Viktoria Albertovna Demchenko

Viktoria Demchenko
Full name	Viktoria Albertovna Demchenko
nation	Russia
birthday	26th November 1995 (age 24)
place of birth	Chusovoy, Russia
size	180 cm
Career
status	active
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 1 × EM medals 0 × 0 × 2 × U-23 World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 2 × JWM medals 0 × 0 × 1 × JEM medals 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Luge World Championships bronze 2020 Sochi Single seater  European Luge Championships bronze 2020 Lillehammer Single seater Luge U-23 World Championship bronze 2016 Königssee Single seater bronze 2017 Igls Single seater  Junior Luge World Championships silver 2015 Lillehammer Single seater  European Junior Luge Championships silver 2014 Königssee Single seater gold 2015 Oberhof Team relay silver 2015 Oberhof Single seater
Placements in the Luge World Cup
Debut in the World Cup February 2013  World Cup victories 2 (1 in sprint, 1 in team)  Overall World Cup ES 3rd ( 2019/20 )  Challenge Cup ES 1. 2018/19
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single seater 0 1 4th  Sprint single seater 1 2 1  Team relay 1 0 1
last change: end of season 2019/2020

Wiktorija Albertovna Demchenko ( Russian Виктория Альбертовна Демченко * 26. November 1995 in chusovoy ) is a Russian luger .

Viktorija Demtschenko is the daughter of former luge driver Albert Demtschenko , who is also her trainer. She lives in Dmitrov .

Juniors

Demchenko contested her first international race at the first Winter Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck in 2012 . Here she reached 20th place. Although her team-mate Ekaterina Katnikowa was far better placed in seventh place, Demtschenko was also able to drive the team race and just missed a medal here in fourth. It was regularly used by the juniors internationally from the 2012/13 season . She competed in her first race in December 2012 on the Königssee artificial ice rink , where she finished 13th at the Junior World Championships in Park City in January 2013 . With the team relay , to which Maxim Arawin also belonged, she finished seventh. A good week later, she achieved her first top ten result with ninth place in Calgary . At the end of the season she was third on the podium with the Russian relay in Igls . At the last race of the season in Sochi it was also used for the women in the World Cup. In the Nations Cup race, she was 13th and qualified for the actual World Cup race. Here, however, she was disqualified. With 30 points in the Nations Cup she was 43rd in the ranking, in the World Cup she was still without points.

At the start of the 2013/14 season , Demtschenko took second place ahead of Jessica Tiebel and Julia Taubitz and only Angelique Fleischer had to admit defeat. This was followed by two appearances in the women's World Cup in Whistler and Park City. After each 12th place in the Nations Cup, she reached 20th and 19th place in the World Cup races and thus her first World Cup points. With 43 points she was 39th in the overall ranking. In the further course of the season she was used again in the Junior World Cup. In Sigulda she made it back onto the podium. Behind Fleischer, Demtschenko was second and thus also second in the Junior European Championships, which were held at the same time in the race. After rank three in Königssee and four in Oberhof , the Junior World Championship in Igls was rather disappointing with rank ten. Despite two missed races, she was sixth with 300 points in the overall ranking of the juniors.

The 2014/15 season was Demtschenko's last season among the juniors. In Whistler, after finishing sixth in a second race, she finished third again on the podium. In Park City she finished second behind Jessica Tiebel, with the relay, which also included Roman Repilow , she won her first international race. At the Junior World Championships 2015 in Lillehammer , she was only beaten by Jessica Tiebel and won the silver medal ahead of Sandra Robatscher . She also won silver in the team relay race. The race in Oberhof was also the European championship, here too Demtschenko only had to admit defeat to Tiebel. In the team relay race she won the gold medal with Repilow and the doubles Evgeny Evdokimov and Alexey Groshevn. In addition, she was also used several times with the women in the Nations Cup of the World Cup, where she was used as an additional starter without qualification for the World Cup. At the start of the season in Igls, where many athletes traditionally compete, she finished 24th, at Königssee 12th, in Lillehammer fourth and in Sochi for the World Cup final, she finished third behind Miriam Kastlunger and Ekaterina Katnikowa for the first time on the podium. In the overall standings, she finished 17th with 179 points. In Sochi, she also had the opportunity to qualify for the main race, in which she was eighth and thus achieved her first result among the top ten in the women's World Cup. With 42 points she was 33rd overall in just one race.

Women

Demtschenko has been competing in the women's Luge World Cup on a permanent basis since the 2015/16 season . The way she drove reminded her of her father from the start. Very often she designs her races in a very risky way, which results in either a very good or a very bad result, as this driving style is very error-prone. Falls also occur again and again.

Demtschenko started her first full World Cup season with a 17th place at the start of the season in Igls. This was followed by eleventh places in Park City in the individual race as well as in the sprint race, for which she qualified for the first time. She developed into a specialist in sprints, where she often achieved better results than in individual races. So she came at the next World Cup station in Calgary after a 14th place and thus narrow qualification among the top 15 for the sprint race, there as tenth place to experience her first top ten placement of the season. In Sigulda, she was able to improve the placement as seventh again, before she again barely managed to qualify for the sprint in Oberhof as 15th, in which she improved again to tenth place. This was followed by the 2016 World Championships at Koenigssee, where Demtschenko came in tenth. In the U-23 special ranking she won the bronze medal behind Julia Taubitz and Summer Britcher . On her home track in Sochi, she only had to admit defeat to her compatriot Tatiana Iwanowa and reached the podium in the World Cup for the first time. In Altenberg she finished seventh, at the simultaneous European Championships in 2016 she was fifth. At the end of the season Demtschenko finished ninth both in the overall World Cup with 425 points and in the separate Sprint World Cup ranking.

In the 2016/17 season Demtschenko was only used from the race at the beginning of the year at Königssee. Here she was 15. It was also the 2017 European Championships , in this ranking she was tenth. In Sigulda she first won the Nations Cup race, then she was fourth in the individual and finally third in the sprint race behind Tatjana Iwanowa and Natalie Geisenberger . At the 2017 World Championships in Igls, Demtschenko reached 13th place, in the U-23 classification again third behind Britcher and Taubitz. With 219 points, she finished 19th in the overall standings despite missing the first half of the season.

In 2017/18 Demchenko started her season with mixed results. After finishing ninth at the season opener in Igls, he was 18th in Winterberg. Until the race at Königssee she was never better than 12th place, at Königssee she was only 23rd. At the following World Cup station in Oberhof, she was only 12th, but was able to show a good result as second in the Nations Cup. A week later she won the Nations Cup race in Lillehammer and achieved her best result of the season in fifth place in the following race. In the overall World Cup she was 15th with 337 points, in the overall ranking of the Nations Cup she was second behind Raluca Strămăturaru . For the season highlight the Olympic Winter Games of Pyeongchang Demchenko was an invitation by the International Olympic Committee denied.

Demchenko at the start of the 2019 World Championships

Demtschenko made her final breakthrough in the world class in the 2018/19 season . She won the national cup races in Lake Placid, on Königssee, in Altenberg, Oberhof and Sotschi, and she also won the overall ranking of this racing series. At the start of the season in Igls, she finished seventh in the World Cup race. In Altenberg she came third behind Sandra Robatscher and Natalie Geisenberger. The results at the 2019 World Championships in Winterberg before and the 2019 European Championships in Oberhof after the races in Altenberg, where she was 13th and 12th in the individual races, were less good . On her home track in Sochi she came second in the season finale in the individual race behind Natalie Geisenberger, she won the sprint race in front of Dajana Eitberger as well as the team relay race alongside Semjon Pavlitschenko and the doubles Alexander Denisjew & Wladislaw Antonow . It was Demchenko's first World Cup victory. In the overall standings she reached ninth place with 420 points. A better placement prevented falls in Calgary and in adverse weather conditions at Koenigssee, with the latter resulting in a severe injury, a traumatic brain injury , which made her miss the race in Sigulda.

After Demtschenko started the Luge World Cup in Igls as 12th in 2019 , she again achieved top results at the World Cup stations overseas. In Lake Placid she was third behind Julia Taubitz and Emily Sweeney , sixth in the sprint race, in Whistler third behind Tatjana Iwanowa and Anna Berreiter again and fourth in the sprint race. During the entire rest of the season she was never worse than eighth, and she never retired in any race. At the 2020 European Championships in Lillehammer, she won the bronze medal behind Iwanowa and Taubitz and thus her first international medal at an international women's championship. The simultaneous World Cup race she finished as well as the races in Sigulda and Winterberg in fourth. In the Sigulda sprint race, Demtschenko only had to admit defeat to Julia Taubitz. In the further course of the season she reached further podium positions at Königssee as third in the individual race, as with Semjon Pawlitschenko as well as the doubles Wladislaw Juschakow & Juri Prokhorow in the team relay race. In the overall ranking of the World Cup she was third behind Taubitz and Iwanowa as well as in the overall ranking of the Sprint World Cup. At the 2020 World Championships on her home track in Sochi, she won the bronze medal behind her long-time rival from her youth, Jekaterina Katnikowa, and Julia Taubitz. She finished fifth in the sprint race.

Web links

Commons : Victoria Demchenko  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Viktorija Albertowna Demchenko in the database of the International Luge Federation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Shock for Russia: IOC excludes Russian stars
2. ↑ Fall at the Luge World Cup: Russian Demtschenko suffers a traumatic brain injury