Luge World Championships 1978

The 1978 Luge World Championships took place on January 21 and 22, 1978 in Imst , Austria .

Women's singles

space	country	athlete	time
1	URS	Vera Zozuļa	1: 49.160
2	FRG	Andrea Fendt	1: 49.402
3	AUT	Angelika Schafferer	1: 49.746
4th	GDR	Ilona Brand	1: 50.335
5	URS	Anna Majewskaya	1: 51.030
6th	POLE	Teresa Bugajczyk	1: 51.447

Men's single seaters

space	country	athlete	time
1	ITA	Paul Hildgartner	2: 03.383
2	FRG	Anton Winkler	2: 04.454
3	AUT	Manfred Schmid	2: 04.564
4th	GDR	Dettlef Günther	2: 04.753
5	URS	Valery Yakushin	2: 04.963
6th	ITA	Ernst Haspinger	2: 04.997

Men's two-seater

space	country	athlete	time
1	URS	Dainis brake Aigars Krikis	1: 13.05
2	URS	Valery Yakushin Vladimir Shitov	1: 13.17
3	GDR	Hans Rinn Norbert Hahn	1: 13.42
4th	FRG	Hans Brandner Balthasar Schwarm	1: 13.44
5	FRG	Stefan Hölzlwimmer Stefan Großwang	1: 13.45
6th	GDR	Bernd Hahn Ulrich Hahn	1: 13.48

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Soviet Union	2	1	0	3
2	Italy	1	0	0	1
3	BR Germany	0	2	0	2
4th	Austria	0	0	2	2
5	German Democratic Republic	0	0	1	1

literature

• Manfred Seifert: The year of sport 1979 . Sportverlag Berlin, 1978, ISSN  0232-2137 , p. 211 .
• Socialist Unity Party of Germany (Ed.): New Germany . January 23, 1975, ISSN  0323-3375 , p. 8 .

swell

• Luge archive. Bob- und Schlittenverband Deutschland, accessed on October 2, 2012 .