Canada at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Canada competed at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, United States. Canada had competed at every Winter Olympic Games previously.

Canada at the
1980 Winter Olympics
IOC codeCAN
NOCCanadian Olympic Committee
Websitewww.olympic.ca (in English and French)
in Lake Placid, United States
13 February 1980 (1980-02-13) – 24 February 1980 (1980-02-24)
Competitors59 (41 men, 18 women) in 8 sports
Flag bearerKen Read (alpine skiing)
Medals
Ranked 14th
Gold
0
Silver
1
Bronze
1
Total
2
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)

Medalists

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

Alpine skiing

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Men
Athlete Event Race
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
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

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Sled Athletes Event Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Total
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
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

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

Figure skating

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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

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First Round - Red Division

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     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)
  CanadaOlympic Fieldhouse, Lake Placid
Referee:
Lindgren
de Graauw (de Cloe) (SH) - 01:561 – 0
1 – 104:04 - Primeau (Devaney)
1 – 211:40 - Berry (Maxwell, O'Malley)
1 – 326:52 - d'Alvise (O'Malley)
1 – 435:02 - Hindmarch (Devaney) (PP)
1 – 543:31 - G. Anderson (Davidson, Nill)
1 – 644:14 - d'Alvise (Zupancich, Pirie)
1 – 750:35 - Devaney (Primeau, Hindmarch) (PP)
1 – 851:11 - Berry (Watters, Maxwell)
1 – 952:22 - Berry (Maxwell, MacLean)
1 – 1058:11 - Hindmarch (MacLean, Davidson)
16 minPenalties18 min
20Shots40
14 February 1980
17:00
Poland  1 – 5
(0–1, 1–2, 0–2)
  CanadaOlympic Fieldhouse, Lake Placid
Referee:
Kompalla
0 – 103:17 - Zupancich (Pirie, d'Alvise)
Jobczyk (Zabawa) - 23:171 – 1
1 – 230:56 - Watters (G. Anderson, Spring)
1 – 332:06 - Berry (Maxwell, MacLean)
1 – 447:42 - Devaney (Hindmarch, Gregg)
1 – 553:29 - Primeau
0 minPenalties0 min
25Shots36
16 February 1980
20:30
Canada  3 – 4
(1–2, 0–1, 2–1)
  FinlandOlympic Fieldhouse, Lake Placid
Referee:
Lindgren
0 – 104:03 - Peltonen (Suoraniemi)
MacLean (Berry, O'Malley) - 14:221 – 1
1 – 219:51 - Leppänen (Hakulinen, Levo)
1 – 337:07 - Koskilahti
G. Anderson (Nill, Davidson) - 46:472 – 3
2 – 456:55 - Suoraniemi (Leppänen) (SH)
Primeau (Hindmarch, Devaney) - 57:093 – 4
16 minPenalties10 min
33Shots26
18 February 1980
13:00
Canada  6 – 0
(2–0, 2–0, 2–0)
  JapanOlympic Arena, Lake Placid
Referee:
Neagles
Devaney (Zupancich, d'Alvise) (PP) - 09:361 – 0
Primeau - 14:352 – 0
MacLean (Maxwell) - 23:173 – 0
Davidson - 26:194 – 0
W. Anderson - 41:275 – 0
Hindmarch - 50:226 – 0
14 minPenalties22 min
48Shots13
20 February 1980
17:00
Soviet Union  6 – 4
(1–1, 1–2, 4–1)
  CanadaOlympic Fieldhouse, Lake Placid
Referee:
Neagles
0 – 101:35 - Nill (Davidson, G. Anderson)
Balderis (Skvortsov, Zhluktov) - 13:421 – 1
1 – 220:19 - Gregg
1 – 322:38 - Pirie (Zupancich, d'Alvise)
Kasatonov (Krutov) - 39:472 – 3
Mikhailov (A. Golikov) - 41:533 – 3
A. Golikov (Makarov) - 42:054 – 3
4 – 443:05 - d'Alvise
Mikhailov (Starikov) - 48:415 – 4
A. Golikov - 56:516 – 4
6 minPenalties12 min
35Shots26

Consolation round

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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)
  CanadaOlympic Fieldhouse, Lake Placid
Referee:
Dombrovsky
Fryčer (Nový, Pouzar) - 01:381 – 0
A. Šťastný - 02:142 – 0
M. Šťastný, Bubla, A. Šťastný) - 07:163 – 0
A. Šťastný (M. Šťastný, P. Šťastný) - 12:474 – 0
M. Šťastný (A. Šťastný, P. Šťastný) - 13:195 – 0
5 – 128:01 - Devaney (Grant, Hindmarch)
M. Šťastný (P. Šťastný) - 57:186 – 1
8 minPenalties6 min
27Shots21

Final Rank: 6th place

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Luge

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Men
Athlete Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Total
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
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

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Athlete Event Jump 1 Jump 2 Total
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

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Men
Event Athlete Race
Time Rank
500 m Jacques Thibault 40.11 26
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
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

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