Misplaced Pages

The FIL World Luge Championships 1987 took place in Igls, Austria for the second time, having done so previously in 1977.

Men's singles

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Markus Prock (AUT)
Silver	Jens Müller (GDR)
Bronze	Sergey Danilin (URS)

Prock wins Austria's first medal at the world championships since 1978.

Women's singles

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Cerstin Schmidt (GDR)
Silver	Gabriele Kohlisch (GDR)
Bronze	Ute Oberhoffner-Weiss (GDR)

Men's doubles

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	East Germany (Jörg Hoffmann, Jochen Pietzsch)
Silver	West Germany (Stefan Ilsanker, Georg Hackl)
Bronze	West Germany (Thomas Schwab, Wolfgang Staudinger)

Hoffmann and Pietzsch become the first lugers to win three straight World Championship events.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany (GDR)	2	2	1	5
2	Austria (AUT)	1	0	0	1
3	West Germany (FRG)	0	1	1	2
4	Soviet Union (URS)	0	0	1	1
Totals (4 entries)		3	3	3	9

References

• Men's doubles World Champions
• Men's singles World Champions
• Women's singles World Champions

v t e FIL World Luge Championships
1955 1956 (cancelled) 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1965 1966 (cancelled) 1967 1969 1970 1971 1973 1974 1975 1977 1978 1979 1981 1983 1985 1987 1989 1990 1991 1993 1995 1996 1997 1999 2000 2001 2003 2004 2005 2007 2008 2009 2011 2012 2013 2015 2016 2017 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024

• FIL World Luge Championships
• 1987 in luge
• 1987 in Austrian sport
• Luge in Austria