Medal of Honour in Gold to Bjørn Dyrdahl

Ljubljana (RWH) Bjørn Dyrdahl from Norway received the Medal of Honour in Gold of the International Luge Federation (FIL). In recognition of his services, he was  awarded the medal at the opening of the 67th FIL Congress in Ljubljana (SLO). Bjørn Dyrdahl was Race Director of the 1994 Winter Olympic Games and later worked in different functions for the FIL.

The Medal in Silver has been awarded to Normuds Grava, Andris Svalbe (both from LAT), Doris Schenkel and Edi Schärer (both from SUI). The Medal in Bronze was assigned to Norbert Loch (GER), Reto Gilly, Heinz Kocher, Käthi Maag (all from SUI), Borut Fejfar, Viljem Rakovec, Stefan Zadravec, (all SLO), Rastislav Drajna, Ján Harniš, Walter Marx and Dušan Gerdelán (all from SVK).