Natural Track Luge World Championship 1979

The first FIL - natural track luge World Cup took place from January 30 to February 4, 1979 in Inzing in Austria instead.

Single seater men

space	Surname	time
01	Werner Prantl	5: 00.49 min
02	Damiano Lugon	+ 1.60 s
03	Erich Graber	+ 1.70 s
04th	Alfred Kogler	+ 3.52 s
05	Raimund Pigneter	+ 3.61 s
06th	Oswald Pörnbacher	+ 4.69 s
07th	Helmut Hutter	+ 4.75 s
08th	Johann Mair	?
09	Wolfgang Erlacher	?
10	Otto Bachmann	?
11	Josef Theurl	?
12	Engelbert Fuchs	?
13	Martin Haller	?
14th	Heinz Gdanitz	?
15th	Vitus Gansler	?
16	Josef Tschachler	?
17th	Ray Lindfors	?
18th	Steinar Raastad	?
19th	Georg Spindler	?
20th	Anton Berwanger	?
21st	Volker Schönhuber	?
22nd	Erich Hedinger	?
23	Trond Enkerud	?
24	Carl Henrik Bache	?
25th	Geir Sörnes Hansen	?
26th	Drago Česen	?
27	Per Winberg	?
28	Ernst Buchwieser	?
29	Peter Brunold	?
30th	Teodor Kalisnik	?
31	Bengt Myckelberg	?
32	Vinko Lavtižar	?
33	Edward Fender	?
34	Fred Lindfors	?
35	Dick Holmen	?
36	Marjan Meglič	?
37	Werner Gundrum	?
38	Tim Carney	?
-	Lars Ekström	DNF
-	Mirko Klinar	DNF

The first world champion in the men's single-seater was the Austrian Werner Prantl , who also won bronze in the double-seater. Silver went to Damiano Lugon from Italy, who had won the European Championship a few days earlier. The third-placed Italian Erich Graber had already won the European Championship in 1974 and 1977.

Single-seater women

space	Surname	time
01	Delia Vaudan	5: 16.87 min
02	Ingrid Zameter	+ 01.62 s
03	Roswitha Fischer	+ 02.36 s
04th	Elfriede Pirkmann	+ 03.46 s
05	Helene Mitterstieler	+ 10.80 s
06th	Annemarie Ebner	+ 11.36 s
07th	Ruth Oberhöller	+ 11.87 s
08th	Herta Hafner	?
09	Monika Zobel	?
10	Elisabeth Nagele	?
11	Maria Tschachler	?
12	Marlies Zobel	?
13	Vanja Petelinkar	?
14th	Ewa Więcek	?
15th	Maria Stanislawek	?

The first world title in the women's singles went to the Italian Delia Vaudan , the Austrian Ingrid Zameter won the silver medal . The bronze medalist Roswitha Fischer from Italy had become European champion a few days earlier.

Two-seater

space	Surname	time
01	Damiano Lugon - Andrea Millet	?
02	Werner Mücke - Helmut Hutter	?
03	Werner Prantl - Florian Prantl	?
04th	Oswald Pörnbacher - Erich Graber	?
05	Wolfgang Erlacher - Alfred Kogler	?
06th	Werner Beikircher - Michael Plaikner	?
07th	Martin Haller - Peter Brunold	?
08th	Marjan Meglič - Vinko Lavtižar	?
09	Georg Spindler - Vitus Gansler	?
10	Heinz Gdanitz - Ernst Buchwieser	?

The Italians Damiano Lugon and Andrea Millet , who had won the silver medal at the European Championship shortly before, became world champions in doubles. Last year's European champions, Werner Mücke and Helmut Hutter from Austria came in second . The Austrians Werner - world champion in single-seater - and Florian Prantl , who had won the European Championship a few days earlier, came third.

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1.	Italy	2	1	2	5
2.	Austria	1	2	1	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. 287 .

Web links

• WM: Luge gold for Prantl . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 5, 1979, p. 7 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).