FIL World Luge Championships 2011

The FIL World Luge Championships 2011 took place 28–30 January 2011 in Cesana, Italy at the Cesana Pariol bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track.[1] A total of 19 countries competed.

Medalists

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's singles[2] Armin Zöggeler
  Italy
Felix Loch
  Germany
Andi Langenhan
  Germany
Women's singles[3] Tatjana Hüfner
  Germany
Natalie Geisenberger
  Germany
Alex Gough
  Canada
Doubles[4]   Austria
Andreas Linger
Wolfgang Linger
  Italy
Christian Oberstolz
Patrick Gruber
  Latvia
Andris Šics
Juris Šics
Team relay Cancelled

Men's singles

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Germany's Felix Loch is the defending Olympic and world champion in this event. The event took place on 29 January at 15:00 CET.[5] Zöggeler came from 0.057 seconds down after the first run to defeat defending world champion Loch by 0.021 seconds. It was the Italian's sixth world championship overall, but his first since the 2005 championships in Park City, Utah in the United States where Zöggeler won his 2002 Olympic gold medal.

37 athletes from 18 countries competed.[6]

Rank Bib Athlete Country Run 1 Run 2 Total Behind
  6 Armin Zöggeler   Italy 51.568 51.970 1:43.538
  1 Felix Loch   Germany 51.511 52.048 1:43.559 +0.021
  4 Andi Langenhan   Germany 51.827 52.186 1:44.013 +0.475
4 3 David Möller   Germany 51.803 52.318 1:44.121 +0.583
5 2 Reinhold Rainer   Italy 52.036 52.135 1:44.171 +0.633
6 11 Daniel Pfister   Austria 51.957 52.219 1:44.176 +0.638
7 7 Jan-Armin Eichhorn   Germany 51.940 52.284 1:44.224 +0.686
8 9 Wolfgang Kindl   Austria 52.026 52.241 1:44.267 +0.729
9 12 Viktor Kneyb   Russia 52.245 52.200 1:44.445 +0.907
10 16 Mārtiņš Rubenis   Latvia 52.160 52.322 1:44.482 +0.944
11 8 Reinhard Egger   Austria 52.227 52.403 1:44.630 +1.092
12 15 David Mair   Italy 52.278 52.362 1:44.640 +1.102
12 19 Bengt Walden   United States 52.335 52.305 1:44.640 +1.102
14 22 Manuel Pfister   Austria 52.279 52.417 1:44.696 +1.158
15 14 Gregory Carigiet   Switzerland 52.241 52.486 1:44.727 +1.189
16 13 Samuel Edney   Canada 52.329 52.414 1:44.743 +1.205
17 20 Jozef Ninis   Slovakia 52.324 52.421 1:44.745 +1.207
18 10 Jeff Christie   Canada 52.341 52.461 1:44.802 +1.264
19 23 Maciej Kurowski   Poland 52.436 52.383 1:44.819 +1.281
20 18 Evgeniy Voskresenskiy   Russia 52.323 52.611 1:44.934 +1.396
21 21 Inars Kivlenieks   Latvia 52.551 52.398 1:44.949 +1.411
22 26 Brendan Hauptmann   Canada 52.562 52.419 1:44.981 +1.443
23 29 Chris Mazdzer   United States 52.515 52.563 1:45.078 +1.540
24 17 Thor Haug Norbech   Norway 52.330 53.233 1:45.563 +2.025
25 27 Semen Pavlichenko   Russia 52.460 53.162 1:45.622 +2.084
26 24 Jo Alexander Koppang   Norway 52.631
27 30 Andriy Mandziy   Ukraine 52.905
28 25 Tonnes Stang Rolfsen   Norway 52.907
29 28 Ondrej Hymann   Czech Republic 53.128
30 37 Valentin Cretu   Romania 53.187
31 31 Andriy Kis   Ukraine 53.202
32 5 Albert Demchenko   Russia 53.325
33 32 Bogdan Macovei   Moldova 53.425
34 34 Karol Stuchlak   Slovakia 54.142
35 33 Hindenari Kanayama   Japan 54.154
36 35 Bruno Banani   Tonga 55.698
37 36 Danej Navrboc   Slovenia 56.740

Women's singles

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Erin Hamlin of the United States in the defending world champion while Germany's Tatjana Hüfner in the defending Olympic champion. The event took place on 29 January at 08:20 CET.[5]

26 athletes from 13 countries competed.[6]

Hüfner rebounded from her disappointing finish at the 2009 championships with her third gold medal in this event. Defending champion Hamlin finished 14th. Geisenberger won her third straight silver in this event. Gough becomes the first Canadian woman to medal at the World Championships and the second Canadian overall after Miroslav Zajonc's gold in the men's singles event at the 1983 championships.[7]

Rank Bib Athlete Country Run 1 Run 2 Total Behind
  1 Tatjana Hüfner   Germany 46.976 46.993 1:33.969
  8 Natalie Geisenberger   Germany 47.027 47.216 1:34.243 +0.274
  10 Alex Gough   Canada 47.051 47.362 1:34.413 +0.444
4 4 Nina Reithmayer   Austria 47.174 47.296 1:34.470 +0.501
5 2 Anke Wischnewski   Germany 47.328 47.263 1:34.591 +0.622
6 7 Carina Schwab   Germany 47.227 47.431 1:34.658 +0.689
7 3 Veronika Halder   Austria 47.374 47.573 1:34.947 +0.978
8 9 Martina Kocher   Switzerland 47.475 47.539 1:35.014 +1.045
9 13 Alexandra Rodionova   Russia 47.472 47.569 1:35.041 +1.072
10 6 Sandra Gasparini   Italy 47.461 47.670 1:35.131 +1.162
11 5 Tatiana Ivanova   Russia 47.532 47.714 1:35.246 +1.277
12 17 Julia Clukey   United States 47.667 47.730 1:35.397 +1.428
13 12 Arianne Jones   Canada 47.773 47.775 1:35.548 +1.579
14 11 Erin Hamlin   United States 48.234 47.326 1:35.560 +1.591
15 16 Veronika Sabolova   Slovakia 47.900 47.934 1:35.834 +1.865
16 15 Ksenia Tsyplakova   Russia 47.760 48.134 1:35.894 +1.925
17 19 Ashley Walden   United States 48.162 48.003 1:36.165 +2.196
18 20 Raluca Stramaturaru   Romania 48.540 48.325 1:36.865 +2.896
19 14 Maija Tiruma   Latvia 47.764 49.415 1:37.179 +3.210
20 24 Violeta Stramaturaru   Romania 48.954 48.857 1:37.811 +3.842
21 26 Morgane Villien   France 49.303
22 21 Maryna Halaydzhyan   Ukraine 49.316
23 23 Natalia Khoreva   Russia 50.572
24 25 Mihaela Chiras   Romania 51.153
22 Morgane Bonnefoy   France DNF
18 Ewelina Staszulonek   Poland DSQ

Men's doubles

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Italy's Gerhard Plankensteiner and Oswald Haselrieder are the defending world champions. Austria's Andreas and Wolfgang Linger are the two-time defending Olympic champions. Plankensteiner and Haselrieder retired between the 2010 Winter Olympics and the start of the 2010-11 Luge World Cup. The first run of the event will take place on 29 January at 19:00 CET while the second run will take place at 09:00 CET the next day.[5]

Rank Bib Athlete Country Run 1 Run 2 Total Behind
  6 Andreas Linger
Wolfgang Linger
  Austria 46.668 46.612 1:33.280
  10 Christian Oberstolz
Patrick Gruber
  Italy 46.752 46.760 1:33.512 +0.232
  7 Andris Šics
Juris Šics
  Latvia 46.909 46.819 1:33.728 +0.448
4 3 Vladislav Yuzhakov
Vladimir Makhnutin
  Russia 46.919 46.820 1:33.739 +0.459
5 11 Ludwig Rieder
Patrick Rastner
  Italy 47.041 47.017 1:34.058 +0.778
6 2 Hans Peter Fischnaller
Patrick Schwienbacher
  Italy 47.017 47.054 1:34.071 +0.791
7 16 Matthew Mortensen
Preston Griffall
  United States 47.055 47.072 1:34.127 +0.847
8 14 Tristan Walker
Justin Snith
  Canada 47.163 46.983 1:34.146 +0.866
9 12 Ronny Pietrasik
Christian Weise
  Germany 47.145 47.006 1:34.151 +0.871
10 4 Toni Eggert
Sascha Benecken
  Germany 47.199 46.994 1:34.193 +0.913
11 1 Christian Niccum
Jayson Terdiman
  United States 46.955 47.253 1:34.208 +0.928
12 5 Mikhail Kuzmich
Stanislav Mikheev
  Russia 47.167 47.149 1:34.316 +1.036
13 13 Ivan Nevmerzhitski
Vladimir Prokhorov
  Russia 47.081 47.307 1:34.388 +1.108
14 8 Peter Penz
Georg Fischler
  Austria 46.757 47.917 1:34.674 +1.394
15 18 Ján Harniš
Branislav Regec
  Slovakia 47.504 47.299 1:34.803 +1.523
16 15 Antonín Brož
Lukáš Brož
  Czech Republic 47.470 47.343 1:34.813 +1.533
17 17 Paul Ifrim
Andrei Anghel
  Romania 47.603 48.426 1:36.029 +2.749
18 20 Arthur Petyniak
Adam Wanielista
  Poland 48.237
19 19 Cosmin Chetroiu
Ionuţ Ţăran
  Romania 48.250
9 Tobias Wendl
Tobias Arlt
  Germany 47.866

Mixed team relay

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The German team of Loch, Natalie Geisenberger, André Florschütz, and Torsten Wustlich were the defending world champions. The event was to have taken place on 30 January at 10:20 CET, but was cancelled due to technical problems.[5][8]

Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Germany (GER)1214
2  Italy (ITA)1102
3  Austria (AUT)1001
4  Canada (CAN)0011
  Latvia (LAT)0011
Totals (5 entries)3339

References

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  1. ^ Nine Viessmann Luge World Cup events in six countries. at the Fédération Internationale de Luge de Course (19 May 2010 article accessed 19 May 2010.)
  2. ^ Men's singles results
  3. ^ Women's singles results
  4. ^ Doubles results
  5. ^ a b c d Parcolimpicotorino.it schedule at Cesana for 2010-11, including the FIL World Luge Championships 2011. Archived 2010-12-29 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 23 January 2011. (in Italian)
  6. ^ a b "International Luge Federation - Int. Rennrodelverband".
  7. ^ "Calgary's Gough races to historic luge bronze". CBC. January 29, 2011. Retrieved 29 January 2011.
  8. ^ World Championship Team Relay Event cancelled due to technical problems. at the Fédération Internationale de Luge de Course (30 January 2011 article accessed 30 January 2011.)
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