LAAS/LASA. The Junior Luge World Cup on Natural Track in Laas/Lasa (ITA) took place from January 14th to 15th 2017.

Jack Leslie (NZL) triumphed at the men’s event in South Tyrol: After ranking second in the previous Junior Luge World Cup race in Latzfons (ITA), the New Zealander stood on top this time in Laas/Lasa. With 02:04.16 minutes, he was twelve hundredths faster than runner-up Fabian Achenrainer (AUT). Laurin Jakob Kompatscher from Italy came in third with a gap of nearly two seconds behind Leslie. In the overall standings of the men’s Junior Luge World Cup, Leslie took the lead after the race in Laas/Lasa with 255 points, followed by Florian Markt (AUT), who shares the second rank with his compatriot Achenrainer. They both have 245 points, respectively.

At the women’s event, the Italians dominated: Daniela Mittermair (ITA) won the race, she had a time of 02:07.35 minutes and was nearly a second faster than her compatriot Nadine Staffler, who came in second. Mittermair’s and Staffler’s teammate Camilla Singer, who had ranked sixth at the Junior Luge World Cup race in Latzfons, came in third. The overall standings of the women’s Junior Luge World Cup are the same as the standings in Laas/Lasa: Mittermair is in the lead, followed by Staffler and Singer.

At the doubles’ event, there has been a close race. In the end, the Italians Manuel Gaio/Nicolo Debertolis came out as winners, but their lead over runner-ups Fabian Achenrainer/Miguel Brugger (AUT) was a small one: only nine hundredths separated the two pairings. Kirill Kravchuk/Aleksandr Zyrianov (RUS) ranked third. For the first time in this Junior Luge World Cup season, Achenrainer/Brugger could not win the race at the doubles’ event. But in the overall standings of the doubles’, the Austrians are still in the lead, ahead of Gaio/Debertolis and Kravchuk/Zyrianov.

The fourth – and last – race of the Junior Luge World Cup on Natural Track will take place from January 21st to 22nd in Unterammergau (GER), where the champions of the Junior Luge World Cup will be determined.

LINK results:
http://www.fil-luge.org/en/multimedia/fil-junior-luge-world-cup-on-natural-track-5