Andrij Wertuk

Andrij Wertuk
Andrij Wertuk in training at the EM 2010
nation	Ukraine
birthday	1990
Career
discipline	Single seater, double seater
status	active
Placements in the Natural Track Luge World Cup
Debut in the World Cup January 10, 2010  Overall World Cup ES 37th ( 2011/2012 )  Overall World Cup DS 14. ( 2010/2011 )
last change: March 6, 2012

Andrij Wertuk ( Ukrainian Андрій Верчук ; * 1990 ) is a Ukrainian natural track tobogganist . He has been competing in the World Cup since the 2009/2010 season and took part in a World Cup for the first time in 2011 .

Career

Andrij Wertuk made his international debut on January 10, 2010 in Umhausen , when he contested his first and only World Cup race in the 2009/2010 season , which he finished in 34th place out of 43 starters. In the overall World Cup, he finished 55th out of a total of 59 tobogganists who won World Cup points this winter. Wertuk was also registered for the 2010 European Championship in St. Sebastian and took part in the training runs there, but was not used in the race. So his first major international event was the 2011 World Cup in Umhausen. There Wertuk finished third from bottom to 38th place. After the World Cup, he took part in a race in the Intercontinental Cup in the last two World Cup races of the 2010/2011 season in Unterammergau and Olang , where he finished 27th and 30th, making him 42nd in the overall World Cup. At the World Cup final, Wertuk started in a doubles for the first time together with Ihor Senjuk . They took ninth place as the penultimate.

In the 2011/2012 season , Wertuk took part in three single-seater World Cup races, one of which he started in the newly created Nations Cup. He finished 30th in the World Cup and twelfth place in the Nations Cup at the season opener in Latzfons and was 37th in the overall World Cup. He did not take part in the 2012 European Championship.

successes

World championships

• Umhausen 2011 : 38th single-seater

World cup

• Once among the best 40 in the overall single-seater World Cup
• Once among the top 15 in the overall double-seater World Cup
• Three top 30 placements in single-seater World Cup races
• A top 10 placement in two-seater World Cup races

Web links

Commons : Andrij Wertuk  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Andrij Wertuk in the database of the International Luge Federation