XIII Winter Olympics Games - Lake Placid 1980 | Ice Dance: Compulsory Dance (Highlights)

Nataliya Linichuk and Gennady Karponosov (URS) won the 1978 and 1979 World Championships, and the 1979-80 Europeans, and were coached by Yelena Chaykovskaya, who had coached the 1976 ice dance gold medalists. They were expected to be challenged by the 1976 silver medalists, Irina Moiseyeva and Andrey Minenkov, and a Hungarian couple, Krisztina Regőczy and András Sallay. In the end, Moiseyeva and Minenkov were not a factor for gold, placing third. Linichuk and Karponosov won the compulsory dance and the optional set dance, leading over the Hungarians into the free dance.