European Natural Track Luge Championships 2004

The 20th FIL Natural Track Luge European Championship took place from February 6th to 8th, 2004 in Hüttau, Austria.

Technical data of the natural toboggan run

Surname	Hellgrub
begin	1159  m above sea level A.
target	1038  m above sea level A.
Height difference	0.121 m
Average gradient	0.013.5%
length	0.893 m

Single seater men

space	Surname	time
01	Gerhard Pilz	3: 12.62 min
02	Andreas Castiglioni	+ 00.59 s
03	Gerald Kallan	+ 01.03 s
04th	Martin Psenner	+ 01.12 s
05	Anton Blasbichler	+ 01.40 s
06th	Patrick Pigneter	+ 01.49 s
07th	Andreas Gruber	+ 01.55 s
08th	Gerald Kammerlander	+ 01.68 s
09	Florian Breitenberger	+ 01.73 s
10	Roland Kallan	+ 01.80 s
11	Gernot Schwab	+ 01.86 s
12	Robert Batkowski	+ 02.15 s
13	Christoph Wagner	+ 02.16 s
14th	Daniel Quitta	+ 02.45 s
15th	Marcus Cruel	+ 02.66 s
16	Philipp Wagner	+ 02.73 s
17th	Rudi Resch	+ 03.26 s
18th	Borut Fejfar	+ 03.98 s
19th	Borut Kralj	+ 04.03 s
20th	Alexei Lebedev	+ 04.09 s
21st	Christian treasure	+ 04.72 s
22nd	Alexander Yegorov	+ 05.07 s
23	Žiga Pagon	+ 06.05 s
24	Georg Maurer	+ 06.15 s
25th	Gašper Benedik	+ 06.42 s
26th	Bjorn Kierspel	+ 06.43 s
27	Kaj Johnson	+ 06.85 s
28	Ervin Marn	+ 07.20 s
29	Pavel Porschnew	+ 07.24 s
30th	Greg Jones	+ 07.97 s
31	Damian Waniczek	+ 08.23 s
32	Christian Wichan	+ 08.66 s
33	John Gibson	+ 08.75 s
34	Adam Sladek	+ 09.22 s
35	Rudolf Schwarz	+ 10.38 s
36	Andrej Laszczak	+ 11.58 s
37	Loren Montcalm	+ 13.87 s
38	Julien Schultz	+ 15.28 s
39	Kenan Suljagic	+ 19.02 s
40	Juri Harzula	+ 19.30 s
41	Galabin Bozew	+ 19.82 s
42	Armin Babic	+ 24.88 s
43	Ivan Nikolov	+ 25.26 s
44	Slatomir Sdrawkov	+ 30.78 s
45	Marian Negotei	+ 49.89 s
-	Ivan Lazarev	DNS (2nd run)
-	Sebastian Constantin	DNS (1st run)
-	Denis Alimov	DNS (1st run)

Date: February 7th (1st race) and February 8, 2004 (2nd and 3rd race)

The Austrian Gerhard Pilz became European single-seater champion for the second time in a row. The silver medal went to the Italian Andreas Castiglioni , third was Gerald Kallan from Austria.

Single-seater women

space	Surname	time
01	Ekaterina Lavrentieva	3: 15.14 min
02	Christa Gietl	+ 01.39 s
03	Barbara Abart	+ 01.50 s
04th	Marlies Wagner	+ 01.86 s
05	Julia Wetlowa	+ 02.10 s
06th	Karolina Waniczek	+ 02.28 s
07th	Renate Gietl	+ 03.37 s
08th	Renate Kasslatter	+ 03.48 s
09	Sandra Lanthaler	+ 03.84 s
10	Sandra Mariner	+ 03.86 s
11	Ewelina Żurek	+ 04.30 s
12	Tina Unterberger	+ 04.82 s
13	Irene Mitterstieler	+ 05.62 s
14th	Melanie Batkowski	+ 06.01 s
15th	Michaela Maurer	+ 06.90 s
16	Anna Braun	+ 08.03 s
17th	Živa Janc	+ 08.59 s
18th	Oksana Jelessina	+ 10.21 s
19th	Mateja Kralj	+ 10.39 s
20th	Melissa Jones	+ 10.47 s
21st	Ursina Schneider	+ 12.70 s
22nd	Alyona Ashtheulova	+ 18.59 s
23	Roksolana Byljakowska	+ 26.35 s
24	Melika Hasanovic	+ 37.91 s
25th	Belma Kamenias	+ 39.52 s
26th	Sylvia Plucnarová	+ 45.36 s

Date: February 7th (1st and 2nd race) and February 8, 2004 (3rd race)

The Russian Jekaterina Lavrentjewa , who was already world champion in 2000, was European champion in the women's singles with best times in all three races. Second place went to the Italian Christa Gietl , who had previously won several medals at world and European championships. Third place went to Barbara Abart , also from Italy, who won her first medal at major events. The defending champion Sandra Lanthaler finished ninth.

Two-seater

space	Surname	time
01	Pavel Pornev - Ivan Lazarev	2: 16.16 min
02	Denis Alimov - Roman Molwistow	+ 00.65 s
03	Wolfgang Schopf - Andreas Schopf	+ 01.22 s
04th	Reinhard Beer - Herbert Kögl	+ 01.40 s
05	Armin Mair - Johannes Hofer	+ 01.53 s
06th	Alexander Yegorov - Pyotr Popov	+ 02.04 s
07th	Andrzej Laszczak - Damian Waniczek	+ 02.13 s
08th	Günther Innerbichler - Alex Innerbichler	+ 02.17 s
09	Harald Kleinhofer - Gerhard Mühlbacher	+ 02.35 s
10	Simone Demé - Michael Squinabol	+ 03.28 s
11	Lukas Wagner - Siegfried Troop	+ 04.05 s
12	Guido Hilgarter - Christian Hueter	+ 04.09 s
13	Martin Graf - Harald Laimer	+ 06.17 s
14th	Björn Kierspel - Hansjörg Mühlbacher	+ 07.58 s
15th	Mario Gortnar - Jure Potočnik	+ 11.28 s
16	Galabin Bozew - Slatomir Sdrawkow	+ 23.20 s

Date: February 7, 2004 (both races)

The Russians Pawel Porschnew and Ivan Lasarew , who had already finished second in the World Championship a year earlier, set the fastest times in both races and became European champions in the doubles. Your compatriots Denis Alimow and Roman Molwistow achieved the second best time and won the silver medal. The defending champions and reigning world champions Wolfgang and Andreas Schopf from Austria went third with the third fastest time .

Medal table

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

Web links

• Results singles men (PDF; 360 kB)
• Results singles women (PDF; 220 kB)
• Results two-seater (PDF; 115 kB)

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. 332 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Natural Track: 20th European Championships / 06.02. - 08.02.2004 in Hüttau (AUT). International Luge Federation, February 5, 2004, accessed on May 19, 2010