Junior Luge World Championships 2018

Opening words by Hans-Jürgen Koehne, in the background the flag bearers of the nations

The teams at the opening

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
01	Jessica Tiebel	41,866 s (1) 42,085 s (1)	1: 23,951 min
02	Tatiana Tsvetova	42,127 s (2) 42,246 s (5)	1: 24.373 min +0.422
03	Jessica Degenhardt	42,175 s (5) 42,210 s (3)	1: 24.385 min +0.434
04th	Lisa Schulte	42,167 s (4) 42,250 s (6)	1: 24.417 min +0.466
05	Anna Berreiter	42,272 s (6) 42,190 s (2)	1: 24.462 min +0.511
06th	Kristina Shamova	42,166 s (3) 42,394 s (11)	1: 24,560 min +0,609
07th	Brittney Arndt	42,275 s (7) 42,315 s (9)	1: 24.590 min +0.639
08th	Verena Hofer	42,370 s (11) 42,238 s (4)	1: 24.608 min +0.657
09	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

Commons : Junior Luge World Championships 2018  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Information about the JWM on the FIL website

supporting documents

1. ↑ tender
2. ↑ Results of the female junior race