Luge at the 1980 Winter Olympics – Doubles

Doubles

at the XIII Olympic Winter Games

Venue| Mt. Van Hoevenberg Olympic Bobsled Run
Dates| 19 February 1980
Competitors| 38 from 12 nations
Winning time| 1:19.331
Medalists
| |  |  East Germany
Hans Rinn, Norbert Hahn

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|  |  Italy
Peter Gschnitzer, Karl Brunner
|  |  Austria
Georg Fluckinger, Karl Schrott

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Luge at the
1980 Winter Olympics

Singles| men| women
Doubles| men|

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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

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Rank[1] | Athletes | Country | Run 1 | Run 2 | Total

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| 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

## References

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1. ^ 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.
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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Olympic champions in doubles luge

* 1964:  Josef Feistmantl & Manfred Stengl (AUT)
* 1968:  Klaus Bonsack & Thomas Köhler (GDR)
* 1972:  Horst Hörnlein & Reinhard Bredow (GDR)
1984: Paul Hildgartner & Walter Plaikner (ITA)
* 1976:  Hans Rinn & Norbert Hahn (GDR)
* 1980:  Hans Rinn & Norbert Hahn (GDR)
* 1984:  Hans Stangassinger & Franz Wembacher (FRG)
* 1988:  Jörg Hoffmann & Jochen Pietzsch (GDR)
* 1992:  Stefan Krausse & Jan Behrendt (GER)
* 1994:  Kurt Brugger & Wilfried Huber (ITA)
* 1998:  Stefan Krausse & Jan Behrendt (GER)
* 2002:  Patric Leitner & Alexander Resch (GER)
* 2006:  Andreas Linger & Wolfgang Linger (AUT)
* 2010:  Andreas Linger & Wolfgang Linger (AUT)
* 2014:  Tobias Wendl & Tobias Arlt (GER)
* 2018:  Tobias Wendl & Tobias Arlt (GER)
* 2022:  Tobias Wendl & Tobias Arlt (GER)

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