1973 World Luge Championships

GDR special postage stamp for the 1973 World Cup

The 1973 Luge World Championships took place from February 16 to 18, 1973 in Oberhof in the German Democratic Republic .

Women's singles

space	country	athlete	time
1	German Democratic Republic	Margit Schumann	2: 56.66
2	German Democratic Republic	Ute Rührold	2: 56.93
3	German Democratic Republic	Eva-Maria Wernicke	2: 57.73
4th	German Democratic Republic	Heidemarie Reiss	2: 59.45
5	German Democratic Republic	Steffi Eißmann	2: 59.15
6th	Italy	Sarah fields	3: 00.05
7th	BR Germany	Elisabeth Demleitner	3:00, 14
8th	German Democratic Republic	Sieglinde Peschel	3: 00.40
9	Austria	Margit Graf	3: 00.46
10	Poland	Halina Kanasz	3: 00.63

Men's single seaters

space	country	athlete	time
1	German Democratic Republic	Hans Rinn	3: 07.37
2	German Democratic Republic	Wolfram Fiedler	3: 08.24
3	German Democratic Republic	Harald Ehrig	3: 08.67
4th	German Democratic Republic	Hans-Henning Schulze	3: 10.80
5	Poland	Andrzej Piekoczewski	3: 11.51
	German Democratic Republic	Dettlef Günther	3: 11.51
7th	German Democratic Republic	Hans-Heinrich Winkler	3: 11.69
8th	German Democratic Republic	Horst Schönau	3: 11.75
9	Austria	Rudolf Schmid	3: 12.08
10	BR Germany	Leonhard Nagenrauft	3: 12.23
	BR Germany	Josef Fendt	3: 12.23

Men's two-seater

space	country	athlete	time
1	German Democratic Republic	Horst Hörnlein , Reinhard Bredow	1: 29.14
2	German Democratic Republic	Hans Rinn , Norbert Hahn	1: 29.21
3	Italy	Paul Hildgartner , Walter Plaikner	1: 29.37
4th	German Democratic Republic	Henning Schulze , Hans-Jörg Neumann	1: 29.41
5	German Democratic Republic	Bernd Hahn , Ulrich Hahn	1: 29.55
6th	Austria	Rudolf Schmid , Franz Schachner	1: 30.04
7th	Austria	Manfred Schmid , Reinhold Sulzbacher	1: 30.43
8th	Italy	Karl Feichter , Ernst Haspinger	1: 30.62
9	Poland	Roman Hurej , Marian Kret	1: 30.67
10	BR Germany	Hans Brandner , Balthasar Schwarm	1: 31.08

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	German Democratic Republic	3	3	2	8th
2	Italy	0	0	1	1