1979 European Bobsleigh Championship

The European Bobsleigh Championship was held in 1979 on the Winterberg bobsleigh track in the Federal Republic of Germany .

Two-man bob men

Date: 27.-28. January 1979

space	bob	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Run 4	Total time lag
1	German Democratic Republic Bernhard Germeshausen Hans-Jürgen Gerhardt	57.32	57.57	57.57	57.70	3: 50.16
2	Switzerland Erich Schärer Ulrich Bächli	57.71	57.77	57.90	57.58	3: 51.36 +1.20
3	German Democratic Republic Meinhard Nehmer Bogdan Musiol	57.71	58.58	57.78	58.13	3: 51.80 +1.64
4th	BR Germany Stefan Gaisreiter Heinz Busche	-	-	-	-	3: 52.83 +2.67
5	Austria Fritz Sperling Franz Koefel	-	-	-	-	3: 53.01 +2.85
6th	Switzerland Peter Schärer Max Rüegg	-	-	-	-	3: 53.40 +3.24
7th	German Democratic Republic Horst Schönau Andreas Kirchner	-	-	-	-	3: 53.50 +3.34

Four-man bob men

Date: 3rd - 4th February 1979

space	bob	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Run 4	Total time lag
1	German Democratic Republic - Bob GDR 1 Meinhard Taken Jochen Babock Bernhard Germeshausen Hans-Jürgen Gerhardt	55.72	55.76	55.26	55.72	3: 42.46
2	Switzerland - Bob SUI 1 Erich Schärer Ulrich Bächli Tony Rüegg Hans-Jörg Trachsel	55.56	56.08	55.61	55.94	3: 43.19 +0.73
3	German Democratic Republic - Bob GDR 2 Horst Schönau Horst Bernhardt Bogdan Musiol Andreas Kirchner	56.04	56.04	55.69	56.01	3: 43.78 +1.32
4th	BR Germany - Bob FRG 1 Stefan Gaisreiter Hans Wagner Heinz Busche Manfred Schumann	-	-	-	-	3: 43.79 +1.33
5	Switzerland - Bob SUI 2 Peter Schärer Max Rüegg Eigenmann Armin Baumgartner	-	-	-	-	3: 44.03 +1.57
6th	BR Germany - Bob FRG 3 Georg Großmann Hans Metzler Hartmann Alex Wernsdorfer	-	-	-	-	3: 44.22 +1.76
...	...	...	...	...	...	...
9	German Democratic Republic - Bob GDR 3 Bernhard Lehmann Detlef Judge Matthias Trübner Eberhard Weise	-	-	-	-	3: 45.10 +2.64

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Medal table

space	nation	gold	silver	bronze
1	German Democratic Republic	2	-	2
2	Switzerland	-	2	-

literature

• Manfred Seifert: The year of sport 1980 . Sportverlag Berlin, 1979, ISSN  0232-2137 , p. 169 .

swell

• Bob archive. Bob- und Schlittenverband Deutschland, accessed on January 24, 2012 (German).