European Natural Track Luge Championships 2012
The 24th FIL Natural Track Luge European Championship took place from February 17th to 19th, 2012 in Novouralsk , Russia . The European Championship began with the team competition and the opening ceremony on Friday 17th February. Both two-seater races and the first two-seater races were held on Saturday. On Sunday, February 19, the European Championship ended with the second and third single-seater races and the closing ceremony. Immediately before the European Championship, a World Cup race took place in Novouralsk.
A total of 60 tobogganists from 10 countries ( Germany , Italy , Austria , Poland , Russia , Switzerland , Slovenia , Turkey , Ukraine and the United Kingdom ) took part in the competition runs. Three of the four titles to be awarded went to the host country Russia: Yekaterina Lavrentjewa won in the women's singles, Pavel Porschnew and Ivan Lasarew won in the doubles and Team Russia I, to which Yuri Talych belonged alongside Lavrentjewa, Porschnew and Lasarev , won the team competition. In the men's single-seater, the title went to Patrick Pigneter from Italy.
Technical data of the natural toboggan run
| Coordinates | 57 ° 12 ′ 27.2 ″ North, 60 ° 7 ′ 37.4 ″ East |
| Start above sea level | 362 m |
| Sea level destination | 270 m |
| Height difference | 92 m |
| Route length | 834 m |
| Average gradient | 11% |
Single seater men
| space | Surname | time |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
 Patrick Pigneter
|
2: 55.97 min |
| 2 |
 Michael Scheikl
|
+ 1.04 s |
| 3 |
Hannes Clara
|
+ 1.72 s |
| 4th |
Thomas Schopf
|
+ 3.21 s |
| 5 |
Anton Blasbichler
|
+ 3.68 s |
| 6th |
Alex Gruber
|
+ 3.80 s |
| 7th |
Robert Batkowski
|
+ 4.05 s |
| 8th |
Rudi Resch
|
+ 4.39 s |
| 9 |
 Stanislaw Kowschik
|
+ 4.93 s |
| 10 |
Gernot Schwab
|
+ 4.98 s |
| 11 |
Yuri Talych
|
+ 5.30 s |
| 12 |
Stefan Gruber
|
+ 5.42 s |
| 13 |
 Adam Jędrzejko
|
+ 5.61 s |
| 14th |
Gerald Kammerlander
|
+ 5.83 s |
| 15th |
Alexander Yegorov
|
+ 5.90 s |
| 16 |
Thomas Kammerlander
|
+ 6.02 s |
| 17th |
 Bjorn Kierspel
|
+ 6.98 s |
| 18th |
Marcus Cruel
|
+ 7.18 s |
| 19th |
Grigori Bukin
|
+ 7.63 s |
| 20th |
Florian Clara
|
+ 7.95 s |
| 21st |
Christian Wichan
|
+ 9.80 s |
| 22nd |
 Miha Meglič
|
+ 10.31 s |
| 23 |
Matic Nemc
|
+ 10.68 s |
| 24 |
Damian Waniczek
|
+ 11.40 s |
| 25th |
Andrzej Laszczak
|
+ 14.44 s |
| 26th |
 Marjan Husner
|
+ 18.15 s |
| 27 |
 Daniel Hofmann
|
+ 29.61 s |
| 28 |
 Ian Greer
|
+ 36.74 s |
| 29 |
 İsa Güzeloğlu
|
+ 38.11 s |
| 30th |
Mark Vickery
|
+ 42.49 s |
| 31 |
Yasin Sevim
|
+ 51.65 s |
| - |
Andrij Tolopko
|
DNF (3rd run) |
Date: February 18 (1st race) and February 19, 2012 (2nd and 3rd race)
The Italian Patrick Pigneter secured his second European title in the single-seater after 2010 with the best running times in all three races . The Austrian Michael Scheikl , who was just behind Hannes Clara after the first race , set the second fastest time in the second and third round and won his first medal at a major event with silver. The runner-up after the first run, Hannes Clara from Italy, took third place in the second and third run and thus also in the final ranking. For him it was the first medal in the general class and he had already won five medals at junior championships. 32 participants were registered and started, of which 31 were included in the evaluation.
Single-seater women
| space | Surname | time |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Ekaterina Lavrentieva
|
3:00:08 min |
| 2 |
Melanie Batkowski
|
+ 2.38 s |
| 3 |
Evelin Lanthaler
|
+ 2.61 s |
| 4th |
Renate Gietl
|
+ 4.48 s |
| 5 |
Melanie Black
|
+ 4.76 s |
| 6th |
Alyona Ashtheulova
|
+ 6.18 s |
| 7th |
Tina Unterberger
|
+ 6.95 s |
| 8th |
Lyudmila Aksenenko
|
+ 7.79 s |
| 9 |
Katrin Mladek
|
+ 8.85 s |
| 10 |
Maria Komarevtseva
|
+ 10.29 s |
| 11 |
Marlies Wagner
|
+ 11.09 s |
| 12 |
Petra Dragičevič
|
+ 11.60 s |
| 13 |
Svetlana Sharavina
|
+ 12.07 s |
| 14th |
Michaela Niemetz
|
+ 19.03 s |
| 15th |
Asuman Bayrak
|
+ 39.44 s |
| 16 |
Sinem Aydınlı
|
+1: 44.06 min |
| - |
Veronika Nachmann
|
DNF (3rd run) |
Date: February 18 (1st race) and February 19, 2012 (2nd and 3rd race)
The Russian Jekaterina Lavrentjewa was the fastest time in all three races for the third time in a row and for the fourth time European champion in the single-seater. The silver medal went to the Austrian Melanie Batkowski , for whom it was the first European Championship medal in a single seater. The bronze medalist Evelin Lanthaler from Italy was still in second place after the first round, but fell behind Batkowski in the second and third races. At the last European Championship in 2010 , Lanthaler had won the silver medal. Of the 17 women registered and started, 16 were included in the ranking.
Two-seater
| space | Surname | time |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Pavel Pornev - Ivan Lazarev
|
2: 06.31 min |
| 2 |
Christian Schopf - Andreas Schopf
|
+ 0.46 s |
| 3 |
Christian Schatz - Gerhard Mühlbacher
|
+ 1.82 s |
| 4th |
Björn Kierspel - Christian Wichan
|
+ 1.85 s |
| 5 |
Andrzej Laszczak - Damian Waniczek
|
+ 2.21 s |
| 6th |
Hannes Clara - Stefan Gruber
|
+ 2.78 s |
| 7th |
Alexander Yegorov - Pyotr Popov
|
+ 3.27 s |
| 8th |
Rupert Brüggler - Tobias Angerer
|
+ 3.66 s |
| 9 |
Maxim Zwetkow - Denis Moissejew
|
+ 6.21 s |
| 10 |
Marjan Husner - Andrij Tolopko
|
+ 17.72 s |
| - |
Patrick Pigneter - Florian Clara
|
DNS (2nd run) |
Date: February 18, 2012 (both races)
The Russians Pawel Porschnew and Ivan Lasarew secured their fourth European championship title after 2004 , 2006 and 2008 with the fastest time in the second race . The Austrians Christian Schopf and Andreas Schopf , who were in the lead after the first run, were the second fastest in the second run and won the silver medal. For Christian Schopf it was the first European Championship medal in a two-seater, while Andreas Schopf was European champion with his cousin Wolfgang Schopf in 2002 . The fourth fastest time in the first run and the sixth fastest in the second run were enough for the Austrians Christian Schatz and Gerhard Mühlbacher to win the bronze medal. They benefited from a bad second run by the Germans Björn Kierspel and Christian Wichan , who were still on the medal course in the first run as third and finally remained three hundredths of a second behind the bronze rank. The defending champions Patrick Pigneter and Florian Clara only drove the ninth fastest time in the first run due to a defect in their toboggan and did not start in the second run, which meant that ten of the eleven registered doubles were included in the ranking.
Team competition
| space | Surname | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Russia I.
|
83 |
| 2 |
Austria II
|
73 |
| 3 |
Austria I.
|
68 |
| 4th |
Italy I
|
66 |
| 5 |
Italy II
|
55 |
| 6th |
Russia II
|
51 |
| 7th |
Germany
|
49 |
| 8th |
Poland / Slovenia
|
47 |
| 9 |
Turkey / Ukraine
|
36 |
Date: February 17, 2012
The team competition, which was held for the second time at the European Championships, was won by the Russia I team with Jekaterina Lavrentjewa , Juri Talych , Pavel Porschnew and Ivan Lazarew . In the same composition, this team had already won the bronze medal at the 2011 World Cup . Silver and bronze went to the two Austrian teams. A total of nine teams were at the start, with two teams each from Italy, Austria and Russia and one from Germany participating as well as two mixed teams (Poland / Slovenia and Turkey / Ukraine).
Medal table
| space | country | gold | silver | bronze | total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. |
Russia
|
3 | - | - | 3 |
| 2. |
Italy
|
1 | - | 2 | 3 |
| 3. |
Austria
|
- | 4th | 2 | 6th |
Web links
- Call for applications (PDF file, 7.75 MB)
- Results on the website of the International Luge Federation
- Report on the team competition on the website of the International Luge Federation
- Report on the two-seater competition on the website of the International Luge Federation
- Report on the singles competitions on the website of the International Luge Federation
