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 |
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1 | Gerald Kallan | 3: 23.67 min |
2 | Gerhard Pilz | + | 0.03 s
3 | Anton Blasbichler | + | 0.67 s
4th | Reinhard Gruber | + | 1.09 s
5 | Robert Batkowski | + | 1.34 s
6th | Ferdinand Hirzegger | + | 1.94 s
7th | Martin Gruber | + | 2.47 s
8th | Gernot Schwab | + | 2.91 s
9 | Roland Kallan | + | 3.16 s
10 | Andreas Castiglioni | + | 3.58 s
11 | Gašper Benedik | + | 3.97 s
12 | Borut Fejfar | + | 4.13 s
13 | Daniel Quitta | + | 4.14 s
14th | David Mair | + | 4.62 s
15th | Marcus Cruel | + | 4.83 s
16 | Grega Spendov | + | 5.64 s
17th | Borut Kralj | + | 5.97 s
18th | Florian Breitenberger | + | 6.48 s
19th | Patrick Clemens | + | 7.70 s
20th | Tomi Ahonen | + | 7.84 s
21st | Knut Solheim | + | 8.43 s
22nd | Bostjan Vizjak | + | 9.51 s
23 | Denis Alimov | + | 9.93 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 |
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1 | Ekaterina Lavrentieva | 3: 28.30 min |
2 | Sonja Steinacher | + | 0.71 s
3 | Elvira Holzknecht | + | 1.85 s
4th | Sandra Mariner | + | 2.58 s
5 | Lyubov Panjutina | + | 3.31 s
6th | Erna Schweigl | + | 3.40 s
7th | Marlies Wagner | + | 3.73 s
8th | Simona Martin | + | 4.74 s
9 | Polina Danilevskaya | + | 7.34 s
10 | Sabine Kogler | + | 7.98 s
11 | Magdalena Hula | + | 8.55 s
12 | Julia Wetlowa | + | 9.06 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 |
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1 | Armin Mair - David Mair | 2: 22.43 min |
2 | Reinhard Beer - Herbert Kögl | + 0.75 s |
3 | Andrzej Laszczak - Damian Waniczek | + 0.87 s |
4th | Peter Lechner - Peter Braunegger | + 1.22 s |
5 | Harald Kleinhofer - Gerhard Mühlbacher | + 1.49 s |
6th | Denis Alimov - Roman Molwistow | + 2.13 s |
7th | Thomas Graf - Michael Graf | + 3.21 s |
8th | Eddy Perrin - Emanuele Giannelli | + 3.43 s |
9 | 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 |
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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 .