European Natural Track Luge Championships 2006

The 21st FIL European Natural Track Luge Championships took place on January 27-29, 2006 in Umhausen, Austria, on the Grantau natural toboggan run .

Technical data of the natural toboggan run

Surname	Grantau natural toboggan run
begin	1160  m above sea level A.
target	1040  m above sea level A.
Height difference	0.120 m
Average Tilt	0.012.1%
length	1,000 m

Single seater men

space	Surname	time
01	Gernot Schwab	3: 51.46 min
02	Thomas Schopf	+ 01.58 s
03	Patrick Pigneter	+ 01.64 s
04th	Florian Breitenberger	+ 01.88 s
05	Andreas Castiglioni	+ 01.90 s
06th	Gerald Kammerlander	+ 02.58 s
07th	Martin Psenner	+ 02.95 s
08th	Christian Black	+ 03.17 s
09	Anton Blasbichler	+ 03.56 s
10	Florian Batkowski	+ 04.39 s
11	Daniel Quitta	+ 04.62 s
12	Robert Batkowski	+ 04.70 s
13	Philipp Wagner	+ 04.77 s
14th	Georg Maurer	+ 04.78 s
15th	Marcus Cruel	+ 04.91 s
16	Gerhard Pilz	+ 05.05 s
17th	Thomas Kammerlander	+ 05.33 s
18th	Dominik Wagner	+ 05.54 s
19th	Bjorn Kierspel	+ 06.41 s
20th	Christian Wichan	+ 06.61 s
21st	Žiga Pagon	+ 06.82 s
22nd	Alexei Lebedev	+ 07.38 s
23	Ervin Marn	+ 07.53 s
24	Florian Clara	+ 08.56 s
25th	Ivan Lazarev	+ 08.69 s
26th	Damian Waniczek	+ 08.82 s
27	Adam Jędrzejko	+ 10.94 s
28	Jure Potočnik	+ 12.12 s
29	Julien Schultz	+ 13.28 s
30th	Pavel Porschnew	+ 14.90 s
31	Galabin Bozew	+ 15.06 s
32	Juri Harzula	+ 15.50 s
33	Andrzej Laszczak	+ 15.77 s
34	Yevhen Prysjaschnjuk	+ 16.11 s
35	Piotr Kobza	+ 16.12 s
36	René Uhlmann	+ 17.21 s
37	Jan Zaoral	+ 20.61 s
38	Slatomir Sdrawkov	+ 22.71 s
39	Ihor Senjuk	+ 26.65 s
40	Yanislav Urumov	+ 31.62 s
41	Vitaly Sakharov	+ 35.71 s
42	Petar Savov	+ 39.48 s
43	Chavdar Arsov	+ 40.87 s
-	Denis Alimov	DNS (2nd run)

Date: January 28 (1st and 2nd race) and January 29, 2006 (3rd race)

The Austrian Gernot Schwab won the gold medal with the best times in all three races. In second place another Austrian, Thomas Schopf , who won his first medal at major events. He was six hundredths of a second ahead of bronze medalist Patrick Pigneter from Italy, who achieved the second fastest time in the second and third races - while Schopf only finished fifth - but had already lost too much time on Schopf in the first run. Defending champion Gerhard Pilz was 16.

Single-seater women

space	Surname	time
01	Christa Gietl	3: 56.16 min
02	Imelda Gruber	+ 00.03 s
03	Renate Gietl	+ 00.48 s
04th	Melanie Batkowski	+ 01.05 s
05	Ekaterina Lavrentieva	+ 01.85 s
06th	Sabine Kogler	+ 03.12 s
07th	Tamara Schwarz	+ 03.40 s
08th	Marlies Wagner	+ 03.81 s
09	Michaela Maurer	+ 04.34 s
10	Melanie Black	+ 04.93 s
11	Anna Braun	+ 05.15 s
12	Julia Wetlowa	+ 05.95 s
13	Kinga Gawlas	+ 08.26 s
14th	Tina Unterberger	+ 09.58 s
15th	Elisabeth Grudge	+ 11.41 s
16	Živa Janc	+ 14.13 s
17th	Lyudmila Astramovich	+ 17.50 s
18th	Olga Sidorova	+ 17.78 s
19th	Vera Serheeva	+ 25.52 s
20th	Laryssa Leschchyshyn	+ 42.00 s
21st	Oksana Jelessina	+ 54.91 s

Date: January 28 (1st and 2nd race) and January 29, 2006 (3rd race)

The Italian Christa Gietl was able to make up for her deficit from the first two runs with the fastest time in the third run and won three hundredths of a second ahead of her teammate Imelda Gruber , who had won the first run. Renate Gietl was in the lead after setting the fastest time in the second run before the finals, but lost a lot of time in this and was ultimately third. The defending champion and big favorite Yekaterina Lavrentjewa from Russia, who had won all the World Cup races of the season, came in fifth.

Two-seater

space	Surname	time
01	Pavel Pornev - Ivan Lazarev	2: 43.62 min
02	Christian Schatz - Gerhard Mühlbacher	+ 01.46 s
03	Denis Alimov - Roman Molwistow	+ 01.86 s
04th	Thomas Weiss - Andreas Head	+ 02.30 s
05	Günther Innerbichler - Johannes Hofer	+ 02.35 s
06th	Christian Schopf - Andreas Schopf	+ 02.53 s
07th	Reinhard Beer - Herbert Kögl	+ 03.15 s
08th	Alexander Yegorov - Pyotr Popov	+ 03.58 s
09	Andrzej Laszczak - Damian Waniczek	+ 03.99 s
10	Christoph Knauder - Thomas Knauder	+ 05.86 s
11	Adam Jędrzejko - Piotr Kobza	+ 07.11 s
12	Galabin Bozew - Slatomir Sdrawkow	+ 12.36 s
13	Jewhen Prysjaschnjuk - Juri Harzula	+ 14.56 s
14th	Konstantin Larionov - Yevgeny Issachenko	+ 18.53 s

Date: January 28, 2006 (both races)

The defending champions Pawel Porschnew and Iwan Lasarew from Russia became European champions in the doubles for the second time with best times in both races. With the second best running time, the Austrians Christian Schatz and Gerhard Mühlbacher won the silver medal. The Russians Denis Alimow and Roman Molwistow achieved only the fourth-best running time, but achieved third place in the final ranking.

Medal table

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

Web links

• Result lists

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Natural Track News of January 27, 2006: Natural Track European Championships 2006. International Luge Federation, January 27, 2006, accessed on May 19, 2010