European Natural Track Luge Championships 1977

The 6th FIL Natural Track Luge European Championship took place from February 19-20, 1977 in Seis am Schlern , Italy . All three European championship titles and eight of nine medals were won by the host country Italy, which for the first time led Austria in the medal table.

Single seater men

space	Surname	time
01	Erich Graber	?
02	Werner Beikircher	?
03	Damiano Lugon	?
04th	Heinz Penz	?
05	Eugene Obexer	?
06th	Michael Plaikner	?
07th	Paul Mitterstieler	?
08th	Hubert Mairamhof	?
09	Josef Theurl	?
10	Werner Prantl	?
11	Helmut Hutter	?
12	Siegfried Mair	?
13	Robert Jud	?
14th	Richard Huter	?
15th	Klaus Motz	?
16	Otto Bachmann	?
17th	Ernst Scheuchl	?
18th	Egon Tronegger	?
19th	Vitus Gansler	?
20th	Engelbert Fuchs	?
21st	Johann Mair	?
22nd	Heinz Gdanitz	?
23	Edward Fender	?
24	Ray Lindfors	?
25th	Georg Spindler	?
26th	Walter Renn	?
27	Martin Meyer	?
28	Erich Hedinger	?
29	Hans Zwerger	?
30th	Josef Trojer	?
31	Ernst Buchwieser	?
32	Andreas Gredig	?
33	Heinz Bänziger	?
34	Geir Sörnes Hansen	?
35	Trond Enkerud	?
36	Harald Wenzelis	?
37	Janusz Chochorowski	?
38	Rajmund Niwiński	?
-	Ernst Stangl	DNF
-	Josef Ploner	DNF
-	Willi Galsterer	DNF
-	Wolfgang Erlacher	DNF
-	Ivar Bjare	DNS
-	Heinz Kleinhofer	DNS
-	Alfred Kogler	DNS

At the 6th European Natural Track Luge Championships, all medals in the men's singles went to Italy for the first time. The Italian team even celebrated an eightfold victory. European champion was Erich Graber for the second time after 1974 . Werner Beikircher won the silver medal and Damiano Lugon won the bronze medal . For Beikircher this was his only European Championship medal, Lugon was European Champion in 1979 and 1989. The defending champion Alfred Kogler from Austria was not at the start.

Single-seater women

space	Surname	time
01	Helene Mitterstieler	?
02	Elfriede Pirkmann	?
03	Pink rocking chopper	?
04th	Hilde Fuchs	?
05	Ruth Oberhöller	?
06th	Hilde Scharf	?
07th	Elisabeth Höllwerth	?
08th	Roswitha Fischer	?
09	Annemarie Ebner	?
10	Nelly Chapellu	?
11	Halina Kanasz	?
12	W. Stanowska-Maciejczyk	?
13	Karin Rieger	?
-	Lea Voyat	DNF
-	Danuta Murmyto	DNF
-	Herta Hafner	DNS

The Italian Helene Mitterstieler won the women's single-seater competition and became the first natural track luge European champion from Italy after five Austrian victories. Second place went to the European champion from 1973, Elfriede Pirkmann from Austria. She won the only medal for Austria at this EM. Bronze went to the Italian Rosa Schwingshackl .

Two-seater

space	Surname	time
01	Robert Jud - Erich Graber	?
02	Johann Mair - Michael Plaikner	?
03	Hubert Mairamhof - Josef Ploner	?
04th	Richard Huter - Klaus Motz	?
05	Helmut Hutter - Josef Theurl	?
06th	Josef Trojer - Otto Bachmann	?
07th	Werner Prantl - Florian Prantl	?
08th	Georg Spindler - Vitus Gansler	?
09	Ernst Stangl - Karl Oberhöller	?
10	Ernst Buchwieser - Hans Zwerger	?
-	Paul Mitterstieler - Heinz Penz	DNF
-	Richard Marmsoler - Ernst Marmsoler	DNF
-	Willi Galsterer - Heinz Kleinhofer	DNS
-	Alfred Kogler - Wolfgang Erlacher	DNS

As in the men's singles, all the medals in the doubles went to Italy for the first time. Robert Jud and Erich Graber successfully defended their title and became European champions for the second time. Johann Mair and Michael Plaikner won the silver medal, Hubert Mairamhof and Josef Ploner the bronze medal.

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1.	Italy	3	2	3	8th
2.	Austria	-	1	-	1

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. 318 .