Natural Track Luge World Championship 2011
The 18th FIL Natural Track Luge World Championship took place from January 26th to 30th, 2011 on the Grantau natural toboggan run in Umhausen in the Austrian state of Tyrol . After the day of arrival and a training day, the team competition and the opening ceremony took place on Friday, January 28th. On Saturday both races in the doubles, the first two races in the women’s singles and the first competition in the men’s singles were held. On Sunday, January 30th, the world championship ended with the third round in the women's singles and the second and third rounds in the men's singles. A total of 72 tobogganists from 13 countries took part in the competition runs. The world championship titles went to the Italian Renate Gietl in the women's singles, the Austrian Gerald Kammerlander in the men’s singles and the Russians Pawel Porschnew and Iwan Lasarew in the doubles. Team Italy I won the team competition with Renate Gietl, Anton Blasbichler , Patrick Pigneter and Florian Clara .
Technical data of the natural toboggan run
| Surname | Grantau natural toboggan run |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 7 ′ 8.67 ″ North, 10 ° 55 ′ 46.75 ″ East |
| Start above sea level | 1160 m |
| Sea level destination | 1040 m |
| Height difference | 120 m |
| Route length | 955 m |
| Average gradient | 12.6% |
Single seater men
| space | Surname | time |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
 Gerald Kammerlander
|
3: 37.61 min |
| 2 |
Robert Batkowski
|
+ 0.04 s |
| 3 |
 Patrick Pigneter
|
+ 0.34 s |
| 4th |
Thomas Kammerlander
|
+ 0.98 s |
| 5 |
Rudi Resch
|
+ 1.07 s |
| 6th |
Florian Breitenberger
|
+ 1.24 s |
| 7th |
Florian Clara
|
+ 1.49 s |
| 8th |
Anton Blasbichler
|
+ 2.18 s |
| 9 |
Florian Batkowski
|
+ 3.17 s |
| 10 |
Hannes Clara
|
+ 3.56 s |
| 11 |
Gernot Schwab
|
+ 4.15 s |
| 12 |
 Georg Maurer
|
+ 4.83 s |
| 13 |
Stefan Gruber
|
+ 5.05 s |
| 14th |
Thomas Schopf
|
+ 5.23 s |
| 15th |
 Kaj Johnson
|
+ 5.25 s |
| 16 |
 Adam Jędrzejko
|
+ 7.29 s |
| 17th |
 Yuri Talych
|
+ 7.47 s |
| 18th |
 Žiga Pagon
|
+ 7.54 s |
| 19th |
Bjorn Kierspel
|
+ 8.24 s |
| 20th |
 Galabin Bozew
|
+ 9.13 s |
| 21st |
John Gibson
|
+ 9.79 s |
| 22nd |
Greg Jones
|
+ 10.18 s |
| 23 |
Damian Waniczek
|
+ 10.61 s |
| 24 |
Christian Wichan
|
+ 12.37 s |
| 25th |
Matic Nemc
|
+ 13.01 s |
| 26th |
Miha Meglič
|
+ 13.55 s |
| 27 |
Andrzej Laszczak
|
+ 15.18 s |
| 28 |
 Marjan Husner
|
+ 18.96 s |
| 29 |
Petar Savov
|
+ 19.87 s |
| 30th |
Ihor Senjuk
|
+ 21.66 s |
| 31 |
 Michael Törnquist
|
+ 23.83 s |
| 32 |
 David Scott
|
+ 25.96 s |
| 33 |
 Cosmin Codine
|
+ 27.53 s |
| 34 |
Bogdan Moroșan
|
+ 27.87 s |
| 35 |
Yusuf Kasov
|
+ 31.85 s |
| 36 |
 Daniel Hofmann
|
+ 32.10 s |
| 37 |
Alexandru Vîlcan
|
+ 33.77 s |
| 38 |
Andrij Wertuk
|
+ 34.48 s |
| 39 |
Ben Macintosh
|
+ 43.21 s |
| 40 |
Georgi Antschow
|
+1: 05.15 min |
| - |
Pavel Silin
|
DNS (1st run) |
| - |
Sam Wake
|
DNS (1st run) |
| - |
Ivan Lazarev
|
DNS (1st run) |
| - |
Bogdan Filimon
|
DNS (1st run) |
| - |
Ilya Tarasov
|
DNS (1st run) |
| - |
Stanislaw Kowschik
|
DNS (1st run) |
| - |
Andrij Tolopko
|
DNF (2nd run) |
Date: January 29th (1st race) and January 30th 2011 (2nd and 3rd race)
Gerald Kammerlander from Austria set the fastest time in the first of the three races. After that, twice the third-best time was enough for him to win the gold medal in front of his compatriot Robert Batkowski , the world champion of 2003 , who was only fifth after race one, then drove the second-fastest time twice and was only four hundredths of a second behind Kammerlander in the final classification. The defending champion Patrick Pigneter from Italy was in the lead after two runs, but with only the sixth fastest time in the third run, he missed the chance of another victory.
Single-seater women
| space | Surname | time |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Renate Gietl
|
3: 40.43 min |
| 2 |
Ekaterina Lavrentieva
|
+ 0.24 s |
| 3 |
Melanie Black
|
+ 2.88 s |
| 4th |
Melanie Batkowski
|
+ 3.23 s |
| 5 |
Evelin Lanthaler
|
+ 6.12 s |
| 6th |
Sara Bachmann
|
+ 6.43 s |
| 7th |
Michaela Maurer
|
+ 6.85 s |
| 8th |
Alexandra Obrist
|
+ 7.00 s |
| 9 |
Marlies Wagner
|
+ 9.62 s |
| 10 |
Olga Sidorova
|
+ 9.85 s |
| 11 |
Lyudmila Aksenenko
|
+ 11.06 s |
| 12 |
Tina Unterberger
|
+ 11.53 s |
| 13 |
Katrin Mladek
|
+ 11.57 s |
| 14th |
Veronika Nachmann
|
+ 12.64 s |
| 15th |
 Irma Karišik
|
+ 15.35 s |
| 16 |
Wioletta Ryś
|
+ 17.68 s |
| 17th |
Petra Dragičevič
|
+ 19.85 s |
| 18th |
Maria Manuela Danci
|
+ 35.17 s |
Date: January 29th (1st and 2nd race) and January 30, 2011 (3rd race)
The Italian Renate Gietl successfully defended her world championship title from 2009 with the best times in the second and third rounds . The Russian Jekaterina Lavrentjewa - world champion in 2000 , 2005 and 2007 - achieved the fastest time in the first and third run (ex aequo with Gietl), but lost almost three tenths of a second to the Italian in the second run and was finally like at the last World Cup Second. The bronze medal went to the Italian Melanie Schwarz .
Two-seater
| space | Surname | time |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Pavel Pornev - Ivan Lazarev
|
2: 33.24 min |
| 2 |
Patrick Pigneter - Florian Clara
|
+ 0.66 s |
| 3 |
Andrzej Laszczak - Damian Waniczek
|
+ 2.02 s |
| 4th |
Christian Schatz - Gerhard Mühlbacher
|
+ 2.06 s |
| 5 |
Florian Breitenberger - David Mair
|
+ 2.14 s |
| 6th |
Christian Schopf - Andreas Schopf
|
+ 2.33 s |
| 7th |
Björn Kierspel - Christian Wichan
|
+ 3.97 s |
| 8th |
Christoph Knauder - Thomas Knauder
|
+ 4.48 s |
| 9 |
Stanislaw Kowschik - Ilya Tarasov
|
+ 4.63 s |
| 10 |
Pavel Silin - Ilya Korobov
|
+ 7.72 s |
| 11 |
Galabin Bozew - Petar Savov
|
+ 13.83 s |
| - |
Bogdan Moroșan - Bogdan Filimon
|
DNS (1st run) |
Date: January 29, 2011 (both races)
The Russians Pawel Porschnew and Ivan Lasarew drove the fastest time in the first race, the second fastest in the second and became world champions in the doubles for the third time after 2005 and 2007 . Second place went to the defending champions Patrick Pigneter and Florian Clara from Italy. They were in third position after the first run and improved by one place with the fastest time in the second run. The bronze medal went to the Poles Andrzej Laszczak and Damian Waniczek , as they did at the World Championships in 2000 , 2005 and 2009 . After race one they were only sixth and achieved a podium position with the third fastest time in the second run, four hundredths of a second ahead of the Austrians Christian Schatz and Gerhard Mühlbacher , who were still on course for medals with the second fastest time in the first run, but in the second run only achieved the sixth best time.
Team competition
| space | Surname | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Italy I
|
79 |
| 2 |
Austria I.
|
72 |
| 3 |
Russia I.
|
71 |
| 4th |
Austria II
|
68 |
| 5 |
Italy II
|
61 |
| 6th |
Germany
|
53 |
| 7th |
Russia II
|
44 |
| 8th |
Poland
|
43 |
| 9 |
Bulgaria / Bosnia and Herzegovina
|
37 |
Date: January 28, 2011
Team Italy I won the team competition with the highest number of points, the best overall time and the fastest time in the women's singles, which was already world champion in 2009 with the same composition . The silver medal went to Team Austria I ahead of Team Russia I, which set the fastest time in a doubles. The fourth-placed team Austria II won the men's single-seater race and had an overall time five hundredths of a second better than the third-placed Russian team, but three points less. There were nine teams at the start, with Italy, Austria and Russia each providing two and Germany and Poland one team. There was also a mixed team with tobogganers from Bulgaria and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Medal table
| space | country | gold | silver | bronze | total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. |
Italy
|
2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 2. |
Austria
|
1 | 2 | - | 3 |
| 3. |
Russia
|
1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 4th |
Poland
|
- | - | 1 | 1 |
Web links
- Organizer website
- 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 women's singles competition on the website of the International Luge Federation
- Report on the men's singles competition on the website of the International Luge Federation
