Luge World Championships 2021

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Luge World Championships 2021

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Men's Ladies
winner
Single seater Flag of the Russian Luge Federation Roman Repilow GermanyGermany Julia Taubitz
Two-seater GermanyGermany Toni Eggert / Sascha Benecken
Sprint the single seater AustriaAustria Nico Gleirscher GermanyGermany Julia Taubitz
Sprint the two-seater GermanyGermany Tobias Wendl / Tobias Arlt
Single seater (U23) GermanyGermany Max Langenhan GermanyGermany Anna Berreiter
Two-seater (U23) ItalyItaly Ivan Nagler / Fabian Malleier
Team relay AustriaAustria Austria
Madeleine Egle
David Gleirscher
Thomas Steu
Lorenz Koller

The 50th Luge World Championships were scheduled to take place on February 5-7, 2021 on the bobsleigh and sled run at Canada Olympic Park in Whistler , Canada . The intercontinental title fights organized by the Fédération Internationale de Luge de Course were awarded to the 2010 Olympic track for the second time after 2013 . Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated Canadian travel restrictions, the World Luge Federation announced at the beginning of September 2020 that the World Championships could not be held in Canada. On September 15, 2020, theFédération Internationale de Luge de Course announced the relocation of the World Championships to Koenigssee , the period from January 29th to 31st, 2021 was determined as the new staging period.

Competitions were planned in the single-seater for men and women, the two-seater, the discipline of the team relay and in the sprint of the single-seaters for men, women and two-seater. Apart from the team relay and the sprint competitions, the races were each held in two races.

Award

Bobsleigh and sled run in Canada Olympic Park
Koenigssee artificial ice rink
Route map of the Königssee artificial ice rink

Calgary and Oberhof originally applied to host the 50th Luge World Championships .

On the luge track Oberhof already the world championships were in 1973 , 1985 and Luge World Championships in 2008 and the European Luge Championships in 1979 , 1998 , 2004 and 2013 instead. The bobsleigh and sled run in Canada Olympic Park hosted the 1988 Winter Olympics , the 1990 , 1993 and 2001 Luge World Championships , the American Pacific Luge Championships in 2015 and 2017, and the 1996 and 2005 Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships . The Skeleton World Championships in 1992 , 1996 , 2001 and 2005 also took place on the track . When applying, the Canadian association announced that the 1988 Olympic track would be modernized from spring 2018 for 10 million Canadian dollars (the equivalent of 6.7 million euros).

At the 65th annual congress of the world association FIL in Constanța, Romania (June 2017), Calgary prevailed over Oberhof with 20:15 votes and was therefore awarded the contract to host the world championships in 2021. After the end of the 2018/19 season it became known that there were financing problems with the planned modernization of the bobsleigh and racing sled track in Canada Olympic Park . Calgary had planned to apply to host the 2026 Winter Olympics , but a referendum had led to the bidding efforts being abandoned. In March 2019 it was unclear whether the railway would ever go back into operation. For this reason, the Canadian Luge Federation Luge Canada applied to the FIL World Federation in May 2019 to relocate the World Championships to the Whistler Sliding Center . This relocation was confirmed at the 67th annual congress of the world association Fédération Internationale de Luge de Course in Ljubljana . As part of this congress, the original competitor for the 2021 Luge World Championships, Oberhof, was unanimously chosen to host the 2023 Luge World Championships .

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated travel restrictions for Canada, the executive of the International Luge Federation decided on September 2, 2020 not to be able to host the World Championships in Canada. Christoph Schweiger , Executive Director of the FIL, described the "proper implementation of this major event, under the given coronavirus conditions and regulations, [as] not possible". In mid-September, the World Luge Federation announced the relocation to the Königssee . The last time the 2016 Luge World Championships and 2017 Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships were held there.

Defending champion

In the last world championships in 2020 in Sliding Center Sanki won Ekaterina Katnikowa in women's singles, Roman Repilow in the men's singles and the doubles pair of Toni Eggert and Sascha Benecken .

  • Ekaterina Katnikova

  • Roman Repilow

  • Toni Eggert and Sascha Benecken

In the sprint competitions at the previous world championships on the Russian track, Yekaterina Katnikowa won in the women's singles, Roman Repilow in the men’s singles and Alexander Denissjew and Wladislaw Antonow in the doubles race.

  • Ekaterina Katnikova

  • Roman Repilow

  • Alexander Denisjew and Vladislav Antonov

Germany won the team relay competition with Julia Taubitz , Johannes Ludwig and Toni Eggert / Sascha Benecken.

  • Julia Taubitz

  • Johannes Ludwig

  • Toni Eggert

  • Sascha Benecken

Participating Nations

Europe (18 nations)
Asia (2 nations)
America (3 nations)
1 Due to a doping verdict against Russia, the Russian national luge team is not allowed to compete under the Russian flag and must officially be run as the "Russian Luge Federation (RLF)" (in German: "Russian Luge Association").

Medal table

place country gold silver bronze total
1 GermanyGermany Germany 6th 7th 3 16
2 AustriaAustria Austria 2 1 2 5
3 Flag of the Russian Luge Federation Russian Luge Federation 1 1 - 2
4th ItalyItaly Italy 1 - - 1
5 LatviaLatvia Latvia - 1 4th 5
6th United StatesUnited States United States - - 1 1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 50th FIL Luge World Championships 2021 will not be held in Whistler (CAN). In: fil-luge.org. Fédération Internationale de Luge de Course, September 2, 2020, accessed on September 2, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Eberspächer title sponsor for two World Cup winters / New FIL calendar 2020/21 adopted. In: fil-luge.org. hrsg = Fédération Internationale de Luge de Course, September 15, 2020, accessed on September 15, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b Oberhof wants toboggan World Championships 2021. (No longer available online.) In: mdr.de. Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk , May 31, 2017, archived from the original on April 7, 2018 ; accessed on April 7, 2018 .
  4. ↑ a b Oberhof's application for the 2021 Luge World Cup failed. In: sz.de. Süddeutsche Zeitung , June 17, 2017, accessed on August 28, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Calgary beats Oberhof: Luge World Championships 2021 in Canada. In: merkur.de. Münchner Merkur , June 17, 2017, accessed April 7, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Ryan Flanagan: Calgary's Olympic sledding track closes, possibly for the last time. In: ctvnews.ca. CTV , March 4, 2019, accessed June 29, 2019 (Catalan).
  7. ↑ Luge Canada applies to move the 50th FIL World Championships in 2021 from Calgary to Whistler. In: fil-luge.org. Fédération Internationale de Luge de Course, May 23, 2019, accessed June 29, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Anniversary World Cup 2021 now in Whistler instead of Calgary. In: fil-luge.org. Fédération Internationale de Luge de Course, June 15, 2019, accessed June 29, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Oberhof is also awarded the contract for the Luge World Championships in 2023. In: insuedthueringen.de. Free Word , June 15, 2019, accessed June 17, 2019 .
  10. ↑ For the team relay, the respective head coach usually nominates the best placed woman, the best placed man and the best placed two-seater pair of the respective competitions.
  11. ↑ 50th FIL Luge World Championships: 149 athletes from 23 nations at the start. In: fil-luge.org. Fédération Internationale de Luge de Course, January 27, 2021, accessed January 28, 2021 .