Luge World Championships 1961

The Luge World Championships in 1961 were from 28 to 29 January at the Swiss Girenbad instead.

Women's singles

space	country	athlete	time
1	SUI	Elisabeth Nagele	3: 56.06
2	FRG	Marianne Winkler	3: 59.01
3	AUT	Helene Thurner	3: 59.38
4th	FRG	Hildegard Riepl	4: 00.05
5	AUT	Waltraud Ambacher	4: 00.96
6th	AUT	Alma Mittelberger	4: 01.29
...
10	GDR	Gudrun Koniceck	4: 05.55
20th	GDR	Elfriede Fischer	4: 54.40

Men's single seaters

space	country	athlete	time
1	POLE	Jerzy Wojnar	3: 38.99
2	FRG	Hans Plenk	3: 40.64
3	AUT	Reinhold Senn	3: 42.15
4th	FRG	Fritz Nachmann	3: 42.89
5	FRG	Wolfgang Winkler	3: 43.01
6th	ITA	Siegfried Meier	3: 43.05
...
11	GDR	Jochen Asche	3: 47.81
18th	GDR	Klaus Bonsack	3: 49.93
24	GDR	Günter Schneider	3: 51.90
28	GDR	Thomas Koehler	3: 54.69
35	GDR	Dieter Ludwig	3: 59.61
37	GDR	Walter Eggert	4: 00.37
DNF	GDR	Dieter Eichel	overturned

Two-seater (sexually open)

two runs over 800 m

space	country	athlete	time
1	ITA	Roman Pichler Enrico Prinot	1: 31.86
2	ITA	David Moroder Raimondo Prinot	1: 33.31
3	AUT	Helmut Thaler Reinhold Senn	1: 35.21
4th	FRG	Sepp Mayr Hermann Kammerer	1: 35.40
5	SUI	Arnold Gartmann jun. Elisabeth Nagele	1: 36.09
6th	GDR	Jochen Asche Elfriede Fischer	1: 36.25
...
14th	GDR	Günter Schneider Gudrun Koniceck	1: 38.21
17th	GDR	Klaus Bonsack Thomas Koehler	1: 39.65
20th	GDR	Walter Eggert Dieter Eichel	1: 42.74

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Italy	1	1	0	2
2	Poland	1	0	0	1
	Switzerland	1	0	0	1
4th	BR Germany	0	2	0	2
5	Austria	0	0	3	3

literature

• Deutsches Sportecho (Ed.): Sport-Almanach . Sportverlag Berlin, 1962, ISSN  0232-2137 , p. 195 .

swell

• Luge archive. Bob- und Schlittenverband Deutschland, accessed on January 22, 2012 (German).