European Natural Track Luge Championships 1989
The 13th FIL Natural Track Luge European Championship took place from February 15-19, 1989 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , Germany . For the second time in a row, the Italian team won all three competitions.
Single seater men
Date: February 18 (1st and 2nd race) and February 19, 1989 (3rd race)
The Italian Damiano Lugon became European champion in the men's singles for the second time . He had already won the gold medal in 1979. The silver medal went to the Austrian Gerhard Pilz, 14 hundredths of a second behind . He had won the last world championship in 1986, but has never been on the podium at European championships. The bronze medal went to the defending champion Manfred Gräber from Italy.
Single-seater women
| space | Surname | time |
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| 1 |
 Delia Vaudan
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| 2 |
 Jeanette Koppensteiner
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| 3 |
Irene Koch
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| 4th |
Angelika Widmann
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| 5 |
 Lyubov Panjutina
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| 6th |
Doris Haselrieder
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| 7th |
Elisabeth Als
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| 8th |
Paula Beikircher
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| 9 |
Evi Mitterstieler
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| 10 |
Ingrid Koch
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| 11 |
 Ursula Nöhmeier
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| 12 |
Monika Lewanskowski
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| 13 |
Christine Maurer
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| 14th |
Marina Chochlowa
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| 15th |
 Małgorzata Konior
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| 16 |
Renata Ścieszka
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| 17th |
 Carina Solhag
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| 18th |
.svg){kind=small} Tina Tolar
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| 19th |
Chalida Alimova
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| 20th |
Helena Böhrens
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| 21st |
 Bethany Erickson
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Date: February 18 (1st and 2nd race) and February 19, 1989 (3rd race)
The Italian Delia Vaudan became European champion in the women's singles for the third time in a row and for the fourth time. She became the first and so far only natural toboggan runner to become European champion four times, and also the first and so far only to win the title three times in a row. Between 1979 and 1984 she had already been world champion three times. The silver medal went to the Austrian Jeanette Koppensteiner , for whom it was the first medal in championships. As at the last European Championship, the bronze medal was won by Austrian Irene Koch .
Two-seater
| space | Surname | time |
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| 1 |
Arnold Lunger - Günther Steinhauser
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| 2 |
Manfred Gräber - Ernst Marmsoler
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| 3 |
Reinhold Buchmann - Manfred Als
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| 4th |
Almir Betemps - Corrado Herin
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| 5 |
Willi Danklmaier - Gerhard Hirzegger
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| 6th |
Krzysztof Niewiadomski - Oktawian Samulski
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| 7th |
Michael Bischofer - Herbert Kögl
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| 8th |
Janko Meglič - Marjan Meglič
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| 9 |
Roland Niedermair - Hannes Pichler
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| 10 |
 Tore Borke - Erlend Aspelund
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| 11 |
Pavel Timschin - Igor Skvortsov
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| 12 |
Franz Schwab - Fredi Büsel
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| - |
 Stephane Keck - Philippe Keck
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Viktor Kalintschtij - Oleg Burlaka
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Hans Noll - Thomas Speer
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Date: February 19, 1989 (both races)
The Italians Arnold Lunger and Günther Steinhauser , who won bronze at the last European Championships, became European champions in the doubles. Steinhauser and Andreas Jud had already been European champions in 1983. Her compatriots Manfred Gräber and Ernst Marmsoler won the silver medal . For Marmsoler it was the only medal in title fights. Gräber was European single-seater champion back in 1987 and this year won the bronze medal in single-seater, in doubles it was his first European Championship medal. The bronze medal went to the Austrians Reinhold Buchmann and Manfred Als .
Medal table
| space | country | gold | silver | bronze | total |
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| 1. |
Italy
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3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
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Austria
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- | 2 | 2 | 4th |
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. 325 .
- Harald Steyrer, Herbert Wurzer, Egon Theiner: 50 years of FIL 1957–2007. The history of the International Luge Federation in three volumes . tape III . Egoth Verlag, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-902480-46-0 , p. 241 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ In brief - tobogganing . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 20, 1989, p. 20 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized version).
