| Artificial Track News 14.01.11 | |
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| European runner-up Corinna Martini puts premature end to her season | |
| Oberhof (pps) European runner-up Corinna Martini of Germany had to put a premature end to her season. As agreed with Germany’s head coach Norbert Loch, the 25 year-old from Winterberg will now be trying to cure her spinal problems once and for all. Possibly, Martini might even have to undergo... [more] |  |
| Artificial Track News 14.01.11 | |
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| Germany’s team for the Worlds nominated after Oberhof World Cup | |
| Oberhof (pps) After the Viessmann Luge World Cup in Oberhof Germany’s head coach Norbert Loch will nominate the team for the 42nd FIL Luge World Championships in Cesana, Italy, to take place on January 29-30, 2011. As the 48-year old announced, it remains to be seen if Germany’s three starting... [more] | |
| Natural Track News 13.01.11 | |
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| Würz Energy World Cup Gsies/Casies (ITA) Würz Energy World Cup returns to Europe |
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| Gsies/Casies (ck) - After the season opening in Novouralsk in Asia, the Würz Energy World Cup is back in central Europe now. The first stop in Gsies/Casies in the northern part of Italy will be a world cup premiere. The region is well known for its cross country skiing tradition and its winter... [more] | |
| Artificial Track News 13.01.11 | |
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| Oberhof 2010: “Optimum success” for Germany’s lugers | |
| Oberhof (pps) Optimum success – this is what can be said of the performance of Germany’s lugers in Oberhof last year. In all four disciplines the winners were German athletes; only in the Team Relay Event – well, there is no other way actually – the silver and bronze medals went to Austria and... [more] |  |
| Artificial Track News 12.01.11 | |
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| Sprint event instead of draw for seeded groups | |
| Oberhof (pps) The starting places in the women’s (10) and men’s (15) singles as well as in the doubles’ will be determined by a “sprint event” at the Viessmann Luge World Cup in Oberhof – instead of the usual draw. During the sprint event the starting gate opens at random within a given frame of... [more] | |
| Artificial Track News 12.01.11 | |
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| Schedule of Oberhof | |
| Oberhof (pps) The artificially-iced track in Thuringia holds third position on the all-time rankings of World Cup venues, behind Koenigssee and Igls. Two weeks prior to the World Championships in Italy the 1354,5 metres long track will thus host its 23rd World Cup event, taking off with the... [more] | |
| Artificial Track News 11.01.11 | |
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| 6th Viessmann Luge World Cup in Oberhof | |
| Tatjana Huefner, Armin Zoeggeler and Wendl-Arlt the overall leaders Oberhof (pps) Tatjana Huefner (GER), Armin Zoeggeler (ITA) and Tobias Wendl-Tobias Arlt (GER) will arrive in Oberhof, the sixth stop of the Viessmann Luge World Cup series, as the overall leaders. Even though she was... [more] |  |
| Artificial Track News 06.01.11 | |
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| Germany wins Viessmann Team Relay World Cup in Koenigssee | |
| Koenigssee (pps) The German team remains a force to be reckoned with in the Team Relay Event. The quartet with Natalie Geisenberger and Jan Eichorn in the singles’ as well as Tobias Arlt-Tobias Wendl in the doubles’ earned their third victory this season in the Viessmann Team Relay World Cup... [more] |  |
| Artificial Track News 06.01.11 | |
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| Armin Zoeggeler celebrates eighth Koenigssee victory | |
| Koenigssee (pps) For nine years now Germany’s lugers have been waiting for a success on their home track in Koenigssee. And they have to wait a bit longer. At the fifth stop of the Viessmann Luge World Cup in the post-Olympic season two-time Olympic champion Armin Zoeggeler of Italy, who set up a... [more] |  |
| Artificial Track News 05.01.11 | |
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| Wendl-Arlt continue German doubles’ tradition | |
| Winterberg (pps) European silver medallists Tobias Wendl-Tobias Arlt continue the German tradition of good results in the doubles’. At the fifth stop of the Viessmann Luge World Cup series in Koenigssee the “local heroes” already celebrated their third victory this season. Simultaneously, earning... [more] |  |
| Artificial Track News 05.01.11 | |
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| Natalie Geisenberger puts an end to Huefner’s winning series | |
| Koenigssee (pps) At the Viessmann Luge World Cup in Koenigssee Olympic bronze medallist Natalie Geisenberger of Germany has put an end to the winning series of Tatjana Huefner who had won all four preceding events. Thus Geisenberger, the 2008 European champion, celebrated her seventh individual... [more] |  |
| Artificial Track News 04.01.11 | |
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| Ewelina Staszulonek, Julian von Schleinitz and Rieder/Rastner the Winners of Nation’s Cup | |
| Park City (pps) The Winners of the nation’s cup at the Park City Viessmann Luge World Cup are Ewelina Staszulonek from Poland, Germany’s additional Starter Julian von Schleinitz und Italy’s Ludwig Rieder/Patrick Rastner. Ewelina Staszulonek banned Russia’s Alexandra Rodionova on second... [more] |
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| Artificial Track News 04.01.11 | |
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| Novum for Austria: Two doubles’ tied for first place | |
| Koenigssee (pps) Novum for Austria in the Viessmann Luge World Cup: Two doubles’ teams posted exactly the same time and thus shared the top spot of the podium in Park City. Tied to a thousandth of a second Austria’s Andreas Linger-Wolfgang Linger and Peter Penz-Georg Fischler shared the victory.... [more] |  |
| Artificial Track News 04.01.11 | |
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| Tatjana Huefner with rapid strides towards next record | |
| Koenigssee (pps) Olympic champion Tatjana Huefner is taking great strides towards her next record. Thanks to her 25th individual victory the two-time World champion is heading the overall Viessmann Luge World Cup rankings with 400 points, the highest number of points possible. With this lead of 110... [more] |  |
| Artificial Track News 04.01.11 | |
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| Schedule of Koenigssee | |
| Koenigssee (pps) Koenigssee held and will further hold top position in the Viessmann Luge World Cup – the oldest artificially-iced track world-wide will host its 30th luge World Cup event on January 5-6. Contrary to other events the competitions in Koenigssee will be carried out in the middle of... [more] | |