Zoeggeler on the brink of ninth overall victory in the Luge World Cup

Oberhof (pps) Italy's two-time Olympic champion Armin Zoeggeler is on the brink of winning his ninth victory in the Viessmann Luge World Cup. So far, the five-time World champion has managed to earn 555 points... [more]

Third Victory for Team Germany

Winterberg (pps) Team Germany in the line up with Tatjana Hüfner, Johannes Ludwig and Tobias Wendl/Tobias Arlt has won the fourth stop of the Tiscover Team-Relay. On the artificial track in Winterberg the four lugers won in a total time of two... [more]

Second season’s victory for Geisenberger - second podium for Hamlin

Winterberg (pps) Germany’s Natalie Geisenberger won the sixth race to Viessmann Luge World Cup and celebrated her second victory of the season.
At the bobtrack in Winterberg (Germany) the European Champion of... [more]

Umhausen (ck) - His first single seater win of this season celebrated Patrick Pigneter (ITA) after achieving fastest times in both runs. “I really didn’t think that I can win here, as the Austrians are traditionally very strong here. I thought that I would try to get a fair result here as with... [more]

David Möller: „I am on the right way.“

Winterberg (pps) Luck and skills were the key to success at the 7th Viessmann Luge World Cup. At the bobtrack in Winterberg Germany’s David Möller, third after Armin Zöggeler (ITA) and Albert Demtschenko (RUS) also had both. „ I increased my... [more]

Armin Zöggeler celebrates his 48th success

Winterberg (pps) Italy’s Armin Zöggeler celebrated the 48th success of his career at the Viessmann Luge World Cup in Winterberg (GER). The two-time Olympic Champion won in a total time of one minute 47.601 seconds. Second Place went to... [more]

Umhausen (ck) - Already in the first run it was clear that Patrick Pigneter/Florian Clara (ITA) were back. In the second run all they needed was a safety run to finalize their 13th career win. “Our first run was great, so that we could take it a bit easier in the second, we did not want to take a... [more]

First season’s victory for Oberstolz/Gruber (ITA)

Winterberg (pps). Christian Oberstolz/ Patrick Gruber from Italy won the doubles race at Viessmann Luge World Cup in Winterberg (Germany).

The European Champions with their first season's victory and the fifteenth World Cup... [more]

Walden, Gough and Sics/Sics the winners

Winterberg (pps). Bengt Walden from USA, Canada’s Alex Gough and Andris Sics/Juris Sics (Latvia) won the Nations Cup at the Bobtrack in Winterberg (Germany).

In the men’s race, Bengt Walden in 53,991 seconds banned Latvia’s Olympic... [more]

The natural track luge World Cup will celebrate an anniversary this coming weekend: 17 years after the first race was held in December 1992 the night event in Umhausen will be the 100th race in the world cup’s history. The winners in the first race in Rautavaara in Finland were Gerhard Pilz (AUT),... [more]

Winterberg (pps) Local hero Martini will return to the artificially-iced track in Winterberg to participate in the Viessmann Luge World Cup next weekend. At the fifth stop of the World Cup in Koenigssee local hero Steffi Sieger, two-times overall winner in the junior World Cup, was given the chance... [more]

Winterberg (pps) The double's and men's singles events of the Viessmann Luge World Cup in Winterberg will be carried out on Saturday (January 9). The women's singles will then be organised on Sunday (January 10) with the Tiscover Team Relay as the concluding event.

Saturday, January 9,... [more]

Winterberg (pps) At the Viessmann Luge World Cup in Winterberg last year the Italian luge team had left its mark. The protégés of head coach Walter Plaikner celebrated two victories - with Armin Zoeggeler the winner in the men's singles as well as Christian Oberstolz-Patrick Gruber in the... [more]

Winterberg (pps) Team Canada will be arriving in Winterberg, Germany, as the leaders in the overall rankings of the Tiscover Team Relay. After three of altogether five events, the team of head coach Wolfgang Staudinger (Germany) holds the top position with 240 points, ahead of team Austria (225)... [more]

Huefner and Zoeggeler heading for overall victory / National qualifying criteria already met

Winterberg (pps) The 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, Canada (February 12-28) are already casting a shadow over the 6th Viesmann Luge World Cup event in Winterberg, Germany, since the... [more]