European Natural Track Luge Championships 1979

The 8th FIL Natural Track Luge European Championship took place from January 27th to 28th 1979 in Fénis in the Aosta Valley in Italy .

Single seater men

space	Surname	time
01	Damiano Lugon	?
02	Otto Bachmann	?
03	Andrea Millet	?
04th	Erich Graber	?
05	Werner Prantl	?
06th	Raimund Pigneter	?
07th	Werner Beikircher	?
08th	Helmut Hutter	?
09	Oswald Pörnbacher	?
10	Johann Mair	?
11	Michael Plaickner	?
12	Engelbert Fuchs	?
13	Piero Poletto	?
14th	Hubert Mairamhof	?
15th	Richard Huter	?
16	Egon Tronegger	?
17th	Alfred Kogler	?
18th	Battista Pieiller	?
19th	Josef Theurl	?
20th	Karl Psenner	?
21st	Heinz Kleinhofer	?
22nd	Ernst Stangl	?
23	Josef Oberbichler	?
24	Vitus Gansler	?
25th	Heinz Gdanitz	?
26th	Anton Berwanger	?
27	Peter Brunold	?
28	Martin Haller	?
29	Ernst Buchwieser	?
30th	Josef Tschachler	?
31	Volker Schönhuber	?
32	Erich Hedinger	?
33	Werner Leuthold	?
34	Stanko Koler	?
-	Hermann Sporer	DNF
-	Paul Berger	DNF
-	Wolfgang Erlacher	DNF
-	Silvio Basile	DNF
-	Peter Vogler	DNF
-	Gerhard Mavrin	DNF
-	Werner Mücke	DNF

Four-fold Italian victory in the men's single-seater: Damiano Lugon , who had already won bronze two years earlier, became European single-seater champion. Silver went to Otto Bachmann and bronze to Andrea Millet . Lugon and Millet also won the silver medal in doubles. Defending champion Hubert Mairamhof finished 14th.

Single-seater women

space	Surname	time
01	Roswitha Fischer	?
02	Christa Fontana	?
03	Herta Hafner	?
04th	Delia Vaudan	?
05	Nelly Chapellu	?
06th	Helene Mitterstieler	?
07th	Annemarie Ebner	?
08th	Elisabeth Höllwerth	?
09	Elfriede Pirkmann	?
10	Ruth Oberhöller	?
11	Hilde Fuchs	?
12	Maria Tschachler	?
13	Elisabeth Nagele	?
14th	Monika Zobel	?
15th	Marlies Zobel	?
-	Ingrid Zameter	DNS

While the Italian men celebrated a four-fold victory in the single-seater, the women even won a six-fold victory for the host country Italy. Roswitha Fischer , who had already won silver last year, became European champion in the single-seater. Second place went to Christa Fontana and third place to Herta Hafner . The defending champion Elfriede Pirkmann finished ninth.

Two-seater

space	Surname	time
01	Werner Prantl - Florian Prantl	?
02	Damiano Lugon - Andrea Millet	?
03	Oswald Pörnbacher - Erich Graber	?
04th	Werner Beikircher - Michael Plaickner	?
05	Werner Mücke - Helmut Hutter	?
06th	Eugen Obexer - Paul Mitterstieler	?
07th	Willi Galsterer - Heinz Kleinhofer	?
08th	Paul Berger - Christian Oberhöller	?
09	Alfred Kogler - Wolfgang Erlacher	?
10	Engelbert Fuchs - Gottfried Kreuzer	?
-	Johann Mair - Otto Bachmann	DNF
-	Josef Oberbichler - Josef Theurl	DNF
-	Erich Hedinger - Werner Leuthold	DNF
-	Martin Haller - Peter Brunold	DNF

Werner Prantl and Florian Prantl from Austria were European champions in doubles . They won the only medal at this European championship for Austria. Silver went to the Italians Damiano Lugon and Andrea Millet , who a few days later became the first world champions in doubles. Oswald Pörnbacher and Erich Graber from Italy won the bronze medal. The defending champions Werner Mücke and Helmut Hutter finished fifth.

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1.	Italy	2	3	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. 320 .