FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships 1990

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The FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships 1990 took place in Gsies, Italy.

Gsies Comune in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, Italy

Gsies is a valley and comune (municipality) in South Tyrol in northern Italy, located about 70 kilometres (43 mi) northeast of Bolzano, on the border with Austria. Gsies held the FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships 1994.

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Men's singles

Medal Athlete Time
GoldFlag of Austria.svg  Gerhard Pilz  (AUT)
SilverFlag of Italy.svg  Corrado Herin  (ITA)
BronzeFlag of Italy.svg  Harald Steinhauser  (ITA)

Women's singles

Medal Athlete Time
GoldFlag of Austria.svg  Jeanette Koppensteiner  (AUT)
SilverFlag of Austria.svg  Irene Koch  (AUT)
BronzeFlag of the Soviet Union.svg  Lyubov Panyutina  (URS)

Panyutina becomes the first person not from Austria or Italy to medal at the championships.

The FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships, part of the International Luge Federation (FIL) have taken place on an almost annual basis in non-Winter Olympics years since 1979. These championships are shown for natural tracks. See FIL World Luge Championships for all artificial track events that have taken place since 1955.

Men's doubles

Medal Athlete Time
GoldFlag of Italy.svg  Italy (Andreas Jud, Hannes Pichler)
SilverFlag of Italy.svg  Italy (Almir Bentemps, Corrado Herin)
BronzeFlag of Austria.svg  Austria (Walter Mauracher, Georg Eberhardter)

Medal table

Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 2 1 1 4
2 Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 1 2 1 4
3 Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union 0 0 1 1

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