Natural Track Luge World Championship 2013
The 19th FIL Natural Track Luge World Championship took place from January 23 to 27, 2013 on the Pfösl-Riep natural toboggan run in Deutschnofen in South Tyrol ( Italy ). After training and the opening ceremony on January 24th, the team competition took place on Friday, January 25th. On January 26th, the doubles competition as well as the first two races in the women's singles and the first competition in the men’s singles were held. On Sunday, January 27th, the world championship ended with the third round in the women's singles and the second and third rounds in the men's singles. The organizing club was the ASV Deutschnofen.
The most successful participant was the Italian Patrick Pigneter , who, like in 2009, won three gold medals in the singles, doubles and team competitions. His partner in the doubles was Florian Clara , the team Italy 1, which won the team competition, also included Pigneter, his doubles partner Florian Clara and the two singles Melanie Schwarz and Alex Gruber . In the women's single-seater, the Russian Ekaterina Lavrentjewa won , making her the first woman to win the single-seater world for the fourth time.
Technical data of the natural toboggan run
| Surname | Pfösl-Riep natural toboggan run |
| Coordinates | 46 ° 24 ′ 11.3 "North, 11 ° 26 ′ 45" East |
| Start above sea level | 1505 m |
| Sea level destination | 1384 m |
| Height difference | 121 m |
| Route length | 871 m |
| Average gradient | 13% |
| Minimal gradient | 5% |
| Maximum gradient | 16% |
Men's singles
| space | Surname | time |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
 Patrick Pigneter
|
2: 44.11 min |
| 2 |
 Thomas Schopf
|
+ 0.06 s |
| 3 |
Alex Gruber
|
+ 0.58 s |
| 4th |
Hannes Clara
|
+ 1.13 s |
| 5 |
Thomas Kammerlander
|
+ 1.48 s |
| 6th |
Stefan Gruber
|
+ 1.83 s |
| 7th |
Florian Breitenberger
|
+ 1.98 s |
| 8th |
Michael Scheikl
|
+ 2.43 s |
| 9 |
Florian Clara
|
+ 2.85 s |
| 10 |
Gernot Schwab
|
+ 3.19 s |
| 11 |
 Georg Maurer
|
+ 3.22 s |
| 12 |
Gerald Kammerlander
|
+ 3.27 s |
| 13 |
 Stanislaw Kowschik
|
+ 3.40 s |
| 14th |
 Adam Jędrzejko
|
+ 3.64 s |
| 15th |
Bernd Neurauter
|
+ 4.68 s |
| 16 |
Alexander Yegorov
|
+ 4.73 s |
| 17th |
Christoph Regensburger
|
+ 4.89 s |
| 18th |
 Kaj Johnson
|
+ 5.22 s |
| 19th |
Yuri Talych
|
+ 5.51 s |
| 20th |
Grigori Bukin
|
+ 5.81 s |
| 21st |
Damian Waniczek
|
+ 6.93 s |
| 22nd |
Marcus Cruel
|
+ 8.60 s |
| 23 |
John Gibson
|
+ 8.75 s |
| 24 |
 Galabin Bozew
|
+ 9.62 s |
| 25th |
 Miha Meglič
|
+ 9.79 s |
| 26th |
Matic Nemc
|
+ 10.09 s |
| 27 |
 Marjan Husner
|
+ 11.37 s |
| 28 |
Andrzej Laszczak
|
+ 13.52 s |
| 29 |
Petar Savov
|
+ 15.27 s |
| 30th |
 Adrian Filimon
|
+ 16.15 s |
| 31 |
Andrij Wertuk
|
+ 16.41 s |
| 32 |
Liam Simmons
|
+ 16.88 s |
| 33 |
Cosmin Codine
|
+ 18.92 s |
| 34 |
 Yakov Bukin
|
+ 20.26 s |
| 35 |
 Joshua Fogo
|
+ 20.76 s |
| 36 |
Jack Leslie
|
+ 24.01 s |
| 37 |
 Michael Törnquist
|
+ 25.79 s |
| 38 |
Novel Los
|
+ 31.89 s |
| 39 |
 İsa Güzeloğlu
|
+ 34.68 s |
| 40 |
Nikolai Stoitschkov
|
+ 39.45 s |
| 41 |
 Derek Carter
|
+ 41.81 s |
| 42 |
Daryn Carter
|
+ 56.88 s |
| 43 |
Derek Rogers
|
+1: 07.44 min |
| 44 |
Liviu Croitoru
|
+1: 17.11 min |
| 45 |
Muhammad Emin Dellalbaşı
|
+1: 30.31 min |
| 46 |
 Josip Braje
|
+ 1: 32.80 min |
| 47 |
Muhammet Sait Özcan
|
+ 2: 05.37 min |
| 48 |
Ivan Balijan
|
+ 2: 36.46 min |
| - |
Bogdan Moroșan
|
DNS (1st run) |
| - |
Yavuz İpek
|
DNF (1st run) |
Date: January 26th (1st race) and January 27th 2013 (2nd and 3rd race)
Patrick Pigneter from Italy, who was already successful in the team and two-seater competitions , also won the single-seater race. For the second time since 2009, he was victorious in all three decisions. At the last World Cup in 2011 , he won the bronze medal in the single seater. The silver medal went to the Austrian Thomas Schopf , who was only six hundredths of a second behind Pigneter after three races. He already had this deficit after the first race and drove the second and third runs just as fast as Pigneter. For Schopf it was the second world championship medal in the single seater after bronze in 2009. Third was the Italian Alex Gruber , for whom it was the first world championship medal. Defending champion Gerald Kammerlander finished twelfth in his last major event.
Ladies singles
| space | Surname | time |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Ekaterina Lavrentieva
|
2: 46.87 min |
| 2 |
Melanie Black
|
+ 2.00 s |
| 3 |
Evelin Lanthaler
|
+ 2.22 s |
| 4th |
Greta Pinggera
|
+ 3.73 s |
| 5 |
Michaela Maurer
|
+ 5.12 s |
| 6th |
Tina Unterberger
|
+ 5.22 s |
| 7th |
Sarah Gruber
|
+ 5.27 s |
| 8th |
Lyudmila Aksenenko
|
+ 5.87 s |
| 9 |
Theresa Maurer
|
+ 6.33 s |
| 10 |
Veronika Nachmann
|
+ 7.25 s |
| 11 |
Marlies Wagner
|
+ 7.95 s |
| 12 |
Svetlana Sharavina
|
+ 7.98 s |
| 13 |
Maria Auer
|
+ 8.63 s |
| 14th |
Petra Dragičevič
|
+ 9.36 s |
| 15th |
Wioletta Ryś
|
+ 9.45 s |
| 16 |
Christina Götschl
|
+ 10.03 s |
| 17th |
Michaela Niemetz
|
+ 10.94 s |
| 18th |
Maria Komarevtseva
|
+ 20.61 s |
| 19th |
Switlana Kravchuk
|
+ 27.53 s |
| 20th |
Katrin Tsvetanova
|
+ 36.23 s |
| 21st |
Katarina Černe
|
+ 45.94 s |
| 22nd |
Anișoara Hutopilă
|
+ 48.96 s |
| 23 |
Asuman Bayrak
|
+ 51.36 s |
| 24 |
Sinem Aydınlı
|
+1: 02.07 min |
| 25th |
Lorena Rubinic
|
+ 2: 29.74 min |
| 26th |
Lucija Ivančić
|
+ 3: 33.07 min |
| - |
Liesel Demeuse
|
DNF (2nd run) |
Date: January 26th (1st and 2nd race) and January 27, 2013 (3rd race)
After Renate Gietl , the 2009 and 2011 world champion, resigned , the Russian Ekaterina Lavrentieva won her fourth world title in the single-seater. Lavrentjewa had already won the gold medal in 2000 , 2005 and 2007 and was second behind Gietl at the last two world championships. With the best running times in all three rounds, she achieved a lead of exactly two seconds over silver medalist Melanie Schwarz from Italy, who came third at the last World Cup. The bronze medal also went to Italy with Evelin Lanthaler . For her it was the first World Championship medal after she had already stood on the podium at the European Championships in 2010 and 2012 .
Two-seater
| space | Surname | time |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Patrick Pigneter - Florian Clara
|
1: 56.08 min |
| 2 |
Christian Schopf - Andreas Schopf
|
+ 1.30 s |
| 3 |
Thomas Schopf - Andreas Schöpf
|
+ 1.47 s |
| 4th |
Alexander Yegorov - Pyotr Popov
|
+ 1.63 s |
| 5 |
Pavel Pornev - Ivan Lazarev
|
+ 1.67 s |
| 6th |
Hannes Clara - Stefan Gruber
|
+ 2.22 s |
| 7th |
Christian Schatz - Gerhard Mühlbacher
|
+ 3.20 s |
| 8th |
Pavel Silin - Ivan Rodin
|
+ 3.23 s |
| 9 |
Björn Kierspel - Christian Wichan
|
+ 3.45 s |
| 10 |
Andrzej Laszczak - Damian Waniczek
|
+ 4.07 s |
| 11 |
Stanislaw Kowschik - Ilya Tarasov
|
+ 5.89 s |
| 12 |
Matic Nemc - Petra Dragičevič
|
+ 11.34 s |
| 13 |
Marjan Husner - Andrij Wertuk
|
+ 16.13 s |
| 14th |
Petar Sawow - Nikolai Stoitschkow
|
+ 30.83 s |
| - |
Bogdan Moroșan - Adrian Filimon
|
DNF (2nd run) |
Date: January 26, 2013 (both races)
After their second place at the 2011 World Cup , the Italians Patrick Pigneter and Florian Clara became world champions in doubles for the second time since 2009 . With the best running times in both races they distanced the second placed Austrians Christian Schopf and Andreas Schopf by 1.30 seconds. The Schopf brothers had also won a World Cup silver medal four years ago, and Andreas Schopf and his cousin Wolfgang Schopf were world champions in 2001 and 2003 . Third place went to the Austrians Thomas Schopf and Andreas Schöpf , who won their first World Cup medal in the doubles.
Team competition
| space | Surname | time |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Italy 1
|
2: 49.35 min |
| 2 |
Russia 1
|
2: 51.77 min |
| 3 |
Italy 2
|
2: 52.92 min |
| 4th |
Austria 2
|
2: 53.48 min |
| 5 |
Germany
|
2: 53.60 min |
| 6th |
Russia 2
|
2: 53.79 min |
| 7th |
Poland
|
2: 55.20 min |
| 8th |
Slovenia
|
3: 14.64 min |
| 9 |
Bulgaria
|
3: 16.90 min |
| 10 |
Ukraine
|
3: 29.42 min |
| 11 |
Romania
|
3: 34.30 min |
| - |
Austria 1 |
DNF |
Date: January 25, 2013
For the first time, the team competition was decided directly by the sum of the times driven and no longer by points. As in the last two World Championships, Team Italy 1 won, but this time with other starters in the single-seaters. The silver medal went to Team Russia 1 ahead of the second Italian team Italy 2. Team Austria 1 was eliminated after the two-seater pair Schopf / Schopf fell.
Medal table
| space | country | gold | silver | bronze | total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. |
Italy
|
3 | 1 | 3 | 7th |
| 2. |
Russia
|
1 | 1 | - | 2 |
| 3. |
Austria
|
- | 2 | 1 | 3 |
Web links
- Organizer website
- Results on the website of the International Luge Federation
- Preliminary report 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 singles competitions on the website of the International Luge Federation
