Luge World Championships 1979

The 1979 Luge World Championships took place from January 26th to 28th, 1979 on the artificial ice rink at Königssee in Germany .

Women's singles

space	country	athlete	time	Terms
1	GDR	Melitta Sollmann	3: 11.35	47.11 / 47.97 / 48.53 / 47.53
2	FRG	Elisabeth Demleitner	3: 11.56	47.34 / 48.07 / 48.33 / 47.80
3	ITA	Marie-Luise Rainer	3: 12.29	47.52 / 47.94 / 48.76 / 48.06
4th	FRG	Amanda Pfeifer	3: 13.55
5	AUT	Angelika Schafferer	3: 13.57
6th	FRG	Andrea Fendt	3: 14.61

Men's single seaters

space	country	athlete	time	Terms
1	GDR	Dettlef Günther	3: 16.79	49.37 / 49.19 / 49.67 / 48.55
2	ITA	Karl Brunner	3: 17.05	48.90 / 49.44 / 49.88 / 48.82
3	ITA	Paul Hildgartner	3: 17.14	48.57 / 49.62 / 50.08 / 48.86
4th	FRG	Anton Winkler	3: 18.19
5	GDR	Bernhard Glass	3: 18.34
6th	FRG	Anton Wembacher	3: 19.10

Men's two-seater

space	country	athlete	time	Terms
1	FRG	Hans Brandner Balthasar Schwarm	1: 36.00	47.88 / 48.12
2	GDR	Hans Rinn Norbert Hahn	1: 36.04	47.89 / 48.15
3	FRG	Anton Winkler Anton Wembacher	1: 36.28	48.14 / 48.14
4th	GDR	Bernd Hahn Ulrich Hahn	1: 36.30
5	URS	Dainis brake Aigars Krikis	1: 36.85
6th	TCH	Jindřich Zeman Vladimir Resl	1: 37.05

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	German Democratic Republic	2	1	0	3
2	BR Germany	1	1	1	3
3	Italy	0	1	2	3

literature

• Manfred Seifert: The year of sport 1980 . Sportverlag Berlin, 1979, ISSN  0232-2137 , p. 204 .
• Socialist Unity Party of Germany (Ed.): New Germany . January 29, 1979, ISSN  0323-3375 , p. 8 .

swell

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