European Natural Track Luge Championships 2002

The 19th FIL Natural Track Luge European Championship took place from February 1st to 3rd, 2002 in Frantschach-Sankt Gertraud, Austria.

Technical data of the natural toboggan run

Surname	Large burner line
length	955 m
Height difference	140 m
Average gradient	014.5%

Single seater men

space	Surname	time
01	Gerhard Pilz	3: 14.98 min
02	Robert Batkowski	+ 00.47 s
03	Gernot Schwab	+ 00.54 s
04th	Roland Kallan	+ 01.08 s
05	Gerald Kallan	+ 01.17 s
06th	Anton Blasbichler	+ 01.20 s
07th	Ferdinand Hirzegger	+ 01.41 s
08th	Martin Psenner	+ 02.39 s
09	Florian Breitenberger	+ 02.56 s
10	Martin Gruber	+ 02.69 s
11	Christoph Wagner	+ 03.04 s
12	Reinhard Gruber	+ 03.69 s
13	Christian treasure	+ 04.43 s
14th	Borut Kralj	+ 04.49 s
15th	Daniel Quitta	+ 04.67 s
16	Andreas Castiglioni	+ 04.87 s
17th	Georg Maurer	+ 05.35 s
18th	Rudi Resch	+ 05.52 s
19th	Ervin Marn	+ 05.67 s
20th	Borut Fejfar	+ 06.02 s
21st	Marcus Cruel	+ 06.50 s
22nd	Grega Spendov	+ 06.57 s
23	Alexei Lebedev	+ 07.06 s
24	Thomas Damian	+ 08.01 s
25th	Ivan Lazarev	+ 08.45 s
26th	Jure Pohleven	+ 09.60 s
27	Pavel Porschnew	+ 10.06 s
28	Knut Solheim	+ 11.33 s
29	Gašper Benedik	+ 12.25 s
30th	Kristian Roel	+ 14.74 s
31	Bostjan Vizjak	+ 16.99 s
32	Michael Törnquist	+ 19.22 s
33	Yevhen Bilonenko	+ 19.62 s
34	Tomáš Papiorek	+ 24.74 s
35	Petr Pulcer	+ 30.55 s
36	David Sjödin	+ 33.08 s
37	Jasmine Prnjavorac	+ 37.21 s
38	William Ogilvie	+ 39.32 s
39	Juri Harzula	+ 42.53 s
40	Janislav Nikolov	+1: 16.47 min
41	Ivar Dijk	+1: 22.83 min
42	Sander grip	+1: 41.08 min
-	Damian Waniczek	DNS (2nd run)
-	Andrzej Laszczak	DNS (2nd run)
-	Denis Alimov	DNS (1st run)
-	Roman Molwistov	DNS (1st run)
-	Eddy Dunlop	DNS (1st run)
-	Gerald Kammerlander	DNS (1st run)

Date: February 2 (1st race) and February 3, 2002 (2nd and 3rd race)

The Austrian Gerhard Pilz , world champion from 1986 to 1996, was European champion for the first time with the best time in the second and third races. He ended the successful streak of the Italians, who had previously been the European champions seven times in a row. In second place was his compatriot Robert Batkowski , who had already won silver at the last European Championship three years ago. Third-placed Gernot Schwab , who won his first medal at major events, completed the Austrian triple victory. For the first time since the first two European Championships in 1970 and 1971, three Austrians were on the podium in the men's singles. Two more Austrians followed in fourth and fifth place, defending champion Anton Blasbichler from Italy came in sixth.

Single-seater women

space	Surname	time
01	Sandra Lanthaler	3: 21.30 min
02	Ekaterina Lavrentieva	+ 00.08 s
03	Sonja Steinacher	+ 00.10 s
04th	Barbara Abart	+ 00.33 s
05	Sandra Mariner	+ 00.44 s
	Sabine Kogler	+ 00.44 s
07th	Elvira Holzknecht	+ 01.07 s
08th	Renate Gietl	+ 01.26 s
09	Sandra Schopf	+ 01.54 s
10	Christa Gietl	+ 01.62 s
11	Renate Kasslatter	+ 03.43 s
	Anna Braun	+ 03.43 s
13	Ewelina Żurek	+ 04.10 s
14th	Michaela Maurer	+ 07.49 s
15th	Julia Wetlowa	+ 08.91 s
16	Mateja Kralj	+ 09.69 s
17th	Magdalena Zawada	+ 10.86 s
18th	Ursina Schneider	+ 14.93 s
19th	Radostina Vucheliyska	+ 51.70 s
-	Sylvia Plucnarová	DNF (3rd run)

Date: February 2 (1st and 2nd race) and February 3, 2002 (3rd race)

The European champion in the women's singles was 18-year-old Italian Sandra Lanthaler , who had never competed in a World Cup. She won with eight hundredths of a second ahead of the 2000 world champion, Yekaterina Lavrentjewa from Russia. The defending champion, reigning world champion and overall World Cup winner this season, Sonja Steinacher from Italy, was only two hundredths of a second slower .

Two-seater

space	Surname	time
01	Wolfgang Schopf - Andreas Schopf	2: 21.82 min
02	Reinhard Beer - Herbert Kögl	+ 0.11 s
03	Andrzej Laszczak - Damian Waniczek	+ 0.17 s
04th	Harald Kleinhofer - Gerhard Mühlbacher	+ 1.63 s
05	Denis Alimov - Roman Molwistow	+ 1.83 s
06th	Christoph Knauder - Thomas Knauder	+ 2.43 s
07th	Armin Mair - Michael Graf	+ 2.44 s
08th	Günther Innerbichler - Alex Innerbichler	+ 2.67 s
09	Martin Graf - Harald Laimer	+ 5.59 s
10	Pavel Pornev - Ivan Lazarev	+ 8.25 s

Date: February 2, 2002 (both races)

The Austrians Wolfgang and Andreas Schopf also became European champions in doubles a year after their first world championship title. The silver medal was won by her teammates Reinhard Beer and Herbert Kögl . Third place went to the Poles Andrzej Laszczak and Damian Waniczek , who thus won the second medal for Poland at the European Natural Track Luge Championships. The first Polish medalists were Krzysztof Niewiadomski and Oktawian Samulski , who became European champions in doubles in 1991.

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1.	Austria	2	2	1	5
2.	Italy	1	-	1	2
3.	Russia	-	1	-	1
4th	Poland	-	-	1	1

Web links

• Result lists

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 19th European championships on natural track in Fratschach. International Luge Federation, February 2, 2002, accessed on May 19, 2010