Luge World Championships 1981

The 1981 Luge World Championships took place from February 6th to 8th, 1981 in Hammarstrand in Sweden .

Women's singles

space	country	athlete	time	Terms
1	GDR	Melitta Sollmann	2: 42.72	40.74 / 40.70 / 40.52 / 40.75
2	GDR	Cerstin Schmidt	2: 42.88	40.75 / 40.65 / 40.61 / 40.85
3	URS	Vera Zozuļa	2: 43.73	40.86 / 40.86 / 40.99 / 41.01
4th	GDR	Ilona Brand	2: 44.37
5	URS	Ingrīda Amantova	2: 44.56
6th	TCH	Mária Jasenčáková	2: 46.18

Men's single seaters

space	country	athlete	time	Terms
1	URS	Sergei Danilin	2: 56.02	44.16 / 44.01 / 43.94 / 43.91
2	GDR	Michael Walter	2: 56.35	44.24 / 44.08 / 44.09 / 43.93
3	ITA	Ernst Haspinger	2: 56.88	44.21 / 44.22 / 44.13 / 44.11
4th	ITA	Hansjörg Raffl	2: 57.00
5	GDR	Bernhard Glass	2: 57.42
6th	AUT	Albert Graf	2: 58.47
7th	GDR	Uwe Handrich	2: 58.51
8th	GDR	Rainer Krell	2: 58.79

Men's two-seater

space	country	athlete	Terms
1	GDR	Bernd Hahn Ulrich Hahn	1: 20.26	40.15 / 40.11
2	GDR	Bernd Oberhoffner Jörg-Dieter Ludwig	1: 20.60	40.19 / 40.41
3	FRG	Hans Stanggassinger Anton Wembacher	1: 20.80	40.25 / 40.55
4th	AUT	Günther Lemmerer Rainer Sulzbacher	1: 21.27
5	URS	Juris Eisaks Eynar Veikcha	1: 21.80
6th	ITA	Hansjörg Raffl Karl Brunner	1: 22.02

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	German Democratic Republic	2	3	0	5
2	Soviet Union	1	0	1	2
3	BR Germany	0	0	1	1
	Italy	0	0	1	1

literature

• Manfred Seifert: Sport81. A yearbook of GDR sports . Sportverlag Berlin, 1981, ISSN  0232-203X , p. 262 .
• New Germany . Socialist Unity Party of Germany, February 9, 1981, ISSN  0323-3375 , p. 8 .

swell

• Luge archive. Bob- und Schlittenverband Deutschland, accessed on January 22, 2012 .