European Natural Track Luge Championships 1995

The 16th FIL Natural Track Luge European Championship took place from February 24th to 26th, 1995 in Kandalakscha , Russia . The natural toboggan run was 1002 meters long and had a height difference of 122 meters.

Single seater men

space	Surname	time
01	Manfred Graves	?
02	Martin Gruber	?
03	Robert Tomelitsch	?
04th	Willi Danklmaier	?
05	Franz Obrist	?
06th	Christian Hafner	?
07th	Erwin Dietrich	?
08th	Peter Lechner	?
09	Jürgen Pezzi	?
10	Anton Blasbichler	?
11	Roland Ploner	?
12	Andi Ruetz	?
13	Hubert Burger	?
14th	Andreas Ottitsch	?
15th	Helmut Ruetz	?
16	Ari Tuominen	?
17th	Grega Spendov	?
18th	Michael Kolesow	?
19th	Bogdan Vilman	?
20th	Yevgeny Yakushin	?
21st	Marcus Cruel	?
22nd	Timo Heikkilä	?
23	Tomi Ahonen	?
24	Pyotr Milevich	?
25th	Vyacheslav Bywalsev	?
26th	Anton Kartuschow	?
27	Hannu Heikkilä	?
28	Sergei Petrov	?
29	Eddy Dunlop	?
30th	Mika Ahonen	?
31	Chris Waite	?
32	Mitch Mitchell	?
-	Martin Psenner	DNF
-	Chris Millwater	DNS
-	Roman Kusnetzow	DSQ
-	Hannu Niemi	DSQ

The Italian Manfred Gräber was European champion in the men's singles for the second time after 1987. The silver medal was won by 19-year-old Martin Gruber , also from Italy. The bronze medal went to the Austrian Robert Tomelitsch , who had also won bronze at the European Championships ten years earlier.

Single-seater women

space	Surname	time
01	Irene Zechner	?
02	Lyubov Panjutina	?
03	Elvira Holzknecht	?
04th	Sandra Mariner	?
05	Simona Martin	?
06th	Sonja Steinacher	?
07th	Julia Subbotina	?
08th	Polina Danilevskaya	?
09	Inna Kartuschowa	?
10	Hanna Ristola	?

The Austrian Irene Zechner became the European champion in the women's singles for the second time in a row . The silver medal was won by the Russian Lyubow Panjutina , which was the first time that a medal went to Russia at a natural track tobogganing European championship and for the first time a medalist in the women's singles was not from Italy or Austria. Third place went to the Austrian Elvira Holzknecht , who won all World Cup races this winter , just like at the last European Championship .

Two-seater

space	Surname	time
01	Helmut Ruetz - Andi Ruetz	?
02	Martin Psenner - Arthur Künig	?
03	Jürgen Pezzi - Christian Hafner	?
04th	Roland Niedermair - Hubert Burger	?
05	Tscheslav Schumilow - Andrei Tschernezow	?
06th	Martin Schneebauer - Peter Lechner	?
07th	Yevgeny Yakushin - Sergei Kwasnikow	?
08th	Ari Tuominen - Timo Heikkilä	?
09	Viktor Shalin - Alexei Yakovlev	?
10	Michael Kolesow - Roman Kusnetzow	?
-	Reinhard Beer - Gerhard Pilz	DNS

The brothers Helmut and Andi Ruetz from Austria became European champions in the doubles for the first time. The silver medal went to the Italians Martin Psenner and Arthur Künig . The Italians Jürgen Pezzi and Christian Hafner , who were second at the last European Championship and the World Championship last year, were third this time.

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1.	Austria	2	-	2	4th
2.	Italy	1	2	1	4th
3.	Russia	-	1	-	1

literature

• Harald Steyrer, Herbert Wurzer, Egon Theiner: 50 years of 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. 328 .