Damiano Lugon

Damiano Lugon
nation	Italy
birthday	January 13, 1956
Career
discipline	Single seater, double seater
society	Polisportiva Pollein
status	resigned
End of career	1990
Medal table
World championships 1 × 3 × 0 × European championships 2 × 3 × 1 × Junior European Championship 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Natural Track Luge World Championships gold Inzing 1979 Two-seater silver Inzing 1979 Single seater silver Moos in Passeier 1980 Single seater silver Fénis-Aosta 1986 Single seater  European Natural Track Luge Championships bronze Seis am Schlern 1977 Single seater gold Fénis 1979 Single seater silver Fénis 1979 Two-seater silver Niedernsill 1981 Single seater silver Szczyrk 1985 Single seater gold Garmisch-Partenk. 1989 Single seater  Natural track toboggan junior European Championship silver Fénis 1975 Two-seater

Damiano Lugon (born January 13, 1956 ) is a former Italian natural track luge . He started in both a single and a double, mostly with Andrea Millet . Lugon was 1979 world champion in doubles and in 1979 and 1989 European champion in the single-seater. There are also three other silver medals at world championships and three silver and one bronze medal at European championships. He celebrated two victories in the European Cup .

Career

In February 1975, Lugon took part in a European Championship for the first time and achieved fifth place in the singles and together with Andrea Millet eleventh place in the doubles. Three weeks later he started at the European Junior Championships and won silver in the doubles with Millet. He finished fifth in the single-seater. Lugon won his first medal in the general class at the 1977 European Championships in Seis am Schlern with third place in the single-seater. He did not start in the two-seater this year. After he narrowly missed the medal ranks twice at the 1978 European Championships in Aurach near Kitzbühel as fourth in single and fifth in doubles - with Erich Graber - he became European champion in singles at the 1979 European championship in Fénis and vice-European champion in doubles with Andrea Millet. One week after this EM the first world championship took place in Inzing . Lugon was able to maintain his shape and became world champion in doubles and runner-up in singles with Millet. At the second World Cup in 1980 in Moos in Passeier , Lugon again won the silver medal in the single-seater. He and Andrea Millet competed in the two-seater for the last time, but they only finished tenth and last.

Lugon won another silver medal in the single-seater at the 1981 European Championships in Niedernsill , at the 1982 World Championships and 1983 European Championships , he was fourth but just barely without precious metal. The Italian did not finish at the 1984 World Cup in Kreuth . In 1985 Lugon was back on the podium as second at the European Championships in Szczyrk . He also won the silver medal at the 1986 World Championships in Fénis , but had to be content with tenth place at the 1987 European Championships in Jesenice . After the 1988 World Championship had to be canceled due to weather conditions, Lugon celebrated his last major success at the 1989 European Championship in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , when he became European single-seater for the second time ten years after his first European title. With this victory, Lugon still holds the record for most European Championship medals in the men's singles (two gold, two silver and one bronze). At the 1990 World Cup - his last major international event - he finished eighth.

In the European Cup , Lugon achieved a total of ten podium places between 1978 and 1989, seven in the singles and three in the doubles. He was at the top of the podium twice: in 1981 in a two-seater and 1985 in a single-seater.

Sporting successes

(if not stated otherwise, two-seater with Andrea Millet)

World championships

• Inzing 1979 : 1st two-seater, 2nd single-seater
• Moos in Passeier 1980 : 2nd single-seater, 10th double-seater
• Feld am See 1982 : 4th single seater
• Fénis-Aosta 1986 : 2nd single seater
• Casies 1990 : 8th single seater

European championships

• Feld am See 1975 : 5th single-seater, 11th double-seater
• Seis am Schlern 1977 : 3rd single seater
• Aurach 1978 : 4th single-seater, 5th double-seater (with Erich Graber)
• Fénis 1979 : 1st single-seater, 2nd double-seater
• Niedernsill 1981 : 2nd single seater
• Sankt Konrad 1983 : 4th single seater
• Szczyrk 1985 : 2nd single seater
• Jesenice 1987 : 10th single seater
• Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1989 : 1st single-seater

Junior European Championships

• Fénis 1975 : 2nd two-seater, 5th single-seater

European Cup

• Two wins (doubles 1981, singles 1985)
• Five second places (singles in 1978, 1979, 1982, 1983 and 1989)
• Three third places (two-seater 1979 and 1980, single-seater 1980)

literature

• Harald Steyrer, Herbert Wurzer, Egon Theiner: 50 years FIL 1957 - 2007. The history of the International Luge Federation in three volumes . tape II . Egoth Verlag, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-902480-46-0 , p. 285-407 .