1980 European Bobsleigh Championship

The European bobsleigh championship was held for the fourth time in 1980 on the natural ice rink in St. Moritz .

Two-man bob men

Date: 26.-27. January 1980

space	bob	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Run 4	Total time lag
1	Switzerland Hans Hiltebrand Walter Rahm	1: 11.21	1: 10.95	1: 11.16	1: 11.79	4: 45.11
2	German Democratic Republic Bernhard Germeshausen Hans-Jürgen Gerhardt	1: 11.79	1: 11.18	1: 11.20	1: 11.47	4: 45.64 +0.53
3	Switzerland Erich Schärer Ulrich Bächli	1: 11.30	1: 11.24	1: 11.54	1: 12.03	4: 46.11 +1.00
4th	German Democratic Republic Meinhard Nehmer Bogdan Musiol	1: 12.16	1: 11.64	1: 11.78	1: 11.61	4: 47.19 +2.08
5	Switzerland Peter Schärer Max Rüegg	1: 12.14	1: 11.68	1: 11.73	1: 12.39	4: 47.94 +2.83
6th	German Democratic Republic Horst Schönau Andreas Kirchner	1: 12.27	1: 12.38	1: 11.97	1: 11.83	4: 48.45 +3.34

Four-man bob men

Date: 2. – 3. February 1980

space	bob	Total time lag
1	Switzerland - Bob SUI 2 Erich Schärer Ulrich Bächli Ruedi Marti Josef Benz	4: 35.70
2	Switzerland - Bob SUI 1 Peter Schärer Max Rüegg Tony Rüegg Hans-Jörg Trachsel	4: 36.83 +1.13
3	Switzerland - Bob SUI 3 Hans Hiltebrand Ulrich Schindler Walter Rahm Armin Baumgartner	4: 37.07 +1.37
4th	Austria - Bob AUT 2 Fritz Sperling Heini Bergmüller Franz Rednack Bernhard Purkrabek	4: 37.08 +1.38
5	Austria - Bob AUT 1 Heinz Krenn Otto Breg Sauerlachner Franz Köfel	4: 38.06 +2.36
6th	BR Germany - Bob FRG 2 Alois Schnorbus Lothar Pongratz Jürgen Hofmann Martin Meinberg	4: 39.14 +3.44

Medal table

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

literature

• Manfred Seifert: Sport80. A yearbook of GDR sports . Sportverlag Berlin, 1980, ISSN  0232-203X , p. 221 .
• New Germany . No. 23 . Socialist Unity Party of Germany, 1980, ISSN  0323-3375 .

swell

• Archive. Bob- und Schlittenverband Deutschland, accessed on January 21, 2012 (German).