The FIL World Luge Championships 1989 took place in Winterberg, West Germany. The mixed team event consisting of two separate runs each in men's singles, two separate runs each in women's singles, and one run in men's doubles debuted.
Medal | Athlete | Time |
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Gold | Georg Hackl (FRG) | |
Silver | Jens Müller (GDR) | |
Bronze | Johannes Schettel (FRG) |
Medal | Athlete | Time |
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Gold | Susi Erdmann (GDR) | |
Silver | Gerda Weissensteiner (ITA) | |
Bronze | Ute Oberhoffner-Weiss (GDR) |
Medal | Athlete | Time |
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Gold | East Germany (Stefan Krauße, Jan Behrendt) | |
Silver | Italy (Hansjorg Raffl, Norbert Huber) | |
Bronze | East Germany (Jörg Hoffmann, Jochen Pietzsch) |
Medal | Athlete | Time |
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Gold | Italy (Hansjorg Raffl, Gerhard Plankensteiner, Gerda Weissensteiner, Veronika Oberhuber, Norbert Huber) | |
Silver | East Germany (Jens Müller, René Friedl, Susi Erdmann, Ute Oberhoffner, Stefan Krauße, Jan Behrendt) | |
Bronze | Soviet Union (Sergey Danilin, Yuri Kharchenko, Yuliya Antipova, Irina Kusakina, Yevgeniy Belusov, Aleksandr Belyakov) |
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | East Germany (GDR) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
2 | Italy (ITA) | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
3 | West Germany (FRG) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
4 | Soviet Union (URS) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Totals (4 entries) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 |
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