The men's singles luge competition at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid was held from 13 to 16 February, at Mt. Van Hoevenberg Olympic Bobsled Run.
Results Rank Athlete Country Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Total Bernhard Glass 43.609 43.780 43.925 43.482 2:54.796 Paul Hildgartner 43.652 44.000 43.708 44.012 2:55.372 Anton Winkler 43.885 44.045 44.310 44.305 2:56.545 4 Dettlef Günther 43.199 43.555 46.879 43.530 2:57.163 5 Gerhard Sandbichler 44.128 44.711 44.305 44.307 2:57.451 6 Franz Wilhelmer 44.162 44.783 44.159 44.379 2:57.483 7 Gerhard Böhmer 44.010 44.741 44.434 44.584 2:57.769 8 Anton Wembacher 44.308 44.549 44.835 44.320 2:58.012 9 Albert Graf 44.253 44.524 44.815 44.431 2:58.023 10 Jindřich Zeman 44.901 45.438 45.571 45.025 3:00.935 11 Bruce Smith 45.442 45.305 45.479 44.848 3:01.074 12 Jeff Tucker 45.158 45.311 45.427 45.400 3:01.296 13 Rainer Gassner 45.283 45.956 45.907 44.927 3:02.073 14 Neil Townshend 46.726 45.037 45.037 45.278 3:02.078 15 John Fee 45.328 45.407 46.032 45.345 3:02.112 16 Jeremy Palmer-Tomkinson 45.191 46.947 45.060 45.066 3:02.264 17 Mark Jensen 45.150 46.218 45.363 46.079 3:02.810 18 Stefan Kjernholm 44.565 44.905 44.900 48.538 3:02.908 19 Koji Kuriyama 45.820 45.872 45.852 45.538 3:03.082 20 Richard Stithem 45.418 45.938 46.245 45.491 3:03.092 21 Ernst Haspinger 43.435 43.833 43.592 52.556 3:03.416 22 Derek Prentice 45.502 45.880 46.425 46.715 3:04.522 23 Takashi Takagi 45.294 51.003 45.575 47.692 3:09.564 - Wolfgang Schädler 45.751 48.568 DNS - - - Dainis Bremze 43.559 1:21.445 DNS - - - Hans Rinn 43.802 1:24.301 DNS - - - Vladimír Resl 44.255 DNF - - - - Markus Kägi 54.224 DNS - - - - Karl Brunner DNF - - - - - Ueli Schenkel DNF - - - -
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