Natural Track Luge World Championship 2000

The 12th FIL Natural Track Luge World Championship 2000 took place from January 28th to 30th on the Panorama toboggan run in Olang in South Tyrol , Italy . Italy, Austria and Russia each won one of the three competitions . The most successful nation with a total of four medals was Austria. In addition to these three countries, which had previously won all medals at natural track tobogganing world championships, a medal went to Poland for the first time this year .

Single seater men

space	Surname	time
01	Gerald Kallan	3: 23.67 min
02	Gerhard Pilz	+ 00.03 s
03	Anton Blasbichler	+ 00.67 s
04th	Reinhard Gruber	+ 01.09 s
05	Robert Batkowski	+ 01.34 s
06th	Ferdinand Hirzegger	+ 01.94 s
07th	Martin Gruber	+ 02.47 s
08th	Gernot Schwab	+ 02.91 s
09	Roland Kallan	+ 03.16 s
10	Andreas Castiglioni	+ 03.58 s
11	Gašper Benedik	+ 03.97 s
12	Borut Fejfar	+ 04.13 s
13	Daniel Quitta	+ 04.14 s
14th	David Mair	+ 04.62 s
15th	Marcus Cruel	+ 04.83 s
16	Grega Spendov	+ 05.64 s
17th	Borut Kralj	+ 05.97 s
18th	Florian Breitenberger	+ 06.48 s
19th	Patrick Clemens	+ 07.70 s
20th	Tomi Ahonen	+ 07.84 s
21st	Knut Solheim	+ 08.43 s
22nd	Bostjan Vizjak	+ 09.51 s
23	Denis Alimov	+ 09.93 s
24	Alexei Lebedev	+ 10.60 s
25th	Waldemar Siąkała	+ 10.85 s
26th	Luis Reichl	+ 11.14 s
27	Roman Molwistov	+ 11.77 s
28	Michael Törnquist	+ 12.40 s
29	Corey Pusey	+ 12.56 s
30th	Hansjörg Mühlbacher	+ 12.58 s
31	Kristian Roel	+ 12.92 s
32	Georg Maurer	+ 13.07 s
33	Stephan Melliger	+ 14.98 s
34	Andrew Kolody	+ 16.39 s
35	Krzysztof Pisuk	+ 18.39 s
36	Ivan Lazarev	+ 18.47 s
37	Stuart Robinson	+ 18.91 s
38	John Gibson	+ 19.39 s
39	Hans-Rudolf Baumann	+ 19.71 s
40	Tobias Kern	+ 19.85 s
41	Ted Allen	+ 20.22 s
42	Joshua Reinaas	+ 21.07 s
43	Sebastian Jeziorko	+ 23.84 s
44	Alexander Sitov	+ 25.08 s
45	Petr Pulcer	+ 27.69 s
46	Lukáš Ševít	+ 28.89 s
47	Edgars Musperts	+ 29.06 s
48	Tomáš Papiorek	+ 30.29 s
49	Eddy Dunlop	+ 30.37 s
50	Makis Nimanis	+ 30.93 s
51	Peter Stiepan	+ 31.17 s
52	Robi Kalisnik	+ 32.55 s
53	John Gannon	+ 33.55 s
54	David Sjödin	+ 33.67 s
55	Nick Schellenberg	+ 37.99 s
56	Emil Radew	+ 45.69 s
57	Emil Lasarov	+ 48.15 s
58	Dessislaw Charlow	+ 48.88 s
59	Yevhen Bilonenko	+ 50.90 s
60	Alex Ogilvie	+1: 00.83 min
-	Ben Heijmeijer	DNF (2nd run)
-	Michael Price	DNF (1st run)
-	Andrij Hitaylo	DNF (1st run)
-	Fredi Tompinas	DNS (1st run)
-	Victor Galescu	DNS (1st run)
-	Damian Waniczek	DNS (1st run)
-	Louis Alain	DNS (1st run)
-	Ivar Dijk	DNS (1st run)
-	Andrzej Laszczak	DNS (1st run)
-	Rosen Zlatew	DNS (1st run)

The Austrian Gerald Kallan became world champion in the men's single-seater with the fastest time in the first of three rounds . For him it was the first World Cup medal. Second place went to five-time world champion Gerhard Pilz , also from Austria, who, despite the best times in the second and third rounds, was unable to make up the deficit from the first run. Anton Blasbichler from Italy won bronze and with it his third medal at world championships. The defending champion Reinhard Gruber finished fourth.

Single-seater women

space	Surname	time
01	Ekaterina Lavrentieva	3: 28.30 min
02	Sonja Steinacher	+ 00.71 s
03	Elvira Holzknecht	+ 01.85 s
04th	Sandra Mariner	+ 02.58 s
05	Lyubov Panjutina	+ 03.31 s
06th	Erna Schweigl	+ 03.40 s
07th	Marlies Wagner	+ 03.73 s
08th	Simona Martin	+ 04.74 s
09	Polina Danilevskaya	+ 07.34 s
10	Sabine Kogler	+ 07.98 s
11	Magdalena Hula	+ 08.55 s
12	Julia Wetlowa	+ 09.06 s
13	Ewelina Żurek	+ 12.85 s
14th	Lorraine Thirsk	+ 14.85 s
15th	Ursina Schneider	+ 20.55 s
16	Jenny Hultman	+ 21.80 s
17th	Michaela Maurer	+ 21.99 s
18th	Ekaterina Zaroutskaya	+ 30.98 s
-	Kristine Pudogina	DNF (2nd run)
-	Christa Gietl	DNS (1st run)
-	Mirela Stramaturaru	DNS (1st run)

In the women's single-seater, the Russian Ekaterina Lavrentjewa became world champion for the first time with the best times in all three rounds. With the second best time in each case, Sonja Steinacher from Italy took silver. At the previous World Cup in 1998 , she was already third. The bronze medal went to the Austrian Elvira Holzknecht with the third-best running time. For her, it was the third and last medal at world championships after winning silver in 1992 and 1996 . The defending champion Lyubow Panjutina finished fifth.

Two-seater

space	Surname	time
01	Armin Mair - David Mair	2: 22.43 min
02	Reinhard Beer - Herbert Kögl	+ 0.75 s
03	Andrzej Laszczak - Damian Waniczek	+ 0.87 s
04th	Peter Lechner - Peter Braunegger	+ 1.22 s
05	Harald Kleinhofer - Gerhard Mühlbacher	+ 1.49 s
06th	Denis Alimov - Roman Molwistow	+ 2.13 s
07th	Thomas Graf - Michael Graf	+ 3.21 s
08th	Eddy Perrin - Emanuele Giannelli	+ 3.43 s
09	Alexei Lebedev - Ivan Lazarev	+ 5.17 s
10	Alexander Sitov - Sergei Garipov	?
11	Sebastian Jeziorko - Krzysztof Pisuk	?

The two-seater competition was won by Armin Mair and David Mair from Italy, who were already in the lead after the first of two races. The Austrian two-seater couple Reinhard Beer and Herbert Kögl were able to work their way up to second after finishing fifth in the first run with the fastest time in the second run. The bronze medal went to Andrzej Laszczak and Damian Waniczek , who won the first medal at the natural track luge world championships for Poland.

Medal table

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

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. 297 .

Web links

• Results on the FIL website