European Luge Championships 1988

The 1988 European Luge Championships took place from January 30th to 31st on the artificial ice rink at Königssee in the Federal Republic of Germany . Königssee was the venue for this competition for the fifth time. The team competition was held for the first time.

Women's singles

space	athlete	country	Total time lag
1	Ute Oberhoffner	GDR	1: 35.525
2	Veronika Bilgeri	FRG	1: 35.610 / +0.085
3	Cerstin Schmidt	GDR	1: 35.627 / +0.102
4th	Steffi Walter	GDR	1: 35.696 / +0.171
5	Gabriele Kohlisch	GDR	1: 35.837 / +0.312
6th	Marie-Luise Rainer	ITA	1: 36.278 / +0.753

Men's single seaters

space	athlete	country	Total time lag
1	Georg Hackl	FRG	1: 35.800
2	Markus Prock	AUT	1: 36.107 / +0.307
3	Johannes Schettel	FRG	1: 36.335 / +0.535
4th	Michael Walter	GDR	1: 36.518 / +0.718
5	Max Burghartswieser	FRG	1: 36.726 / +0.926
6th	Sergei Danilin	URS	1: 36.736 / +0.936
8th	Jens Müller	GDR	1: 36.890 / +1.090
15th	Thomas Jacob	GDR	1: 37.577 / +1.777
20th	René Friedl	GDR	1: 38.019 / +2.219

Men's two-seater

space	athlete	country	Total time lag
1	Thomas Schwab Wolfgang Staudinger	FRG	1: 34.938
2	Hansjörg Raffl Norbert Huber	ITA	1: 35.199 / +0.261
3	Yevgeny Belousov Alexander Belyakov	URS	1: 35.375 / +0.437
4th	Uwe Reindl Max Burghartswieser	FRG	1: 35.533 / +0.595
5	Vitali Melnik Dimitri Alexejew	URS	1: 35.788 / +0.850
6th	Kurt Brugger Wilfried Huber	ITA	1: 35.808 / +0.870
8th	Marco Ernst Olaf Paschold	GDR	1: 36.031 / +1.093
10	René Keller Sven Eggert	GDR	1: 36.397 / +1.459

Team competition

space	country	athlete	Points
1	FRG	Georg Hackl Johannes Schettel Kerstin Langkopf Veronika Bilgeri Thomas Schwab / Wolfgang Staudinger	140
2	GDR	Michael Walter Jens Müller Cerstin Schmidt Ute Oberhoffner Marco Ernst / Olaf Paschold	125 (244.229 s)
3	ITA	Wilfried Huber Paul Hildgartner Marie-Luise Rainer Gerda Weißensteiner Hansjörg Raffl / Norbert Huber	125 (244.665 s)
4th	URS		116
5	AUT		115
6th	United States		106

Medal table

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

literature

• Manfred Seifert: Sport88. A yearbook of GDR sports . Sportverlag Berlin, 1988, ISSN  0232-203X , p. 230-231 .

swell

• Luge archive. Bob- und Schlittenverband Deutschland, accessed on February 8, 2012 (German). 
• Statistics - Artificial Track. International Luge Federation, accessed on February 8, 2012 (German).