European bobsleigh championship 1989

The 1989 European Bobsleigh Championship was held on the weekends from 21./22. and 28./29. January in German Winterberg .

Two-man bob men

46 teams from 20 nations started for the two-man bobsleigh European Championship. There were four runs, with Runs 1 and 2 on January 21, and Runs 3 and 4 on January 22, 1989.

space	bob	Total time lag
1	Switzerland I. Gustav Weder Bruno Gerber	3: 51.61
2	German Democratic Republic I. Wolfgang Hoppe Bogdan Musiol	3: 51.74 +0.13
3	Federal Republic of Germany I. Rudi Lochner Markus Zimmermann	3: 52.20 +0.59
4th	German Democratic Republic III Harald Czudaj Alexander Szelig	3: 52.78 +1.17
5	Federal Republic of Germany III Rolf Dauber Olaf Hampel	3: 53.26 +1.65
6th	Switzerland II Nico Baracchi Donat Acklin	3: 53.75 +2.14
7th	Soviet Union I. Jānis Ķipurs Aldis Intlers	3: 53.93 +2.32
8th	German Democratic Republic II Detlef Richter Mario Hoyer	3: 53.94 +2.33
9	Austria I. Ingo Appelt Harald Winkler	3: 54.48 +2.87

Four-man bob men

The four-man European Championship took place on January 28 and 29, 1989, with runs 1 and 2 on January 28 and runs 3 and 4 on January 29. A total of 29 teams started. While the victory of Austrian Ingo Appelt, World Cup winner of the season 87/88, did not come out of the blue, the silver medal of newcomer Harald Czudaj was a big surprise.

space	bob	Total time lag
1	Austria I. Ingo Appelt Harald Winkler Gerhard Redl Jürgen Mandl	3: 44.01
2	German Democratic Republic III Harald Czudaj Karsten Brannasch Tino Bonk Peter Förster	3: 44.27 +0.26
3	Austria II Peter Kienast Thomas Schroll Franz Siegl Kurt Teigl	3: 44.45 +0.44
4th	Switzerland II Nico Baracchi Christian Reich Donat Acklin René Mangold	3: 44.49 +0.48
5	German Democratic Republic I. Wolfgang Hoppe Bodo Ferl Bogdan Musiol René Hannemann	3: 44.61 +0.60
6th	Switzerland I. Gustav Weder Bruno Gerber Lorenz Schindelholz Curdin Morell	3: 44.67 +0.66

Medal table

space	nation	gold	silver	bronze
1	Austria	1	0	1
2	Switzerland	1	0	0
3	German Democratic Republic	0	2	0
4th	BR Germany	0	0	1

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Neues Deutschland from January 23, 1989 p. 6
2. ↑ Neues Deutschland from January 30, 1989 p. 7