Luge World Championships 1983

The 1983 Luge World Championships took place from February 4 to 6, 1983 in Lake Placid , United States .

Women's singles

space	country	athlete	time	Terms
1	GDR	Steffi Martin	2: 31.483	37.925 / 37.959 / 37.866 / 37.733
2	GDR	Melitta Sollmann	2: 31.943	38.003 / 38.114 / 37.990 / 37.836
3	GDR	Ute white	2: 32.080	38.080 / 38.192 / 37.941 / 37.867
4th	GDR	Bettina Schmidt	2: 32.645
5	United States	Erica Terwillegar	2: 33.709
6th	AUT	Annefried Gollner	2: 34.092

Men's single seaters

space	country	athlete	time	Terms
1	CAN	Miroslav Zajonc	2: 47.232	41.940 / 41.877 / 41.757 / 41.658
2	URS	Sergei Danilin	2: 47.555	42,314 / 41.730 / 41.946 / 41.565
3	ITA	Paul Hildgartner	2: 47.901	42.101 / 41.925 / 41.988 / 41.887
4th	ITA	Norbert Huber	2: 48.770
5	GDR	Michael Walter	2: 48.776
6th	ITA	Ernst Haspinger	2: 49.357
7th	GDR	Bernhard Glass	2: 49.605
...
9	GDR	Uwe Handrich	2: 50.306

Men's two-seater

space	country	athlete	time	Terms
1	GDR	Jörg Hoffmann Jochen Pietzsch	1: 15.710	37.841 / 37.869
2	ITA	Hansjörg Raffl Norbert Huber	1: 15.733	37.843 / 37.890
3	FRG	Hans Stanggassinger Anton Wembacher	1: 16.035	38.022 / 38.013
4th	URS	Juris Eisaks Eynar Veikcha	1: 16.112
5	URS	Yevgeny Belousov Alexander Belyakov	1: 16.114
6th	AUT	Georg Fluckinger Franz Wilhelmer	1: 16.296
...
-	GDR	Volker Sotzmann Volker Dietrich	DNF	retired after falling

Medal table

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

literature

• Manfred Seifert: Sport83. A yearbook of GDR sports . Sportverlag Berlin, 1983, ISSN  0232-203X , p. 270 .
• New Germany . Socialist Unity Party of Germany, February 7, 1983, ISSN  0323-3375 , p. 7 .

swell

• Luge archive. Bob- und Schlittenverband Deutschland, accessed on January 21, 2012 .