 Winter Olympics

IOC code	CAN
NOC	Canadian Olympic Committee
Website	www.olympic.ca (in English and French)
in Lake Placid, United States 13 February 1980 (1980-02-13) – 24 February 1980 (1980-02-24)
Competitors	59 (41 men, 18 women) in 8 sports
Flag bearer	Ken Read (alpine skiing)
Medals Ranked 14th	Gold 0 Silver 1 Bronze 1 Total 2
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
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Canada competed at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, United States. Canada had competed at every Winter Olympic Games previously.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Silver	Gaétan Boucher	Speed skating	Men's 1000m
Bronze	Steve Podborski	Alpine skiing	Men's downhill

Alpine skiing

Main article: Alpine skiing at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Race
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Ken Read	Downhill	DNF	–
Dave Irwin		1:48.12	11
Dave Murray		1:47.95	10
Steve Podborski		1:46.62

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Loni Klettl	Downhill					1:40.95	13
Laurie Graham						1:40.74	11
Kathy Kreiner						1:39.53	5
Kathy Kreiner	Giant Slalom	1:17.19	11	1:28.56	9	2:45.75	9
Kathy Kreiner	Slalom	48.06	21	46.72	15	1:34.78	15

Bobsleigh

Main article: Bobsleigh at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Sled	Athletes	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
CAN-1	Joey Kilburn Robert Wilson	Two-man	1:04.07	14	1:04.27	12	1:03.96	14	1:03.91	11	4:16.21	13
CAN-2	Brian Vachon Serge Cantin	Two-man	1:04.66	18	1:04.67	16	1:04.38	17	1:05.05	19	4:18.76	20

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Sled	Athletes	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
CAN-1	Martin Glynn Alan MacLachlan Serge Cantin Robert Wilson	Four-man	1:01.76	15	1:02.25	17	DNF	–	–	–	DNF	–

Cross-country skiing

Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
5 km	Sharon Firth	16:54.66	35
	Angela Schmidt-Foster	16:28.87	29
	Shirley Firth	16:23.40	28
	Joan Groothuysen	16:23.25	27
10 km	Joan Groothuysen	33:31.99	34
	Esther Miller	33:29.03	33
	Shirley Firth	32:56.87	24
	Angela Schmidt-Foster	32:56.13	23

Women's 4 × 5 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Time	Rank
Angela Schmidt-Foster Shirley Firth Esther Miller Joan Groothuysen	1'07:45.75	8

Figure skating

Main article: Figure skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	CF	SP	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Brian Pockar	12	12	12	16326	107	12

Women

Athlete	CF	SP	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Heather Kemkaran	16	12	15	164.64	128	15

Pairs

Athletes	SP	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Barbara Underhill Paul Martini	9	9	129.36	78	9

Ice Dancing

Athletes	CD	FD	Points	Places	Rank
Lorna Wighton John Dowding	6	6	193.80	54	6

Ice hockey

Main article: Ice hockey at the 1980 Winter Olympics

First Round - Red Division

	Team advanced to the Final Round
	Team advanced to Consolation Round

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Soviet Union	5	5	0	0	51	11	10
Finland	5	3	2	0	26	18	6
Canada	5	3	2	0	28	12	6
Poland	5	2	3	0	15	23	4
Netherlands	5	1	3	1	16	43	3
Japan	5	0	4	1	7	36	1

All times are local (UTC-5).

12 February 1980
13:30

Netherlands

1 – 10
(1–2, 0–2, 0–6)

Canada

Olympic Fieldhouse, Lake Placid

Referee:
Lindgren

de Graauw (de Cloe) (SH) - 01:56	1 – 0
	1 – 1	04:04 - Primeau (Devaney)
	1 – 2	11:40 - Berry (Maxwell, O'Malley)
	1 – 3	26:52 - d'Alvise (O'Malley)
	1 – 4	35:02 - Hindmarch (Devaney) (PP)
	1 – 5	43:31 - G. Anderson (Davidson, Nill)
	1 – 6	44:14 - d'Alvise (Zupancich, Pirie)
	1 – 7	50:35 - Devaney (Primeau, Hindmarch) (PP)
	1 – 8	51:11 - Berry (Watters, Maxwell)
	1 – 9	52:22 - Berry (Maxwell, MacLean)
	1 – 10	58:11 - Hindmarch (MacLean, Davidson)

16 min

Penalties

18 min

20

Shots

40

14 February 1980
17:00

Poland

1 – 5
(0–1, 1–2, 0–2)

Canada

Olympic Fieldhouse, Lake Placid

Referee:
Kompalla

	0 – 1	03:17 - Zupancich (Pirie, d'Alvise)
Jobczyk (Zabawa) - 23:17	1 – 1
	1 – 2	30:56 - Watters (G. Anderson, Spring)
	1 – 3	32:06 - Berry (Maxwell, MacLean)
	1 – 4	47:42 - Devaney (Hindmarch, Gregg)
	1 – 5	53:29 - Primeau

0 min

Penalties

0 min

25

Shots

36

16 February 1980
20:30

Canada

3 – 4
(1–2, 0–1, 2–1)

Finland

Olympic Fieldhouse, Lake Placid

Referee:
Lindgren

	0 – 1	04:03 - Peltonen (Suoraniemi)
MacLean (Berry, O'Malley) - 14:22	1 – 1
	1 – 2	19:51 - Leppänen (Hakulinen, Levo)
	1 – 3	37:07 - Koskilahti
G. Anderson (Nill, Davidson) - 46:47	2 – 3
	2 – 4	56:55 - Suoraniemi (Leppänen) (SH)
Primeau (Hindmarch, Devaney) - 57:09	3 – 4

16 min

Penalties

10 min

33

Shots

26

18 February 1980
13:00

Canada

6 – 0
(2–0, 2–0, 2–0)

Japan

Olympic Arena, Lake Placid

Referee:
Neagles

Devaney (Zupancich, d'Alvise) (PP) - 09:36	1 – 0
Primeau - 14:35	2 – 0
MacLean (Maxwell) - 23:17	3 – 0
Davidson - 26:19	4 – 0
W. Anderson - 41:27	5 – 0
Hindmarch - 50:22	6 – 0

14 min

Penalties

22 min

48

Shots

13

20 February 1980
17:00

Soviet Union

6 – 4
(1–1, 1–2, 4–1)

Canada

Olympic Fieldhouse, Lake Placid

Referee:
Neagles

	0 – 1	01:35 - Nill (Davidson, G. Anderson)
Balderis (Skvortsov, Zhluktov) - 13:42	1 – 1
	1 – 2	20:19 - Gregg
	1 – 3	22:38 - Pirie (Zupancich, d'Alvise)
Kasatonov (Krutov) - 39:47	2 – 3
Mikhailov (A. Golikov) - 41:53	3 – 3
A. Golikov (Makarov) - 42:05	4 – 3
	4 – 4	43:05 - d'Alvise
Mikhailov (Starikov) - 48:41	5 – 4
A. Golikov - 56:51	6 – 4

6 min

Penalties

12 min

35

Shots

26

Consolation round

The third-placed teams in each division, Czechoslovakia and Canada, played each other to determine fifth place.

22 February 1980
13:30

Czechoslovakia

6 – 1
(5–0, 0–1, 1–0)

Canada

Olympic Fieldhouse, Lake Placid

Referee:
Dombrovsky

Fryčer (Nový, Pouzar) - 01:38	1 – 0
A. Šťastný - 02:14	2 – 0
M. Šťastný, Bubla, A. Šťastný) - 07:16	3 – 0
A. Šťastný (M. Šťastný, P. Šťastný) - 12:47	4 – 0
M. Šťastný (A. Šťastný, P. Šťastný) - 13:19	5 – 0
	5 – 1	28:01 - Devaney (Grant, Hindmarch)
M. Šťastný (P. Šťastný) - 57:18	6 – 1

8 min

Penalties

6 min

27

Shots

21

Final Rank: 6th place

Team Roster

Bob Dupuis
Paul Pageau
Warren Anderson
Joe Grant
Randy Gregg
Terry O'Malley
Brad Pirie
Don Spring
Tim Watters
Glenn Anderson
Ken Berry
Dan D'Alvise
Ron Davidson
John Devaney
Dave Hindmarch
Paul MacLean
Kevin Maxwell
Jim Nill
Kevin Primeau
Stelio Zupancich
Franco Carella (practised from 1976–1980)
Head coaches: Lorne Davis, Clare Drake & Tom Watt

Luge

Main article: Luge at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Bruce Smith	45.442	23	45.305	12	45.479	15	44.848	10	3:01.074	11
Mark Jensen	45.150	16	46.218	21	45.363	13	46.079	19	3:02.810	17

Women

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Danielle Nadeau	40.782	20	40.968	19	41.770	23	41.101	20	2:44.621	22
Carole Keyes	40.616	18	40.658	15	41.567	22	41.058	19	2:43.899	18

Ski jumping

Main article: Ski jumping at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Horst Bulau	Normal hill	64.5	79.4	75.0	100.7	180.1	41
Tauno Käyhkö		78.5	108.8	71.5	96.6	205.4	30
Steve Collins		81.0	111.8	72.0	95.9	207.7	28
Tauno Käyhkö	Large hill	98.0	104.4	97.5	104.2	208.6	26
Horst Bulau		100.5	106.9	95.0	98.2	205.1	29
Steve Collins		112.5	126.7	102.5	111.7	238.4	9

Speed skating

Main article: Speed skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
500 m	Jacques Thibault	40.11	26
500 m	Gaétan Boucher	38.90	8
1000 m	Craig Webster	1:21.47	27
	Jacques Thibault	1:19.79	20
	Gaétan Boucher	1:16.68
1500 m	Jacques Thibault	2:06.79	27
	Craig Webster	2:02.41	23
	Gaétan Boucher	2:00.15	15
5000 m	Craig Webster	7:28.94	20

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
500 m	Sylvie Daigle	44.16	19
	Kathy Vogt	44.15	18
	Sylvia Burka	43.43	9
1000 m	Kathy Vogt	1:30.33	24
	Brenda Webster	1:29.84	19
	Sylvia Burka	1:27.50	7
1500 m	Kathy Vogt	2:16.09	16
	Brenda Webster	2:14.73	11
	Sylvia Burka	2:14.65	10
3000 m	Pat Durnin	4:58.42	23
	Sylvia Burka	4:44.22	12
	Brenda Webster	4:43.67	11

References

Olympic Winter Games 1980, full results by sports-reference.com

Canada at the Olympics

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Canada hosted the 1976 Summer Olympics, as well as the 1988 and 2010 Winter Olympics. Canada did not participate in 1980 due to a boycott.

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