1968 Winter Olympics / Luge
Luge at the 1968 Winter Olympics |
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venue | Villard-de-Lans |
Competition venue | Piste de luge |
Nations | 14th |
Athletes | 85 (26 women and 59 men) |
date | 11-13 February 1968 |
decisions | 3 |
← Innsbruck 1964 |
At the X. Olympic Winter Games in Grenoble in 1968 , three luge competitions took place. The natural track in Villard-de-Lans was exactly 1000 meters long, had 14 bends and overcame a height difference of 110 meters. All competitions had to be postponed or even shortened several times due to the warm temperatures.
Balance sheet
Medal table
space | country | total | |||
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1 | GDR | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
2 | Austria | 1 | 1 | - | 2 |
3 | Italy | 1 | - | - | 1 |
4th | BR Germany | - | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Medalist
competitor | gold | silver | bronze |
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Single seater men | Manfred Schmid | Thomas Koehler | Klaus-Michael Bonsack |
Single seater women | Erika Lechner | Christa jewelry | Angelika Dünhaupt |
Two-seater men | Klaus-Michael Bonsack , Thomas Köhler | Manfred Schmid , Ewald Walch | Wolfgang Winkler , Fritz Nachmann |
Results
(all runtimes in seconds, total times in minutes)
Single seater men
Olympic champion 1964 : Thomas Köhler (GDR / EUA).
space | country | athlete | 1st run | 2nd run | 3rd run | total |
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1 | AUT | Manfred Schmid | 57.16 | 57.73 | 57.59 | 2: 52.48 |
2 | GDR | Thomas Koehler | 57.68 | 57.47 | 57.51 | 2: 52.66 |
3 | GDR | Klaus-Michael Bonsack | 57.90 | 57.63 | 57.80 | 2: 53.33 |
4th | POLE | Zbigniew Gawior | 57.55 | 58.35 | 57.61 | 2: 53.51 |
5 | AUT | Josef Feistmantl | 57.78 | 58.06 | 57.73 | 2: 53.57 |
6th | FRG | Hans Plenk | 57.30 | 58.37 | 58.00 | 2: 53.67 |
7th | GDR | Horst Hörnlein | 57.49 | 58.04 | 58.57 | 2: 54.10 |
8th | POLE | Jerzy Wojnar | 58.16 | 58.36 | 58.08 | 2: 54.62 |
9 | FRG | Leonhard Nagenrauft | 57.87 | 58.45 | 58.39 | 2: 54.71 |
10 | ITA | Emil Lechner | 57.94 | 58.63 | 58.53 | 2: 55.10 |
11 | FRG | Wolfgang Winkler | 58.08 | 58.86 | 58.41 | 2: 55.35 |
12 | ITA | Giovanni Graber | 58.09 | 58.59 | 58.88 | 2: 55.56 |
14th | AUT | Helmut Thaler | 58.42 | 59.03 | 58.60 | 2: 56.05 |
16 | ITA | Siegfried Mair | 58.22 | 59.51 | 58.45 | 2: 56.18 |
17th | FRG | Fritz Nachmann | 58.54 | 59.05 | 58.82 | 2: 56.41 |
18th | ITA | Raimund Prinoth | 58.80 | 59.16 | 58.89 | 2: 56.85 |
36 | LIE | Werner Sele | 60.92 | 61.27 | 61.69 | 3: 03.88 |
41 | LIE | Simon Beck | 63.52 | 64.54 | 63.59 | 3: 11.65 |
Run 1 and 2: February 11, 1968, 7:00 a.m.
Run 3: February 13, 1968, 8:00 a.m.
50 participants from 14 countries, 47 of them in the evaluation. Eliminated: Peter Kretauer (AUT), Julius Schädler (LIE), Wolfgang Scheidel (GDR).
The original schedule was as follows: first and second runs on February 8th, third run on February 10th, fourth run on February 12th.
After the first two runs there was another cancellation for February 12th. Schmid led in front of Köhler, Hörnlein, Bonsack, Plenk, Feistmantl, Gawior, Nagenrauft, Wojnar and Lechner; Thaler was in 14th place. The fourth run was scheduled for February 14th, but the track was way too soft because of the warmth. On February 15, after a two-and-a-half-hour meeting of the Executive Committee of the International Luge Federation, the decision was made that the fourth run would not be held for both men and women. Manfred Schmid had only achieved the best time in the first run.
Single seater women
Olympic champion 1964 and world champion 1967: Ortrun Enderlein (GDR / EUA).
space | country | sportswoman | 1st run | 2nd run | 3rd run | total |
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1 | ITA | Erika Lechner | 48.76 | 49.39 | 50.51 | 2: 28.66 |
2 | FRG | Christa jewelry | 49.15 | 49.84 | 50.38 | 2: 29.37 |
3 | FRG | Angelika Dünhaupt | 49.34 | 49.88 | 50.34 | 2: 29.56 |
4th | POLE | Helena Macher | 49.55 | 50.02 | 50.48 | 2: 30.05 |
5 | POLE | Jadwiga Damse | 49.64 | 50.43 | 50.08 | 2: 30.15 |
6th | TCH | Dana Spálenská-Beldová | 49.22 | 50.36 | 50.77 | 2: 30.35 |
7th | POLE | Anna Mąka | 49.69 | 50.05 | 50.66 | 2: 30.40 |
8th | FRG | Ute Gähler | 49.78 | 49.93 | 50.71 | 2: 30.42 |
9 | AUT | Helene Thurner | 49.64 | 50.15 | 50.71 | 2: 30.50 |
10 | AUT | Marlene Korthals | 49.72 | 50.31 | 51.30 | 2: 31.33 |
15th | AUT | Elfriede Wäger | 51.93 | 50.44 | 52.04 | 2: 34.41 |
21st | ITA | Erika Prugger | 61.90 | 50.91 | 51.40 | 2: 44.21 |
Runs 1 and 2: February 11, 1968, 8:45 a.m.
Run 3: February 13, 1968, 10 a.m.
26 participants from 10 countries, 21 of them in the evaluation.
The four races were originally planned on the same days as the men's individual race (thus the first and second races planned on February 8th from 8:00 a.m.).
After 2 runs Enderlein was ahead of Müller, Lechner and Knösel. Jewelry, Dünhaupt, Macher, Beldová. Gähler and Maka; the Austrians took 11th (Thurner), 12 (Korthals) and 18 (Wäger) places (please see footnote on men's singles).
Ortrun Enderlein , Anna-Maria Müller and Angela Knösel from the GDR were in first, second and fourth place after three runs. Shortly before the start of the third run, the Polish jury chairman Lucjan Świderski carried out a stitch check by putting some snow on the side surface the ice edge of the sled put. As it melted, Świderski concluded that the runners of their sledges had heated up. This has been forbidden since 1964, since heating can save around half a second in time. Enderlein, Müller and Knösel were then disqualified by the jury. Since there was no longer a fourth run, the gold medal went to Erika Lechner, while Christa Schmuck and Angelika Dünhaupt received silver and bronze.
Two-seater men
Olympic champions 1964 : Josef Feistmantl , Manfred Stengl (AUT) / World champions 1967: Klaus-Michael Bonsack , Thomas Köhler (GDR).
space | country | athlete | 1st run | 2nd run | total |
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1 | GDR | Klaus-Michael Bonsack , Thomas Köhler | 47.88 | 47.97 | 1: 35.85 |
2 | AUT | Manfred Schmid , Ewald Walch | 48.16 | 48.18 | 1: 36.34 |
3 | FRG | Wolfgang Winkler , Fritz Nachmann | 48.58 | 48.71 | 1: 37.29 |
4th | FRG | Hans Plenk , Bernhard Aschauer | 48.70 | 48.91 | 1: 37.41 |
5 | GDR | Horst Hörnlein , Reinhard Bredow | 48.80 | 49.01 | 1: 37.81 |
6th | POLE | Zbigniew Gawior , Ryszard Gawior | 49.01 | 48.84 | 1: 37.85 |
7th | AUT | Josef Feistmantl , Wilhelm Biechl | 48.81 | 49.30 | 1: 38.11 |
8th | ITA | Giovanni Graber , Enrico Graber | 49.01 | 49.14 | 1: 38.15 |
9 | POLE | Lucjan Kudzia , Stanisław Paczka | 49.09 | 49.08 | 1: 38.17 |
10 | ITA | Ernst Mair , Siegfried Mair | 49.10 | 49.57 | 1: 38.67 |
Runs 1 and 2: February 18, 1968, 8 a.m.
15 teams from 8 countries, 14 of them in the rating. Originally the competition should have taken place on February 15th, but due to the warm temperatures (the track was still in a desperate condition on February 17th, not even training sessions were possible) it could only be held on the last day of the competition (February 18th). be carried out.
Web links
- Luge at the 1968 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Official report of the 1968 Winter Olympics (PDF; 19.4 MB)
Individual evidence
- ^ "Two runs - Manfred Schmid leads" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 13, 1968, p. 11 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ «Debates continue, run postponed» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 15, 1968, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ "Schmid is now Olympic champion" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 16, 1968, p. 16 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ Wolf-Sören Treusch: Olympic Winter Games 1968 in Grenoble: "Allemagne" against "East Germany" Deutschlandfunk Kultur , February 11, 2018.
- ↑ Column 4, below: “Tobogganists keep waiting” . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 18, 1968, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ bottom left: «Tobogganing - last attempt»; «Kleine Zeitung», Styria edition of February 18, 1968, page 25