Bobsleigh at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Bobsleigh; at the XIII Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Mt. Van Hoevenberg Olympic Bobsled Run
Dates	15–24 February
Competitors	78 from 11 nations

Bobsleigh at the 1980 Winter Olympics consisted of two events, at Mt. Van Hoevenberg Olympic Bobsled Run. The competition took place between 15 and 24 February 1980.[1][2]

Medal summary


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany	1	1	2	4
2	Switzerland	1	1	0	2
Totals (2 nations)		2	2	2	6

Two countries won medals in Lake Placid, with East Germany leading the medal table.

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Two-man	Switzerland (SUI) Erich Schärer Josef Benz	4:09.36	East Germany (GDR) Bernhard Germeshausen Hans-Jürgen Gerhardt	4:10.93	East Germany (GDR) Meinhard Nehmer Bogdan Musioł	4:11.08
Four-man	East Germany (GDR) Meinhard Nehmer Bernhard Germeshausen Bogdan Musioł Hans-Jürgen Gerhardt	3:59.92	Switzerland (SUI) Erich Schärer Ueli Bächli Ruedi Marti Sepp Benz	4:00.87	East Germany (GDR) Horst Schönau Roland Wetzig Detlef Richter Andreas Kirchner	4:00.97

Eleven nations participated in bobsleigh at the 1980 Games.

"The Official Report of the XIIIth Olympic Winter Games Lake Placid 1980 – Official Results" (PDF). Lake Placid Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 1980. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
"Bobsleigh at the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 15 April 2018.

Wallechinsky, David and Jaime Loucky (2009). "Bobsleigh". In The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics: 2010 Edition. London: Aurum Press Limited.

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