FIL European Luge Championships 1980

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The FIL European Luge Championships 1980 took place in Olang, Italy for the second time after previously hosting the event in 1975. It also marked the last time the championships would be hosted in consecutive years, a tradition started in 1970. Beginning at these championships, the event would be hosted in even-numbered years, a tradition that continued until 2012.

Olang Comune in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, Italy

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The FIL European Luge Championships 1975 took place in Olang, Italy.

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Men's singles

MedalAthleteTime
GoldFlag of Italy.svg  Karl Brunner  (ITA)
SilverFlag of Italy.svg  Paul Hildgartner  (ITA)
BronzeFlag of Italy.svg  Ernst Haspinger  (ITA)

The Italians sweep the medals in this event after the East Germans did it the previous year.

East Germany former communist country, 1949-1990

East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic, was a country that existed from 1949 to 1990, when the eastern portion of Germany was part of the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War. It described itself as a socialist "workers' and peasants' state", and the territory was administered and occupied by Soviet forces at the end of World War II — the Soviet Occupation Zone of the Potsdam Agreement, bounded on the east by the Oder–Neisse line. The Soviet zone surrounded West Berlin but did not include it; as a result, West Berlin remained outside the jurisdiction of the GDR.

Women's singles

MedalAthleteTime
GoldFlag of East Germany.svg  Melitta Sollmann  (GDR)
SilverFlag of Italy.svg  Marie-Luise Rainer  (ITA)
BronzeFlag of East Germany.svg  Ilona Brand  (GDR)

Men's doubles

MedalAthleteTime
GoldFlag of East Germany.svg  East Germany (Hans Rinn, Norbert Hahn)
SilverFlag of East Germany.svg  East Germany (Bernd Hahn, Ulrich Hahn)
BronzeFlag of Germany.svg  West Germany (Hans Brandner, Balthasar Schwarm)

Medal table

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1Flag of East Germany.svg  East Germany  (GDR)2114
2Flag of Italy.svg  Italy  (ITA)1214
3Flag of Germany.svg  West Germany  (FRG)0011
Totals (3 nations)3339


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