European bobsleigh championship 1981

The European bobsleigh championship was held in 1981 on the bobsleigh run in Innsbruck - Igls .

Two-man bob men

Date: 5th - 6th January 1981
Participants: 29 bobsleighs from eleven countries

space	bob	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Run 4	Total time lag
1	Switzerland - Bob SUI 1 Hans Hiltebrand Walter Rahm	55.34	55.26	55.82	58.33	3: 44.75
2	DDR - Bob GDR 1 Bernhard Germeshausen Hans-Jürgen Gerhardt	55.12	55.16	56.36	58.78	3: 45.42 +0.67
3	BR Germany - Bob FRG 1 Wolfgang Eidenschink Andreas Geiger	55.63	55.73	56.54	57.59	3: 45.49 +0.74
4th	DDR - Bob GDR 2 Horst Schönau Andreas Kirchner	55.09	55.37	56.74	58.53	3: 45.73 +0.98
5	DDR - Bob GDR 3 Bernhard Lehmann Eberhard Weise	55.46	55.36	55.81	59.41	3: 46.04 +1.29
6th	Austria - Bob AUT 2 Fritz Sperling Franz Koefel	55.86	55.54			3: 46.06 +1.31
7th	Switzerland - Bob SUI 2 Ralph Pichler Klaus	55.90	55.92			3: 46.11 +1.36
8th	Austria - Bob AUT 1 Franz Paulweber Gerhard fence screen	55.76	55.76			3: 46.16 +1.41
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10	BR Germany - Bob FRG 3 Jakob Resch Alex Wernsdorfer					3: 47.32 +2.57
11	BR Germany - Bob FRG 2 Alois Schnorbus Hans Metzler					3: 47.88 +3.13

Four-man bob men

Date: January 10-11, 1981
Participants: 19 bobsleighs from eight countries

space	bob	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Run 4! style = "width: 15%;" | Total time lag
1	DDR - Bob GDR 1 Bernhard Germeshausen Matthias Trübner Henry Gerlach Hans-Jürgen Gerhardt	53.34	53.42	53.64	53.70	3: 34.10
2	DDR - Bob GDR 2 Horst Schönau Detlef Richter Dietmar Jerke Andreas Kirchner	53.45	53.68	53.78	53.78	3: 34.69 +0.59
3	DDR - Bob GDR 3 Bernhard Lehmann Bogdan Musiol Roland Wetzig Eberhard Weise	53.62	53.71	53.78	53.79	3: 34.90 +0.80
4th	Austria - Bob AUT 2 Fritz Sperling Franz Köfel Andreas Schwab Günther Liegl	53.51	53.68	53.88	53.91	3: 34.98 +0.88
5	Switzerland - Bob SUI 1 Erich Schärer Max Rüegg Tony Rüegg Joseph Benz	53.54	53.71	53.97	54.10	3: 35.32 +1.22
6th	BR Germany - Bob FRG 1 Franz-Josef Hoffmann (bobsleigh driver) Schaumeier's son Udo Gelhausen	53.73	53.87	54.04	54.12	3: 35.76 +1.66
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8th	BR Germany - Bob FRG 3 Wolfgang Eidenschink					3: 36.48 +2.38
12	BR Germany - Bob FRG 2 Alois Schnorbus					3: 37.47 +3.37

Medal table

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

literature

• Manfred Seifert: Sport81. A yearbook of GDR sports . Sportverlag Berlin, 1981, ISSN  0232-203X , p. 217 .
• New Germany . 4, 5 and 9th Socialist Unity Party of Germany, 1981, ISSN  0323-3375 .
• Foosball sports magazine . 3 and 4. Olympia-Verlag , 1981, ISSN  0023-1290 .

Web links

• Archive Bobsleigh and Sled Association Germany