1976 Winter Olympics / Luge

Luge at the 1976 Winter Olympics
information
venue	innsbruck
Competition venue	Igls Olympic toboggan run
Nations	16
Athletes	93 (67 , 26 )
date	4th-7th February 1976
decisions	3
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At the XII. During the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck , three luge competitions were held. The venue was the Olympic toboggan run in the Igls district .

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country				total
1	GDR	3	1	1	5
2	BR Germany	-	2	1	3
3	Austria	-	-	1	1

Medalist

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
Single seater men	Dettlef Günther	Josef Fendt	Hans Rinn
Single seater women	Margit Schumann	Ute Rührold	Elisabeth Demleitner
Two-seater men	Hans Rinn , Norbert Hahn	Hans Brandner , Balthasar Schwarm	Rudolf Schmid , Franz Schachner

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	Dettlef Günther	52.381	52.107	51,418	51.782	3: 27.668
2	FRG	Josef Fendt	52.694	51.933	51.749	51.820	3: 28.196
3	GDR	Hans Rinn	52.916	51.968	51.690	52,000	3: 28.574
4th	GDR	Hans-Heinrich Winkler	52.848	52.328	52.069	52.209	3: 29.454
5	AUT	Manfred Schmid	52.973	52.073	52.113	52,352	3: 29.511
6th	FRG	Anton Winkler	52.755	52.194	52.219	52,352	3: 29.520
7th	AUT	Reinhold Sulzbacher	53.137	52.491	52.204	52,566	3: 30.398
8th	URS	Dainis Bremze	52.984	52.567	52.364	52.661	3: 30.576
9	AUT	Rudolf Schmid	52.933	53,806	52.361	52.319	3: 31.419
10	URS	Vladimir Shitov	53.485	53.025	52.927	53.133	3: 32.570
11	ITA	Karl Brunner	53.916	53.228	53.023	53.021	3: 33.188
32	LIE	Max Beck	56.748	55.388	55.614	57.032	3: 44.782
37	ITA	Peter Gschnitzer	54.051	53.812	53.357	87.540	4: 08.760

1st run: February 4, 1976, 8:05 p.m.
2nd run: February 5, 1976, 10:00 a.m.
3rd run: February 6, 1976, 10:00 a.m.
4th run: February 7, 1976, 10: 3pm

43 participants from 15 countries, 38 of them in the rating. Retired u. a .: Stefan Hölzlwimmer (FRG), Paul Hildgartner (ITA).

Single seater women

space	country	sportswoman	1st run	2nd run	3rd run	4th run	total
1	GDR	Margit Schumann	42.854	42.830	42.285	42.652	2: 50.621
2	GDR	Ute Rührold	42.926	42.708	42,439	42.773	2: 50.846
3	FRG	Elisabeth Demleitner	43.138	42,535	42,388	42.995	2: 51.056
4th	GDR	Eva-Maria Wernicke	43.007	42.646	42.711	42.898	2: 51.264
5	AUT	Antonia Mayr	42,949	42.812	42.633	42.966	2: 51.360
6th	AUT	Margit Graf	43.094	42.790	42.555	43.020	2: 51.459
7th	FRG	Monika Sheftschik	42.863	42.732	42.981	42.964	2: 51.540
8th	AUT	Angelika Schafferer	43,444	43.007	42.793	43,078	2: 52.322
9	URS	Vera Zozuļa	44.179	42.973	42.651	42.858	2: 52.661
10	TCH	Dana Spálenská-Beldová	43,560	43,063	43.178	43,405	2: 53.206
11	ITA	Sarah fields	44.056	43.118	43.075	43,374	2: 53.623
16	ITA	Marie-Luise Rainer	44.943	44.848	44.768	44.972	2: 59.531

1st run: February 4, 1976, 7:00 p.m.
2nd run, February 5, 1976, 9:05 a.m.
3rd run: February 6, 1976, 9:00 a.m.
4th run: February 7, 1976, 9:00 a.m. 3pm

26 participants from 12 countries, all in the ranking.

Two-seater men

space	country	athlete	1st run	2nd run	total
1	GDR	Hans Rinn , Norbert Hahn	42.773	42.831	1: 25.604
2	FRG	Hans Brandner , Balthasar Schwarm	42.792	43.097	1: 25.889
3	AUT	Rudolf Schmid , Franz Schachner	42.997	42,922	1: 25.919
4th	FRG	Stefan Hölzlwimmer , Rudolf Großwang	43.205	43.033	1: 26.238
5	AUT	Manfred Schmid , Reinhold Sulzbacher	43.035	43,389	1: 26.424
6th	TCH	Jindřich Zeman , Vladimír Resl	43,315	43,511	1: 26.826
7th	ITA	Karl Feichter , Ernst Haspinger	43.853	43,313	1: 27.171
8th	URS	Dainis Bremze , Aigars Krikis	43.667	43.740	1: 27.407
9	URS	Rolands Upatnieks , Valdis Ķuzis	43.732	43,850	1: 27.582
10	POLE	Andrzej Żyła , Jan Kasielski	43.748	43.989	1: 27.737
11	ITA	Paul Hildgartner , Walter Plaikner	43.781	44.058	1: 27.839
16	GDR	Bernd Hahn , Ulrich Hahn	43.291	46,556	1: 29.847
19th	LIE	Max Beck , Wolfgang Schädler	45.517	45.272	1: 30.789

1st run: February 10, 1976, 9 a.m.
2nd run: February 10, 1976, 10:05 a.m.

25 teams from 15 countries, 24 of them in the ranking.

Web links

• Luge at the 1976 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official report of the 1976 Winter Olympics (PDF; 31.8 MB)