Junior Luge World Championships 1982
The 1st Junior World Luge Championship was held in January 1982 in the US city of Lake Placid . In the individual disciplines, three runs were carried out on January 22nd, but the fourth individual run on January 23rd was canceled due to heavy snowstorms. Athletes from the German Democratic Republic , the Soviet Union , the United States , Canada , Japan , Austria , the Federal Republic of Germany , Sweden and Italy took part in the competitions. The starting field in the junior single-seater comprised 32 participants, and 20 women took part in the junior single-seater competition.
Results
Junior women singles
| rank | sportswoman | nationality | End time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Elena Buslaeva |
 Soviet Union
|
1: 57.02 min |
| 2 | Christiane King |
 German Democratic Republic ( ASK Vorwärts Oberhof ) |
1: 57.53 min |
| 3 | Martina Kühmel |
German Democratic Republic ( ASK Vorwärts Oberhof ) |
1: 57.69 min |
| 7th | Jutta Garbe |
German Democratic Republic ( SC Traktor Oberwiesenthal ) |
1: 58.29 min |
| 8th | Cerstin Schmidt |
German Democratic Republic ( SC Traktor Oberwiesenthal ) |
1: 58.73 min |
Junior singles
| rank | athlete | nationality | End time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hans-Joachim Schurack |
German Democratic Republic ( ASK Vorwärts Oberhof ) |
1: 54.61 min |
| 2 | Torsten Görlitzer |
German Democratic Republic ( SC Traktor Oberwiesenthal ) |
1: 55.40 min |
| 3 | Franz Lechleitner |
 Austria
|
1: 55.59 min |
| 6th | Jörg Hoffmann |
German Democratic Republic ( ASK Vorwärts Oberhof ) |
1: 56.01 min |
| 7th | Jochen Pietzsch |
German Democratic Republic ( ASK Vorwärts Oberhof ) |
1: 56.04 min |
Juniors' two-seater
| rank | athlete | nationality | End time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Jörg Hoffmann Jochen Pietzsch |
German Democratic Republic ( ASK Vorwärts Oberhof ) |
|
| 2 |
Michael Schäder Frank Trebeß |
German Democratic Republic ( ASK Vorwärts Oberhof ) |
|
| 3 1 |
Siegfried Federer Günther Huber |
 Italy
|
1The East German newspaper Neues Deutschland , however, has the duo Tammerer / Huber from Austria on the bronze rank. The Austrian Arbeiter-Zeitung only mentions the Austrian bronze medal in the men's singles. The page the-sports.org lists Siegfried Federer / Norbert Huber from Italy as bronze medalists.
Medal table
| rank | nation | gold | silver | bronze | total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
German Democratic Republic
|
2 | 3 | 1 | 6th |
| 2 |
Soviet Union
|
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 |
Italy Austria
|
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
literature
- Sled juniors won two world championship titles. In: Neues Deutschland , January 25, 1982, p. 8.
- Lechleitner World Cup third. In: Arbeiter-Zeitung , January 25, 1982, p. 10.
Web links
- Luge results artificial track: World Junior Championships since 1982 on the homepage of the International Luge Federation (FIL) , accessed on January 31, 2014.
- Luge - World Junior Championships on the-sports.org homepage , accessed on February 2, 2014 (English).