Luge World Championships 1999

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1.	Germany	2	3	2	7th
2.	Austria	1	1	0	2
3.	Italy	1	0	1	2
4th	United States	0	0	1	1

The 33rd Luge World Championships on the artificial track took place from January 25th to 31st, 1999 in Königssee , Bavaria , and formed the highlight of the 1998/99 Luge World Cup season .

Women's singles

Date: January 30, 1999

rank	Surname	country	time
1.	Sonja Wiedemann	Germany	1: 32.462
2.	Barbara Niedernhuber	Germany	1: 32.490
3.	Sylke Otto	Germany	1: 32.544
4th	Susi Erdmann	Germany	1: 32.763
5.	Angelika Neuner	Austria	1: 32.764
6th	Natalie Obkircher	Italy	1: 33.581
7th	Silke Kraushaar	Germany	1: 33.599
8th.	Margarita Klimenko	Russia	1: 33.875
9.	Lilia Ludan	Ukraine	1: 33.959
10.	Sonja Manzenreiter	Austria	1: 33.975
11.	Iluta Gaile	Latvia	1: 33.999
12.	Becky Wilczak	United States	1: 34.171
13.	Anna Orlova	Latvia	1: 34.190
14th	Eriko Yamada	Japan	1: 34.198
15th	Simone Eder	Austria	1: 34.542

Men's single seaters

Date: January 31, 1999

rank	Surname	country	time
1.	Armin Zöggeler	Italy	1: 35.556
2.	Jens Müller	Germany	1: 35.819
3.	Norbert Huber	Italy	1: 35.911
4th	Robert Fegg	Germany	1: 35.933
5.	Markus Prock	Austria	1: 36.075
6th	Rainer Margreiter	Austria	1: 36.105
7th	Denis Geppert	Germany	1: 36.128
8th.	Karsten Albert	Germany	1: 36.291
9.	Reto Gilly	Switzerland	1: 36.424
10.	Markus Kleinheinz	Austria	1: 36.457
11.	Wilfried Huber	Italy	1: 36.806
12.	Albert Demchenko	Russia	1: 36.860
13.	Tyler Seitz	Canada	1: 37.149
14th	Jaroslav Slavik	Slovakia	1: 37.168
15th	Mārtiņš Rubenis	Latvia	1: 37.223
––	Georg Hackl	Germany	dnf

Men's two-seater

Date: January 30, 1999

rank	Surname	country	time
1.	Patric Leitner - Alexander Resch	Germany	1: 31.841
2.	Markus Schiegl - Tobias Schiegl	Austria	1: 32.047
3.	Mark Grimmette - Brian Martin	United States	1: 32.074
4th	André Florschütz - Torsten Wustlich	Germany	1: 32.342
5.	Chris Thorpe - Gordy Sheer	United States	1: 32.470
6th	Steffen Skel - Steffen Wöller	Germany	1: 32.499
7th	Igor Urbansky - Andrij Muchin	Ukraine	1: 32.816
8th.	Danil Tchaban - Oleg Ermolin	Russia	1: 33.121
9.	Christian Niccum - Matt McClain	United States	1: 33.144
10.	Gerhard Plankensteiner - Oswald Haselrieder	Italy	1: 33.222
11.	Roberts Suharevs - Dainis Leksis	Latvia	1: 33.495
12.	Christian Oberstolz - Patrick Gruber	Italy	1: 33.780
13.	Ivars Dainis - Sandris Berzins	Latvia	1: 33.953
14th	Not so Söderberg - Bengt Walden	Sweden	1: 34.222
15th	Ľubomír Mick - Walter Marx	Slovakia	1: 34.273

Team competition

Date: January 29, 1999

The athletes receive points for the respective placement in their run (30 points for the first, 29 points for the second, etc.). The sum of the points from the three races, the singles for men and women and the doubles for men, determines the order of the team ranking.

rank	country	Surname	Points
1.	Austria I.	Andrea Tagwerker - Markus Prock - Markus Schiegl - Tobias Schiegl	87
2.	Germany I.	Silke Kraushaar - Robert Fegg - André Florschütz - Torsten Wustlich	83
3.	Germany II	Sylke Otto - Georg Hackl - Patric Leitner - Alexander Resch	79
4th	Italy I	Natalie Obkircher - Norbert Huber - Gerhard Plankensteiner - Oswald Haselrieder	78
5.	United States I.	Becky Wilczak - Adam Heidt - Mark Grimmette - Brian Martin	72
6th	Ukraine / France	Lilia Ludan - Johan Rousseau - Igor Urbanski - Andrij Muchin	66
7th	Sweden / Norway	Hanne-Monika Hovsengen - Bengt Walden - Anders Söderberg - Bengt Walden	65
8th.	Italy II	Doris Preindl - Armin Zöggeler - Christian Oberstolz - Patrick Gruber	57
9.	Russia I.	Margarita Klimenko - Albert Demchenko - Danil Tchaban - Oleg Ermolin	57
10.	Latvia II	Anna Orlova - Guntis Rēķis - Ivars Dainis - Sandris Berzins	56

Web links

• Results in luge on www.fil-luge.org