2017 Asian Luge Championships

winner
2017 Asian Luge Championships
	Men's	Ladies
Single seater	India Shiva Keshavan	Korea South Sung Eun-ryung
Two-seater	Korea South Jin-yong / Jung-myung
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The 2017 Asian Luge Championships were the third edition of the Asian Continental Luge Championships. They were held on December 1, 2017 as part of the Nations Cup for the 3rd World Cup race of the 2017/18 season in the DKB ice canal in Altenberg , Germany . There were competitions in the single-seater for men and women and the double-seater for men. All competitions were decided in one run; the results of the Nations Cup races in the respective disciplines were used for the evaluation (race-in-race procedure).

Originally, the Asian Championship was planned in 2017 - as the first two editions in 2015 and 2016 - again on the Bob toboggan run spiral in Japanese Nagano to take place. This was not possible due to scheduling and technical reasons.

It was won on the track in Altenberger Kohlgrund by the South Korean Sung Eun-ryung in the women's singles, the Indian Shiva Keshavan in the men's singles and the South Koreans Park Jin-yong and Cho Jung-myung in the two-seater competition.

Women's singles

Sung Eun-ryung, winner in the women's singles

space	sportswoman	time
01	Korea South Sung Eun-ryung	52.452 seconds
02	Kazakhstan Anastassija Bogacheva	+1.575 s
03	Korea South Choi Eun-ju	+1.844 s
DNF	Korea South Aileen Frisch

The favorite for the title in the women's singles was the Korean Aileen Frisch . Frisch started for the German bobsleigh and sledge association until 2015 and then ended her career after the 2014/15 season due to the persistent lack of prospects in the German team. At the beginning of February 2017 she made her comeback in Oberhof and has since competed for the South Korean national luge team. In October 2017, she suffered a foot fracture in a training fall. At the previous World Cup events of the 2017/18 season in Innsbruck-Igls and Winterberg , she managed, despite this injury, to qualify in the Nations Cup for the World Cup races, where she finished 19 (Innsbruck-Igls) and 22 (Winterberg). None of their competitors succeeded in this in the fight for the Asian continental title.

At the competition on the Altenberger Bahn, which is Frisch's home track from her time at RRC Altenberg , four starters were registered. Three from South Korea and one from Kazakhstan . Aileen Frisch had a hard crash and therefore did not finish. She sustained an ankle injury that affected the ligaments and tendons. Frisch's team-mate Sung Eun-ryung secured the Asian championship title ahead of Kazakh Anastassija Bogatschowa , who finished second with a clear gap of 1.575 seconds, and Choi Eun-ju , who also competed for South Korea. She reached the bronze rank with a gap of 1.844 seconds.

In the Race-in-Race Nations Cup races, Eun-ryung reached 14th place and was thus able to qualify for the World Cup race for the first time in the 2017/18 season. Second placed Bogatschowa finished 30th, Eun-ju crossed the finish line in 31st place. The Nations Cup race was won by Jessica Tiebel from Germany ahead of Summer Britcher from the USA and Birgit Platzer from Austria .

Men's single seaters

Shiva Keshavan, winner in the men's singles

space	sportswoman	time
01	India Shiva Keshavan	55,600 seconds
02	Chinese Taipei Lien Te-an	+0.520 s
03	Korea South Kang Doung-kyu	+0.905 s
04th	Korea South Lim Nam-kyu	+1.150 s
05	Kazakhstan Nikita Kopyrenko	+1.751 s
06th	Korea South Kim Dong-hyeon	+9.768 s

Six starters were registered in the men's single-seater competition, including three participants from South Korea and one each from Chinese Taipei , India and Kazakhstan . None of the registered starters was able to qualify for the World Cup races in the previous World Cup events of the 2017/18 season in Innsbruck-Igls or Winterberg . The favorite was the Indian Shiva Keshavan , who finished 26th and 23rd in the Nations Cup races in Innsbruck-Igls and Winterberg and went into the race in Altenberger Kohlgrund as the defending champion . The five-time Olympian lived up to this role and won the title again. Te-An Lien , who started for Chinese Taipei, came in second . He reached the finish with 0.520 seconds behind the South Korean Kang Doung-kyu , who drove 0.905 seconds behind the bronze rank. Outside the medal ranks, South Korean Lim Nam-kyu finished fourth, 1.150 seconds behind , Kazakh Nikita Kopyrenko , 1.751 seconds behind, fifth, and Nam-kyu's team-mate Kim Dong-hyeon, 9.768 seconds back. Dong-hyeon started the race as the fastest to start, but had major problems as the race continued on the Altenberger Bahn, which, along with the 2010 Olympic track in Whistler, is considered the heaviest and most dangerous track in the world and therefore only reached the goal with a clear margin Residue.

In the Race-in-Race Nations Cup race, Keshavan reached 25th, Lien 30th, Doung-kyu 34th, Nam-kyu 36th and Kopyrenko 38th. Dong-hyeon was 43rd. The Nations Cup race was won by the German Andi Langenhan ahead of Inārs from Latvia Kivlenieks and the Russian Alexander Gorbazewitsch .

Two-seater

Park Jin-yong and Cho Jung-myung, winners in doubles

space	athlete	time
01	Korea South Jin-yong / Cho Jung-myung Park	42.166 seconds
02	Kazakhstan Roman Yefremov / Denis Tatyanchenko	+1.871 s

For the two-seater competition only two starting pairs of two-seater were registered. The South Koreans Park Jin-yong and Cho Jung-myung entered the race as clear favorites. At the previous World Cup events of the 2017/18 season in Innsbruck-Igls and Winterberg , they managed to qualify for the World Cup races via the Nations Cup, in which they finished 11th (Innsbruck-Igls) and 15 (Winterberg). In these races they reached 18th place in Innsbruck-Igls and 19th place in Winterberg. The Kazakh two-seater couple Roman Yefremov and Denis Tatyanchenko could not qualify for the World Cup races in either competition. They achieved 21st place in the Nations Cup race in Innsbruck-Igls, and 22nd place in Winterberg.

The favorite South Koreans Jin-yong / Jung-myung won the race for the Asian Luge Championships 2017 in Altenberg with a lead of 1.871 seconds over Jefremow / Tatyantschenko. A bronze medal could not be awarded due to insufficient number of starters. For the race to be recognized as a continental championship run, two pairs had to start.

In the Race-in-Race Nations Cup races, the South Koreans Park Jin-yong and Cho Jung-myung reached 8th place, which meant they could qualify again for the World Cup race on the following day. Roman Yefremov and Denis Tatyanchenko finished 23rd, making them penultimate in this race. The Nations Cup race was won by Latvians Oskars Gudramovičs / Pēteris Kalniņš in front of the Germans Florian Löffler / Florian Berkes and the Russians Wladislaw Juschakow / Juri Prochorow .

Medal table

All podium finishers at the 2017 Asian Luge Championships

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Korea South South Korea	2	0	2	4th
2	India India	1	0	0	1
3	Kazakhstan Kazakhstan	0	2	0	2
4th	Chinese Taipei Chinese Taipei	0	1	0	1

The South Korean luge team secured first place in the medal table with 2 gold and bronze medals each, ahead of India with 1 gold medal, the Kazakh team with 2 silver medals and Chinese Taipei with one silver medal. South Korea was the only nation that could win at least one medal in every discipline. The award ceremony for the Asian Luge Championships took place immediately after the award ceremony for the Nations Cup races.