European Natural Track Luge Championships 2014

The 25th European Natural Track Luge Championships of the Fédération Internationale de Luge de Course (FIL) took place from January 17th to 19th, 2014 in Umhausen , Austria .

Since the results of the European Championships also counted as World Cup results, all normally active tobogganers took part. For the European championship, however, only the times and runs of the tobogganists from Germany , Italy , Austria , Poland , Russia , Switzerland , Slovenia , Turkey , Ukraine and the United Kingdom counted . Jekaterina Lavrentjewa won the women's singles, Patrick Pigneter and Florian Clara won the doubles and the Italian team with Melanie Schwarz , Alex Gruber and the doubles Patrick Pigneter and Florian Clara 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

Surname	Grantau natural toboggan run
begin	1160  m above sea level A.
target	1040  m above sea level A.
Height difference	120 m
Average Tilt	12.1%
length	1,000 m

Single seater men

space	Surname	time
01	Patrick Pigneter	2: 25.71 min
02	Thomas Kammerlander	+ 01.38 s
03	Alex Gruber	+ 02.14 s
04th	Anton Blasbichler	+ 02.22 s
05	Stefan Gruber	+ 02.88 s
06th	Kaj Johnson	+ 03.50 s
07th	Stanislaw Kowschik	+ 03.53 s
08th	Florian Glatzl	+ 03.58 s
09	Michael Scheikl	+ 04.24 s
10	Bernd Neurauter	+ 04.43 s
11	Adam Jędrzejko	+ 04.72 s
12	Yuri Talych	+ 05.33 s
13	Alexander Yegorov	+ 05.33 s
14th	Galabin Bozew	+ 06.60 s
15th	Grigori Bukin	+ 06.74 s
16	Martin Mayerhofer	+ 07.00 s
17th	Damian Waniczek	+ 07.55 s
18th	Marcus Cruel	+ 07.81 s
19th	John Gibson	+ 08.82 s
20th	Christian Wichan	+ 09.90 s
21st	Isa Güzeloğlu	+ 013.92 s
22nd	Levi Underwood	+ 17.67 s
23	Novel Los	+ 17.74 s
24	Yavuz Ipek	+ 20.37 s
25th	Vincent Schultz	+ 38.39 s

The Italian Patrick Pigneter secured his third European title in the single-seater with the best running times in both series . He won ahead of local hero Thomas Kammerlander and his team-mate Alex Gruber from Italy.

Single-seater women

space	Surname	time
01	Ekaterina Lavrentieva	2: 30.31 min
02	Melanie Black	+ 00.31 s
03	Tina Unterberger	+ 01.41 s
04th	Evelin Lanthaler	+ 02.12 s
05	Lyudmila Aksenenko	+ 02.81 s
06th	Michaela Maurer	+ 03.17 s
07th	Christina Götschl	+ 05.57 s
08th	Michelle Diepold	+ 05.74 s
09	Theresa Maurer	+ 06.44 s
10	Petra Dragičevič	+ 6.55 s
11	Michaela Niemetz	+ 7.48 s
12	Darja Maleeva	+ 7.60 s
13	Svitlana Kravchuk	+ 12.04 s
14th	Carmen Planötscher	+ 15.77 s
15th	Asuman Bayrak	+ 39.65 s

Date: January 17th (1st race) and January 18, 2014 (2nd race)

The Russian Jekaterina Lavrentjewa was the fastest time in both races for the fourth time in a row and for the fifth time European champion in the single-seater. The silver medal went to the Italian Melanie Schwarz , for whom it was the first European Championship medal in a single seater. The bronze medal went to the Austrian Tina Unterberger .

Two-seater

space	Surname	time
01	Italy Patrick Pigneter Florian Clara	2: 36.41 min
02	Russia Pavel Pornev Ivan Lazarev	+ 00.09 s
03	Russia Alexander Yegorov Pyotr Popov	+ 02.55 s
04th	Austria Christian Schopf Andreas Schopf	+ 03.00 s
05	Austria Christoph Regensburg's Dominik Holzknecht	+ 04.19 s
06th	Poland Andrzej Laszczak Damian Waniczek	+ 04.25 s
07th	Austria Christoph Knauder Thomas Knauder	+ 07.62 s
08th	Germany Christian Wichan Oliver Schiller	+ 09.26 s
09	Romania Bogdan Moroșan Gabriel Candrea	+ 011.72 s
10	Bulgaria Petar Sawow Georgi Antschow	+ 14.84 s
011	Turkey Muhammet Dellalbasi Muhammet Ozcan	+ 018.05 s
12	United States Derek Carter Daryn Carter	+ 025.07 s

Date: January 17th (1st race) and January 18, 2014 (2nd race)

Team competition

space	Surname	time
1	Italy Melanie Schwarz Alex Gruber Patrick Pigneter - Florian Clara	3: 49.63
2	Russia Ekaterina Lavrentieva Stanislav Kowschik Pawel Porschnew - Ivan Lasarew	3: 51.92
3	Austria Tina Unterberger Thomas Kammerlander Christian Schopf - Andreas Schopf	3: 51.92
4th	Poland Wioletta Ryś Adam Jędrzejko Andrzej Laszczak - Damian Waniczek	3: 57.05
5	Germany Michaela Maurer Marcus Grausam Christian Wichan - Oliver Schiller	3: 59.97
6th	Romania Anișoara Hutopilă Adrian Filimon Bogdan Moroșan - Gabriel Candrea	4: 08.79
7th	Ukraine Angela Kravchuk Marjan Husner Novel Los - Svetlana Kravchuk	4: 12.42
8th	Turkey Asuman Bayrak İsa Güzeloğlu Muhammet Emi Dellalbasi - Muhammet Sait Ozcan	4: 17.36
9	United States Liesel Demeuse Vincent Schultz Daryn Carter - Derek Carter	4: 18.83

Date: January 18, 2014

Team Italy I with Melanie Schwarz won the team competition, which was held for the third time at the European Championships . Silver went to Russia and bronze to Austria. A total of nine teams were at the start, although as a change to 2012 each country only sent one team to the competition.

Medal table

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

Web links

• [1] on the website of the International Luge Federation
• Result men's singles
• Result women singles
• Result two-seater
• Team competition result