Norway at the 1980 Winter Olympics
# Norway at the 1980 Winter Olympics

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

## Medalists

| Medal | Name | Sport | Event |
| - | - | - | - |
| Gold | Bjørg Eva Jensen | Speed skating | Women's 3000m |
| Silver | Lars-Erik Eriksen Per Knut Aaland Ove Aunli Oddvar Brå | Cross-country skiing | Men's 4 × 10 km relay |
| Silver | Kay Arne Stenshjemmet | Speed skating | Men's 1500m |
| Silver | Kay Arne Stenshjemmet | Speed skating | Men's 5000m |
| Bronze | Ove Aunli | Cross-country skiing | Men's 15 km (classical) |
| Bronze | Brit Pettersen Anette Bøe Marit Myrmæl Berit Aunli | Cross-country skiing | Women's 4 × 5 km relay |
| Bronze | Frode Rønning | Speed skating | Men's 1000m |
| Bronze | Terje Andersen | Speed skating | Men's 1500m |
| Bronze | Tom Erik Oxholm | Speed skating | Men's 5000m |
| Bronze | Tom Erik Oxholm | Speed skating | Men's 10,000m |

## Alpine skiing

### Men

| Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 1 | Race 2 | Race 2 | Total | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Arnt Erik Dale | Downhill | | | | | 1:49.26 | 19 |
| Erik Håker | Downhill | | | | | 1:49.09 | 17 |
| Paul Arne Skajem | Giant Slalom | 1:23.12 | 30 | 1:23.99 | 23 | 2:47.11 | 24 |
| Odd Sørli | Giant Slalom | 1:22.87 | 26 | 1:24.43 | 26 | 2:47.30 | 25 |
| Jarle Halsnes | Giant Slalom | 1:21.64 | 12 | 1:22.85 | 14 | 2:44.49 | 11 |
| Knut Erik Johannessen | Slalom | DNF | – | – | – | DNF | – |
| Odd Sørli | Slalom | 56.93 | 23 | 54.43 | 22 | 1:51.36 | 20 |
| Jarle Halsnes | Slalom | 56.44 | 19 | 53.69 | 18 | 1:50.13 | 16 |
| Paul Arne Skajem | Slalom | 55.11 | 12 | 52.10 | 11 | 1:47.21 | 11 |

### Women

| Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 1 | Race 2 | Race 2 | Total | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Torill Fjeldstad | Downhill | | | | | 1:39.69 | 7 |
| Torill Fjeldstad | Giant Slalom | 1:18.26 | 20 | 1:31.40 | 24 | 2:49.66 | 22 |
| Torill Fjeldstad | Slalom | DNF | – | – | – | DNF | – |

## Biathlon

### Men

| Event | Athlete | Misses $^1$ | Time | Rank |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 10 km Sprint | Terje Krokstad | 4 | 35:15.40 | 17 |
| 10 km Sprint | Odd Lirhus | 2 | 34:10.39 | 7 |
| 10 km Sprint | Kjell Søbak | 1 | 33:34.64 | 5 |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Penalties | Adjusted time $^2$ | Rank |
| 20 km | Odd Lirhus | 1'07:39.41 | 8 | 1'15:39.41 | 23 |
| 20 km | Sigleif Johansen | 1'11:20.12 | 2 | 1'13:20.12 | 13 |
| 20 km | Svein Engen | 1'08:30.25 | 3 | 1'11:30.25 | 4 |

### Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay

| Athletes | Race | Race | Race |
| - | - | - | - |
| Athletes | Misses $^1$ | Time | Rank |
| Svein Engen Kjell Søbak Odd Lirhus Sigleif Johansen | 3 | 1'38:11.76 | 4 |

    $^1$ 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

### Men

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| - | - | - | - |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 15 km | Tore Gullen | 44:42.73 | 30 |
| 15 km | Lars-Erik Eriksen | 43:11.51 | 10 |
| 15 km | Oddvar Brå | 43:05.64 | 9 |
| 15 km | Ove Aunli | 42:28.62 | |
| 30 km | Per Knut Aaland | 1'31:26.58 | 16 |
| 30 km | Oddvar Brå | 1'30:46.70 | 12 |
| 30 km | Lars-Erik Eriksen | 1'30:34.34 | 10 |
| 30 km | Ove Aunli | 1'29:54.02 | 8 |
| 50 km | Kjell Jakob Sollie | 2'38:06.07 | 24 |
| 50 km | Anders Bakken | 2'35:33.26 | 15 |
| 50 km | Oddvar Brå | 2'31:46.83 | 7 |
| 50 km | Lars-Erik Eriksen | 2'30:53.03 | 4 |

### Men's 4 × 10 km relay

| Athletes | Race | Race |
| - | - | - |
| Athletes | Time | Rank |
| Lars-Erik Eriksen Per Knut Aaland Ove Aunli Oddvar Brå | 1'58:45.77 | |

### Women

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| - | - | - | - |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 5 km | Anette Bøe | 16:17.35 | 24 |
| 5 km | Brit Pettersen | 16:03.58 | 21 |
| 5 km | Marit Myrmæl | 15:58.11 | 18 |
| 5 km | Berit Aunli-Kvello | 15:48.93 | 14 |
| 10 km | Hege Peikli | 34:05.03 | 37 |
| 10 km | Hilde Riis | 33:08.68 | 30 |
| 10 km | Marit Myrmæl | 32:25.14 | 20 |
| 10 km | Berit Aunli-Kvello | 31:46.11 | 13 |

### Women's 4 × 5 km relay

| Athletes | Race | Race |
| - | - | - |
| Athletes | Time | Rank |
| Brit Pettersen Anette Bøe Marit Myrmæl Berit Aunli-Kvello | 1'04:13.50 | |

## 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).

* Team roster

   * Jim Marthinsen

   * Thore Wålberg

   * Nils Nilsen

   * Thor Martinsen

   * Trond Abrahamsen

   * Rune Molberg

   * Øivind Løsåmoen

   * Erik Pedersen

   * Øystein Jarlsbo

   * Håkon Lundenes

   * Geir Myhre

   * Morten Johansen

   * Morten Sethereng

   * Knut Andresen

   * Tore Falch Nilsen

   * Tom Røymark

   * Vidar Johansen

   * Petter Thoresen

   * Knut Fjeldsgaard

   * Stephen Foyn
* Head coach: Ronald Pettersson

## Nordic combined

Events:

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

| Athlete | Event | Ski Jumping | Ski Jumping | Ski Jumping | Ski Jumping | Cross-country | Cross-country | Cross-country | Total | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Athlete | Event | Distance 1 | Distance 2 | Points | Rank | Time | Points | Rank | Points | Rank |
| Arne Morten Granlien | Individual | 70.0 | 69.5 | 158.5 | 30 | DNF | – | – | DNF | – |
| Hallstein Bøgseth | Individual | 76.5 | 83.5 | 203.8 | 8 | 50:29.9 | 195.190 | 19 | 398.990 | 11 |
| Odd Arne Engh | Individual | 79.0 | 79.5 | 199.9 | 12 | 57:56.2 | 128.245 | 29 | 328.145 | 29 |
| Tom Sandberg | Individual | 81.0 | 78.0 | 203.7 | 9 | 48:19.4 | 214.765 | 5 | 418.465 | 4 |

## Ski jumping

| Athlete | Event | Jump 1 | Jump 1 | Jump 2 | Jump 2 | Total | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Athlete | Event | Distance | Points | Distance | Points | Points | Rank |
| Ivar Mobekk | Normal hill | 74.0 | 97.6 | 80.5 | 111.0 | 208.6 | 27 |
| Per Bergerud | Normal hill | 80.0 | 110.7 | 81.0 | 113.3 | 224.0 | 18 |
| Roger Ruud | Normal hill | 81.0 | 113.3 | 84.5 | 120.9 | 234.2 | 13 |
| Johan Sætre | Normal hill | 83.0 | 118.0 | 81.0 | 113.8 | 231.8 | 14 |
| Johan Sætre | Large hill | 97.0 | 102.0 | 95.0 | 100.2 | 202.2 | 31 |
| Ivar Mobekk | Large hill | 99.0 | 102.8 | 102.5 | 109.7 | 212.5 | 24 |
| Per Bergerud | Large hill | 108.0 | 120.9 | 98.0 | 103.9 | 224.8 | 16 |
| Roger Ruud | Large hill | 110.0 | 122.7 | 109.0 | 120.3 | 243.0 | 6 |

## Speed skating

### Men

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| - | - | - | - |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 500 m | Kai Arne Engelstad | 39.30 | 16 |
| 500 m | Jarle Pedersen | 38.83 | 6 |
| 500 m | Frode Rønning | 38.66 | 4 |
| 1000 m | Jan Egil Storholt | 1:19.34 | 17 |
| 1000 m | Terje Andersen | 1:18.52 | 12 |
| 1000 m | Frode Rønning | 1:16.91 | |
| 1500 m | Jan Egil Storholt | 1:57.95 | 6 |
| 1500 m | Terje Andersen | 1:56.92 | |
| 1500 m | Kay Arne Stenshjemmet | 1:56.81 | |
| 5000 m | Øyvind Tveter | 7:08.36 | 5 |
| 5000 m | Tom Erik Oxholm | 7:05.59 | |
| 5000 m | Kay Arne Stenshjemmet | 7:03.28 | |
| 10,000 m | Alf Rekstad | 15:05.70 | 13 |
| 10,000 m | Øyvind Tveter | 14:43.53 | 5 |
| 10,000 m | Tom Erik Oxholm | 14:36.60 | |

### Women

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| - | - | - | - |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 1000 m | Bjørg Eva Jensen | 1:28.55 | 12 |
| 1500 m | Lisbeth Korsmo-Berg | 2:15.63 | 14 |
| 1500 m | Bjørg Eva Jensen | 2:12.59 | 4 |
| 3000 m | Lisbeth Korsmo-Berg | 4:54.95 | 20 |
| 3000 m | Bjørg Eva Jensen | 4:32.13 OR | |
