Junior Luge World Championships 2018
The 33rd Junior Luge World Championships were held from January 29 to February 3, 2018 on the DKB ice canal in Altenberg .
The organizer was the Fédération Internationale de Luge de Course , the host of the Bobsleigh and Sled Association for Germany . Wintersport Altenberg (Osterzgebirge) GmbH was entrusted with the implementation . The FIL representative and jury president was Hans-Jürgen Köhne (Germany), other members of the jury were Zianibeth Shattuk-Owen (USA) and Sorina Ticu (Romania). Technical delegates of the FIL were Mária Jasenčáková (Slovakia), Sören Schmiedl (Germany) and Hansjörg Raffl (Italy). Matthias Benesch was in charge of the overall management, Wolfgang Strauss was the race director and Ulrich Hahn was the track coordinator . The press office was headed by Uta Schirmer.
The Junior World Championships began on Monday, January 29th with a purchase training session and a team captains meeting. The next day there was a first official training in groups and weighing, on Wednesday there was a second official training in groups and technical controls. Thursday began with a run-up in which those who had not sat down because of their performance from the Junior World Cup had to find their place in the starting line-up. Another training session for the seeded drivers followed. After another team captains meeting, the Junior World Championships opened on Thursday evening. On Friday the championship races of the single-seater classes for men and women were held, on Saturday the championship races of the doubles and in the team competition. The two racing days were concluded with the respective award ceremonies.
Junior singles
space | sportswoman | Running times (running placements) |
time |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Jessica Tiebel | 41,866 s (1) 42,085 s (1) |
1: 23,951 min |
2 | Tatiana Tsvetova | 42,127 s (2) 42,246 s (5) |
1: 24.373 min +0.422 |
3 | Jessica Degenhardt | 42,175 s (5) 42,210 s (3) |
1: 24.385 min +0.434 |
4th | Lisa Schulte | 42,167 s (4) 42,250 s (6) |
1: 24.417 min +0.466 |
5 | Anna Berreiter | 42,272 s (6) 42,190 s (2) |
1: 24.462 min +0.511 |
6th | Kristina Shamova | 42,166 s (3) 42,394 s (11) |
1: 24,560 min +0,609 |
7th | Brittney Arndt | 42,275 s (7) 42,315 s (9) |
1: 24.590 min +0.639 |
8th | Verena Hofer | 42,370 s (11) 42,238 s (4) |
1: 24.608 min +0.657 |
9 | Carolyn Maxwell | 42,325 s (10) 42,302 s (8) |
1: 24.627 min +0.676 |
10 | Vilde Tangnes | 42,319 s (9) 42,372 s (10) |
1: 24.691 min +0.740 |
11 | Cheyenne Rosenthal | 42,473 s (16) 42,264 s (7) |
1: 24.737 min +0.786 |
12 | Nina Zöggeler | 42,308 s (8) 42,437 s (14) |
1: 24.745 min +0.794 |
13 | Olessya Mikhailenko | 42,421 s (14) 42,420 s (13) |
1: 24.841 min +0.890 |
14th | Anda Upīte | 42,379 s (12) 42,470 s (15) |
1: 24.849 min +0.898 |
15th | Sigita Bērziņa | 42,600 s (19) 42,395 s (12) |
1: 24.995 min +1.044 |
16 | Hannah Niederkofler | 42,402 s (13) 42,654 s (18) |
1: 25.056 min +1.105 |
17th | Marion Oberhofer | 42,425 s (15) 42,654 s (18) |
1: 25,079 min +1,128 |
18th | Yulija Naumova | 42,485 s (18) s (20) |
1: 25.145 min +1.194 |
19th | Trinity Solace Ellis | 42,699 s (22) 42,472 s (16) |
1: 25.171 min +1.220 |
20th | Ashley Farquharson | 42,727 s (23) 42,545 s (17) |
1: 25.272 min +1.321 |
21st | Makena Hodgson | 42,474 s (17) 42,821 s (23) |
1: 25.295 min +1.344 |
22nd | Anna Saulite | 42,684 s (21) 42,724 s (21) |
1: 25,408 min +1,457 |
23 | Klaudia Domaradzka | 42,664 s (20) 42,746 s (22) |
1: 25.410 min +1.459 |
24 | Michaela Maršíková | 42,798 s (25) 42,984 s (24) |
1: 25.782 min +1.831 |
25th | Verónica María Ravenna | 42,727 s (23) 43,567 s (25) |
1: 26.294 min +2.343 |
26th | Samantha Judson | 42,812 s | 42,812 s |
27 | Mihaela Carmen Manolescu | 42,867 s | 42,867 s |
28 | Katherine Bishop | 42,926 s | 42,926 s |
29 | Cezara Curmei | 42,936 s | 42,936 s |
30th | Kateřina Mizerová | 42,993 s | 42,993 s |
31 | Olena Smaha | 43,013 s | 43,013 s |
32 | Katarína Šimoňáková | 43,076 s | 43,076 s |
33 | Huilan Hu | 43,292 s | 43,292 s |
34 | Nadiia Antoniuk | 43,387 s | 43,387 s |
35 | Peixuan Wang | 43,589 s | 43,589 s |
36 | Xin Cai | 43,650 s | 43,650 s |
37 | Margot Catherine Boch | 43,667 s | 43,667 s |
38 | Anna Smirnova | 43,849 s | 43,849 s |
39 | Andrea Pavlíková | 43,849 s | 43,849 s |
40 | Tove Kohala | 44,016 s | 44,016 s |
41 | Gracie Vineyard | 44,140 s | 44,140 s |
42 | Lara Kipp | 46,036 s | 46,036 s |
43 | Saiki Niino | 47,109 s | 47,109 s |
dnf | Kateryna Vasylkiv | dnf | |
dnf | Adikeyoumu Gulijienaiti | dnf | |
dnf | Elīna Vītola | dnf | |
dnf | Adriana Adam | dnf | |
dns | Lisa Lerch |
Date: February 2
At the start were 48 of the 49 registered tobogganers, which means that far more tobogganers than tobogganers were at the start, unusually for the toboggan sport. 13 of the starters were already active in the World Cup that season. In addition to the local hero and defending champion Jessica Tiebel , the reigning European junior champion Cheyenne Rosenthal and the other German starters Jessica Degenhardt and Anna Berreiter were favorites . In addition, the favorites traditionally included the starters from Russia, especially the medalists from the previous year Tatjana Zwetowa and Olessja Michailenko , the Austrian Lisa Schulte , the Italians Verena Hofer , Nina Zöggeler , Hannah Niederkofler and Marion Oberhofer as well as the Latvian Elīna Vītola .
Jessica Tiebel lived up to her role as a favorite in the first run. She started in fourth place and set the best performance of the day with 41,866 seconds. Only the second-placed Russian from the previous year, Tatjana Zwetowa, was able to place within striking distance. European champion Rosenthal disappointed in the first run and came in 16th place without any major mistakes. The other German starters Degenhardt and Berreiter did not finish fifth and sixth as desired, but, like Lisa Schulte, are within striking distance. Olympic participant Katarína Šimoňáková could not qualify for the second round of the top 25, unlike the second Olympic starter Verónica María Ravenna .
The second run brought only a few noteworthy shifts in the rear starters; rarely were there more than two ranks to improve or worsen. Sigita Bērziņa was able to improve to 15th place after a 19th place in the first run with the 12th best time in the second run. Nina Zöggeler lost four places after the 14th time in the second run and dropped from eighth to 12th. Cheyenne Rosenthal, on the other hand, improved to eleventh place with the seventh best running time in the second round. Verena Hofer was also able to make up three places with the fourth-fastest time in the second run and was eighth. Anna Berreiter showed the second best performance in race two, but could only make up one place and came in fifth. Things went better for Jessica Degenhardt on her home track, who was able to move up to bronze in the third time in the second run after the Russian dropped to sixth after only the eleventh-best time in the second run. Zwetowa and Tiebel, the latter with the new best performance, defended their positions from the first run as well as from the previous year.
Web links
- Information about the JWM on the FIL website