1972 Winter Olympics / Luge

Luge at the 1972 Winter Olympics
information
venue	Sapporo
Competition venue	Nice toboggan run
Nations	13
Athletes	83 (61 , 22 )
date	4th-7th February 1972
decisions	3
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At the XI. At the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo , three luge competitions were held. The venue was the toboggan run on the Teine .

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country				total
1	GDR	3	2	3	8th
2	Italy	1	-	-	1

Medalist

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
Single seater men	Wolfgang Scheidel	Harald Ehrig	Wolfram Fiedler
Single seater women	Anna-Maria Müller	Ute Rührold	Margit Schumann
Two-seater men	Horst Hörnlein , Reinhard Bredow Paul Hildgartner , Walter Plaikner	-	Klaus-Michael Bonsack , Wolfram Fiedler

Results

(all runtimes in seconds, total times in minutes)

Single seater men

space	country	athlete	1st run	2nd run	3rd run	4th run	total
1	GDR	Wolfgang Scheidel	52.17	52.06	51.58	51.77	3: 27.58
2	GDR	Harald Ehrig	52.60	52.32	51.74	51.73	3: 28.39
3	GDR	Wolfram Fiedler	53.04	52.55	51.61	51.53	3: 28.73
4th	GDR	Klaus-Michael Bonsack	52.98	52.72	51.54	51.92	3: 29.16
5	FRG	Leonhard Nagenrauft	53.00	52.79	51.97	51.91	3: 29.67
6th	FRG	Josef Fendt	53.03	52.73	52.25	52.02	3: 30.03
7th	AUT	Manfred Schmid	53.06	52.80	52.19	52.00	3: 30.05
8th	ITA	Paul Hildgartner	53.66	52.76	51.94	52.19	3: 30.55
9	ITA	Karl Brunner	53.14	53.26	52.28	52.19	3: 30.87
10	AUT	Josef Feistmantl	53.18	53.11	52.52	52.51	3: 31.32
11	ITA	Emilio Lechner	53.59	53.49	52.20	52.13	3: 31.41
15th	FRG	Wolfgang Winkler	54.07	53.53	52.66	52.82	3: 33.08
16	AUT	Rudolf Schmid	54.33	53.93	52.74	52.76	3: 33.76
17th	FRG	Hans Wimmer	54.09	53.82	52.62	53.27	3: 33.80
21st	ITA	Leo Atzwanger	54.41	54.32	53.38	53.22	3: 35.33
23	AUT	Franz Schachner	54.67	54.38	53.40	53.17	3: 35.62
39	LIE	Werner Sele	56.39	56.04	55.03	54.92	3: 42.38

Runs 1 and 2: February 4, 1972 Runs
3 and 4: February 7, 1972

45 participants from 13 countries, 44 of them in the evaluation.

Single seater women

space	country	sportswoman	1st run	2nd run	3rd run	4th run	total
1	GDR	Anna-Maria Müller	45.00	45.00	44.86	44.32	2: 59.18
2	GDR	Ute Rührold	44.95	45.23	44.76	44.55	2: 59.49
3	GDR	Margit Schumann	44.95	45.38	44.65	44.56	2: 59.54
4th	FRG	Elisabeth Demleitner	45.45	45.62	45.08	44.65	3: 00.80
5	JPN	Yuko Otaka	45.21	45.65	45.39	44.73	3: 00.98
6th	POLE	Wiesława Martyka	45.66	45.98	45.52	45.17	3: 02.33
	POLE	Halina Kanasz	45.68	46.12	45.47	45.06	3: 02.33
8th	ITA	Sarah fields	45.90	45.93	45.99	45.08	3: 02.90
9	POLE	Barbara Piecha	45.96	46.24	45.89	44.98	3: 03.07
10	FRG	Christa jewelry	45.98	46.01	45.99	45.21	3: 03.19
11	AUT	Angelika Schafferer	46.00	46.41	45.94	45.71	3: 04.06
14th	AUT	Antonia Mayr	46.15	46.36	45.97	46.12	3: 04.60
16	AUT	Margit Graf	46.89	46.92	46.25	46.23	3: 06.29
18th	FRG	Gisela Otto	47.04	46.78	46.73	45.99	3: 06.54

Runs 1 and 2: February 4, 1972
Run 3: February 5, 1972
Run 4: February 7, 1972

22 participants from 8 countries, 20 of them in the evaluation. Retired u. a .: Erika Lechner (ITA).

Two-seater men

space	country	athlete	1st run	2nd run	total
1	GDR	Horst Hörnlein , Reinhard Bredow	44.21	44.14	1: 28.35
	ITA	Paul Hildgartner , Walter Plaikner	44.27	44.08	1: 28.35
3	GDR	Klaus-Michael Bonsack , Wolfram Fiedler	44.69	44.47	1: 29.16
4th	JPN	Satoru Arai , Masatoshi Kobayashi	44.73	44.90	1: 29.63
5	FRG	Hans Brandner , Balthasar Schwarm	44.86	44.80	1: 29.66
	POLE	Mirosław Więckowski , Wojciech Kubik	44.88	44.78	1: 29.66
7th	AUT	Manfred Schmid , Ewald Walch	44.92	44.83	1: 29.75
8th	ITA	Siegfried Mair , Ernst Mair	45.22	45.04	1: 30.26
9	POLE	Lucjan Kudzia , Ryszard Gawior	44.73	44.90	1: 30.68
	AUT	Rudolf Schmid , Franz Schachner	45.37	45.31	1: 30.68
11	FRG	Stefan Hölzlwimmer , Hans Wimmeri	45.61	45.31	1: 30.92

Runs 1 and 2: February 10, 1972

20 teams from 11 countries, all rated.

The ties in this race prompted the FIL to measure the driving times to the nearest thousandths of a second in future.

Web links

• Luge at the 1972 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official report of the 1972 Winter Olympics (PDF; 43.3 MB)