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

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

Men's singles

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.[2] 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 will compete.[3]

RankBibAthlete CountryRun 1Run 2TotalBehind
1st 6 Armin Zöggeler  Italy 51.568 51.970 1:43.538
2nd 1 Felix Loch  Germany 51.511 52.048 1:43.559 +0.021
3rd 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

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.[2]

26 athletes from 13 countries competed.[3]

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.[4]

RankBibAthlete CountryRun 1Run 2TotalBehind
1st 1 Tatjana Hüfner  Germany 46.976 46.993 1:33.969
2nd 8 Natalie Geisenberger  Germany 47.027 47.216 1:34.243 +0.274
3rd 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

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.[2]

RankBibAthlete CountryRun 1Run 2TotalBehind
1st 6 Andreas Linger
Wolfgang Linger		  Austria 46.668 46.612 1:33.280
2nd 10 Christian Oberstolz
Patrick Gruber		  Italy 46.752 46.760 1:33.512 +0.232
3rd 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

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.[2][5]

Medal table

 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  Germany 1 2 1 4
2  Italy 1 1 0 2
3  Austria 1 0 0 1
4  Canada 0 0 1 1
4  Latvia 0 0 1 1

References

  1. ↑ [http://www.fil-luge.org/News-Detail.155.0.html?&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=11705&tx_ttnews[backPid]=45&cHash=63562bcc68 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. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Parcolimpicotorino.it schedule at Cesana for 2010-11, including the FIL World Luge Championships 2011. Accessed 23 January 2011. (Italian)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 http://www.fil-luge.org/index.php?id=445
  4. ↑ "Calgary's Gough races to historic luge bronze". CBC. January 29, 2011. Retrieved 29 January 2011.
  5. ↑ [http://www.fil-luge.org/index.php?id=424&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=12355&tx_ttnews[backPid]=461&cHash=20c5d94b2ed9e74ef06b9ed36d90ea74 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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