Natural Track Luge Junior European Championship 2011
The 31st FIL - Natural Track Luge Junior European Championship took place from February 3rd to 6th 2011 in Laas in South Tyrol ( Italy ). After the training runs and the opening ceremony on Friday, the decisions in the doubles and singles competitions were made on Saturday and Sunday. The executing association was the ASC Laas.
Technical data of the natural toboggan run
Surname | Gafair toboggan run |
Coordinates | 46 ° 36 ′ 40 "North, 10 ° 40 ′ 55" East |
begin | 1003 m slm |
target | 878 m slm |
Height difference | 125 m |
length | 850 m |
Average gradient | 14.1% |
Minimal gradient | 10% |
Maximum gradient | 24% |
Single seater men
space | Surname | time |
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1 | Alex Gruber | 3: 05.43 min |
2 | Lukas Brunner | + 0.07 s |
3 | Tobias Mair | + 2.19 s |
4th | Florian Glatzl | + 2.99 s |
5 | Stanislaw Kowschik | + 3.33 s |
6th | Patrick Salcher | + 3.41 s |
7th | Martin Kerschbaumer | + 3.95 s |
8th | Bernd Neurauter | + 4.55 s |
9 | Łukasz Goryl | + 4.81 s |
10 | Dominik Kirchmaier | + 6.25 s |
Date: February 5 (1st race) and February 6, 2011 (2nd and 3rd race)
In the men's singles competition, all three medals went to the host country Italy. Alex Gruber won the gold medal after he had already won the silver medal at the Junior World Championships last year . Second was Lukas Brunner, who set the fastest time in the second and third races, but was already too far behind Gruber from the first run. The bronze medal went to Tobias Mair. 29 of 30 registered tobogganers started and crossed the finish line.
Single-seater women
space | Surname | time |
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1 | Evelin Lanthaler | 3: 07.45 min |
2 | Sarah Gruber | + | 1.29 s
3 | Alexandra Obrist | + | 1.56 s
4th | Carmen Planötscher | + | 1.91 s
5 | Sara Bachmann | + | 4.43 s
6th | Svetlana Sharavina | + | 9.60 s
7th | Lyubov Starikova | + 10.78 s |
8th | Wioletta Ryś | + 11.50 s |
9 | Sabrina Pimpl | + 12.91 s |
10 | Darja Maleeva | + 14.18 s |
Date: February 5 (1st race) and February 6, 2011 (2nd and 3rd race)
Italy achieved a five-fold victory in the women's singles. Evelin Lanthaler won her third gold medal at international junior championships in a row with the fastest time in all three rounds. Second place went to Sarah Gruber, who won her first medal, and third place went to Alexandra Obrist, who was third at the last Junior European Championship and was second at the Junior World Championship last year . 15 of 16 registered tobogganers started and crossed the finish line.
Two-seater
space | Surname | time |
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1 | Maxim Zwetkow - Denis Moissejew | 2: 13.05 min |
2 | Christoph Regensburger - Dominik Holzknecht | + | 0.50 s
3 | Stanislaw Kowschik - Ilya Tarasov | + | 0.92 s
4th | Pavel Silin - Ilya Korobov | + | 4.15 s
5 | Łukasz Goryl - Mirosław Sojka | + | 4.84 s
6th | Bogdan Moroșan - Alexandru Vîlcan | + 21.19 s |
7th | Yusuf Kasow - Georgi Antschow | + 21.90 s |
Date: February 5, 2011 (both races)
With the fastest time in the second race, the Russians Maxim Zwetkow and Denis Moissejew won the gold medal in the two-seater ahead of the Austrians Christoph Regensburger and Dominik Holzknecht, who led after the first run. Regensburger won the gold medal at the Junior European Championships 2009 and the Junior World Championships 2010 together with Thomas Kammerlander , who has not started in the junior class since this year. For the duo Zwetkow and Moissejew it was the first medal at international junior championships, as well as for their compatriots Stanislaw Kowschik and Ilja Tarasow, who won bronze. 7 of 8 registered two-seater pairs started and came into the ranking.
Medal table
space | country | gold | silver | bronze | total |
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1. | Italy | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6th |
2. | Russia | 1 | - | 1 | 2 |
3. | Austria | - | 1 | - | 1 |
Web links
- Results 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