European Luge Championships 1977

The 1977 European Luge Championships took place from February 12th to 13th 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 fourth time after 1967 , 1972 and 1973 . The host's tobogganers won all three competitions, making them the most successful nation in these championships.

Women's singles

space	athlete	country	Total time lag
1	Elisabeth Demleitner	FRG	3: 15.89
2	Margit Schumann	GDR	3: 16.44 / +0.55
3	Margit Graf	AUT	3: 17.30 / +1.41
4th	Roswitha Stenzel	GDR	3: 17.58 / +1.69
5	Amanda Pfeifer	FRG	3: 19.27 / +3.38
6th	Vera Zozuļa	URS	3: 19.78 / +3.89

Men's single seaters

space	athlete	country	Total time lag
1	Anton Winkler	FRG	3: 22.45
2	Hans Rinn	GDR	3: 23.56 / +1.11
3	Karl Brunner	ITA	3: 23.97 / +1.52
4th	Anton Wembacher	FRG	3: 25.01 / +2.56
5	Paul Hildgartner	ITA	3: 26.05 / +3.60
6th	Horst Mueller	GDR	3: 26.05 / +3.60
...	...	...	...
9	Hans-Heinrich Winkler	GDR	3: 27.13 / +4.68

Men's two-seater

space	athlete	country	Total time lag
1	Hans Brandner Balthasar Schwarm	FRG	1: 38.39
2	Hans Rinn Norbert Hahn	GDR	1: 38.47 / +0.08
3	Stefan Hölzlwimmer Rudolf Großwang	FRG	1: 38.88 / +0.49
4th	Bernd Hahn Ulrich Hahn	GDR	1: 39.17 / +0.78
5	Rudolf Schmid Reinhold Sulzbacher	AUT	1: 39.43 / +1.04
6th	Jindřich Zeman Wladimír Resl	TCH	1: 39.44 / +1.05

Medal table

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

literature

• Manfred Seifert: The year of sport 1978 . Sportverlag Berlin, 1977, ISSN  0232-2137 , p. 206 .

swell

• Luge archive. Bob- und Schlittenverband Deutschland, accessed on September 26, 2012 (German). 
• Statistics - Artificial Track. International Luge Federation, accessed on September 26, 2012 (German).