Czechoslovakia at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Czechoslovakia at the Olympic Games

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IOC code	TCH
NOC	Czechoslovak Olympic Committee

At the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid

Competitors

41 (34 men, 7 women) in 7 sports

Flag bearer

Bohuslav Ebermann (ice hockey)

Medals

Gold
0

Silver
0

Bronze
1

Total
1

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Czechoslovakia competed at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, United States.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
03 ! Bronze	Jeriová, KvětaKvěta Jeriová	Cross-country skiing	Women's 5 km

Alpine skiing

Main article: Alpine skiing at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Bohumír Zeman	Downhill					1:48.65	13
Bohumír Zeman	Giant Slalom	1:22.25	22	1:23.71	20	2:45.96	19
Bohumír Zeman	Slalom	56.56	20	52.31	12	1:48.87	14

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Jana Šoltýsová-Gantnerová	Downhill					1:40.71	10
Jana Šoltýsová-Gantnerová	Giant Slalom	1:18.60	25	1:31.05	22	2:49.65	21
Jana Šoltýsová-Gantnerová	Slalom	DNF	–	–	–	DNF	–

Biathlon

Main article: Biathlon at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Misses ¹	Time	Rank
10 km Sprint	Zdeněk Hák	6	36:32.59	29
	Jaromír Šimůnek	2	35:15.12	16
	Peter Zelinka	1	33:45.20	6

Event	Athlete	Time	Penalties	Adjusted time ²	Rank
20 km	Josef Skalník	1'11:17.13	15	1'26:17.13	42
	Peter Zelinka	1'09:36.40	6	1'15:36.40	22
	Zdeněk Hák	1'09:33.76	4	1'13:33.76	14

Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Misses ¹	Time	Rank
Josef Skalník Jaromír Šimůnek Peter Zelinka Zdeněk Hák	4	1'41:48.62	11

¹ A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target.

² One minute added per close miss (a hit in the outer ring), two minutes added per complete miss.

Cross-country skiing

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

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
15 km	Miloš Bečvář	46:18.13	44
	František Šimon	45:12.09	40
	Jiří Beran	44:27.78	24
	Jiří Švub	44:20.15	23
30 km	František Šimon	1'35:32.70	36
	Miloš Bečvář	1'34:08.79	32
	Jiří Švub	1'33:12.73	28
	Jiří Beran	1'31:46.11	21
50 km	Jiří Švub	2'40:53.94	30
	František Šimon	2'39:53.03	27
	Jiří Beran	2'37:51.58	23

Men's 4 x 10 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Time	Rank
František Šimon Miloš Bečvář Jiří Švub Jiří Beran	2'04:18.66	9

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
5 km	Blanka Paulů	16:30.04	30
	Gabriela Svobodová-Sekajová	16:01.41	20
	Dagmar Palečková-Švubová	15:48.78	13
	Květa Jeriová	15:23.44	03 !
10 km	Blanka Paulů	33:08.31	29
	Gabriela Svobodová-Sekajová	32:23.05	19
	Dagmar Palečková-Švubová	32:03.32	16
	Květa Jeriová	31:29.55	9

Women's 4 x 5 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Time	Rank
Dagmar Palečková-Švubová Gabriela Svobodová-Sekajová Blanka Paulů Květa Jeriová	1'04:31.39	4

Figure skating

Main article: Figure skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Ice Dancing

Athletes	CD	FD	Points	Places	Rank
Liliana Řeháková Stanislav Drastich	4	4	198.02	39	4

Ice hockey

Main article: Ice hockey at the 1980 Winter Olympics

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
13:16

Czechoslovakia

11 – 0
(0–0, 5–0, 6–0)

Norway

Olympic Arena, Lake Placid


			Referee: Karl-Gustav Kaisla
Pouzar (Lukáč, Fryčer) - 25:33 Nový (Lukáč, Chalupa) - 31:11 M. Šťastný (P. Šťastný) - 33:00 Martinec (Chalupa, Novák) - 34:13 Ebermann (Novák, Chalupa) (PP) - 38:01 Pouzar (Nový, Lukáč) - 42:13 A. Šťastný (P. Šťastný, Ďuriš) - 43:16 Ebermann (Dvořák, Martinec) (PP) - 45:54 P. Šťastný (Bubla, M. Šťastný) - 48:33 Nový (Kadlec, Lukáč) - 52:51 P. Šťastný (M. Šťastný) - 54:47	1 – 0 2 – 0 3 – 0 4 – 0 5 – 0 6 – 0 7 – 0 8 – 0 9 – 0 10 – 0 11 – 0
10 min	Penalties	10 min
44	Shots	10

14 February 1980
20:30

United States

7 – 3
(2–2, 2–0, 3–1)

Czechoslovakia

Olympic Fieldhouse, Lake Placid


			Referee: Lindgren
Eruzione (Broten) - 4:39 Pavelich (Schneider, Harrington) - 5:45 Schneider (Pavelich) - 24:33 Johnson (McClanahan) - 35:28 Verchota (Christian) - 42:59 Schneider (Harrington) - 43:59 McClanahan (Johnson) - 50:54	0 – 1 1 – 1 2 – 1 2 – 2 3 – 2 4 – 2 5 – 2 6 – 2 6 – 3 7 – 3	02:23 - Pouzar (Kaberle, Nový) 12:07 - M. Šťastný (P. Šťastný) 45:36 - Novák (Lukáč)
10 min	Penalties	10 min
27	Shots	31

16 February 1980
13:00

Romania

2 – 7
(0–2, 1–3, 1–2)

Czechoslovakia

Olympic Fieldhouse, Lake Placid


			Referee: Josef Kompalla
Cazacu (Halauca, Sólyom) - 21:39 Cazacu (Gall) - 44:08	0 – 1 0 – 2 1 – 2 1 – 3 1 – 4 1 – 5 1 – 6 2 – 6 2 – 7	13:35 - P. Šťastný (Bubla, A. Šťastný) 19:00 - Lukáč (Nový, Pouzar) 26:07 - Kadlec 28:43 - Nový (Pouzar, Kaberle) 33:41 - P. Šťastný 41:46 - Lukáč (Neliba) 45:46 - Pouzar (Lukáč, Nový)
6 min	Penalties	2 min
29	Shots	45

18 February 1980
20:00

West Germany

3 – 11
(1–5, 0–5, 2–1)

Czechoslovakia

Olympic Arena, Lake Placid


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

20 February 1980
13:30

Czechoslovakia

2 – 4
(0–2, 0–1, 2–1)

Sweden

Olympic Fieldhouse, Lake Placid


			Referee: Karl-Gustav Kaisla
Nový (Pouzar) - 52:05 Pouzar (Nový, Kadlec) (PP) - 59:22	0 – 1 0 – 2 0 – 3 1 – 3 1 – 4 2 – 4	09:18 - Åhlberg (Näslund, Holmgren) (PP) 10:55 - Holmgren (Näslund, Weinstock) 36:02 - Näslund (Söderström) (PP) 57:00 - Lundqvist (Näslund, Jonsson)
6 min	Penalties	10 min
43	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 A. Šťastný - 02:14 M. Šťastný, Bubla, A. Šťastný) - 07:16 A. Šťastný (M. Šťastný, P. Šťastný) - 12:47 M. Šťastný (A. Šťastný, P. Šťastný) - 13:19 M. Šťastný (P. Šťastný) - 57:18	1 – 0 2 – 0 3 – 0 4 – 0 5 – 0 5 – 1 6 – 1	28:01 - Devaney (Grant, Hindmarch)
8 min	Penalties	6 min
27	Shots	21

Final Rank: 5th place

Leading scorers

Rank	Player	GP	G	A	Pts
1st	Milan Nový	6	7	8	15
2nd	Peter Šťastný	6	7	7	14
3rd	Jaroslav Pouzar	6	8	5	13
8th	Marián Šťastný	6	5	6	11

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
Jindřich Zeman	44.901	15	45.438	16	45.571	16	45.025	12	3:00.935	10
Vladimír Resl	44.255	12	DNF	–	–	–	–	–	DNF	–

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes	Run 1		Run 2		Total
Athletes	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Jindřich Zeman Vladimír Resl	40.050	10	40.092	4	1:20.142	8

Women

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Mária Jasenčáková	39.698	11	39.862	8	39.606	10	39.963	10	2:39.429	9

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
Josef Samek	Normal hill	67.5	84.7	79.0	105.6	190.3	39
Leoš Škoda	Normal hill	75.0	100.7	83.0	119.0	219.7	22
Josef Samek	Large hill	97.0	103.0	102.0	110.5	213.5	23
Leoš Škoda	Large hill	106.0	116.6	96.0	100.6	217.2	21

References

Nations at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, United States

Africa	none

America	Argentina Bolivia Canada Costa Rica United States

Asia	China Japan South Korea Lebanon Mongolia

Europe	Andorra Austria Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czechoslovakia Finland France East Germany West Germany Great Britain Greece Hungary Iceland Italy Liechtenstein Netherlands Norway Poland Romania Soviet Union Spain Sweden Switzerland Yugoslavia

Oceania	Australia New Zealand