Luge World Cup 2002/03

The 2002/03 Luge World Cup season began on November 18, 2002 in Park City and ended on February 9, 2003 in Winterberg . The highlight of the season was the 36th Luge World Championships from 17 to 23 February 2003 at the Latvian Sigulda .

The season was held at seven World Cup stations.

World Cup results

date	place	discipline	winner	Second	Third
November 18 to 24, 2002	Park City	Single seater (F)	Sylke Otto	Silke Kraushaar	Barbara Niedernhuber
		Single seater (M)	Georg Hackl	Markus Kleinheinz	Albert Demchenko
		Double (M)	Mark Grimmette Brian Martin	Patric Leitner Alexander Resch	Andreas Linger Wolfgang Linger
November 25th to 30th, 2002	Calgary	Single seater (F)	Sylke Otto	Barbara Niedernhuber	Anke Wischnewski
		Single seater (M)	Armin Zöggeler	Markus Kleinheinz	Tyler Seitz
		Double (M)	Patric Leitner Alexander Resch	Mark Grimmette Brian Martin	Sebastian Schmidt André Forker
December 2nd to December 8th, 2002	Oberhof	Single seater (F)	Silke Kraushaar	Sylke Otto	Barbara Niedernhuber
		Single seater (M)	Albert Demchenko	Markus Kleinheinz	Armin Zöggeler
		Double (M)	Gerhard Plankensteiner Oswald Haselrieder	Steffen Skel Steffen Wöller	Markus Schiegl Tobias Schiegl
09th to 15th December 2002	Altenberg	Single seater (F)	Sylke Otto	Silke Kraushaar	Anke Wischnewski
		Single seater (M)	Markus Kleinheinz	Armin Zöggeler	Georg Hackl
		Double (M)	Andreas Linger Wolfgang Linger	Patric Leitner Alexander Resch	Markus Schiegl Tobias Schiegl
January 13th to 19th, 2003	Lillehammer	Single seater (F)	Sylke Otto	Barbara Niedernhuber	Anna Orlova
		Single seater (M)	Georg Hackl	Markus Kleinheinz	Wilfried Huber
		Double (M)	Patric Leitner Alexander Resch	Mark Grimmette Brian Martin	André Florschütz Torsten Wustlich
January 20th to 26th, 2003	Igls	Single seater (F)	Sylke Otto	Silke Kraushaar	Barbara Niedernhuber
		Single seater (M)	Georg Hackl	Markus Kleinheinz	Albert Demchenko
		Double (M)	Markus Schiegl Tobias Schiegl	Mark Grimmette Brian Martin	Gerhard Plankensteiner Oswald Haselrieder
February 3rd to February 9th, 2003	Winterberg	Single seater (F)	Sylke Otto	Barbara Niedernhuber	Anke Wischnewski
		Single seater (M)	Georg Hackl	David Möller	Markus Kleinheinz
		Double (M)	Patric Leitner Alexander Resch  Mark Grimmette Brian Martin		André Florschütz Torsten Wustlich

World Cup results and placements

- = no participation | dsq = disqualified | dnf = did not finish ("did not finish") | dns = did not start ("not started" - reported, but no start)

Final result in the women's singles

rank	Surname	country	PAC	CAL	OBE	OLD	LIL	IGL	WIN	Points
01.	Sylke Otto	Germany	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	685
02.	Silke Kraushaar	Germany	2	4th	1	2	4th	2	4th	535
03.	Barbara Niedernhuber	Germany	3	2	3	4th	2	3	2	525
04th	Anke Wischnewski	Germany	6th	3	5	3	6th	5	3	420
05.	Sonja Manzenreiter	Austria	4th	5	7th	5	5	4th	7th	377
06th	Veronika Halder	Austria	7th	6th	4th	6th	8th	6th	6th	348
07th	Anna Orlova	Latvia	19th	14th	6th	7th	3	7th	11	296
08th.	Brenna Margol	United States	5	8th	14th	10	10	10	12	265
09.	Anastasia Antonova	Russia	12	11	11	11	9	14th	5	256
10.	Regan Listener	Canada	8th	10	10	9	11	16	10	248

Final score in the men's singles

rank	Surname	country	PAC	CAL	OBE	OLD	LIL	IGL	WIN	Points
01.	Markus Kleinheinz	Austria	2	2	2	1	2	2	3	595
02.	Georg Hackl	Germany	1	4th	4th	3	1	1	1	590
03.	Armin Zöggeler	Italy	8th	1	3	2	5	6th	6th	452
04th	Albert Demchenko	Russia	3	11	1	4th	11	3	10	404
05.	David Möller	Germany	5	5	7th	9	7th	5	2	381
06th	Rainer Margreiter	Austria	4th	6th	5	8th	4th	10	18th	326
07th	Karsten Albert	Germany	15th	7th	6th	7th	9	8th	15th	275
08th.	Wilfried Huber	Italy	9	18th	11	10	3	9	13	271
09.	Adam Heidt	United States	7th	8th	16	11	10	12	8th	257
10.	Denis Geppert	Germany	6th	16	10	15th	23	7th	5	256

Final score in the men's doubles

rank	Names	country	PAC	CAL	OBE	OLD	LIL	IGL	WIN	Points
01.	Mark Grimmette Brian Martin	United States	1	2	4th	13	2	2	1	545
02.	Patric Leitner Alexander Resch	Germany	2	1	11	2	1	12	1	536
03.	Markus Schiegl Tobias Schiegl	Austria	6th	10	3	3	4th	1	6th	436
04th	Andreas Linger Wolfgang Linger	Austria	3	6th	6th	1	8th	5	11	401
05.	Steffen Skel Steffen Wöller	Germany	5	11	2	4th	7th	11	5	369
06th	Gerhard Plankensteiner Oswald Haselrieder	Italy	9	9	1	7th	11	3	10	364
07th	Ľubomír Mick Walter Marx	Slovakia	13	5	12	5	6th	8th	4th	324
08th.	Christian Oberstolz Patrick Gruber	Italy	11	7th	7th	6th	9	4th	7th	321
09.	Grant Albrecht Eric Pothier	Canada	4th	4th	8th	10	13	9	8th	309
10.	Kurt Brugger Wilfried Huber	Italy	12	13	10	8th	12	7th	12	250

Web links

• Results luge 2002/03 on www.bsd-portal.de
• Results in luge on www.fil-luge.org