European Natural Track Luge Championships 1974

The 4th  FIL Natural Track Luge European Championship took place from February 9-10 , 1974 in Niedernsill , Austria .

They were held on the Luziawald toboggan run at USK Niedernsill.

Technical data of the natural toboggan run

Surname	Luciawald toboggan run in Niedernsill
begin	0915  m above sea level A.
target	0767  m above sea level A.
Height difference	0148 m
Average gradient	0013.5%
length	1120 m

Single seater men

space	Surname	time
01	Erich Graber	3: 18.39 min
02	Erwin Eichelberger	+ 0.05 s
03	Albert Eichelberger	+ 1.28 s
04th	Gottfried Lexer	?
05	Anton Weissbacher	?
06th	Alfred Kogler	?
	Engelbert Fuchs	?
08th	Karl Flacher	?
09	Helmut Kleinhofer	?
10	Richard Huter	?
11	Ernst Stangl	?
12	Egon Tronegger	?
13	Josef Mahlknecht	?
14th	Robert Jud	?
15th	Helmut Hutter	?
16	Siegfried Wild	?
17th	Paul Mitterstieler	?
18th	Siegfried Graber	?
19th	Karl Mitterstieler	?
20th	Hubert Mairamhof	?
21st	Werner Beikircher	?
22nd	Ernst Buchwieser	?
23	Heinz Penz	?
24	Vitus Gansler	?
25th	Vinko Lavtižar	?
26th	Josef Spindler	?
27	Heinz Gdanitz	?
28	Josef Ploner	?
29	Max Buchwieser	?
30th	Janez Bahun	?
31	Franz Kurz	?
32	Georg Spindler	?
33	Viko Debeljak	?
34	Milan Česen	?
35	Edwin Wipf	?
36	Jože Čarman	?
37	Aigars Krikis	?
38	Janez Končan	?
39	Sergei Chailov	?
40	Marjan Lombar	?
41	Christof Rüegg	?
42	Daini's brake	?
43	Rolf Kramer	?
44	Sergey Alexeyev	?
45	Yuri Karjakin	?
46	Larry Arbuthnot	?
-	Albert Brunner	DNF
-	Anton Obernosterer	DNF
-	Pierre Lachenal	DNF
-	Silvo Bassille	DNF
-	Erich Hedinger	DNF
-	Dominique Ferrari	DNF
-	Doug Hansen	DNF

At the fourth European Natural Track Luge Championships, the gold medal in the men's singles went to Italy for the first time. After Austrians had won three times before, Erich Graber brought the European championship title to Italy for the first time this year . The places two to twelve were occupied by Austrians. The silver medal went to Erwin Eichelberger , who had already won bronze in 1971. He was only 5 hundredths of a second behind. Third went to Albert Eichelberger , who won his only European Championship medal.

Single-seater women

space	Surname	time
01	Klara Niedertscheider	3: 26.73 min
02	Elfriede Pirkmann	+ 3.82 s
03	Annemarie Ebner	+ 4.66 s
04th	Martha Ruech	?
05	Margarethe Moser	?
06th	Berta Pichler	?
07th	Anna Pallhuber	?
08th	Hilde Fuchs	?
09	Albina Gietl	?
10	Roswitha Fischer	?
11	Josefine Berger	?
12	Rosi Eichner	?
13	Mary Jane Bowie	?
-	Vera Zozuļa	DNF

For the fourth time, the European championship in the women's singles went to Austria and for the third time only Austrian women were on the podium. Klara Niedertscheider , who was European Champion in 1971, won the gold medal for the second time with a lead of 3.82 seconds. Silver went to the defending champion Elfriede Pirkmann . Third was Annemarie Ebner , who had achieved second place in 1971.

Two-seater

space	Surname	time
01	Siegfried Wild - Othmar Hofer	2: 17.55 min
02	Robert Jud - Erich Graber	+ 0.90 s
03	Helmut Kleinhofer - Karl Flacher	+ 1.53 s
04th	Heimo Buchner - Helmut Hutter	?
05	Hubert Mairamhof - Josef Ploner	?
06th	Anton Obernosterer - Gabriel Obernosterer	?
07th	Engelbert Fuchs - Gottfried Kreuzer	?
08th	Albert Brunner - Siegfried Graber	?
09	Richard Huter - Klaus Motz	?
10	Josef Spindler - Josef Spreng	?
11	Paul Mitterstieler - Heinz Penz	?
12	Heinz Gdanitz - Franz Kurz	?
13	Janez Bahun - Milan Česen	?
14th	Marjan Lombar - Vinko Lavtižar	?
15th	Doug Hansen - Larry Arbuthnot	?
16	Lubomír Zeman - Zdeněk Barták	?
17th	Rolf Krämer - Edwin Wipf	?
18th	František Halíř - Petr Jiricko	?
19th	Sergej Alexejew - Sergej Chailow	?
-	Werner Beikircher - Richard Mittermair	DNF
-	Georg Spindler - Vitus Gansler	DNF
-	Christof Rüegg - Erich Hedinger	DNF
-	Josef Mahlknecht - Karl Mitterstieler	DNF
-	Ernst Buchwieser - Max Buchwieser	DNF
-	Jindřich Zeman - Petr Černý	DNF

The Austrians Siegfried Wild and Othmar Hofer were European champions in the two-seater . You had already won the bronze medal in 1971. The silver medal went to the Italians Robert Jud and Erich Graber . For Robert Jud it was the first European Championship medal, Erich Graber had already won the silver medal with Hans Graber at the first European Championship in 1970 . Third place went to the Austrians Helmut Kleinhofer and Karl Flacher . For them it was their only European Championship medal.

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1.	Austria	2	2	3	7th
2.	Italy	1	1	-	2

literature

• Harald Steyrer, Herbert Wurzer, Egon Theiner: 50 years of FIL 1957–2007. The history of the International Luge Federation in three volumes . tape II . Egoth Verlag, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-902480-46-0 , p. 316 .

Individual evidence

• Time – distance – results: tobogganing . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 12, 1974, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).

1. ↑ USK Niedernsill . In: Salzburger Nachrichten : Salzburgwiki .