Olympic Winter Games 1980 / Luge

Luge at the 1980 Olympic Winter Games
information
venue	North Elba
Competition venue	Mount Van Hoevenberg Olympic Bobsled Run
Nations	14th
Athletes	80 (54 , 26 )
date	13-19 February 1980
decisions	3
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With the XIII. At the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid , three artificial track luge competitions were held. The venue was the bobsleigh and toboggan run on Mount Van Hoevenberg.

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country				total
1	GDR	2	1	-	3
2	Soviet Union	1	-	1	2
3	Italy	-	2	-	2
4th	BR Germany	-	-	1	1
	Austria	-	-	1	1

Medalist

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
Single seater men	Bernhard Glass	Paul Hildgartner	Anton Winkler
Single seater women	Vera Zozuļa	Melitta Sollmann	Ingrīda Amantova
Two-seater	Hans Rinn , Norbert Hahn	Peter Gschnitzer , Karl Brunner	Georg Fluckinger , Karl Schrott

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	Bernhard Glass	43,609	43.780	43.925	43,482	2: 54.796
2	ITA	Paul Hildgartner	43.652	44,000	43.708	44.012	2: 55.372
3	FRG	Anton Winkler	43.885	44.045	44.310	44,305	2: 56.545
4th	GDR	Dettlef Günther	43.199	43.555	46.879	43.530	2: 57.163
5	AUT	Gerhard Sandbichler	44.128	44.711	44,305	44,307	2: 57.451
6th	AUT	Franz Wilhelmer	44.162	44.783	44.159	44.379	2: 57.483
7th	FRG	Gerhard Böhmer	44.010	44.741	44,434	44,584	2: 57.769
8th	FRG	Anton Wembacher	44,308	44,549	44.835	44,320	2: 58.012
9	AUT	Albert Graf	44.253	44.524	44.815	44.431	2: 58.023
10	TCH	Jindrich Zeman	44.901	45.438	45.571	45.025	3: 00.935
13	LIE	Rainer Gassner	45.283	45,956	45.907	44.927	3: 02.073
21st	ITA	Ernst Haspinger	43,435	43.833	43,592	48,556	3: 03.416

1st run: February 13, 1980, 8:10 p.m.
2nd run: February 14, 1980, 4:30 p.m.
3rd run: February 15, 1980, 3:00 p.m.
4th run: February 16, 1980, 4:00 p.m. 00 o'clock

30 participants from 13 countries, 23 of them in the rating. Retired u. a .: Hans Rinn (GDR), Markus Kägi (SUI), Ueli Schenkel (SUI).

After two runs, Dettlef Günther, who had set a track record, was ahead of Ernst Haspinger and Dainis Bremze (Latvia, then still URS). Sandbichler was the best Austrian in 9th place, followed by Wilhelmer and Albert Graf. After the first run, the medal chances for all Austrian participants were gone. In addition, the Swiss Kägi and Schenkel and the South Tyrolean Karl Brunner dropped out due to falls, but Günther (who, however, came fourth in the top ranking) and the leading Haspinger after three runs as well as Bremze and Hans Rinn were affected. The two Austrian sledges ranked well above expectations.

Single seater women

space	country	sportswoman	1st run	2nd run	3rd run	4th run	total
1	URS	Vera Zozuļa	39.978	39.167	39.271	39.121	2: 36.537
2	GDR	Melitta Sollmann	39.289	39.640	39,360	39.368	2: 37.657
3	URS	Ingrīda Amantova	39,346	39,488	39.610	39.373	2: 37.817
4th	FRG	Elisabeth Demleitner	39,568	39,460	39.466	39,424	2: 37.918
5	GDR	Ilona Brand	39.393	39.506	39,700	39.516	2: 38.115
6th	GDR	Margit Schumann	39.611	39.715	39,567	39,362	2: 38.255
7th	AUT	Angelika Schafferer	39,411	40.249	39.731	39,544	2: 38.935
8th	URS	Astra Rībena	39.617	39.780	39.816	39.798	2: 39.011
9	TCH	Mária Jasenčáková	39.698	39.862	39.906	39.963	2: 39.429
10	AUT	Christine Brunner	39.642	40.083	39.833	40.265	2: 39.823
11	ITA	Angelika Aukenthaler	39.829	41.043	39.919	39.860	2: 40.651
12	FRG	Andrea Fendt	40.234	40.458	40.215	40.484	2: 41.391
14th	AUT	Annefried Göllner	40.378	40.375	40.489	40.394	2: 41.636
16	ITA	Monika Auer	40,590	40.319	41.269	40.855	2: 43.033

1st run: February 13, 1980, 7:00 p.m.
2nd run: February 14, 1980, 2:00 p.m.
3rd run: February 15, 1980, 2:00 p.m.
4th run: February 16, 1980, 2:00 p.m. 00 o'clock

26 participants from 11 countries, 23 of them in the evaluation. Retired u. a .: Marie-Luise Rainer (ITA).

After the first round, Zozuļa (spelling also: Sosulja) led before Sollmann and Amantowa; Brand took 4th place, Schafferer was placed 5th. The Austrian fell back to 9th place in the third run, having run over her own fingers on a light “dump truck”. The X-ray revealed a broken finger, but she still drove in the last run.

Two-seater

space	country	athlete	1st run	2nd run	total
1	GDR	Hans Rinn , Norbert Hahn	39,303	40.028	1: 19.331
2	ITA	Peter Gschnitzer , Karl Brunner	39,549	40.057	1: 19.606
3	AUT	Georg Fluckinger , Karl Schrott	39.509	40.286	1: 19.795
4th	GDR	Bernd Hahn , Ulrich Hahn	39.972	39,942	1: 19.914
5	ITA	Hansjörg Raffl , Alfred Silginer	39.823	40.153	1: 19.976
6th	FRG	Anton Winkler , Anton Wembacher	39.916	40.096	1: 20.012
7th	FRG	Hans Brandner , Balthasar Schwarm	39.814	40.249	1: 20.063
8th	TCH	Jindřich Zeman , Vladimír Resl	40.050	40.092	1: 20.142
9	AUT	Günther Lemmerer , Reinhold Sulzbacher	40.017	40.486	1: 20.503
10	URS	Dainis Bremze , Aigars Krikis	40.829	42,498	1: 20.662
16	LIE	Wolfgang Schädler , Rainer Gassner	40.164	40,566	1: 23.395

Date: February 19, 1980, 2:00 p.m. (1st run), 3:00 p.m. (2nd run)

19 teams from 12 countries, all in the ranking.

The Austrian bronze medal winners were only known to insiders up to this point, even though they finished second in the 1979 World Cup. They were real amateurs. The budget of the FRG tobogganists was estimated at around 1.29 million DM, that of the Italians (practically it was South Tyroleans - and they were connected to the ski pool) was estimated at two thirds of this amount. In contrast, the Austrian budget looked negligibly small at 700,000 schillings (around 100,000 DM). It was known from the GDR tobogganers that they had been training in Oberhof since August 25th (the bobsleigh and toboggan run in Igls was only available since November 5th).

Web links

• Luge at the 1980 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official report of the 1980 Winter Olympics (PDF; 3.2 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Middle: “Schafferer preserves opportunity”, penultimate and last paragraph . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 15, 1980, p. 7 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
2. ↑ Column 5: “Tobogganists reached their set goal” . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 18, 1980, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
3. ↑ «Schafferer preserves opportunities» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 15, 1980, p. 07 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
4. ↑ "Schafferer injured" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 16, 1980, p. 08 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
5. ↑ Columns 2 and 3, below: "X-ray proved: broken finger" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 17, 1980, p. 9 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
6. ↑ Middle left: “Tobogganing in your free time” . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 21, 1980, p. 14 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).