European Natural Track Luge Championships 1974
The 4th FIL Natural Track Luge European Championship took place from February 9-10 , 1974 in Niedernsill , Austria .
They were held on the Luziawald toboggan run at USK Niedernsill.
Technical data of the natural toboggan run
Surname | Luciawald toboggan run in Niedernsill |
begin | 915 m above sea level A. |
target | 767 m above sea level A. |
Height difference | 148 m |
Average gradient | 13.5% |
length | 1120 m |
Single seater men
At the fourth European Natural Track Luge Championships, the gold medal in the men's singles went to Italy for the first time. After Austrians had won three times before, Erich Graber brought the European championship title to Italy for the first time this year . The places two to twelve were occupied by Austrians. The silver medal went to Erwin Eichelberger , who had already won bronze in 1971. He was only 5 hundredths of a second behind. Third went to Albert Eichelberger , who won his only European Championship medal.
Single-seater women
space | Surname | time |
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1 | Klara Niedertscheider | 3: 26.73 min |
2 | Elfriede Pirkmann | + 3.82 s |
3 | Annemarie Ebner | + 4.66 s |
4th | Martha Ruech | ? |
5 | Margarethe Moser | ? |
6th | Berta Pichler | ? |
7th | Anna Pallhuber | ? |
8th | Hilde Fuchs | ? |
9 | Albina Gietl | ? |
10 | Roswitha Fischer | ? |
11 | Josefine Berger | ? |
12 | Rosi Eichner | ? |
13 | Mary Jane Bowie | ? |
- | Vera Zozuļa | DNF |
For the fourth time, the European championship in the women's singles went to Austria and for the third time only Austrian women were on the podium. Klara Niedertscheider , who was European Champion in 1971, won the gold medal for the second time with a lead of 3.82 seconds. Silver went to the defending champion Elfriede Pirkmann . Third was Annemarie Ebner , who had achieved second place in 1971.
Two-seater
space | Surname | time |
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1 | Siegfried Wild - Othmar Hofer | 2: 17.55 min |
2 | Robert Jud - Erich Graber | + 0.90 s |
3 | Helmut Kleinhofer - Karl Flacher | + 1.53 s |
4th | Heimo Buchner - Helmut Hutter | ? |
5 | Hubert Mairamhof - Josef Ploner | ? |
6th | Anton Obernosterer - Gabriel Obernosterer | ? |
7th | Engelbert Fuchs - Gottfried Kreuzer | ? |
8th | Albert Brunner - Siegfried Graber | ? |
9 | Richard Huter - Klaus Motz | ? |
10 | Josef Spindler - Josef Spreng | ? |
11 | Paul Mitterstieler - Heinz Penz | ? |
12 | Heinz Gdanitz - Franz Kurz | ? |
13 | Janez Bahun - Milan Česen | ? |
14th | Marjan Lombar - Vinko Lavtižar | ? |
15th | Doug Hansen - Larry Arbuthnot | ? |
16 | Lubomír Zeman - Zdeněk Barták | ? |
17th | Rolf Krämer - Edwin Wipf | ? |
18th | František Halíř - Petr Jiricko | ? |
19th | Sergej Alexejew - Sergej Chailow | ? |
- | Werner Beikircher - Richard Mittermair | DNF |
- | Georg Spindler - Vitus Gansler | DNF |
- | Christof Rüegg - Erich Hedinger | DNF |
- | Josef Mahlknecht - Karl Mitterstieler | DNF |
- | Ernst Buchwieser - Max Buchwieser | DNF |
- | Jindřich Zeman - Petr Černý | DNF |
The Austrians Siegfried Wild and Othmar Hofer were European champions in the two-seater . You had already won the bronze medal in 1971. The silver medal went to the Italians Robert Jud and Erich Graber . For Robert Jud it was the first European Championship medal, Erich Graber had already won the silver medal with Hans Graber at the first European Championship in 1970 . Third place went to the Austrians Helmut Kleinhofer and Karl Flacher . For them it was their only European Championship medal.
Medal table
space | country | gold | silver | bronze | total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1. | Austria | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7th |
2. | Italy | 1 | 1 | - | 2 |
literature
- Harald Steyrer, Herbert Wurzer, Egon Theiner: 50 years of FIL 1957–2007. The history of the International Luge Federation in three volumes . tape II . Egoth Verlag, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-902480-46-0 , p. 316 .
Individual evidence
- Time – distance – results: tobogganing . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 12, 1974, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ USK Niedernsill . In: Salzburger Nachrichten : Salzburgwiki .