European Natural Track Luge Championships 1981

The 9th  FIL Natural Track Luge European Championship took place from February 4th to 8th, 1981 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	0915  m above sea level A.
target	0767  m above sea level A.
Height difference	0148 m
Average gradient	0013.5%
length	1120 m

Single seater men

space	Surname	time
01	Otto Bachmann	?
02	Damiano Lugon	?
03	Othmar Neulichedl	?
04th	Christian Oberhöller	?
05	Andrea Millet	?
06th	Georg Antholzer	?
07th	Alexander Lageder	?
08th	Robert Larcher	?
09	Oswald Pörnbacher	?
10	Giuseppe Cerise	?
11	Alfred Kogler	?
12	Raimund Pigneter	?
13	Wolfgang Erlacher	?
14th	Hubert Mairamhof	?
15th	Andreas Triendl	?
16	Oskar Knauder	?
17th	Martin Jud	?
18th	Gerhard Mavrin	?
19th	Richard Huter	?
20th	Konrad Gruber	?
21st	Ernst Exenberger	?
22nd	Vitus Gansler	?
23	Hermann Sporer	?
24	Manfred Danklmaier	?
25th	Trond Enkerud	?
26th	Klaus Motz	?
27	Ernst Buchwieser	?
	Teodor Kalisnik	?
29	Drago Česen	?

After their eightfold victory in 1977, the Italian team even celebrated a tenfold victory this year. Otto Bachmann , third in the world championship last year and second in the European Championship two years ago, was European champion in the single-seater. The defending champion Damiano Lugon won the silver medal. Bronze went to Othmar Neulichedl , who won his only medal in championships.

Single-seater women

space	Surname	time
01	Delia Vaudan	?
02	Helene Mitterstieler	?
03	Elfriede Pirkmann	?
04th	Herta Hafner	?
05	Elisabeth Höllwerth	?
06th	Christa Fontana	?
07th	Nelly Chapellu	?
08th	Barbara Winkler	?
09	Ingrid Zameter	?
10	Hilde Fuchs	?
11	Ruth Oberhöller	?
12	Ewa Więcek	?
13	Małgorzata Kabat	?
14th	Dorota Rojek	?
15th	Sonja Wohlfarter	?
16	Ruth Martos-Rodriguez	?

The reigning world champion Delia Vaudan from Italy became European champion in the women's singles. The silver medal was won by the 1977 European champion, Helene Mitterstieler from Italy. Third place went to the European champion from 1973 and 1978, Elfriede Pirkmann from Austria.

Two-seater

space	Surname	time
01	Alfred Kogler - Franz Huber	?
02	Hubert Mairamhof - Herbert Huber	?
03	Manfred Danklmaier - Willi Danklmaier	?
04th	Martin Jud - Ernst Oberhammer	?
05	Richard Huter - Andreas Triendl	?
06th	Andreas Kröll - Sieghard Fankhauser	?
07th	Heimo Hutter - Walter Hutter	?
08th	Werner Prantl - Florian Prantl	?
09	Drago Česen - Teodor Kalisnik	?
10	Leopold Krašovec - Mirko Klinar	?

The Austrians Alfred Kogler and Franz Huber were European champions in the two-seater . Her compatriots Hubert Mairamhof and Herbert Huber won the silver medal . The brothers Manfred and Willi Danklmaier from Austria came in third .

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1.	Italy	2	3	1	6th
2.	Austria	1	-	2	3

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. 321 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ USK Niedernsill . In: Salzburger Nachrichten : Salzburgwiki .