Luge World Championships 2007
| space | country | gold | silver | bronze | total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. |
 Germany
|
4th | 1 | 2 | 7th |
| 2. |
 Italy
|
0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 3. |
 Austria
|
0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 4th |
 United States
|
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
The 39th Luge World Championships on the artificial track took place from February 2nd to 4th, 2007 in Innsbruck-Igls, Austria and formed the highlight of the 2006/07 Luge World Cup season .
The world championships became a triumph for the German luge riders, who won all four competitions and also won one silver and two bronze medals. The German team won half of all medals to be awarded.
Team competition
On February 2nd, 13 nations competed in the team competition that opened the World Championships. As expected, Germany was the winner. The German athletes set the best times in all three races. Leitner / Resch and Möller then also won their individual starts, Kraushaar-Pielach only came third due to a driving error. Italy was able to oust the host Austrians from second place due to a strong hesitation. Canada was disqualified.
Men - single seaters
As the season before the World Championships had shown, the men's final in single-seater turned into a duel between the Italian, reigning World Champion and World Cup leader Armin Zoeggeler and the German challenger David Möller. Zöggeler started as the favorite, having dominated the season for the most part and also being the experienced starter. The day before, Möller was able to beat Zöggler by two hundredths of a second. In the end, Möller prevailed by just under seven hundredths of a second and became world champion for the second time since 2004. The good German result was rounded off by a surprising third place for Jan Eichhorn, who was the only starter who came close to the times of the first two.
With Stefan Höhener, Switzerland had a starter for the first time in a long time who could place well. The athletes from the host Austria could not place in the top 10, but this was also due to the fact that the Austrian team was in a phase of upheaval at that time and the young athletes who were coming up were not yet stable enough. Italy celebrated a good team performance. In addition to the vice world champion Zöggeler, Reinhold Rainer also placed sixth and the old master Wilfried Huber among the top ten. This team performance was only surpassed by that of the Germans, who placed next to the medal winners also the young hopefuls Felix Loch in ninth and Johannes Ludwig in eleventh place.
Some athletes, such as the American Tony Benshoof (18th) or the Austrian Martin Abentung (20th) disappointed or at least could not meet the expectations placed in them. The participation of several “exotic people” also met with media coverage, such as Manfred Heinzelmaier (42nd), who started for Belgium and who was part of the A-squad of Austrian luge riders in the 1980s, or Werner Höger (50th) , who started for Venezuela . .
After the first run, only the best 25 starters from the first run qualified for the final second run.
Men - two-seater
After the first run, only the best 15 doubles from the first run were allowed to compete in the second run.
Women
After the first run, all starters were eliminated from the 21st place for the second run.
As several times before, all German starters were able to leave the rest of the field behind. Tatjana Hüfner was able to win surprisingly , the big favorite Silke Kraushaar-Pielach came third. The German young talent Natalie Geisenberger came fourth. After the German starters, the women from the USA were the most successful. Nina Reithmayer was able to hold up the Austrian colors in seventh place. The Swiss starters could not place in the top ten.
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