Luge World Cup 2008/09

The Luge World Cup 2008/09 began on November 29, 2008 in Innsbruck - Igls, Austria and ended on February 21, 2009 in Vancouver, Canada .

The highlight of the season was the Luge World Championships , which took place from February 6th to 8th, 2009 in Lake Placid , USA .

World Cup results

date	place	discipline	winner	Second	Third
November 29th to 30th, 2008	Innsbruck-Igls	Women	Tatjana Huefner	Natalie Geisenberger	Anke Wischnewski
		Men - single seaters	Andi Langenhan	David Möller	Armin Zöggeler
		Men - two-seater	Gerhard Plankensteiner Oswald Haselrieder	Andreas Linger Wolfgang Linger	Tobias Schiegl Markus Schiegl
December 6-7, 2008	Sigulda	Women	Tatjana Huefner	Natalja Jakuschenko	Anke Wischnewski
		Men - single seaters	Albert Demchenko	Armin Zöggeler	David Möller
		Men - two-seater	Christian Oberstolz Patrick Gruber	Andreas Linger Wolfgang Linger	Peter Penz Georg Fischler
		Mixed relay	Austria Daniel Pfister Nina Reithmayer Andreas Linger Wolfgang Linger	Germany David Möller Tatjana Huefner Tobias Wendl Tobias Arlt	United States Bengt Walden Ashley Walden Mark Grimmette Brian Martin
December 13-14, 2008	Winterberg	Women	Natalie Geisenberger	Tatjana Huefner	Anke Wischnewski
		Men - single seaters	Armin Zöggeler	David Möller	Johannes Ludwig
		Men - two-seater	Christian Oberstolz Patrick Gruber	Tobias Schiegl Markus Schiegl	Patric Leitner Alexander Resch
		Mixed relay	Germany David Möller Tatjana Huefner Patric Leitner Alexander Resch	Austria Daniel Pfister Nina Reithmayer Tobias Schiegl Markus Schiegl	United States Bengt Walden Ashley Walden Christian Niccum Dan Joye
3rd to 4th January 2009	Koenigssee	Women	Tatjana Huefner	Natalie Geisenberger	Anke Wischnewski
		Men - single seaters	Armin Zöggeler	David Möller	Felix Hole
		Men - two-seater	Patric Leitner Alexander Resch	Tobias Wendl Tobias Arlt	Andreas Linger Wolfgang Linger
		Mixed relay	Germany David Möller Tatjana Huefner Patric Leitner Alexander Resch	Austria Daniel Pfister Nina Reithmayer Andreas Linger Wolfgang Linger	Italy Armin Zöggeler Sandra Gasparini Gerhard Plankensteiner Oswald Haselrieder
January 10-11, 2009	Cesana Torinese	Women	Tatjana Huefner	Natalie Geisenberger	Nina Reithmayer
		Men - single seaters	Armin Zöggeler	Felix Hole	Daniel Pfister
		Men - two-seater	Christian Oberstolz Patrick Gruber	Gerhard Plankensteiner Oswald Haselrieder	Juris Šics Andris Šics
January 17-18, 2009	Oberhof	Women	Tatjana Huefner	Natalie Geisenberger	Anke Wischnewski
		Men - single seaters	Jan Eichhorn	Felix Hole	David Möller
		Men - two-seater	Tobias Wendl Tobias Arlt	Patric Leitner Alexander Resch	André Florschütz Torsten Wustlich
		Mixed relay	Germany Jan Eichhorn Natalie Geisenberger Tobias Wendl Tobias Arlt	Austria Martin Adventure Nina Reithmayer Andreas Linger Wolfgang Linger	United States Bengt Walden Erin Hamlin Mark Grimmette Brian Martin
January 23-25, 2009	Altenberg	Women	Natalie Geisenberger	Tatjana Huefner	Anke Wischnewski
		Men - single seaters	Armin Zöggeler	Felix Hole	David Möller
		Men - two-seater	Christian Oberstolz Patrick Gruber	Patric Leitner Alexander Resch	Andreas Linger Wolfgang Linger
		Mixed relay	Germany David Möller Natalie Geisenberger Tobias Wendl Tobias Arlt	Canada Samuel Edney Alex Gough Chris Moffat Mike Moffat	Italy David Mair Sandra Gasparini Christian Oberstolz Patrick Gruber
February 6th to 8th, 2009 World Luge Championships in Lake Placid
February 13-14, 2009	Calgary	Women	Tatjana Huefner	Natalie Geisenberger	Veronika Halder
		Men - single seaters	Armin Zöggeler	Felix Hole	Albert Demchenko
		Men - two-seater	Christian Oberstolz Patrick Gruber	Peter Penz Georg Fischler	Gerhard Plankensteiner Oswald Haselrieder
February 20-21, 2009	Whistler	Women	Natalie Geisenberger	Tatjana Huefner	Anke Wischnewski
		Men - single seaters	David Möller	Armin Zöggeler	Felix Hole
		Men - two-seater	André Florschütz Torsten Wustlich	Patric Leitner Alexander Resch	Andreas Linger Wolfgang Linger

World Cup stands

World Cup stand in the women's singles

rank	Surname	country	IGL	SIG	WIN	CAN	CES	OBE	OLD	CAL	VAN	Points
01.	Tatjana Huefner	Germany	1	1	2	1	1	1	2	1	2	855
02.	Natalie Geisenberger	Germany	2	4th	1	2	2	2	1	2	1	785
03.	Anke Wischnewski	Germany	3	3	3	3	8th	3	3	4th	3	592
04th	Nina Reithmayer	Austria	6th	5	6th	4th	3	6th	6th	5	6th	490
05.	Natalja Jakuschenko	Ukraine	8th	2	5	7th	4th	4th	5	8th	9	484
06th	Erin Hamlin	United States	4th	11	8th	11	9	24	8th	7th	5	369
07th	Veronika Halder	Austria	10	6th	11	10	10	14th	19th	3	8th	354
08th.	Alex Gough	Canada	39	15th	7th	9	7th	15th	10	6th	7th	317
09.	Ewelina Staszulonek	Poland	7th	18th	14th	6th	-	8th	7th	21st	12	287
10.	Anna Orlova	Latvia	9	7th	9	23	12	12	24	10	24	276
11.	Martina Kocher	Switzerland	23	17th	10	8th	11	9	15th	13	20th	270
12.	Stefanie Sieger	Germany	5	10	-	5	6th	-	-	-	4th	256
13.	Meaghan Simister	Canada	15th	15th	13	25th	14th	10	20th	18th	10	242
14th	Maija Tīruma	Latvia	dns	-	-	17th	5	7th	9	9	11	237
15th	Lilia Ludan	Ukraine	16	12	16	27	13	18th	17th	15th	15th	225
16.	Natalia Khorjowa	Russia	14th	13	25th	13	18th	13	16	24	16	224
17th	Tatiana Ivanova	Russia	21st	8th	26th	20th	21st	11	12	-	19th	206
18th	Alexandra Rodionova	Russia	13	21st	17th	15th	-	17th	14th	17th	14th	204
19th	Corinna Martini	Germany	-	-	4th	-	-	5	4th	14th	-	203
20th	Madoka Harada	Japan	11	dnf	20th	16	17th	26th	11	25th	17th	193
21st	Sandra Gasparini	Italy	18th	22nd	-	18th	16	19th	18th	19th	18th	180
22nd	Ashley Walden	United States	17th	9	12	14th	-	-	-	11	22nd	176
23.	Regan Listener	Canada	-	-	-	12	15th	16	13	12	13	175
24.	Tatiana Newsorova	Russia	25th	-	19th	19th	19th	21st	22nd	22nd	23	158
25th	Jana Šišajová	Slovakia	27	23	24	26th	23	22nd	23	23	26th	152
26th	Veronika Sabolová	Slovakia	31	25th	29	22nd	25th	20th	21st	-	-	114
27.	Raluca Strămăturaru	Romania	19th	26th	22nd	-	dnf	23	15th	28	-	103
28.	Mariola Zietek	Poland	35	27	23	24	-	29	27	32	31	100
28.	Hannah Campbell-Pegg	Australia	32	-	28	28	26th	28	29	29	28	100
30th	Julia Clukey	United States	12	20th	15th	-	-	-	-	26th	-	094
31.	Petra Kaprasová	Czech Republic	34	28	27	-	-	27	26th	27	27	091
32.	Violeta Strămăturaru	Romania	33	31	30th	-	22nd	30th	28	-	-	072
33.	Maryna Halajjjan	Ukraine	22nd	29	21st	21st	-	-	-	-	-	071
34.	Michelle Despain Hoeger	Argentina	37	33	32	-	-	33	30th	31	29	062
35.	Ksenia Tschiplakowa	Russia	-	14th	-	-	20th	-	-	-	-	049
36.	Courtney Zablocki	United States	-	19th	18th	-	-	-	-	-	-	045
36.	Anastasia Young	United States	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	16	21st	045
38.	Mihaela Chiraş	Romania	36	30th	31	31	-	-	-	-	-	036
39.	Daria Obratov	Croatia	38	-	-	30th	-	31	-	-	-	024
40.	Aya Yasuda	Japan	20th	-	-	-	-	-	-	30th	30th	022nd
41.	Agnese Koklaca	Latvia	20th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	021st
41.	Kimberley McRae	Canada	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	20th	-	021st
43.	Nino Gavva	Georgia	-	32	-	-	-	32	-	-	-	018th
44.	Isabell Kägi	Switzerland	26th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	016
45.	Mona Wabnigg	Austria	28	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	013
46.	Sara Zöschg	Belgium	29	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	012
47.	Nina Čebin	Slovenia	-	-	-	29	-	-	-	-	-	012
48.	Birgit Platzer	Austria	30th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	011
49.	Stefani Salani	Brazil	40	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	001

World Cup in the men's singles

rank	Surname	country	IGL	SIG	WIN	CAN	CES	OBE	OLD	CAL	VAN	Points
01.	Armin Zöggeler	Italy	3	2	1	1	1	7th	1	1	2	786
02.	David Möller	Germany	2	3	2	2	4th	3	3	11	1	659
03.	Jan Eichhorn	Germany	4th	6th	4th	5	6th	1	5	13	7th	506
04th	Felix Hole	Germany	-	-	-	3	2	2	2	2	3	480
05.	Andi Langenhan	Germany	1	13	5	8th	14th	8th	7th	5	5	453
06th	Daniel Pfister	Austria	7th	7th	6th	4th	3	5	4th	4th	dnf	447
07th	Albert Demchenko	Russia	dnf	01	24	6th	5	5	8th	3	26th	409
08th.	Johannes Ludwig	Germany	11	9	3	19th	13	6th	6th	23	4th	373
09.	Viktor Kneib	Russia	5	5	8th	dsq	7th	11	14th	8th	4th	352
10.	Martin adventure	Austria	8th	10	13	13	17th	14th	10	14th	8th	296
11.	Wolfgang Kindl	Austria	6th	12	9	14th	9	15th	28	22nd	9	285
12.	Bengt Walden	United States	21st	15th	19th	7th	16	9	15th	7th	18th	273
13.	Reinhold Rainer	Italy	10	dnf	11	16	8th	10	18th	12	10	264
14th	Stefan Höhener	Switzerland	9	21st	10	10	10	18th	11	19th	25th	262
15th	David Mair	Italy	17th	18th	17th	9	12	24	9	16	11	257
16.	Wilfried Huber	Italy	12	17th	20th	11	11	21st	12	14th	16	250
17th	Guntis Rēķis	Latvia	23	4th	7th	23	18th	16	20th	30th	dnf	222
18th	Manuel Pfister	Austria	19th	27	16	17th	15th	12	19th	9	15th	219
19th	Jeff Christie	Canada	14th	16	18th	12	dnf	13	16	17th	13	217
20th	Inars Kivlenieks	Latvia	16	11	12	18th	19th	22nd	25th	25th	17th	211
21st	Samuel Edney	Canada	15th	19th	26th	20th	21st	19th	13	24	12	205
22nd	Gregory Carigiet	Switzerland	13	34	23	15th	22nd	20th	17th	27	-	170
23.	Jozef Ninis	Slovakia	20th	dsq	29	21st	26th	25th	21st	18th	22nd	146
24.	Adam Rosen	United Kingdom	34	-	28	22nd	24	28	30th	6th	dnf	130
25th	Tony Benshoof	United States	24	14th	14th	-	-	-	-	21st	14th	121
26th	Stepan Fyodorov	Russia	18th	23	22nd	37	30th	17th	31	31	-	119
27.	Ian Cockerline	Canada	38	24	30th	24	33	31	22nd	29	21st	117
28.	Thomas Girod	France	25th	-	25th	28	23	33	27	28	27	112
29	Mārtiņš Rubenis	Latvia	dnf	8th	-	-	20th	-	-	9	dns	102
30th	Thor Haug Norbech	Norway	52	26th	21st	26th	-	23	23	34	-	094
31.	Andrei Matinschko	Russia	35	25th	31	27	29	30th	26th	-	-	084
31.	Ondřej Hyman	Czech Republic	28	29	33	30th	27	29	35	38	36	084
31.	Jakub Hyman	Czech Republic	dnf	30th	27	34	31	27	39	32	24	084
34.	Maciej Kurowski	Poland	29	-	-	35	28	32	24	39	20th	080
35.	Maxim Andrianov	Russia	45	22nd	-	dsq	37	26th	36	35	28	063
36.	Jo Alexander Koppang	Norway	41	28	32	29	-	38	34	33	33	061
37.	Christopher Mazdzer	United States	26th	-	40	-	-	-	-	20th	19th	059
38.	Tonnes Stang Rolfsen	Norway	40	35	37	36	-	35	33	37	23	052
39.	William Lorentzen	Norway	37	36	35	33	-	34	32	36	35	050
40.	Robert Eschrich	Germany	-	20th	15th	-	-	-	-	-	-	047
41.	Achim Obkircher	Italy	27	-	-	25th	25th	-	-	-	-	046
42.	Peter Iliev	Bulgaria	36	38	36	46	35	36	38	42	-	029
43.	Shiva Keshavan	India	-	-	45	-	34	37	29	41	38	028
44.	Brendan Hauptman	Canada	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	26th	29	027
45.	Domen Pociecha	Slovenia	43	37	38	39	36	40	37	40	37	025th
46.	Robbie Huerbin	United States	33	33	34	-	-	-	-	-	-	023
47.	Reinhard Egger	Austria	22nd	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	019th
48.	Eugene Radu	Romania	44	39	48	43	39	41	43	-	-	009
48.	Grega Hacin	Slovenia	51	46	44	42	-	46	42	43	39	009
48.	Chih-hung Ma	Chinese Taipei	50	41	42	45	40	42	44	45	40	009
48.	Bogdan Macovei	Moldova	42	40	43	41	38	43	40	-	-	009
52.	Andriy Mandziy	Ukraine	46	-	41	38	-	39	41	-	-	008th
53.	Ivan Papukchiev	Bulgaria	47	43	49	44	-	48	45	46	-	007th
53.	Tristan Walker	Canada	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	34	007th
55.	Levan Gureshidze	Georgia	-	44	50	-	-	49	47	-	-	004th
55.	Nodar Kumaritashvili	Georgia	-	42	46	-	-	45	46	-	-	004th
55.	Valentin Crețu	Romania	39	-	-	40	-	-	-	44	-	004th
55.	Kum-soo Han	South Korea	49	-	51	-	-	44	-	47	-	004th
59.	Igor Kozak	Ukraine	48	-	39	-	-	-	-	-	-	003
59.	Yong Lee	South Korea	53	-	47	-	-	47	-	-	-	003
59.	Ruben Gonzalez	Argentina	-	45	-	-	-	-	-	48	41	003
62.	Seregi Gergely	Hungary	54	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	001
62.	Werner Hoeger	Venezuela	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	49	001

World Cup stand in the men's doubles

rank	Surname	country	IGL	SIG	WIN	CAN	CES	OBE	OLD	CAL	VAN	Points
01.	Christian Oberstolz Patrick Gruber	Italy	4th	1	1	4th	1	4th	1	1	5	735
02.	Patric Leitner Alexander Resch	Germany	5	9	3	1	6th	2	2	4th	2	629
03.	Andreas Linger Wolfgang Linger	Austria	2	2	6th	3	4th	6th	3	6th	3	590
04th	Tobias Wendl Tobias Arlt	Germany	6th	5	4th	2	5	1	5	10	16	521
05.	Gerhard Plankensteiner Oswald Haselrieder	Italy	1	4th	17th	6th	2	5	dns	3	4th	504
06th	Peter Penz Georg Fischler	Austria	7th	3	19th	5	9	9	6th	2	8th	448
07th	Tobias Schiegl Markus Schiegl	Austria	3	7th	2	7th	8th	7th	7th	5	dnf	436
08th.	Mark Grimmette Brian Martin	United States	11	6th	7th	8th	10	8th	10	9	7th	371
09.	Juris Šics Andris Šics	Latvia	9	11	9	-	3	11	8th	11	6th	342
10.	André Florschütz Torsten Wustlich	Germany	-	-	-	-	-	3	4th	7th	01	276
11.	Michail Kuzmich Stanislav Mikheev	Russia	13	12	13	11	15th	10	15th	17th	11	272
12.	Ján Harniš Branislav Regec	Slovakia	26th	18th	11	12	14th	14th	13	16	13	245
13.	Christian Niccum Dan Joye	United States	12	10	5	9	-	-	-	8th	10	240
14th	Hans Peter Fischnaller Patrick Schwienbacher	Italy	10	dnf	18th	14th	12	16	12	13	15th	232
15th	Vladislav Yushakov Vladimir Machnutin	Russia	16	14th	23	18th	18th	15th	14th	19th	12	225
16.	Andrij Kis Jurij Haiduk	Ukraine	18th	13	12	19th	13	21st	22nd	24	14th	221
17th	Chris Moffat Mike Moffat	Canada	-	-	-	10	11	12	9	12	9	212
18th	Antonín Brož Lukáš Brož	Czech Republic	15th	17th	15th	17th	19th	13	16	20th	-	198
19th	Toni Eggert Marcel Oster	Germany	8th	8th	8th	-	7th	-	-	-	-	172
20th	Ivan Newmerzhizky Oleg Medvedev	Russia	22nd	-	10	13	-	17th	11	18th	-	166
21st	Cosmin Chetroiu Ionuț Țăran	Romania	27	22nd	20th	21st	17th	18th	17th	22nd	-	164
22nd	Takahisa Oguchi Masaki Toshiro	Japan	19th	24	-	20th	21st	20th	19th	21st	-	143
23.	Oskars Gudramovičs Pēteris Kalniņš	Latvia	20th	23	21st	16	dnf	19th	21st	-	-	126
24.	Paul Ifrim Andrei Anghel	Romania	21st	-	24	22nd	-	-	18th	-	-	079
25th	Christopher Mazdzer Jayson Terdiman	United States	17th	16	14th	-	-	-	-	-	-	077
26th	Taras Senkiv Roman Zaharkiv	Ukraine	14th	19th	16	-	-	-	-	-	-	075
27.	Grzegorz Piekarski Marcin Piekarski	Poland	25th	21st	22nd	-	-	-	-	-	-	055
28.	Pavel Kuzmich Boris Kuryschkin	Russia	-	15th	-	-	16	-	-	-	-	051
29	Luboš Jíra Matěj Kvíčala	Czech Republic	29	-	-	23	-	-	-	-	-	030th
30th	Grant Albrecht Nick Olson	Canada	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	14th	-	028
31.	Ronny Pietrasik Christian Weise	Germany	-	-	-	15th	-	-	-	-	-	26th
31.	Matt Mortensen Preston Griffall	United States	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	15th	dnf	026th
33.	Andrew Pifko Adam Medrek	Canada	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	23	-	018th
34.	Andrejs Bērze Uldis Logins	Latvia	28	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	013

Team competition

rank	country	SIG	WIN	CAN	OBE	OLD	Used drivers	Points
01.	Germany	2	01	01	01	01	David Möller - Tatjana Hüfner Jan Eichhorn - Natalie Geisenberger Tobias Wendl - Tobias Arlt Patric Leitner - Alexander Resch	485
02.	Austria	01	2	2	2	7th	Daniel Pfister - Nina Reithmayer Martin Abentung Andreas Linger - Wolfgang Linger Tobias Schiegl - Markus Schiegl	401
03.	United States	3	3	6th	3	9	Bengt Walden - Ashley Walden Erin Hamlin Mark Grimmette - Brian Martin Christian Niccum - Dan Joye	299
04th	Latvia	4th	4th	7th	5	5	Mārtiņš Rubenis - Anna Orlova Guntis Rēķis Inārs Kivlenieks - Maija Tīruma Andris Šics - Juris Šics Oskars Gudramovičs - Pēteris Kalniņš	276
05.	Italy	5	-	3	4th	3	Armin Zöggeler - Sandra Gasparini David Mair Christian Oberstolz - Patrick Gruber Gerhard Plankensteiner - Oswald Haselrieder	255
06th	Slovakia	6th	5	8th	8th	4th	Jozef Ninis - Veronika Sabolová Jana Šišajová Ján Harniš - Branislav Regec	249
07th	Czech Republic	7th	6th	9	10	10	Ondřej Hyman - Petra Kaprasová Jakub Hyman Lukáš Brož - Antonín Brož	207
08th.	Romania	9	7th	10	11	8th	Eugen Radu - Raluca Strămăturaru Valentin Crețu Cosmin Chetroiu - Ionuț Țăran Paul Ifrim - Andrei Anghel	197
09.	Canada	-	-	4th	6th	2	Jeff Christie - Alex Gough Samuel Edney Chris Moffat - Mike Moffat	195
10.	Russia	DSQ	DSQ	5	7th	6th	Albert Demtschenko - Tatiana Ivanova Viktor Kneib - Alexandra Rodionova Natalja Khorjowa Mikhail Kuzmich - Stanislaw Michejew Ivan Newmerschizki - Oleg Medvedev	151
11.	Ukraine	8th	-	11	9	11	Andrij Mandzij - Natalja Jakuschenko Marina Halaidschian Andrij Kis - Jurij Haiduk	115

Web links

• Results on the website of the International Luge Federation