German Luge Championships 2015

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German Luge Championships 2015

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Men's Ladies
winner
Single seater Andi Langenhan Tatjana Huefner
Two-seater Toni Eggert / Sascha Benecken

The early German Luge Championships 2015 took place on December 20, 2014 on the Oberhof Luge Track . Due to the tight schedule, the competitions took place between the World Cup stations in Calgary (December 12-13, 2014) and Königssee (January 3-4, 2015).

The titles in the individual competitions went to defending champion Tatjana Hüfner for women, Andi Langenhan for men and World Cup leaders Toni Eggert / Sascha Benecken for doubles. This means that all championship titles go to drivers from Thuringia who contested the competitions in Oberhof on their home track.

Results

Women

Tatjana Hüfner, German champion
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1 Tatjana Huefner RC Blankenburg 1: 23.678
2 Natalie Geisenberger ASV Miesbach +0.078
3 Dajana Eitberger RC Ilmenau +0.237
4th Anke Wischnewski WSC Erzgebirge Oberwiesenthal +0.456
5 Nathalie Hahn BRC Friedrichroda +0.633
6th Aileen Frisch SSV Altenberg +0.713
7th Svenja Austrian RRV Sonneberg +1.655
8th Nadine Kadner SSV Altenberg +1.773

In the women’s category, Tatjana Hüfner managed to defend her championship title in front of World Cup leader Natalie Geisenberger and the later European champion Dajana Eitberger , thus winning her fourth German championship after 2009, 2012 and 2014. Last year's runner-up, Anke Wischnewski, took fourth place in the last participation of her career . Last year's third, Aileen Frisch , came in 6th behind Nathalie Hahn on the Oberhofer Bahn and also ended her career after the season, but due to the lack of prospects in the bobsleigh and sledge association for Germany . Since January 2017 she starts for the South Korean national luge team. The other places went to Svenja Österreicher and Nadine Kadner .

Men

Andi Langenhan, German champion
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1 Andi Langenhan RRC Zella-Mehlis 1: 27.819
2 Ralf Palik WSC Erzgebirge Oberwiesenthal +0.224
3 Julian von Schleinitz WSV Königssee +0.295
4th Felix Hole RC Berchtesgaden +0.543
5 Johannes Ludwig BSR Rennsteig Oberhof +0.550
6th Chris Eissler ESV locomotive Zwickau +0.649
7th Christian Paffe BRC Hallenberg +0.931
8th Toni Gräfe RC Ilmenau +1.062
9 Florian Berkes RT Suhl +1.263
10 Nils Moschner BSC Winterberg +1.801
11 Anton Schreiber WSV Erzgebirge Oberwiesenthal +1.922

In the men's race, Andi Langenhan from Thuringia managed to achieve the German championship title for the first time on his home track. He won ahead of Ralf Palik and Julian von Schleinitz . The defending champion , world cup leader and later vice world champion Felix Loch drove only in 4th place ahead of Johannes Ludwig and Chris Eißler . The local heroes Toni Gräfe and Florian Berkes finished 7th and 8th behind Christian Paffe on their home track .

Two-seater

Toni Eggert and Sascha Benecken, German champions
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1 Toni Eggert / Sascha Benecken BRC Ilsenburg / RT Suhl 1: 23.146
2 Tobias Wendl / Tobias Arlt RC Berchtesgaden / WSV Königssee +0.961
3 Nico Grüßner / Chris Rohmeiß RC Waltershausen / RRC Zella-Mehlis +1.216
4th Robin Geueke / David Gamm BSC Winterberg +1.641
5 Tim Brendel / Markus Grassl RC Berchtesgaden / WSV Königssee +1.780
6th Marcel Engljahringer / Rupert Staudinger WSV Königssee / RC Berchtesgaden +2.496

In the doubles, the defending champions and World Cup leaders Toni Eggert and Sascha Benecken managed to defend their championship title before the later world and European champions Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt . The junior doubles Nico Grüßner and Chris Rohmeiß took third place ahead of the World Cup starters Robin Geueke and David Gamm and the doubles Tim Brendel and Markus Grassl . Marcel Engljahringer and Rupert Staudinger landed in sixth place . This two-seater couple separated a little later due to lack of success. While Engljahringer ended his active career, Staudinger switched to the Great Britain Luge Association due to a dual citizenship and has since started for the United Kingdom .

Sources and further reading

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Luge fresh passes South Korean naturalization tests. In: sueddeutsche.de. Süddeutsche Zeitung , December 16, 2016, accessed on August 28, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Big ambitions. Rupert Staudinger from Schönau competes for the British toboggan team. In: traunsteiner-tagblatt.de. Traunsteiner Tagblatt , January 9, 2018, accessed on January 24, 2018 .