European Luge Championships 1972

The 1972 European Luge Championships took place from January 16 to 17 on the artificial ice rink at Königssee in the Federal Republic of Germany , in which athletes from ten countries took part. Königssee was the venue for this competition for the second time after 1967 . The tobogganists of the GDR won all three competitions, making them the most successful nation in these championships.

Women's singles

space	athlete	country	Total time lag
1	Ute Rührold	GDR	2: 50.52
2	Elisabeth Demleitner	FRG	2: 50.56 / +0.04
3	Anna-Maria Müller	GDR	2: 50.90 / +0.38
4th	Christa jewelry	FRG	2: 51.46 / +0.94
5	Wiesława Martyka	POLE	2: 52.72 / +2.20
6th	Halina Kanasz	POLE	2: 52.84 / +2.32
7th	Margit Schumann	GDR	2: 53.61 / +3.09

Men's single seaters

space	athlete	country	Total time lag
1	Wolfram Fiedler	GDR	2: 58.75
2	Harald Ehrig	GDR	2: 58.81 / +0.06
3	Leonhard Nagenrauft	FRG	2: 59.88 / +1.13
4th	Josef Fendt	FRG	3: 00.10 / +1.35
5	Manfred Schmid	AUT	3: 00.23 / +1.48
6th	Klaus-Michael Bonsack	GDR	3: 00.87 / +2.12
7th	Wolfgang Scheidel	GDR	3: 1.40 / +2.65

Men's two-seater

space	athlete	country	Total time lag
1	Horst Hörnlein Reinhard Bredow	GDR	1: 24.05
2	Hans Brandner Balthasar Schwarm	FRG	1: 24.51 / +0.46
3	Peter Reichenwallner Rudolf Großwang	FRG	1: 24.69 / +0.64
4th	Rudolf Schmid Franz Schachner	AUT	1: 24.76 / +0.71
5	Klaus-Michael Bonsack Wolfram Fiedler	GDR	1: 24.85 / +0.80
	Manfred Schmid Ewald Walch	AUT
...	...	...	...
9	Rolf Fuchs Erich Enders	GDR	1: 25.67 / +1.62

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	German Democratic Republic	3	1	1	5
2	BR Germany	-	2	2	4th

literature

• Manfred Seifert: The year of sport 1973 . Sportverlag Berlin, 1973, ISSN  0232-2137 , p. 187 .

swell

• Luge archive. Bob- und Schlittenverband Deutschland, accessed on February 6, 2012 (German). 
• Statistics - Artificial Track. International Luge Federation, accessed on February 6, 2012 (German).