Lyubov Felixovna Panjutina

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Lyubov Panjutina Luge
Full name Lyubov Felixovna Panjutina
Любовь Феликсовна Панютина
nation Soviet UnionSoviet Union Soviet Union Russia
RussiaRussia 
birthday July 26, 1970
place of birth Montchegorsk, Soviet Union
Career
discipline Single seater
society Kandalaksha
status resigned
End of career 2001
Medal table
World championships 2 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
European championships 1 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
FIL Natural Track Luge World Championships
bronze Casies 1990 Single seater
gold Bad Goisern 1992 Single seater
gold Rautavaara 1998 Single seater
FIL European Natural Track Luge Championships
silver Kandalaksha 1995 Single seater
gold Moos in Passeier 1997 Single seater
Placements in the Natural Track Luge World Cup
 Debut in the World Cup December 13, 1992
 World Cup victories 5
 Overall World Cup ES 2. ( 1992/1993 , 1993/1994
1996/1997 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Single seater 5 7th 6th
 

Lyubow Felixovna Panjutina ( Russian Любовь Феликсовна Панютина , scientific transliteration Lyubov 'Feliksovna Panjutina ; born July 26, 1970 in Montschegorsk , Soviet Union ) is a former Russian natural track tobogganist . She became world champion in 1992 and 1998 and European champion in 1997 . She started in the World Cup until 2001 , where she achieved second place in the overall World Cup three times with a total of five wins and a further 13 podium places.

Career

Panjutina, like many internationally successful Russian natural track tobogganers, comes from Kandalakscha . From the mid-1980s she took part in international competitions and was the first Russian and at the same time the first not to come from the “natural track toboggan strongholds” of Austria or Italy to keep up with the world's best. Before that, Russian natural track tobogganers had hardly appeared internationally, only in the 1974 European Championships several Russians had taken part, but without achieving any results worth mentioning. In the 1980s, a new, young group of Russian natural track tobogganers formed, which quickly made contact with the world's best, especially with the women through Lyubov Panjutina, while the men only succeeded ten years later. Due to the boom in natural track tobogganing in what was then the Soviet Union and what would later become Russia, the country was also increasingly host to international competitions. In 1986 a race was held near Moscow for the first time , and World Cup races were held there from 1994. Kandalakscha, Panjutina's hometown, was the venue for the 16th European Natural Track Luge Championships in 1995 .

Ljubow Panjutina started in 1987 for the first time at a European championship , but only finished 16th out of 20 rated female tobogganers in Jesenice . Two years later she was already fifth at the 1989 European Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . In the same year she took part in a junior European championship for the only time in Bruck an der Großglocknerstrasse and came in seventh. After the world championship in 1988 had to be canceled due to weather conditions, it also took part in a world championship for the first time in 1990 and celebrated its first major success in Gsies, Italy , when it won the bronze medal behind the Austrians Jeanette Koppensteiner and Irene Koch . This was the first World Cup medal that did not go to Italy or Austria. In 1991 Panjutina only came in sixth place at the European Championships in Fiè , but won the Natural Track Luge European Cup in Unterammergau , making her the only winner of this competition, which was held from 1967 to 1995 and who did not come from Italy or Austria. After her bronze medal in 1990, Panjutina was able to improve further at the 1992 World Cup in Bad Goisern and won her first world championship title ahead of the two Austrians Elvira Holzknecht and Irene Koch. Again she was the first Russian and at the same time the first toboggan runner who did not come from Italy or Austria to succeed.

Panjutina also proved her strength in the World Cup held from 1992/1993 . In a total of eight seasons she took part in World Cup races until 2001, celebrated five victories, came second seven times and third six times, and thus achieved second place in the overall standings three times. However, she was denied an overall World Cup victory. In the 1992/1993 season Panjutina won the first World Cup race in Rautavaara , Finland , came third in the second race in Inzing and was once again at the top of the podium in the fourth of the five season races in Welschnofen . In the overall World Cup, however, she was inferior to the Italian Doris Haselrieder , who also celebrated two victories. In the next season , Panjutina did not win, but finished on the podium in all five races. She was second four times and third once and only had to admit defeat to the Austrian Irene Zechner in the overall World Cup, who was unbeatable with four victories this season. In the title fights Panjutina achieved in these two years, however, no top positions. At the European Championships in 1993 in Stein an der Enns , she came third from bottom only in 15th place and also at the 1994 World Championships in Gsies, she was eighth, clearly behind her World Cup results. She was able to improve again at her home European championship in 1995 in Kandalakscha. Panjutina won the silver medal behind Irene Zechner and has now also won the first medal for Russia at the European Championships. In the World Cup she came on the podium only once in the 1994/1995 season , finishing second in Kreuth , and was sixth in the overall World Cup, tied with Canadian Sonja Dobson . The following winter , she did not finish among the top three in any World Cup races, but improved by one place to fifth in the overall standings. She was also not among the fastest three at the 1996 World Cup in Oberperfuss , but only just missed the medal ranks in fourth.

In the 1996/1997 season , Ljubow Panjutina found her way back to winning ways and, after finishing third two days earlier, celebrated her third World Cup victory on January 26, 1997 in Dobbiaco - the first in four years. A week later, the then 26-year-old also won the 1997 European Championship in Moos in Passeier . She continued her winning streak in the last two World Cup races in Obdach and Garmisch-Partenkirchen with her last two World Cup victories, but had to admit defeat in the overall World Cup to Italian Sonja Steinacher , who only won one World Cup race, but with three second places and a third place Nevertheless, the overall ranking decided for itself. In the 1997/1998 World Cup season , Panjutina achieved a second and two third places and fell back to sixth in the overall World Cup. She celebrated her last great success at the 1998 World Championships in Rautavaara, when she became world champion for the second time ahead of the Italians Christa Gietl and Sonja Steinacher.

After a one-year break, Lyubov Panjutina took part again in international competitions in the 1999/2000 and 2000/2001 seasons. While in the 1999/2000 season she only finished under the top five in one World Cup race and was sixth in the overall standings, at the end of the 2000/2001 season she achieved two podium finishes with second place in Moscow and third in Hüttau and was fourth in the Overall World Cup. The winner of these two World Cup races was her compatriot Ekaterina Lavrentjewa , who was eleven years her junior and who had already taken on the role of the new number one in the Russian women's team thanks to her world championship title last year. At the World Championships in 2000 in Olang and 2001 in Stein an der Enns Panjutina was fifth. After the winter of 2000/2001, she ended her career at the age of 30.

Sporting successes

World championships

European championships

Junior European Championships

World cup
date place country discipline
December 13, 1992 Rautavaara Finland Single seater
February 14, 1993 Welschnofen Italy Single seater
January 16, 1997 Toblach Italy Single seater
February 9, 1997 shelter Austria Single seater
February 16, 1997 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Germany Single seater

European Cup

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personal data
SURNAME Panjutina, Lyubov Felixovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Панютина, Любовь Феликсовна (Russian); Panyutina, Lyubov
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian natural track tobogganist
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1970