Luge World Championships 2016

The 46th Luge World Championships were held between January 29 and 31, 2016 on the combined artificial ice rink at Königssee .

The title fights were awarded by the world association FIL on June 16, 2012 at its congress in Riga . After the withdrawal of the competitor Sochi , the railway at Königssee was the only remaining applicant. This was the first time that medals were awarded in the sprint discipline.

Time schedule

date	Time	discipline
January 29, 2016	09:00	Qualification sprint
January 29, 2016	14:45	Sprint world championships
January 30, 2016	12:45	1st men's doubles race
January 30, 2016	14:00	2. Men's doubles race
January 30, 2016	15:20	1. Women's singles race
January 30, 2016	17:05	2. Women's singles race
January 31, 2016	10:15	1st men's singles race
January 31, 2016	12:25	2. Men's singles race
January 31, 2016	14:00	Team relay

Results

Men

space	athlete	nation	End time
1	Felix Hole	Germany	1: 38.864 min
2	Ralf Palik	Germany	1: 39.287 min
3	Wolfgang Kindl	Austria	1: 39.553 min
4th	Christopher Mazdzer	United States	1: 39.733 min
5	Andi Langenhan	Germany	1: 39.869 min
6th	Tucker West	United States	1: 40.181 min
7th	David Gleirscher	Austria	1: 40.224 min
8th	Semyon Pavlichenko	Russia	1: 40.229 min

Women

space	athlete	nation	End time
1	Natalie Geisenberger	Germany	1: 40.799 min
2	Martina Kocher	Switzerland	1: 41.038 min
3	Tatiana Ivanova	Russia	1: 41.055 min
4th	Tatjana Huefner	Germany	1: 41.056 min
5	Elīza Cauce	Latvia	1: 41.154 min
6th	Julia Taubitz	Germany	1: 41.556 min
7th	Summer Britcher	United States	1: 41.561 min
8th	Erin Hamlin	United States	1: 41.570 min

Two-seater

space	athlete	nation	End time
1	Tobias Wendl Tobias Arlt	Germany	1: 38.975 min
2	Toni Eggert Sascha Benecken	Germany	1: 39.586 min
3	Christian Oberstolz Patrick Gruber	Italy	1: 40.728 min
4th	David Gamm Robin Geueke	Germany	1: 40.772 min
5	Andris Šics Juris Šics	Latvia	1: 40.778 min
6th	Andrei Bogdanov Andrei Medvedev	Russia	1: 40.882 min
7th	Ludwig Rieder Patrick Rastner	Italy	1: 41.054 min
8th	Tristan Walker Justin Snith	Canada	1: 41.155 min

Team relay

space	nation	athlete	End time
1	Germany	Natalie Geisenberger Felix Loch Wendl / Arlt	2: 44.062 min
2	Latvia	Elīza Cauce Inārs Kivlenieks Šics / Šics	2: 45.615 min
3	Canada	Alex Gough Mitchel Malyk Walker / Snith	2: 45.907 min
4th	Russia	Semjon Pavlitschenko Tatiana Iwanowa Bogdanow / Medvedev	2: 46.105 min
5	United States	Erin Hamlin Chris Mazdzer Mortensen / Terdiman	2: 46.145 min
6th	Austria	Birgit Platzer Wolfgang Kindl Penz / Fischler	2: 46.167 min
7th	Italy	Sandra Robatscher Dominik Fischnaller Oberstolz / Gruber	2: 47.077 min
8th	Poland	Ewa Kuls Maciej Kurowski Wojciech Chmelewski / Jakub Kowalewski	2: 48.920 min

Men sprint

space	athlete	nation	End time
1	Felix Hole	Germany	38,574 s
2	Andi Langenhan	Germany	38.794 s
3	Ralf Palik	Germany	38.808 s
4th	Christopher Mazdzer	United States	38,876 s
5	Wolfgang Kindl	Austria	38.902 s
6th	Johannes Ludwig	Germany	38,934 s
7th	Armin Frauscher	Austria	38.940 s
8th	Mitchel Malyk	Canada	39.026 s

Women sprint

space	athlete	nation	End time
1	Martina Kocher	Switzerland	39,451 s
2	Natalie Geisenberger	Germany	39,486 s
3	Dajana Eitberger	Germany	39.055 s
4th	Summer Britcher	United States	39.594 s
5	Tatjana Huefner	Germany	39.598 s
6th	Julia Taubitz	Germany	39.641 s
7th	Tatiana Ivanova	Russia	39.646 s
8th	Elīza Cauce	Latvia	39.698 s

Double-seater sprint

space	athlete	nation	End time
1	Tobias Wendl Tobias Arlt	Germany	39.032 s
2	Georg Fischler Peter Penz	Austria	39.261 s
3	Christian Oberstolz Patrick Gruber	Italy	39.428 s
4th	Andris Šics Juris Šics	Latvia	39,452 s
5	Jayson Terdiman Matthew Mortensen	United States	39,573 s
6th	Thomas Steu Lorenz Koller	Austria	39.593 s
7th	Tristan Walker Justin Snith	Canada	39,600 s
8th	Andrei Bogdanov Andrei Medvedev	Russia	39.653 s

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Germany	6th	4th	2	12
2	Switzerland	1	1	-	2
3	Austria	-	1	1	2
4th	Latvia	-	1	-	1
5	Italy	-	-	2	2
6th	Canada	-	-	1	1
	Russia	-	-	1	1
total		7th	7th	7th	21st

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sports calendar (fil-luge.org, accessed October 16, 2015)
2. ↑ Luge World Championships 2016 at Königssee , accessed on June 17, 2012