European Luge Championships 2017

European Luge Championships 2017
	Men's	Ladies
winner
Single seater	Semyon Pavlichenko	Natalie Geisenberger
Two-seater	Wendl / Arlt
Team relay	Germany
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The 48th European Luge Championships were held from 4th to 6th January 2017 as part of the 5th World Cup race of the 2016/17 season on the artificial ice rink at Königssee in Germany .

Single seater women

space	athlete	time
01	Natalie Geisenberger	51.178
02	Tatiana Ivanova	1:+0.151
03	Tatjana Huefner	1:+0.255
04th	Martina Kocher	1:+0.288
05	Miriam Kastlunger	1:+0.409
06th	Elīza Cauce	1:+0.592
07th	Birgit Platzer	1:+0.630
08th	Julia Taubitz	1:+0.912
09	Andrea Voetter	1:+0.923
10	Viktoria Demchenko	1:+0.931

Date: January 5th,
2016 for the European Championships eligible tobogganists. The race took place in only one run, as the second run was canceled due to increasing snowfall. For Geisenberger it was the third individual European title. The European champion from 2015 Dajana Eitberger came in 11th.

Single seater men

space	athlete	Terms	time
01	Semyon Pavlichenko	49.245 / 49.118	1: 38.363
02	Ralf Palik	49,301 / 49,310	1:+0.248
03	Wolfgang Kindl	49.429 / 49.394	1:+0.460
04th	Felix Hole	49.572 / 49.316	1:+0.525
05	Roman Repilow	49.508 / 49.397	1:+0.542
06th	Dominik Fischnaller	49.576 / 49.593	1:+0.806
07th	Stepan Fyodorov	49.695 / 49.489	1:+0.821
08th	Armin Frauscher	49.616 / 49.594	1:+0.847
09	Julian von Schleinitz	49.622 / 49.757	1:+1.016
10	Artūrs Dārznieks	49.720 / 49.671	1:+1.028

Date: Jan 6,
32 starters. After 2015, Semyon Pavlichenko won his second European title. Vice world champion Ralf Palik won his second EM medal.

Two-seater men

space	athlete	Terms	time
01	Tobias Wendl Tobias Arlt	50.838 / 50.737	1: 41.575
02	Toni Eggert Sascha Benecken	50.813 / 50.832	1:+0.070
03	Robin Geueke David Gamm	51.133 / 51.224	1:+0.782
04th	Thomas Steu Lorenz Koller	51.450 / 51.383	1:+1.258
05	Andris Šics Juris Šics	51.525 / 51.373	1:+1.323
06th	Andrei Bogdanov Andrei Medvedev	51.584 / 51.431	1:+1.340
07th	Ludwig Rieder Patrick Rastner	51.503 / 51.448	1:+1.376
08th	Christian Oberstolz Patrick Gruber	51.617 / 51.624	1:+1.666
09	Alexander Denisjew Vladislav Antonov	52.149 / 51.678	1:+2.252
10	Lukáš Brož Antonín Brož	51.864 / 52.043	1:+2.332

Date: 5th January
21st doubles at the start. The race took place in heavy snow, so that after every third trip a sweeping squad cleared the track. There was a German triple success in which the young duo Geueke / Gamm won their first European Championship medal.

Season

space	athlete	Terms	time
01	Germany Natalie Geisenberger Ralf Palik Tobias Wendl Tobias Arlt	53.890 / 55.812 / 55.766	2: 42.348
02	Austria Miriam Kastlunger Wolfgang Kindl Thomas Steu Lorenz Koller	53.719 / 56.130 / 55.679	1:+1.269
03	Latvia Elīza Cauce Arturs Darznieks Andris Šics Juris Šics	54.067 / 55.782 / 55.926	1:+1.638
04th	Italy Andrea Vötter Dominik Fischnaller Ludwig Rieder Patrick Rastner	56.008 / 55.989 / 55.971	1:+1.999
05	Poland Ewa Kuls Maciej Kurowski Wojciech Chmielewski Jakub Kowalewski	55.837 / 57.000 / 57.916	1:+3,081
06th	Czech Republic Tereza Noskova Ondřej Hyman Lukáš Brož Antonín Brož	56.008 / 55.989 / 55.971	1:+4.112
07th	Romania Raluca Strămăturaru Valentin Crețu Cosmin Atodiresei Stefan Musei	56.008 / 55.989 / 55.971	1:+4.674
08th	Ukraine Olena Stetskiv Anriy Mandziy Oleksandr Obolonchyk Roman Zakharkiv	56.008 / 55.989 / 55.971	1:+5.358
09	Slovakia Simona Zmijova Jozef Ninis Marek Solcansky Karol Stuchlak	56.008 / 55.989 / 55.971	1:+9.264
10	United Kingdom Danielle Louise Scott Rupert Staudinger Adam Rosen Matthew Raymond	56.008 / 55.989 / 55.971	+10.184

Date: January 6th,
the German team relay won the competition. The co-favorite Russian team was eliminated.

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Germany	3	2	2	7th
2	Russia	1	1	0	2
3	Austria	0	1	1	2
4th	Latvia	0	0	1	1

Web links

• Results of the European Championships 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Calendars FIL for the season 2016/17