Figure skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics took place at the Olympic Center Arena in Lake Placid, New York, United States. Medal table Participating NOCs Twenty nations sent figure skaters to compete in the events at Lake Placid. Results Men Note: Soviet officials withdrew Kovalev from the competition after he placed 5th in compulsory figures. Referee: Sonia Bianchetti Assistant Referee: Elemér Terták Judges: Alice Pinos Walburga Grimm Tatiana Danilenko Ramona McIntyre Alain Calmat Britta Lindgren Sally-Anne Stapleford Elfride Beyer Tsukasa Kimura Jacqueline Kendall-Baker (substitute) Ladies Referee: Benjamin T. Wright Assistant Referee: Donald H. Gilchrist Judges: Wolfgang Kunz Ludwig Gassner Kinuko Ueno Charles U. Foster Radovan Lipovšćak Leena Vainio Giorgio Siniscalco Ingrid Linke Markus Germann Sergei Kononykhin (substitute) Pairs Medal favorites Tai Babilonia / Randy Gardner were forced to withdraw before the competition due to an injury to Gardner. Referee: Hermann Schiechtl Assistant Referee: Oskar Madl Judges: Walburga Grimm Hugh C. Graham Jr. Alain Calmat Dennis McFarlane Jacqueline Kendall-Baker Milan Duchón Elfriede Beyer Kinuko Ueno Sergei Kononykhin Ludwig Gassner (substitute) Ice dance Referee: Lawrence Demmy Assistant Referee: Edith Shoemaker Judges: Wolfgang Kunz Virginia LeFevre Igor Kabanov Gerhardt Bubník Pál Vásárhelyi Rudolf Zorn Suzanne Francis Brenda Long Lysiane Lauret Tsukasa Kimura (substitute) References External links Official Olympic Report Results of Winter Olympics (archived) 1980 Winter Olympics (with links to all figure skating results) 1980 Winter Olympics events 1980 1980 in figure skating International figure skating competitions hosted by the United States