Sometimes something good needs time: The 35-year-old experienced athlete Gerhard Pilz (AUT) won the today´s natural track luge World Cup race in Hüttau (AUT). Moreover, five-time world champion Gerhard Pilz won the World Cup for the first time. “I trained a lot to win this title, now I... [more]

Hüttau was the final station of this year´s Natural Track Luge World Cup. The competition ends with a sensation of Wolfgang and Andreas Schopf (AUT). The young cousins and world champions of Stein/Enns reached the best time after the first run. The world champions of the last year, Armin and... [more]

Silke Kraushaar wins race in Lake Placid and Overall World Cup for the second time
Skel/Wöller win Overall World Cup with a lead of 46 points
One week before the World Championships: Hackl`s first victory in this season

Lake Placid. With her victory at the Viessmann... [more]

A big number of spectators and journalists watched the fifth World Cup Natural Track Luge race in the middle of Moscow (RUS). The current World Champions from Stein/Enns Wolfgang and Andreas Schopf (AUT) won the doubleseater race. The cousins showed a perfect performance on the short track, which... [more]

Zöggeler wins Olympic test race and Viessmann Overall World Cup rating
Not afraid of pre-Olympic omen: „rule will have to be broken“

Park City. At the moment Armin Zöggeler is almost unbeatable. On Saturday the athlete from South Tyrol/ Italy won the... [more]

25th World Cup victory in a row for German women
Kraushaar in front of Wiedemann and Otto
Leitner/Resch in front of Skel/Wöller and Schiegl/Schiegl

Park City. The Olympic test race ended with two victories for German luge athletes. At the 7th Viessmann luge World Cup in... [more]

Ekaterina Lawrentjewa from Russia, Florian Breitenberger from Italy and the doubles team Schopf/Schopf from Austria are the new European Junior Champions in natural track luge. With this, the favorites won this great event in Tiers (South Tyrol/ Italy). When it came to awarding the medals,... [more]

Wilfried Huber wins Viessmann World Cup for the third time
Armin Zöggeler increases his Overall World Cup lead

Nagano. The lugers from Italy dominated the men’s competition of the Viessmann luge World Cup in Nagano. After his victories in Königssee (1993) and... [more]

Otto misses Viessmann World Cup „big jackpot“ by four hundredths of a second
Grimmette/Martin interrupt series of German victories in Nagano

Nagano. At the Viessmann luge World Cup in Nagano/ Japan, Sylke Otto missed the „big jackpot“ of the International... [more]

Lillehammer. (pps) The young competitors from the USA dominated the World Junior Championships in Lillehammer/Norway and have captured three of the altogether four gold medals. Apart from their victory in the team event, the USA won the doubles with Patrick Anderson-Steve Wohleb and were also... [more]

Less than three weeks ago Wolfgang and Andreas Schopf participated in their first World Cup race. The youngsters became second, which was the surprise of the day. Today, the 16-year-old Andreas and his 17-year-old cousin Wolfgang became World Championships ahead of last year´s winners Armin and... [more]

Ranks one to three for German women in Altenberg
Second track record in two days for Sylke Otto


Altenberg. On the luge and bobsleigh track in Altenberg World Champion Sylke Otto won her second VIESSMANN-Weltcup in this season. In the first run, Otto beat the track record Silke... [more]

Georg Hackl in second place

Altenberg. The silver medalist at the World Championships Armin Zöggeler celebrated his third World Cup victory in this season. In both runs of the VIESSMANN luge World Cup at the luge and bobsled track in Altenberg, the Italian was almost two tenths... [more]

“I am so happy that it is here with all the local fans that I am celebrating this victory after more than one and a half years”, says Reinhard Gruber (23/ITA) while he is writing autographs left and right. Normally the natural track luge racers are not that much in the center of... [more]

Hat trick for Sylke Otto - Hackl and Schiegl/Schiegl win in Igls

Igls. Sylke Otto, Georg Hackl and Tobias Schiegl/Markus Schiegl won the third LuK Challenge Cup on the Olympic track in Igls. While it was the third victory and thus a hat trick for the World and European Champion from... [more]