Luge World Championships 2012

The 43rd FIL World Luge Championships were held from February 6th to 12th, 2012 on the sled and bobsled run in Altenberg in the Ore Mountains .

The world championship was awarded to Altenberg by the world federation FIL in June 2008 after its only competitor, the Whistler Mountain artificial ice rink , withdrew its candidacy. After 1996 the title fights took place in Altenberg for the second time.

Results

Women, single-seaters

space	athlete	nation	Terms	End time
1	Tatjana Huefner	Germany	52.183 (2) 52.198 (1)	1: 44.381
2	Tatiana Ivanova	Russia	52.161 (1) 52.321 (2)	+ 0.101
3	Natalie Geisenberger	Germany	52.407 (4) 52.377 (3)	+ 0.403
4th	Alex Gough	Canada	52.394 (3) 52.424 (4)	+ 0.437
5	Corinna Martini	Germany	52.503 (5) 52.452 (5)	+ 0.574
6th	Anke Wischnewski	Germany	52.503 (5) 52.506 (6)	+ 0.628
7th	Dayna Clay	Canada	52.716 (8) 52.656 (9)	+ 0.991
8th	Nina Reithmayer	Austria	52.830 (11) 52.649 (8)	+ 1.098
9	Sandra Gasparini	Italy	52.748 (9) 52.769 (10)	+ 1.136
10	Arianne Jones	Canada	52.617 (7) 52.904 (14)	+ 1.140
11	Alexandra Rodionova	Russia	52.792 (10) 52.796 (11)	+ 1.207
12	Erin Hamlin	United States	53.031 (13) 52.558 (7)	+ 1.208
13	Natalia Khorjowa	Russia	52.896 (12) 52.840 (12)	+ 1.355
14th	Martina Kocher	Switzerland	53.246 (16) 52.867 (13)	+ 1.732
15th	Maija Tīruma	Latvia	53.207 (15) 52.959 (15)	+ 1.785
16	Birgit Platzer	Austria	53.090 (14) 53.227 (17)	+ 1.936
17th	Maryna Halajjjan	Ukraine	53.343 (19) 53.142 (16)	+ 2.104
18th	Raluca Strămăturaru	Romania	53.274 (17) 53.506 (18)	+ 2.399
19th	Ewa Kuls	Poland	53.423 (20) 53.521 (19)	+ 2.563
	Viera Gbúrová	Slovakia	53,313 (18) DNF
Not qualified for the 2nd round
20th	Mona Wabnigg	Austria	53,449 (21)
21st	Morgane Bonnefoy	France	53.837 (22)
22nd	Daria Obratov	Croatia	55,043 (23)
23	Choi Eun-ju	South Korea	55.973 (24)
24	Elīza Tīruma	Latvia	55.974 (25)

Date: February 12, 2012

Tatjana Hüfner won her fourth individual gold medal at the Luge World Championships, drawing level with Margit Schumann and Sylke Otto .
Tatiana Iwanowa set a new track record with 52.161 seconds.

Men, single-seaters

space	athlete	nation	Terms	End time
1	Felix Hole	Germany	53.590 (1) 53.742 (1)	1: 47.332
2	Albert Demchenko	Russia	53.840 (3) 53.820 (2)	+ 0.328
3	Armin Zöggeler	Italy	53.821 (2) 53.925 (3)	+ 0.414
4th	Johannes Ludwig	Germany	53.873 (4) 54.010 (5)	+ 0.551
5	Andi Langenhan	Germany	53.904 (5) 54,000 (4)	+ 0.572
6th	David Möller	Germany	54.019 (6) 54.130 (6)	+ 0.817
7th	Samuel Edney	Canada	54.342 (9) 54.280 (7)	+ 1.290
8th	David Mair	Italy	54.318 (8) 54.344 (8)	+ 1.330
9	Yevgeny Voskressensky	Russia	54.279 (7) 54.452 (13)	+ 1.399
10	Manuel Pfister	Austria	54.382 (10) 54.353 (9)	+ 1.403
11	Dominik Fischnaller	Italy	54.456 (14) 54.435 (11)	+ 1.559
12	Wolfgang Kindl	Austria	54.516 (17) 54.394 (10)	+ 1.578
13	Viktor Kneib	Russia	54.463 (15) 54.448 (12)	+ 1.579
14th	Jozef Ninis	Slovakia	54.399 (11) 54.518 (16)	+ 1.585
15th	Gregory Carigiet	Switzerland	54.424 (12) 54.537 (18)	+ 1.629
16	Inārs Kivlenieks	Latvia	54.443 (13) 54.524 (17)	+ 1.635
17th	Daniel Pfister	Austria	54,519 (18) 54,572 (19)	+ 1.759
18th	Jo Alexander Koppang	Norway	54.492 (16) 54.636 (21)	+ 1.796
19th	Mārtiņš Rubenis	Latvia	54.713 (19) 54.512 (14)	+ 1.893
20th	Stepan Fyodorov	Russia	54.716 (20) 54.514 (15)	+ 1.898
21st	Reinhard Egger	Austria	54.748 (21) 54.660 (22)	+ 2.076
22nd	Chris Mazdzer	United States	54.896 (22) 54.625 (20)	+ 2.189
23	Ondřej Hyman	Czech Republic	54.960 (23) 54.788 (23)	+ 2.416
24	Thor Haug Norbech	Norway	55.033 (24) 54.865 (24)	+ 2.566
25th	Adam Rosen	United Kingdom	55.112 (25) 54.972 (25)	+ 2.752
Not qualified for the 2nd round
26th	Maciej Kurowski	Poland	55.114 (26)
27	Valentin Crețu	Romania	55.185 (27)
28	Tonnes Stang Rolfsen	Norway	55,254 (28)
29	Kristaps Maurins	Latvia	55,406 (29)
30th	Jakub Hyman	Czech Republic	55,656 (30)
31	Andriy Mandziy	Ukraine	55.717 (31)
32	Andriy Kis	Ukraine	55.728 (32)
33	Danej Navrboc	Slovenia	56.037 (33)
34	Bruno Banani	Tonga	56,326 (34)
35	Hidenari Kanayama	Japan	56,390 (35)
36	Bogdan Macovei	Moldova	56.886 (36)
37	Pavel Angelow	Bulgaria	57.224 (37)

Date: February 11, 2012

Felix Loch won his third World Cup gold medal. For the Russian Luge Association, Albert Demchenko's silver medal was the first ever at the World Luge Championships. After six gold and three silver medals, Armin Zöggeler won his first bronze and a total of tenth world championship medal in the single seater.

Two-seater

space	athlete	nation	Terms	End time
1	Andreas Linger Wolfgang Linger	Austria	41.727 (1) 41.717 (1)	1: 23.444
2	Toni Eggert Sascha Benecken	Germany	41.842 (3) 41.822 (3)	+ 0.220
3	Peter Penz Georg Fischler	Austria	41.870 (5) 41.806 (2)	+ 0.232
4th	Tobias Wendl Tobias Arlt	Germany	41.837 (2) 41.846 (4)	+ 0.239
5	Vladislav Yushakov Vladimir Makhnutin	Russia	41.852 (4) 41.921 (5)	+ 0.329
6th	Christian Oberstolz Patrick Gruber	Italy	41.936 (7) 41.985 (6)	+ 0.477
7th	Ivan Newmerzhizky Vladimir Prokhorov	Russia	41.884 (6) 42.234 (14)	+ 0.674
8th	Hans Peter Fischnaller Patrick Schwienbacher	Italy	42.136 (9) 42.098 (8)	+ 0.790
9	Andris Šics Juris Šics	Latvia	42.180 (10) 42.080 (7)	+ 0.816
10	Oskars Gudramovičs Pēteris Kalniņš	Latvia	42.082 (8) 42.258 (15)	+ 0.896
11	Christian Niccum Jayson Terdiman	United States	42.317 (15) 42.126 (9)	+ 0.999
12	Alexandr Denisyev Vladislav Antonov	Russia	42.267 (12) 42.212 (13)	+ 1.035
13	Tristan Walker Justin Snith	Canada	42,306 (14) 42,189 (11)	+ 1.051
14th	Matt Mortensen Preston Griffall	United States	42.305 (13) 42.195 (12)	+ 1.056
15th	Lukáš Brož Antonín Brož	Czech Republic	42.257 (11) 42.259 (16)	+ 1.072
16	Ronny Pietrasik Christian way	Germany	42.420 (17) 42.160 (10)	+ 1,533
17th	Paul Ifrim Andrei Anghel	Romania	42.415 (16) 42.365 (17)	+ 1.336
18th	Ludwig Rieder Patrick Rastner	Italy	42.454 (18) 42.388 (18)
Not qualified for the 2nd round
19th	Andrejs Berze Uldis logins	Latvia	42,457 (19)
20th	Marek Solčanský Karol Stuchlák	Slovakia	42,533 (20)
21st	Luca Hunziker Christian Maag	Switzerland	42.775 (21)
22nd	Ivan Vynnytskyy Oleh Fitel	Ukraine	43,031 (22)
23	Matěj Kvíčala Jaromir Kudera	Czech Republic	43,041 (23)
24	Ján Harniš Branislav Regec	Slovakia	43.432 (24)
25th	Jin-yong Park Ryu Sung-hyun	South Korea	43.618 (25)
26th	Arthur Petyniak Adam Wanielista	Poland	49.164 (26)
27	Ioan Codarcea Gabriel Barbu	Romania	1: 01.811 (27)

Date: February 10, 2012

For the brothers Andreas and Wolfgang Linger it was the third world championship title after 2003 and 2011. It was the ninth world championship gold medal for Austria in the doubles.

team

space	nation	athlete	Terms	End time
1	Germany	Tatjana Hüfner Felix Loch Eggert / Benecken	46.323 (1) 47.557 (1) 48.123 (4)	2: 22.003
2	Russia	Tatiana Iwanowa Albert Demtschenko Yuschakow / Machnutin	46.332 (2) 47.780 (3) 47.980 (2)	+0.089
3	Canada	Alex Gough Samuel Edney Walker / Snith	46.447 (3) 47.781 (4) 48.176 (6)	+0.401
4th	Austria	Nina Reithmayer Manuel Pfister Linger / Linger	46.779 (5) 48.135 (8) 47.822 (1)	+0.733
5	Italy	Sandra Gasparini Armin Zoeggeler Oberstolz / Gruber	46.940 (6) 47.774 (2) 48.032 (3)	+0.743
6th	United States	Erin Hamlin Chris Mazdzer Niccum / Terdiman	46.657 (4) 48.268 (9) 48.243 (7)	+1.165
7th	Latvia	Maija Tīruma Inārs Kivlenieks Šics / Šics	47.150 (7) 47.792 (5) 48.171 (5)	+1.290
8th	Switzerland	Martina Kocher Gregory Carigiet Hunziker / Maag	47.478 (9) 48.080 (7) 49.151 (10)	+2,706
9	Slovakia	Viera Gbúrová Jozef Ninis Solčanský / Stuchlák	47.822 (12) 48.041 (6) 48.910 (8)	+2.770
10	Romania	Raluca Strămăturaru Valentin Crețu Ifrim / Anghel	47.525 (10) 48.589 (11) 48.960 (9)	+3.071
11	Poland	Ewa Kuls Maciej Kurowski Petyniak / Wanielista	47.649 (11) 48.420 (10) 49.382 (11)	+3.448
12	Ukraine	Maryna Halajdschjan Andriy Mandziy Vynnytskyy / Fitel	47.380 (8) 49.176 (12) 49.691 (12)	+2,706
13	South Korea	Sung Eun-Ryung Kim Min Kyu Park / Ryu	48.459 (13) 1: 06.986 (13) 52.365 (13)	+25,807

Date: February 12, 2012

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Germany	3	1	1	5
2	Austria	1	-	1	2
3	Russia	-	3	-	3
4th	Italy	-	-	1	1
	Canada	-	-	1	1
total		4th	4th	4th	12

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tobogganing - World Championships: Altenberg wins the 2012 Toboggan World Championships
2. ^ Silver for Tatiana Ivanova - Natalie Geisenberger earns bronze medal . FIL . February 12, 2012. Retrieved February 13, 2012.
3. ↑ 10th World Champion medal for Zoeggeler - Demchenko claimes historic silver medal . FIL . February 11, 2012. Retrieved February 13, 2012.
4. ^ Silver medal to Eggert-Benecken - Penz-Fischler happy about bronze . FIL . February 10, 2012. Retrieved February 13, 2012.