Luge World Championships 1962

The 1962 Luge World Championships took place on February 12th and 13th, 1962 in Krynica-Zdrój in Poland .

Women's singles

space	country	athlete	time
1	GDR	Ilse Geisler	3: 51.27
2	AUT	Gerda Rieser-Cegnar	3: 53.13
3	POLE	Danuta Nycz	3: 54.24
4th	POLE	Heleną Bether-Szubert	3: 54.53
5	GDR	Danuta Zachara	3: 54.60
6th	AUT	Marie Isser	3: 55.36

Men's single seaters

space	country	athlete	time
1	GDR	Thomas Koehler	4: 43.99
2	POLE	Jerzy Wojnar	4: 44.13
3	GDR	Jochen Asche	4.46.98
4th	GDR	Walter Eggert	4.47.37
5	POLE	Ryszard Pędrak	4.48.16
6th	FRG	Fritz Nachmann	4.48.21
11	FRG	Max Leo

Two-seater (sexually open)

space	country	athlete	time
1	ITA	Giovanni Graber Gianpaolo Ambrosi
2	FRG	Fritz Nachmann Max Leo
3	TCH	Manfred Novotný Petr Škrabálek
4th	GDR	Klaus Bonsack Thomas Koehler
...
10	GDR	Jochen Asche Helmut Vollprecht

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	German Democratic Republic	2	0	1	3
2	Italy	1	0	0	1
3	Poland	0	1	1	2
4th	BR Germany	0	1	0	1
	Austria	0	1	0	1
6th	Czechoslovakia	0	0	1	1

literature

• New Germany . Socialist Unity Party of Germany, February 12, 1962, ISSN  0323-3375 , p. 4 .

swell

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