| Women's singles at the XIII Olympic Winter Games | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Mt. Van Hoevenberg Olympic Bobsled Run | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 13–16 February 1980 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 26 from 11 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 2:36.537 | ||||||||||||
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| Luge at the 1980 Winter Olympics | ||
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| Singles | men | women |
| Doubles | men | |
The Women's singles luge competition at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid was held from 13 to 16 February, at Mt. Van Hoevenberg Olympic Bobsled Run. [1] [2]
| Rank [1] | Athlete | Country | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total |
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 | Vera Zozuļa |  Soviet Union | 38.978 | 39.167 | 39.271 | 39.121 | 2:36.537 |
 | Melitta Sollmann |  East Germany | 39.289 | 39.640 | 39.360 | 39.368 | 2:37.657 |
 | Ingrīda Amantova | Soviet Union | 39.346 | 39.488 | 39.610 | 39.373 | 2:37.817 |
| 4 | Elisabeth Demleitner |  West Germany | 39.568 | 39.460 | 39.466 | 39.424 | 2:37.918 |
| 5 | Ilona Brand | East Germany | 39.393 | 39.506 | 39.700 | 39.516 | 2:38.115 |
| 6 | Margit Schumann | East Germany | 39.611 | 39.715 | 39.567 | 39.362 | 2:38.255 |
| 7 | Angelika Schafferer |  Austria | 39.411 | 40.249 | 39.731 | 39.544 | 2:38.935 |
| 8 | Astra Rībena | Soviet Union | 39.617 | 39.780 | 39.816 | 39.798 | 2:39.011 |
| 9 | Mária Jasenčáková |  Czechoslovakia | 39.698 | 39.862 | 39.906 | 39.963 | 2:39.429 |
| 10 | Christine Brunner | Austria | 39.642 | 40.083 | 39.833 | 40.265 | 2:39.823 |
| 11 | Angelika Aukenthaler |  Italy | 39.829 | 41.043 | 39.919 | 39.860 | 2:40.651 |
| 12 | Andrea Fendt | West Germany | 40.234 | 40.458 | 40.215 | 40.484 | 2:41.391 |
| 13 | Agneta Lindskog |  Sweden | 40.219 | 40.547 | 40.463 | 40.388 | 2:41.617 |
| 14 | Annefried Göllner | Austria | 40.378 | 40.375 | 40.489 | 40.394 | 2:41.636 |
| 15 | Debra Genovese |  United States | 40.497 | 40.811 | 40.799 | 40.819 | 2:42.926 |
| 16 | Monika Auer | Italy | 40.590 | 40.319 | 41.269 | 40.855 | 2:43.033 |
| 17 | Donna Burke | United States | 40.663 | 40.931 | 40.943 | 41.148 | 2:43.685 |
| 18 | Carole Keyes |  Canada | 40.616 | 40.658 | 41.567 | 41.058 | 2:43.899 |
| 19 | Anneli Näsström | Sweden | 40.987 | 41.096 | 40.999 | 40.877 | 2:43.959 |
| 20 | Elena Stan |  Romania | 40.852 | 41.489 | 41.085 | 41.040 | 2:44.466 |
| 21 | Maria Maioru | Romania | 41.071 | 41.054 | 41.120 | 41.350 | 2:44.595 |
| 22 | Danielle Nadeau | Canada | 40.782 | 40.968 | 41.770 | 41.101 | 2:44.621 |
| 23 | Joanna Weaver |  Great Britain | 40.881 | 41.201 | 41.167 | 42.032 | 2:45.281 |
| - | Maria-Luise Rainer | Italy | 39.695 | 40.948 | 1:13.062 | DNF | - |
| - | Avril Walker | Great Britain | 52.277 | 42.852 | DNF | - | - |
| - | Susan Charlesworth | United States | 41.018 | DNF | - | - | - |
A luge is a small one- or two-person sled on which one sleds supine (face-up) and feet-first. A luger begins seated, propelling themselves initially from handles on either side of the start ramp, then steers by using the calf muscles to flex the sled's runners or by exerting opposite shoulder pressure to the pod. Racing sleds weigh 21–25 kg (46–55 lb) for singles and 25–30 kg (55–66 lb) for doubles. Luge is also the name of an Olympic sport that employs that sled and technique.
The 1980 Winter Olympics, officially the XIII Olympic Winter Games and also known as Lake Placid 1980, were an international multi-sport event held from February 13 to 24, 1980, in Lake Placid, New York, United States.
Luge at the 1980 Winter Olympics consisted of three events at Mt. Van Hoevenberg Olympic Bobsled Run. The competition took place between 13 and 16 February 1980.
Regan Lauscher is a Canadian luger. Competing in three Winter Olympics, she earned her best finish of tenth in the women's singles event at Turin in 2006.
Vera Zozulya is a Soviet luger who competed during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Competing in two Winter Olympics, she won the gold medal in the women's singles event at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York.
Melitta Sollmann is an East German luger who competed from the late 1970s to the mid-1980s. She won the silver medal in the women's singles event at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York.
Susi-Lisa Erdmann is an East German-German luger and bobsledder who competed from 1977 to 1998 in luge, then since 1999 in bobsleigh. She was born in Blankenburg, Bezirk Magdeburg. Competing in five Winter Olympics, she won two medals in the women's singles luge event with a silver in 1994 and a bronze in 1992, and a bronze at the inaugural two-women bobsleigh event in 2002. She is one of only two people to ever win a medal in both bobsleigh and luge at the Winter Olympics; Italy's Gerda Weissensteiner is the other.
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The Mt. Van Hoevenberg Olympic Bobsled Run is a venue for bobsleigh, luge and skeleton in the United States, located at the Lake Placid Olympic Sports Complex in Lake Placid, New York. This venue was used for the 1932 and 1980 Winter Olympics and for the only winter Goodwill Games in 2000. The track hosted both the first FIBT World Championships and FIL World Luge Championships held outside of Europe, doing so in 1949 and 1983. The third and most recent version of the track was completed in 2000. In 2010 the bobsled track was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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The Doubles luge competition at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid was held on 19 February, at Mt. Van Hoevenberg Olympic Bobsled Run. The doubles team of Hans Rinn and Norbert Hahn became the first repeat winners of an Olympic luge event.
The men's singles luge competition at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid was held from 13 to 16 February, at Mt. Van Hoevenberg Olympic Bobsled Run.
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