West Germany at the 1980 Winter Olympics

West Germany at the
1980 Winter Olympics
West Germany at the; 1980 Winter Olympics
	Flag of Germany
IOC code	FRG
NOC	German Olympic Sports Confederation
Website	www.dosb.de (in German, English, and French)
in Lake Placid
Competitors	80 (61 men, 19 women) in 10 sports
Flag bearer	Urban Hettich (Nordic combined)
Medals ; Ranked 12th	Gold0Silver2Bronze3Total5
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
	1968 ; 1972 ; 1976 ; 1980 ; 1984 ; 1988 ;
Other related appearances
	Germany (1928–1936, 1952, 1992–); United Team of Germany (1956–1964)

Last updated August 12, 2024

West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany) competed at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, United States.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Silver	Irene Epple	Alpine skiing	Women's giant slalom
Silver	Christa Kinshofer-Güthlein	Alpine skiing	Women's slalom
Bronze	Franz Bernreiter Hans Estner Peter Angerer Gerd Winkler	Biathlon	Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay
Bronze	Dagmar Lurz	Figure skating	Women's singles
Bronze	Anton Winkler	Luge	Men's individual

Alpine skiing

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Michael Veith	Downhill					1:50.00	23
Sepp Ferstl	Giant Slalom	1:25.86	39	1:27.17	34	2:53.03	34
Albert Burger		1:22.59	24	1:23.53	19	2:46.12	20
Frank Wörndl		1:21.70	13	1:23.88	22	2:45.58	17
Sepp Ferstl	Slalom	1:01.77	30	57.53	25	1:59.30	25
Albert Burger		56.98	24	DSQ	–	DSQ	–
Frank Wörndl		55.30	13	51.89	10	1:47.19	10
Christian Neureuther		54.37	5	50.77	3	1:45.14	5

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Monika Bader	Downhill					1:41.96	21
Irene Epple						1:41.68	19
Evi Mittermaier						1:41.26	17
Marianne Zechmeister						1:39.96	9
Regine Mösenlechner	Giant Slalom	1:17.70	16	DNF	–	DNF	–
Maria Epple		1:16.20	8	1:29.36	11	2:45.56	8
Christa Kinshofer-Güthlein		1:15.19	3	1:27.44	5	2:42.63	5
Irene Epple		1:14.75	2	1:27.37	4	2:42.12
Regine Mösenlechner	Slalom	DNF	–	–	–	DNF	–
Pamela Behr		DNF	–	–	–	DNF	–
Irene Epple		45.14	15	DNF	–	DNF	–
Christa Kinshofer-Güthlein		42.74	2	43.76	2	1:26.50

Biathlon

Men

Event	Athlete	Misses ¹	Time	Rank
10 km Sprint	Fritz Fischer	4	36:29.87	27
	Gerd Winkler	1	34:24.16	10
	Peter Angerer	4	34:13.43	8

Event	Athlete	Time	Penalties	Adjusted time ²	Rank
20 km	Gerd Winkler	1'10:48.57	7	1'17:48.57	30
	Alois Kanamüller	1'11:34.80	6	1'17:34.80	29
	Peter Angerer	1'08:07.60	8	1'16:07.60	27

Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Misses ¹	Time	Rank
Franz Bernreiter Hans Estner Peter Angerer Gerd Winkler	2	1'37:30.26

¹A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target.
²One minute added per close miss (a hit in the outer ring), two minutes added per complete miss.

Bobsleigh

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
FRG-1	Peter Hell Heinz Busche	Two-man	1:03.87	12	1:03.63	7	1:02.91	4	1:03.33	7	4:13.74	8
FRG-2	Georg Großmann Alexander Wernsdorfer	Two-man	1:03.50	7	1:04.93	20	1:03.85	13	1:03.85	10	4:16.13	12

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
FRG-1	Peter Hell Hans Wagner Heinz Busche Walter Barfuß	Four-man	1:01.14	8	1:01.22	8	1:00.57	8	1:01.47	11	4:04.40	7
FRG-2	Alois Schnorbus Lothar Pongratz Jürgen Hofmann Martin Meinberg	Four-man	1:01.54	14	1:01.47	11	1:00.93	10	1:01.21	8	4:05.15	10

Cross-country skiing

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
15 km	Dieter Notz	44:54.11	36
	Peter Zipfel	44:38.23	26
	Wolfgang Müller	44:02.54	21
	Jochen Behle	43:16.05	12
30 km	Peter Zipfel	1'36:06.95	40
	Wolfgang Müller	1'35:37.46	37
	Josef Schneider	1'34:05.33	31
	Dieter Notz	1'31:58.27	22
50 km	Josef Schneider	2'40:49.68	29
	Franz Schöbel	2'40:25.96	28
	Dieter Notz	2'37:47.41	22
	Peter Zipfel	2'37:09.74	21

Men's 4 × 10 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Time	Rank
Peter Zipfel Wolfgang Müller Dieter Notz Jochen Behle	2'00:22.74	4

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
5 km	Karin Jäger	16:38.47	32
5 km	Susi Riermeier	16:31.07	31
10 km	Karin Jäger	33:01.76	26
10 km	Susi Riermeier	32:37.57	21

Figure skating

Men

Athlete	CF	SP	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Rudi Cerne	15	13	13	159.30	116	13

Women

Athlete	CF	SP	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Christina Riegel	17	19	18	149.50	162	18
Karin Riediger	15	13	11	166.32	120	13
Dagmar Lurz	2	5	6	183.04	28

Pairs

Athletes	SP	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Christina Riegel Andreas Nischwitz	8	8	131.70	71	8

Ice Dancing

Athletes	CD	FD	Points	Places	Rank
Henriette Fröschl Christian Steiner	10	10	178.38	94	10

Ice hockey

First round - Blue Division

	Team advanced to the Final Round
	Team advanced to Consolation round

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Sweden	5	4	0	1	26	7	9
United States	5	4	0	1	25	10	9
Czechoslovakia	5	3	2	0	34	16	6
Romania	5	1	3	1	13	29	3
West Germany	5	1	4	0	21	30	2
Norway	5	0	4	1	9	36	1

All times are local (UTC-5).

12 February 1980
16:30

Romania

6 – 4
(1–1, 2–3, 3–0)

West Germany

Olympic Arena, Lake Placid

Referee:
Neagles

Costea (Moroşan) (PP) - 5:15	1 – 0
	1 – 1	11:50 - Vacatko (Philipp, Krüll)
	1 – 2	22:37 - Truntschka (Egen, Kiessling)
Costea (E. Antal, Tureanu) (PP) - 24:46	2 – 2
	2 – 3	26:13 - Vacatko (Kuhl, Philipp)
	2 – 4	35:34 - Egen (Scharf) (PP)
Tureanu (Gall, Costea) - 37:46	3 – 4
Tureanu (Costea) - 44:12	4 – 4
Tureanu (Gall) - 46:30	5 – 4
Olenici - 53:17	6 – 4

16 min

Penalties

16 min

38

Shots

53

14 February 1980
13:30

Norway

4 – 10
(2–5, 1–3, 1–2)

West Germany

Olympic Fieldhouse, Lake Placid

Referee:
Dombrovski

Andresen (M. Johansen) - 6:03	1 – 0
	1 – 1	07:51 - Vacatko (Kuhl, Reil)
	1 – 2	08:49 - Kiessling (Truntschka, Meitinger)
	1 – 3	09:08 - Zach (Scharf, M. Hinterstocker)
	1 – 4	09:33 - Kretschmer (M. Hinterstocker, H. Hinterstocker)
	1 – 5	10:18 - Höfner (Reindl)
Falk Nilsen (Myhre) - 12:13	2 – 5
V. Johansen (Myhre) - 25:26	3 – 5
	3 – 6	30:52 - Truntschka (Krüll, Kiessling)
	3 – 7	34:01 - Vacatko (Philipp, Kuhl)
	3 – 8	39:53 - Truntschka (Egen, Meitinger)
	3 – 9	40:42 - Kuhl (Vacatko, Krüll)
	3 – 10	50:49 - Kretschmer (Wild, Scharf)
Sethereng (M. Johansen, Lundenes) - 52:41	4 – 10

13 min

Penalties

15 min

20

Shots

51

16 February 1980
20:00

Sweden

5 – 2
(1–0, 4–1, 0–1)

West Germany

Olympic Arena, Lake Placid

Referee:
Dombrovski

Berglund (Molin, Lundqvist) - 09:52	1 – 0
Näslund (Åhlberg) - 26:50	2 – 0
Lundqvist (Berglund, Samuelsson) - 28:35	3 – 0
Söderström (Åhlberg) - 32:36	4 – 0
Söderström (H. Eriksson) (PP) - 36:03	5 – 0
	5 – 1	37:06 - Egen (Truntschka)
	5 – 2	56:43 - Reil (SH)

24 min

Penalties

31 min

33

Shots

25

18 February 1980
20:00

West Germany

3 – 11
(1–5, 0–5, 2–1)

Czechoslovakia

Olympic Arena, Lake Placid

Referee:

Karl-Gustav Kaisla

	0 – 1	01:33 - Nový (Ebermann) (PP)
	0 – 2	02:28 - P. Šťastný (A. Šťastný, M. Šťastný)
	0 – 3	05:45 - P. Šťastný (M. Šťastný) (SH)
Krüll (Truntschka, Kretschmer) - 19:04	1 – 3
	1 – 4	19:32 - Pouzar (Kaberle, Nový)
	1 – 5	19:49 - A. Šťastný (P. Šťastný)
	1 – 6	22:17 - Nový (Lukáč)
	1 – 7	27:10 - Pouzar (Fryčer, Nový)
	1 – 8	33:30 - Pouzar
	1 – 9	38:36 - Ebermann (Novák)
	1 – 10	39:22 - Nový (Pouzar)
M. Hinterstocker (Zach, Auhuber) - 46:28	2 – 10
Höfner (Kuhl, Philipp) - 48:36	3 – 10
	3 – 11	50:22 - P. Šťastný (M. Šťastný)

20 min

Penalties

19 min

22

Shots

39

20 February 1980
20:30

West Germany

2 – 4
(2–0, 0–2, 0–2)

United States

Olympic Fieldhouse, Lake Placid

Referee:
Haley

Kretschmer - 01:50	1 – 0
Kiessling (Höfner, Kretschmer) (PP) - 19:45	2 – 0
	2 – 1	27:40 - McClanahan (Johnson, Christian)
	2 – 2	38:31 - Broten (Strobel, Eruzione)
	2 – 3	41:17 - McClanahan (Johnson, Christian)
	2 – 4	44:17 - Verchota (Christian, Wells)

8 min

Penalties

16 min

26

Shots

32

Team roster

Head coach: Hans Rampf

Luge

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Anton Wembacher	44.308	13	44.549	7	44.835	9	44.320	6	2:58.012	8
Gerhard Böhmer	44.010	8	44.741	9	44.305	5	44.584	9	2:57.769	7
Anton Winkler	43.885	7	44.045	5	44.310	6	44.305	4	2:56.545

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes	Run 1		Run 2		Total
Athletes	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Anton Winkler Anton Wembacher	39.916	6	40.096	5	1:20.012	6
Hans Brandner Balthasar Schwarm	39.814	4	40.249	7	1:20.063	7

Women

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Andrea Fendt	40.234	14	40.458	13	40.215	12	40.848	14	2:43.391	12
Elisabeth Demleitner	39.568	6	39.460	2	39.466	3	39.424	5	2:37.918	4

Nordic combined

Events:

normal hill ski jumping (Three jumps, best two counted and shown here.)
15 km cross-country skiing

Athlete	Event	Ski Jumping				Cross-country			Total
Athlete	Event	Distance 1	Distance 2	Points	Rank	Time	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Hermann Weinbuch	Individual	73.5	75.0	187.8	17	50:14.9	197.440	17	385.240	16
Günther Abel		72.5	78.5	184.9	18	50:53.7	191.620	22	376.520	20
Urban Hettich		75.0	71.5	174.2	23	48:09.0	216.325	4	390.525	14
Hubert Schwarz		81.0	84.5	219.6	3	51:54.2	182.545	23	402.145	9

Ski jumping

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Hubert Schwarz	Normal hill	80.0	113.2	72.0	95.9	209.1	25
Peter Leitner	Normal hill	81.0	114.3	77.5	108.7	223.0	19
Hermann Weinbuch	Large hill	85.0	83.2	80.0	72.2	155.4	48
Hubert Schwarz		104.5	115.5	78.0	66.4	181.9	41
Peter Leitner		106.0	116.6	98.0	104.9	221.5	18

Speed skating

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
1000 m	Herbert Schwarz	1:44.23	39
1500 m	Herbert Schwarz	1:59.58	12

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
500 m	Brigitte Flierl	45.28	28
	Monika Gawenus-Holzner-Pflug	44.59	25
	Sigrid Smuda	44.11	17
1000 m	Brigitte Flierl	1:33.61	33
	Sigrid Smuda	1:30.29	23
	Monika Gawenus-Holzner-Pflug	1:30.13	21
1500 m	Sigrid Smuda	2:18.86	22
3000 m	Sigrid Smuda	4:53.55	19

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Contents

Medalists

Alpine skiing

Biathlon

Bobsleigh

Cross-country skiing

Figure skating

Ice hockey

First round - Blue Division

Luge

Nordic combined

Ski jumping

Speed skating

Related Research Articles

References