Natural Track Luge World Championship 1980

The second FIL - natural track luge World Cup took place from 29 January to 3 February 1980 in Moos in Passeier in South Tyrol ( Italy instead).

Single seater men

space	Surname	time
01	Erich Graber	?
02	Damiano Lugon	?
03	Otto Bachmann	?
04th	Alfred Kogler	?
05	Johann Mair	?
06th	Piero Poletto	?
07th	Hermann Sporer	?
08th	Gerhard Pircher	?
09	Helmut Hutter	?
10	Richard Hutter	?
11	Vitus Gansler	?
12	Trond Enkerud	?
13	Knur Risberg	?
14th	Fred Lindfors	?
15th	Carl Henrik Bache	?
16	Marjan Meglič	?
17th	Mirko Klinar	?
18th	Peter Brunold	?
19th	Heinz Gdanitz	?
20th	Håkon Sandvik	?
21st	Jože Nemc	?
22nd	Per Winberg	?
23	Paweł Goryl	?
24	Vinko Lavtižar	?
25th	Hermann Städler	?
26th	Erich Hedinger	?
27	Klaus Haller	?
28	Stanko Koler	?
29	Wacław Kubica	?
30th	Bengt Myckelberg	?
31	Gerhard Eidner	?
32	Ryszard Gołąbek	?
33	Albin Donzel	?
34	Werner Gundrum	?
35	Jean-François Humblet	?
-	Werner Prantl	DNF
-	Leopold Krašovec	DNF
-	Martin Jud	DNF

In the men's singles - as in the women - all medals went to the host country Italy. World champion was Erich Graber , who had won bronze the previous year. As in the previous year, Damiano Lugon won silver and Otto Bachmann won bronze . Defending champion Werner Prantl from Austria did not finish.

Single-seater women

space	Surname	time
1	Delia Vaudan	?
2	Christa Fontana	?
3	Roswitha Fischer	?
4th	Elisabeth Höllwerth	?
5	Helene Mitterstieler	?
6th	Ingrid Zameter	?
7th	Hilde Fuchs	?
8th	Ewa Więcek	?
9	Małgorzata Kabat	?
-	Ruth Oberhöller	DNF

As with the men, all the medals for the women went to Italy. Last year's world champion, Delia Vaudan , successfully defended her title. The silver medal was won by Christa Fontana , for whom it was the only World Cup medal, but who was second at the European Championship in 1979. As in the previous year, the bronze medal was won by Roswitha Fischer .

Two-seater

space	Surname	time
01	Oswald Pörnbacher - Raimund Pigneter	?
02	Martin Jud - Harald Steinhauser	?
03	Werner Mücke - Helmut Hutter	?
04th	Werner Prantl - Florian Prantl	?
05	Wilhelm Galsterer - Heinz Kleinhofer	?
06th	Erich Hedinger - Peter Brunold	?
07th	Vinko Lavtižar - Marjan Meglič	?
08th	Paweł Goryl - Ryszard Gołąbek	?
09	Carl Henrik Bache - Håkon Sandvik	?
10	Damiano Lugon - Andrea Millet	?
-	Heinz Gdanitz - Gerhard Eidner	DNF
-	Leopold Krašovec - Mirko Klinar	DNF

In the two-seater, the Italians Oswald Pörnbacher and Raimund Pigneter won ahead of their compatriots Martin Jud and Harald Steinhauser . The only medal at this World Championship for Austria went to third-placed Werner Mücke and Helmut Hutter , who were second last year.

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1.	Italy	3	3	2	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. 288 .