St. Sebastian - With winning margins of more or less two seconds Melanie Batkowski (AUT) and Patrick Pigneter (ITA) won their races. The third run had been close to being cancelled as in the warmest winter Europe has seen in 134 years, the track seemed to melt away. But eventually it was decided to... [more]

St. Sebastian - With run times under 50 seconds, which no-one else had been able to achieve, Patrick Pigneter/Florian Clara (ITA) won the gold medal in today´s double seater event. “I did not take anything for granted”, said overall World Cup winner and bronze medallist in the senior´s World... [more]

St. Sebastian - While the World Championships in Canada were the last season stop for the seniors, the junior sliders have one more race to go. This weekend the European Junior Championships will be held in S. Sebastian in Austria. But not only newcomers will race for the medals, experienced... [more]

“When I came here I was sick and felt horrible, today I am almost my usual self again and knew I could perform as usually”, said Russia´s gold medallist Ekatharina Lavrentjeva. “I have won here last year already and I like the track, so I was confident I could succeed here in spite of being ill.... [more]

Sigulda (pps). Excitement at the finals to the Viessmann Luge World Cup in Sigulda. At the doubles race on the luge track in Sigulda the four times World Champions Patric Leitner/ Alexander Resch (GER) made the fight for the overall victory unwillingly thrilling.

After a mistake in first run,... [more]

Sigulda (pps). Martins Rubenis from Latvia won the last race of the season to Suzuki Challenge Cup. On his home track in Sigulda (Latvia), the Olympic bronze medallist of 2006 won the men’s finals in 48,904 seconds followed by five times World Champion Armin Zöggeler (48,914 seconds) from Italy.... [more]

Grande Prairie - “We have trained for this all year, we have worked hard and it means a lot to us that we could defend our title here”, said a happily smiling Ivan Lazarev (RUS) after the race. “It was a bit difficult to concentrate today after that stupid story with the disqualification yesterday,... [more]

Sigulda (pps). The winning streak of Germany’s women continued also at the finals to the VIESSMANN Luge World Cup 2006/2007 in Sigulda (Latvia).

With her seventh season’s victory, Silke Kraushaar-Pielach also defended the winning streak of now 73 World Cup races. At the luge track in... [more]

Sigulda (pps). With his sixth overall victory, Olympic Champion Armin Zöggeler from Italy won the overall ranking of VIESSMANN Luge World Cup for the sixth time after 1997/98, 1999/00, 2000/01, 2003/04 and 2005/06.

On the luge track in Sigulda (Latvia), the five times World Champion won the... [more]

Sigulda (pps). Great honour for Vera Zozula: At the VIESSMANN Luge World Cup in Sigulda (Latvia, 17th und 18th February 2007) the latvian-born Luge-Olympic.Champion of 1980 became the sixth member of the „Hall of fame“ of the International Luge Federation FIL.

Vera Zozula was born at 15th... [more]

Grande Prairie - Just like two years ago in Latsch (ITA), Austria grabbed the first gold medals that were awarded at the World Championships. Melanie Batkowski who had become World Champion at the age of 15 could repeat her success: “I am very proud and happy that I could defend my title, with a... [more]

Winterberg (pps) Canada’s Jeff Christie and Martins Rubenis of Lativa are the new

athletes’ representatives for artificial track luge within the International Luge Federation,

FIL. They were elected on the occasion of the 39

th

FIL World Luge Championships in

Igls. The result of the election... [more]

Sigulda (pps). Wilfried Huber (ITA), Maija Tiruma (LAT) and Michail Kuzmich/Jurij Veselov (RUS) are the winners of the Nations Cup at VIESSMANN Luge World Cup in Sigulda (Latvia).

The Men’s Nations Cup won Wilfried Huber from Italy, Olympic Champion at doubles 1994, in 49,610 seconds followed... [more]

Sigulda (pps). After the preliminaries to the to the fourth and last race of the season to SUZUKI Challenge Cup on the luge track in Sigulda (Latvia) two winners of the overall ranking are already found.

Olympic Champion Armin Zöggeler (ITA), who was 95 points in front of Germany’s World... [more]

Grande Prairie - With a crowd of almost 2000 spectators watching FIL president Josef Fendt opened the 16th World Championships on Natural Track and the first on the American continent. The opening ceremony was held as a part of the icehockey game of the Alberta Junior League. About 70 athletes from... [more]