Luge at the 1980 Winter Olympics – Doubles

Doubles
at the XIII Olympic Winter Games
Doubles; at the XIII Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Mt. Van Hoevenberg Olympic Bobsled Run
Dates	19 February
Competitors	38 from 12 nations
Winning time	1:19.331
Medalists
	← 1976 1984 →

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]	Athletes	Country	Run 1	Run 2	Total
	Hans Rinn Norbert Hahn	East Germany	39.303	40.028	1:19.331
	Peter Gschnitzer Karl Brunner	Italy	39.549	40.057	1:19.606
	Georg Fluckinger Karl Schrott	Austria	39.509	40.286	1:19.795
4	Bernd Hahn Ulli Hahn	East Germany	39.972	39.942	1:19.914
5	Hansjörg Raffl Alfred Silginer	Italy	39.823	40.153	1:19.976
6	Anton Winkler Anton Wembacher	West Germany	39.916	40.096	1:20.012
7	Hans Brandner Balthasar Schwarm	West Germany	39.814	40.249	1:20.063
8	Jindřich Zeman Vladimír Resl	Czechoslovakia	40.050	40.092	1:20.142
9	Günther Lemmerer Reinhold Sulzbacher	Austria	40.017	40.486	1:20.503
10	Dainis Bremze Aigars Krikis	Soviet Union	40.164	40.498	1:20.662
11	Richard Healey Ty Danco	United States	40.386	40.955	1:21.341
12	Stefan Kjernholm Kenneth Holm	Sweden	40.415	41.024	1:21.439
13	Koji Kuriyama Takashi Takagi	Japan	41.035	41.499	1:22.534
14	Derek Prentice Christopher Dyason	Great Britain	40.705	41.862	1:22.567
15	Ioan Apostol Cristinel Piciorea	Romania	40.757	41.909	1:22.666
16	Wolfgang Schädler Rainer Gassner	Liechtenstein	40.829	42.566	1:23.395
17	Valery Yakushin Sergey Danilin	Soviet Union	39.951	45.193	1:25.144
18	Frank Masley Ray Bateman Jr.	United States	48.241	40.612	1:28.853
19	Jeremy Palmer-Tomkinson John Denby	Great Britain	42.406	48.493	1:30.899

^ ^a ^b "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.
^ "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.