Luge World Championships 2013

The 43rd FIL World Championships in luge was on 1 and 2 February 2013, Whistler Sliding Center in Canada's Whistler , British Columbia played.

The title fights were awarded by the world association FIL on June 20, 2009 at the 57th FIL Congress in Liberec to the only applicant, Whistler.

The most successful team was Germany, which won eight of the twelve medals and all world championship titles.

Results

Women, single-seaters

space	athlete	nation	Terms	End time
1	Natalie Geisenberger	Germany	36.688 (1) 36.740 (1)	1: 13.428
2	Tatjana Huefner	Germany	36.787 (2) 36.747 (2)	+ 0.106
3	Alex Gough	Canada	36.788 (3) 36.758 (3)	+ 0.118
4th	Anke Wischnewski	Germany	36.812 (4) 36.846 (4)	+ 0.230
5	Aileen Frisch	Germany	36.959 (7) 36.856 (5)	+ 0.387
6th	Erin Hamlin	United States	36.924 (5) 36.932 (6)	+ 0.428
7th	Kimberley McRae	Canada	36.977 (10) 36.962 (7)	+ 0.511
8th	Arianne Jones	Canada	36.964 (8) 36.985 (8)	+ 0.521
9	Julia Clukey	United States	36.996 (11) 36.988 (10)	+ 0.556
10	Eliza Tiruma	Latvia	36.939 (6) 37.056 (14)	+ 0.567
11	Martina Kocher	Switzerland	37.042 (12) 36.986 (9)	+ 0.600
12	Alexandra Rodionova	Russia	36.973 (9) 37.067 (15)	+ 0.612
13	Nina Reithmayer	Austria	37.058 (13) 37.019 (11)	+ 0.649
14th	Kate Hansen	United States	37.072 (16) 37.020 (12)	+ 0.664
15th	Tatiana Ivanova	Russia	37.100 (18) 37.029 (13)	+ 0.701
16	Ekaterina Baturina	Russia	37.061 (15) 37.072 (16)	+ 0.705
17th	Sandra Gasparini	Italy	37.081 (17) 37.115 (19)	+ 0.768
18th	Raluca Strămăturaru	Romania	37.060 (14) 37.150 (20)	+ 0.782
19th	Jordan Smith	Canada	37.141 (19) 37.103 (17)	+ 0.816
20th	Mona Wabnigg	Austria	37.236 (20) 37.110 (18)	+ 0.918
Not qualified for the 2nd round
21st	Natalia Khorjowa	Russia	37.246 (21)
22nd	Emily Sweeney	United States	37.251 (22)
23	Birgit Platzer	Austria	37.312 (23)
24	Ewa Kuls	Poland	37,338 (24)
25th	Morgane Bonnefoy	France	37.441 (25)
26th	Maryna Halajjjan	Ukraine	37.497 (26)
27	Anastasia Polusytok	Ukraine	37,572 (27)
28	Daria Obratov	Croatia	37.821 (28)
29	Sung Eun-Ryung	South Korea	38,086 (29)

Date: February 2, 2013

Natalie Geisenberger wins her first gold medal at world championships. The Slovak Viera Gbúrová and the Ukrainian Olena Shkhumova could not finish the first round . Geisenberger set the start record of 3,348 seconds and the track record of 36.688 seconds. For the first time in the women's championship run, the German team managed to get four starters into the top five.

Men, single-seaters

space	athlete	nation	Terms	End time
1	Felix Hole	Germany	48.133 (1) 48.242 (1)	1: 36.375
2	Andi Langenhan	Germany	48.316 (2) 48.434 (4)	+ 0.375
3	Johannes Ludwig	Germany	48.338 (3) 48.437 (5)	+ 0.400
4th	David Möller	Germany	48.424 (4) 48.362 (3)	+ 0.411
5	Samuel Edney	Canada	48.446 (5) 48.350 (2)	+ 0.421
6th	Chris Mazdzer	United States	48.581 (8) 48.543 (6)	+ 0.749
7th	Albert Demchenko	Russia	48.578 (7) 48.552 (7)	+ 0.755
8th	Wolfgang Kindl	Austria	48.573 (6) 48.596 (10)	+ 0.794
9	Inārs Kivlenieks	Latvia	48.622 (10) 48.559 (8)	+ 0.806
10	Daniel Pfister	Austria	48.602 (9) 48; 654 (13)	+ 0.881
11	Jo Alexander Koppang	Norway	48.695 (13) 48.608 (11)	+ 0.928
12	Mārtiņš Rubenis	Latvia	48.675 (11) 48.653 (12)	+ 0.953
13	Gregory Carigiet	Switzerland	48.699 (14) 48.663 (14)	+ 0.987
14th	Viktor Kneib	Russia	48.692 (12) 48.752 (18)	+ 1.069
15th	Jozef Ninis	Slovakia	48.757 (15) 48.692 (15)	+ 1.074
16	Dominik Fischnaller	Italy	48.918 (23) 48.576 (9)	+ 1.119
17th	Taylor Morris	United States	48.763 (16) 48.780 (20)	+ 1.168
18th	David Mair	Italy	48.793 (17) 48.771 (19)	+ 1.189
19th	Ondřej Hyman	Czech Republic	48.894 (21) 48.709 (16)	+ 1.228
20th	Manuel Pfister	Austria	48.889 (20) 48.780 (20)	+ 1.294
21st	Reinhard Egger	Austria	48.965 (25) 48.712 (17)	+ 1.302
22nd	Thor Haug Norbech	Norway	48.869 (18) 48.855 (22)	+ 1.349
23	Adam Rosen	United Kingdom	48.878 (19) 48.884 (23)	+ 1.387
24	John Fennell	Canada	48.915 (22) 48.968 (24)	+ 1.508
25th	Mitchel Malyk	Canada	48.935 (24) 49.005 (25)	+ 1.565
Not qualified for the 2nd round
26th	Kristaps Maurins	Latvia	48.966 (26)
27	Aleksander Peretyagin	Russia	48,995 (27)
28	Bruno Banani	Tonga	49.026 (28)
29	Andriy Mandziy	Ukraine	49.075 (29)
30th	Maciej Kurowski	Poland	49.099 (30)
31	Tonnes Stang Rolfsen	Norway	49,120 (31)
32	Valentin Crețu	Romania	49,201 (32)
	Andrij Kis	Ukraine	49,201 (32)
34	Danej Navrboc	Slovenia	49,307 (34)
35	Hidenari Kanayama	Japan	49.584 (35)
36	Pavel Angelow	Bulgaria	49.968 (36)
37	Tilen Sirse	Slovenia	50.001 (37)
38	Kim Dong-Hyeon	South Korea	50.375 (38)
39	Stanislav Benyov	Bulgaria	50,590 (39)
40	Semyon Pavlichenko	Russia	51.791 (40)
41	Imre Pulai	Hungary	52.512 (41)

Date: February 1, 2013

Felix Loch won his fourth World Cup gold medal. With Andi Langenhan and Johannes Ludwig , two Germans also won silver and bronze. The track record was set by Felix Loch with 48.133 seconds, and Ludwig achieved the starting record of 6.930 seconds.

Two-seater

space	athlete	nation	Terms	End time
1	Tobias Wendl Tobias Arlt	Germany	36.347 (1) 36.495 (1)	1: 12.842
2	Toni Eggert Sascha Benecken	Germany	36.505 (2) 36.537 (2)	+ 0.200
3	Andreas Linger Wolfgang Linger	Austria	36.591 (3) 36.677 (4)	+ 0.426
4th	Tristan Walker Justin Snith	Canada	36.674 (5) 36.672 (3)	+ 0.504
5	Peter Penz Georg Fischler	Austria	36.693 (7) 36.756 (5)	+ 0.607
6th	Andris Šics Juris Šics	Latvia	36.682 (6) 36.776 (6)	+ 0.616
7th	Christian Oberstolz Patrick Gruber	Italy	36.694 (8) 36.810 (9)	+ 0.662
8th	Vladislav Yushakov Vladimir Makhnutin	Russia	36.728 (9) 36.839 (11)	+ 0.725
9	Ludwig Rieder Patrick Rastner	Italy	36.672 (4) 36.896 (14)	+ 0.726
10	Oskars Gudramovičs Pēteris Kalniņš	Latvia	36.774 (10) 36.815 (10)	+ 0.747
11	Andrei Bogdanov Andrei Medvedev	Russia	36.823 (12) 36.783 (8)	+ 0.764
12	Alexandr Denisyev Vladislav Antonov	Russia	36.831 (14) 36.778 (7)	+ 0.767
13	Hans Peter Fischnaller Patrick Schwienbacher	Italy	36.821 (11) 36.855 (12)	+ 0.834
14th	Matt Mortensen Preston Griffall	United States	36.862 (15) 36.880 (13)	+ 0.900
15th	Lukáš Brož Antonín Brož	Czech Republic	36.825 (13) 36.934 (15)	+ 0.917
16	Ján Harniš Branislav Regec	Slovakia	37.162 (17) 37.043 (16)	+ 1,363
17th	Matěj Kvíčala Jaromir Kudera	Czech Republic	37.115 (16) 37.162 (17)	+ 1.435
18th	Patryk Poreba Karol Mikrut	Poland	37.267 (18) 37.433 (18)	+1.858
Not qualified for the 2nd round
19th	Ivan Vynnytskyy Oleh Fitel	Ukraine	37.323 (19)
20th	Paul Ifrim Andrei Anghel	Romania	37.385 (20)
21st	Jake Hyrns Andrew Sherk	United States	37.424 (21)
22nd	Marek Solčanský Karol Stuchlák	Slovakia	37.497 (22)
23	Jin-yong Park Ryu Sung-hyun	South Korea	37.983 (23)

Date: February 1, 2013

For the doubles Tobias Wendl / Tobias Arlt it was the first world championship title of their career after the silver medal in 2008. They also got the start and track record.

Team relay

space	nation	athlete	Terms	End time
1	Germany	Natalie Geisenberger Felix Loch Wendl / Arlt	39.906 (1) 41.926 (1) 41.994 (1)	2: 03.826
2	Canada	Alex Gough Samuel Edney Walker / Snith	40.014 (2) 41.993 (2) 42.265 (4)	+0.446
3	Latvia	Maija Tīruma Inārs Kivlenieks Šics / Šics	40.328 (4) 42.265 (7) 42.261 (3)	+1.028
4th	Austria	Nina Reithmayer Wolfgang Kindl Linger / Linger	40.435 (5) 42.173 (3) 42.254 (2)	+1.036
5	United States	Erin Hamlin Chris Mazdzer Mortensen / Griffall	40.224 (3) 42.177 (4) 42.465 (7)	+1.040
6th	Italy	Sandra Gasparini Dominik Fischnaller Oberstolz / Gruber	40.544 (7) 42,201 (5) 42.409 (6)	+1.328
7th	Russia	Alexandra Rodionova Albert Demchenko Yushakov / Machnutin	40.508 (6) 42.296 (8) 42.389 (5)	+1.367
8th	Poland	Ewa Kuls Maciej Kurowski Poreba / Mikrut	40.708 (10) 42.575 (9) 43.054 (8)	+2.511
9	Slovakia	Viera Gbúrová Jozef Ninis Harniš / Regec	40.802 (11) 42,260 (6) 43,767 (9)	+3.003
10	South Korea	Sung Eun-Ryung Kim Dong-Hyeon Park / Kwon	42.045 (12) 44.180 (12) 45.750 (10)	+8.149
11	Ukraine	Maryna Halajdschjan Andrij Kis Vynnytskyy / Fitel	40.601 (9) 42.705 (10) DNF
12	Romania	Raluca Strămăturaru Valentin Crețu Ifrim / Anghel	40.555 (8) 42.945 (11) DNF

Date: February 2, 2013
Geisenberger, Loch, Wendl and Arlt set a new track record with 2: 03.826 minutes.

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Germany	4th	3	1	8th
2	Canada	-	1	1	2
3	Austria	-	-	1	1
	Latvia	-	-	1	1
total		4th	4th	4th	12

Web links

• Official site of the World Championships (Engl.)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Luge - Luge World Championships 2013 will take place in Whistler.
2. ↑ German tobogganists clear all titles , ARD Sportschau , February 3, 2013, accessed February 12, 2013
3. ↑ 44th FIL World Championships Woman Final . FIL . February 2, 2013. Retrieved February 12, 2013.
4. ↑ 44th FIL World Championships Men Final . FIL . February 1, 2013. Retrieved February 12, 2013.
5. ↑ 44th FIL World Championships Doubles Final . FIL . February 1, 2013. Retrieved February 12, 2013.
6. ↑ 44th FIL World Championships Relay Final . FIL . February 2, 2013. Retrieved February 12, 2013.