European Luge Championships 2018

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European Luge Championships 2018
	Men's	Ladies
Single seater	Russia Semyon Pavlichenko	Russia Tatiana Ivanova
Two-seater	Germany Eggert / Benecken
Team relay	Russia Russia
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The 49th European Luge Championships were held on January 27 and 28, 2018 as part of the 9th World Cup race of the 2017/18 season in Sigulda , Latvia . The continental title fights organized by the Fédération Internationale de Luge de Course took place for the fourth time in Sigulda after 1996 , 2010 and 2014 . There were competitions in the single-seater for men and women, the two-seater and in the team relay discipline . With the exception of the last competition, all competitions were decided in two runs.

Defending champion

In the last European Championships in 2017 on the combined ice rink at Koenigssee won Geisenberger that even before it was clear this last World Cup race of the season 2017/18 as World Cup overall champion in women's singles, Semyon Pavlichenko in the men's singles, the doubles pair Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt as well as Germany's team relay with the cast Natalie Geisenberger, Ralf Palik and Tobias Wendl / Tobias Arlt.

Natalie Geisenberger (women's singles)
Semyon Pavlichenko (men's singles)
Tobias Wendl / Tobias Arlt (two-seater)
from left to right: Tobias Wendl, Tobias Arlt, Natalie Geisenberger (Team relay Germany)
Ralf Palik (Team Relay Germany)

Women's singles

Tatiana Iwanowa, European Champion

space	sportswoman	Terms	time
01	Russia Tatiana Ivanova	42.047 s 41.942 s	1: 23.989 minutes
02	Germany Natalie Geisenberger	42.064 s 42.012 s	1:+0.087 s
03	Italy Sandra Robatscher	42.172 s 42.188 s	1:+0.371 s
04th	Germany Dajana Eitberger	42.234 s 42.190 s	1:+0.435 s
05	Latvia Kendija Aparjode	42.286 s 42.187 s	1:+0.484 s
06th	Germany Julia Taubitz	42.286 s 42.252 s	1:+0.549 s
07th	Latvia Elīza Cauce	42.295 s 42.299 s	1:+0.605 s
08th	Italy Andrea Voetter	42.485 s 42.122 s	1:+0.618 s
09	Latvia Ulla Zirne	42.288 s 42.359 s	1:+0.658 s
10	Switzerland Martina Kocher	42.478 s 42.357 s	1:+0.846 s
11	Poland Ewa Kuls-Kusyk	42.484 s 42.554 s	1:+1.049 s
12	Poland Natalia Wojtuściszyn	42.638 s 42.698 s	1:+1.347 s
13	Switzerland Natalie Maag	42.717 s 42.755 s	1:+1.483 s
14th	Austria Madeleine Egle	42.144 s 43.711 s	1:+1.866 s
15th	Austria Hannah Prock
16	Ukraine Olena Stetskiv
17th	Russia Ekaterina Baturina
18th	Slovakia Katarína Šimoňáková
19th	Romania Raluca Strămăturaru
20th	Czech Republic Tereza Nosková
21st	France Margot Catherine Boch
22nd	Latvia Zelma Bite
DNF	Austria Birgit Platzer
DNF	Germany Tatjana Huefner
DNF	Russia Ekaterina Katnikova

Date: January 27th,
25 starters were registered in the women's singles, 17 were qualified for the race. 8 registered starters did not manage to qualify in the Nations Cup for the World Cup race and thus the European Championship race. They were ranked 15th to 22nd based on the order in the Nations Cup. Three starters, including world champion Tatjana Hüfner , Birgit Platzer and Jekaterina Katnikowa fell and did not finish, which is why they could not be rated. Russian Tatjana Iwanowa secured the European Championship title ahead of the German overall World Cup winner of the 2017/18 season and defending champion Natalie Geisenberger and the Italian Sandra Robatscher . Ivanova, who also won the World Cup race ahead of Geisenberger and Robatscher, secured her third European championship title after 2010 and 2012 . Robatscher won her first adult medal and also took her first podium in a single-seater World Cup race. Dajana Eitberger (4th), the Latvian local hero Kendija Aparjode (5th) and Julia Taubitz (6th) followed on the other places . The Latvian team managed to finish in the top 10 with all three starters on the home track: Elīza Cauce finished in 7th place, Ulla Zirne in 9th place.

Men's single seaters

Semyon Pavlichenko, European champion

space	athlete	Terms	time
01	Russia Semyon Pavlichenko	48.271 s 48.487 s	1: 36.758 minutes
02	Germany Felix Hole	48.405 s 48.364 s	1:+0.011 s
03	Russia Roman Repilow	48.410 s 48.451 s	1:+0.112 s
04th	Latvia Inārs Kivlenieks	48.456 s 48.451 s	1:+0.149 s
05	Austria Wolfgang Kindl	48.680 s 48.364 s	1:+0.286 s
06th	Slovakia Jozef Ninis	48.726 s 48.333 s	1:+0.301 s
07th	Germany Johannes Ludwig	48.590 s 48.481 s	1:+0.313 s
08th	Latvia Kristers Aparjods	48.541 s 48.557 s	1:+0.325 s
09	Latvia Artūrs Dārznieks	48.541 s 48.608 s	1:+0.391 s
10	Austria David Gleirscher	48.767 s 48.424 s	1:+0.433 s
11	Russia Stepan Fyodorov	48.689 s 48.524 s	1:+0.455 s
12	Germany Ralf Palik	48.716 s 48.520 s	1:+0.478 s
13	Italy Kevin Fischnaller	48.626 s 48.678 s	1:+0.546 s
14th	Germany Andi Langenhan	48.845 s 48.460 s	1:+0.547 s
15th	Austria Armin Frauscher	48.862 s 48.491 s	1:+0.595 s
16	Russia Maxim Arawin	48.623 s 48.771 s	1:+0.636 s
17th	Latvia Kristaps Mauriņš	48.790 s 48.632 s	1:+0.664 s
18th	Czech Republic Ondřej Hyman	48.721 s 48.806 s	1:+0.769 s
19th	Ukraine Andrij Mandsij	48.674 s 48.869 s	1:+0.785 s
20th	Italy Emanuel Rieder	48.835 s 48.733 s	1:+0.810 s
21st	Poland Maciej Kurowski	48.852 s 48.844 s	1:+0.938 s
22nd	Austria Nico Gleirscher	48.995 s 48.793 s	1:+1.030 s
23	Ukraine Anton Dukatsch	48.886 s 48.986 s	1:+1.114 s
24	Poland Mateusz Paweł Sochowicz
25th	Slovakia Jakub Šimoňák
26th	Romania Valentin Crețu
27	Romania Giorgi Sogoiani
28	Bulgaria Pavel Angelow
29	France Adrien Joao Maitre
30th	Slovenia Žiga Biruš
DNS	Italy Dominik Fischnaller

Date: January 28th
For the European championship competition in the men's singles, 31 starters were registered, of which 24 qualified for the Race-in-Race World Cup competition and 23 also competed for it. Only the Italian Dominik Fischnaller did not start . The 7 registered but not qualified for the Nations Cup for the value race were evaluated in the order of the results of the Nations Cup. Russian defending champion Semjon Pavlitschenko secured the European Championship title ahead of World Cup leader Felix Loch from Germany and his teammate Roman Repilow . This order also corresponded to the podium of the simultaneous World Cup race. World champion Wolfgang Kindl was fifth behind the Latvian Inārs Kivlenieks . The Slovak Jozef Ninis (6th), Johannes Ludwig from Germany (7th), the Latvians Kristers Aparjods (8th) and Artūrs Dārznieks (9th) and Austrian David Gleirscher (10th) took the other places .

Two-seater

Toni Eggert and Sascha Benecken, European champions

space	athlete	Terms	time
01	Germany Toni Eggert / Sascha Benecken	41.660 s 41.704 s	1: 23.364 minutes
02	Latvia Andris Šics / Juris Šics	41.716 s 41.703 s	1:+0.055 s
03	Germany Tobias Wendl / Tobias Arlt	41.740 s 41.850 s	1:+0.226 s
04th	Latvia Oskars Gudramovičs / Pēteris Kalniņš	41.947 s 41.825 s	1:+0.408 s
05	Austria Peter Penz / Georg Fischler	41.940 s 41.836 s	1:+0.412 s
06th	Italy Ludwig Rieder / Patrick Rastner	41.989 s 41.931 s	1:+0.556 s
07th	Russia Alexander Denisjew / Wladislaw Antonow	41.939 s 41.984 s	1:+0.559 s
08th	Latvia Kristens Putins / Imants Marcinkēvičs	42.122 s 41.996 s	1:+0.754 s
09	Italy Ivan Nagler / Fabian Malleier	42.209 s 42.021 s	1:+0.866 s
10	Austria Thomas Steu / Lorenz Koller	42.080 s 42.194 s	1:+0.919 s
11	Russia Vladislav Yushakov / Yuri Prokhorov	42.039 s 42.389 s	1:+1.064 s
12	Poland Wojciech Jerzy Chmielewski / Jakub Kowalewski	42.361 s 42.087 s	1:+1.084 s
13	Czech Republic Lukáš Brož / Antonín Brož	42.229 s 42.326 s	1:+1.191 s
14th	Germany Robin Geueke / David Gamm	42.299 s 42.333 s	1:+1.268 s
15th	Czech Republic Matěj Kvíčala / Jaromír Kudera	42.494 s 42.366 s	1:+1.496 s
16	Russia Andrei Bogdanow / Andrei Medvedev	42.814 s 42.063 s	1:+1.513 s
17th	Slovakia Marek Solčanský / Karol Stuchlák	42.502 s 42.429 s	1:+1.567 s
18th	Ukraine Oleksandr Obolontschyk / Roman Sacharkiw	50.524 s 43.166 s	0+10.326 s
DNS	Romania Cosmin Atodiresei / Ștefan Musei

Date: January 27th
In the doubles category there were 19 couples registered for the European Championship, 18 of which also competed. The two-seater couple Cosmin Atodiresei and Ștefan Musei did not start . After 2013 and 2016 , the Germans Toni Eggert and Sascha Benecken secured the European Championship title for the third time . They also won the Race-in-Race World Cup races ahead of the Latvian local heroes Andris and Juris Šics and the defending champions Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt . The Latvians Oskars Gudramovičs / Pēteris Kalniņš and the Austrians Peter Penz / Georg Fischler followed in fourth and fifth place.

Team relay

space	athlete	Terms	time
01	Russia Russia Tatiana Iwanowa Semyon Pavlitschenko Alexander Denisjew Vladislav Antonov	43.358 s 44.683 s 45.387 s	2: 13: 428 minutes
02	Germany Germany Natalie Geisenberger Felix Loch Toni Eggert Sascha Benecken	43.318 s 45.152 s 45.109 s	1:+0.151 s
03	Latvia Latvia Kendija Aparjode Inārs Kivlenieks Andris Šics Juris Šics	43.597 s 44.910 s 45.100 s	1:+0.179 s
04th	Italy Italy Andrea Vötter Emanuel Rieder Patrick Rieder Patrick Rastner	43.599 s 45.118 s 45.273 s	1:+0.562 s
05	Austria Austria Madeleine Egle Wolfgang Kindl Peter Penz Georg Fischler	43.747 s 44.981 s 45.381 s	1:+0.681 s
06th	Poland Poland Ewa Kuls-Kusyk Maciej Kurowski Wojciech Jerzy Chmielewski Jakub Kowalewski	44.028 s 45.731 s	1:+1.544 s
07th	Ukraine Ukraine Olena Stezkiw Andrij Mandsij Oleksandr Obolontschyk Roman Sakarkiv	44.489 s 45.377 s 46.269 s	1:+2.707 s
DSQ	Czech Republic Czech Republic Tereza Nosková Ondřej Hyman Lukáš Brož Antonín Brož
DSQ	Slovakia Slovakia Katarína Šimoňáková Jozef Ninis Marek Solčanský Karol Stuchlák

Date: January 28th
For the team relay competition 9 nations were registered and all of them took part. The team relay from the Czech Republic and Slovakia were disqualified because the touchpad in the finish area, which triggers the starting gate for the next starter, was not hit. The Russian team relay around Tatjana Iwanowa , Semjon Pawlitschenko and Alexander Denissjew / Wladislaw Antonow won ahead of the defending team relay from Germany, which this year featured Natalie Geisenberger , Felix Loch and Toni Eggert / Sascha Benecken . Third place went to the Latvian team relay with Kendija Aparjode , Inārs Kivlenieks and Andris Šics / Juris Šics . The other ranks were occupied by the team relays from Italy (4th), Austria (5th), Poland (6th) and Ukraine (7th).

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Russia Russia	3	0	1	4th
2	Germany Germany	1	3	1	5
3	Latvia Latvia	0	1	1	2
4th	Italy Italy	0	0	1	1

Sources and Notes

Web links

European Luge Championships 2018 on the website of the Fédération Internationale de Luge de Course

Results of the European Luge Championships 2018 - Women's singles ( PDF ; 113.5 kB)

Results of the European Luge Championships 2018 - men's singles (PDF; 115.9 kB)

Results of the European Luge Championships 2018 - two-seater (PDF; 114.6 kB)

Results of the European Luge Championships 2018 - team relay (PDF; 107.2 kB)

References and comments

↑ ^a ^b For the team relay, the respective head coaches usually nominate the best-placed woman, the best-placed man and the best-placed two-seater pair of the respective competitions.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p In the Luge Nations Cup, athletes who do not belong to the seeded groups must qualify for the World Cup.
^ Luge: Gold medal for Eggert / Benecken at the European Championships in Sigulda. Bob- und Schlittenverband für Deutschland, January 27, 2018, accessed on January 27, 2018 .

[Anmerkung_Teamstaffel-1] For the team relay, the respective head coaches usually nominate the best-placed woman, the best-placed man and the best-placed two-seater pair of the respective competitions.

[Anmerkung_1-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p In the Luge Nations Cup, athletes who do not belong to the seeded groups must qualify for the World Cup.

[3] Luge: Gold medal for Eggert / Benecken at the European Championships in Sigulda. Bob- und Schlittenverband für Deutschland, January 27, 2018, accessed on January 27, 2018 .