FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships 1989
The 13th FIL Luge Natural Track Championship was held from February 15 to 19, 1989 in Garmisch -Partenkirchen in Germany. For the second consecutive year, the Italian team won all three competitions.
Single Seater Men
Date: February 18 (1st and 2nd championship round ) and 19 February 1989 ( 3 championship round )
European champion in the men's single seater was the second time the Italian Damiano Lugon. Already in 1979 he had won the gold medal. The silver medal went to 14 hundredths of a second behind at the Austrian Gerhard Pilz. He had won the last World Cup in 1986, but never stood at the European Championships on the podium. The bronze medal was won by defending champion Manfred graves from Italy.
Single Seater Ladies
Date: February 18 (1st and 2nd championship round ) and 19 February 1989 ( 3 championship round )
The Italian Delia Vaudan was the third time in a row and for the fourth time European champion in the women's single-seater. It was thus the first and so far only Naturbahnrodlerin, the European champion four times, and also the first and so far only, which won the title three times in a row. Between 1979 and 1984, she had already been three times World Champion. The silver medal won by the Austrian Jeanette Kopp Steiner, for whom it was the first medal at championships. The bronze medal won by the Austrian Irene Koch as the last European Championship.
Two-seater
Date: February 19, 1989 ( both races )
The Italians Arnold Lunger and Günther Steinhauser, who had won the last European Championship bronze, were European champions in doubles. Steinhauser was in 1983 already been together with Andreas Jud European champions. The silver medal won their countrymen Manfred graves and Ernst Marmsoler. For Marmsoler it was the only medal at the championships. Burial was in 1987 European Champion in the single-seater and this year won the bronze medal in the single-seater, the doubles it was his first European medal. The bronze medal won by the Austrians Reinhold Buchmann and Manfred as.