FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1980

The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1980 in cross-country skiing took place in Falun, Sweden. This was an extraordinary event because the women's 20 km event was not held at the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid.

Women's 20 km

March 8, 1980

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Veronika Hesse (GDR)	1:01:58.23
Silver	Galina Kulakova (URS)	1:02:26.34
Bronze	Raisa Smetanina (URS)	1:02:41.70
4	Marlies Rostock (GDR)	1:03:20.01
5	Nina Baldycheva (URS)	1:03:25.59
6	Zinaida Amosova (URS)	1:03:57.13
7	Berit Aunli (NOR)	1:04:35.90
8	Carola Anding (GDR)	1:05:09.84
9	Shirley Firth (CAN)	1:05:38.91
10	Anette Bøe (NOR)	1:06:09.25

Venue: Falun, Sweden

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany	1	0	0	1
2	Soviet Union	0	1	1	2

References

List of FIS Nordic WSC Women's 20 km champions: 1978-87

FIS Nordic World Ski Championships

Championships	1925 Janské Lázně 1926 Lahti 1927 Cortina d'Ampezzo 1929 Zakopane 1930 Oslo 1931 Oberhof 1933 Innsbruck 1934 Sollefteå 1935 Vysoké Tatry 1937 Chamonix 1938 Lahti 1939 Zakopane (1941 Cortina d'Ampezzo) 1950 Lake Placid/Rumford 1954 Falun 1958 Lahti 1962 Zakopane 1966 Oslo 1970 Vysoké Tatry 1974 Falun 1978 Lahti 1980 Falun 1982 Oslo 1984 Rovaniemi/Engelberg 1985 Seefeld 1987 Oberstdorf 1989 Lahti 1991 Val di Fiemme 1993 Falun 1995 Thunder Bay 1997 Trondheim 1999 Ramsau 2001 Lahti 2003 Val di Fiemme 2005 Oberstdorf 2007 Sapporo 2009 Liberec 2011 Oslo 2013 Val di Fiemme 2015 Falun 2017 Lahti 2019 Seefeld

Medalists	Cross-country men Cross-country women Nordic combined Ski jumping

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