FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships 1979
The first FIL Natural Track Luge World Cup took place from January 30 to February 4, 1979 in Inzing in Austria.
Single Seater Men
First world champion in the men's single seater was the Austrian Werner Prantl, who also won the doubles bronze. Silver went to Damiano Lugon from Italy, who had a few days earlier won the European Championship. Third-placed Italians Erich Graber had already won the 1974 and 1977 European Championship.
Single Seater Ladies
The first world title in the women's single-seater went to the Italian Delia Vaudan, the silver medal won by the Austrian Ingrid Zameter. The bronze medalist Roswitha Fischer from Italy was a few days earlier become European champion.
Two-seater
The Italians Damiano Lugon and Andrea Millet, who had won the European Championship on the verge of the silver medal, were world champions in doubles. In the space of two European champion last year, Werner Mücke and Helmut Hutter came from Austria. Third place went to the Austrian Werner - World Champion in single-seater - and Florian Prantl, who had a few days earlier won the European Championship.