Luge at the 1980 Winter Olympics – Doubles

Doubles
at the XIII Olympic Winter Games
VenueMt. Van Hoevenberg Olympic Bobsled Run
Dates19 February
Competitors38 from 12 nations
Winning time1:19.331
Medalists
 East Germany
Hans Rinn, Norbert Hahn
 Italy
Peter Gschnitzer, Karl Brunner
 Austria
Georg Fluckinger, Karl Schrott

The Doubles luge competition at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid was held on 19 February, at Mt. Van Hoevenberg Olympic Bobsled Run.[1] The doubles team of Hans Rinn and Norbert Hahn became the first repeat winners of an Olympic luge event.[2]

Results

Rank[1]AthletesCountryRun 1Run 2Total
Hans Rinn
Norbert Hahn
 East Germany39.30340.0281:19.331
Peter Gschnitzer
Karl Brunner
 Italy39.54940.0571:19.606
Georg Fluckinger
Karl Schrott
 Austria39.50940.2861:19.795
4Bernd Hahn
Ulli Hahn
 East Germany39.97239.9421:19.914
5Hansjörg Raffl
Alfred Silginer
 Italy39.82340.1531:19.976
6Anton Winkler
Anton Wembacher
 West Germany39.91640.0961:20.012
7Hans Brandner
Balthasar Schwarm
 West Germany39.81440.2491:20.063
8Jindřich Zeman
Vladimír Resl
 Czechoslovakia40.05040.0921:20.142
9Günther Lemmerer
Reinhold Sulzbacher
 Austria40.01740.4861:20.503
10Dainis Bremze
Aigars Krikis
 Soviet Union40.16440.4981:20.662
11Richard Healey
Ty Danco
 United States40.38640.9551:21.341
12Stefan Kjernholm
Kenneth Holm
 Sweden40.41541.0241:21.439
13Koji Kuriyama
Takashi Takagi
 Japan41.03541.4991:22.534
14Derek Prentice
Christopher Dyason
 Great Britain40.70541.8621:22.567
15Ioan Apostol
Cristinel Piciorea
 Romania40.75741.9091:22.666
16Wolfgang Schädler
Rainer Gassner
 Liechtenstein40.82942.5661:23.395
17Valery Yakushin
Sergey Danilin
 Soviet Union39.95145.1931:25.144
18Frank Masley
Ray Bateman Jr.
 United States48.24140.6121:28.853
19Jeremy Palmer-Tomkinson
John Denby
 Great Britain42.40648.4931:30.899

References

  1. "The Official Report of the XIIIth Olympic Winter Games Lake Placid 1980 - Official Results" (PDF). Lake Placid Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 1980. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
  2. "Luge at the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Games: Men's Doubles". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
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