| Artificial Track News 20.12.12 | |
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| German national championships in Koenigssee on December 22 | |
| Duel between Corinna Martini and Aileen Frisch in the focus Koenigssee (pps) Just a few days before Christmas Germany’s lugers will crown their national champions on December 22. Tatjana Huefner, Felix Loch and Tobias Wendl-Tobias Arlt are the defending gold medalists on the artificially... [more] |  |
| Artificial Track News 16.12.12 | |
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| Germany wins Team Relay event ahead of Italy and Russia | |
| Sigulda (pps) World and defending Champion Germany won the third Viessmann Luge World Cup Team Relay event. At the World Cup stop in Sigulda, Latvia, the protégés of head coach Norbert Loch – Natalie Geisenberger, Felix Loch and Tobias Wendl-Tobias Arlt – claimed their third victory in the... [more] | |
| Artificial Track News 16.12.12 | |
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| Armin Zöggeler on second place | |
| Germany’s men have found their match in Albert Demchenko
Sigulda (pps) Germany’s lugers have found their match in Albert Demchenko, the 2006 Olympic silver medalist and 2012 World runner-up of Russia. After twelve consecutive victories for Germany in the men’s singles of the... [more] |
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| Artificial Track News 15.12.12 | |
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| Fourth race, fourth victory: | |
| Tobias Wendl-Tobias Arlt remain undefeated in the pre-Olympic season
Sigulda (pps) In the pre-Olympic season Tobias Wendl-Tobias Arlt of Germany are pulling off one victory after the other. At the fourth stop of the Viessmann Luge World Cup series in Sigulda, Latvia, the... [more] |
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| Artificial Track News 15.12.12 | |
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| Natalie Geisenberger with second-place finish ahead of Anke Wischnewski | |
| European Champion Tatiana Ivanova ends winning series of Germany’s women
Sigulda (pps) Germany’s women lugers have found their “master”: after three consecutive victories for Germany, Russia’s European Champion Tatiana Ivanova ended the black-red-golden winning series. At the... [more] |
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| Artificial Track News 14.12.12 | |
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| Three different Nations of top of the podium at Nation’s cup in Sigulda | |
| Sigulda (pps) Three different nations stood on the top of the podium at the Nation’s Cup in Sigulda (LAT). The winners are local hero Martins Rubenis, Germany’s Corinna Martini and Vladislav Yuzhakov - Vladislav Makhnutin from Russia.
Rubenis, Bronze Medalist at 2006 Olympic Winter... [more] |
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| Artificial Track News 13.12.12 | |
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| World Championship venue in the 2014-2015 season | |
| Natalie Geisenberger, Loch and Linger-Linger last year’s winners Sigulda (pps) Opened in 1986, the artificially iced track in Sigulda will host the 45th FIL Luge World Championships in the post-Olympic 2014-2015 season. Sigulda carried out its first Luge Worlds in 2003. When he claimed... [more] |  |
| General News 12.12.12 | |
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| Ashley Walden joins United States Bobsled & Skeleton Federation | |
| Ashley Walden (USA) – In July 2012 Walden joined the USBSF (United States Bobsled & Skeleton Federation). The former luge athlete, who earned a fifth place at the 2005 World Championships, has a degree in sports management and is now acting as USBSF Operations Coordinator. Under her maiden name... [more] |  |
| Artificial Track News 11.12.12 | |
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| Felix Loch on “Reunion Tour” – First Altenberg, then Sigulda | |
| “Acid test” in Latvia for the undefeated doubles team of Wendl-Arlt Sigulda (pps) Germany’s Felix Loch is currently on a trip into the past: after the third stop of the Viessmann Luge World Cup in Altenberg, where the Olympic Champion claimed his third World Championship title in... [more] |  |
| General News 11.12.12 | |
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| More than three million TV spectators saw Loch’s victory | |
| Altenberg (pps) More than three million TV spectators watched Sunday’s luge broadcasts on the Germany public TV station ZDF when Felix Loch claimed his 12th individual victory in the Viessmann Luge World Cup. A total of 3.16 million viewers followed the decision in the men’s singles in Altenberg... [more] | |
| Artificial Track News 09.12.12 | |
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| Germany wins Team Relay event ahead of Austria and Russia | |
| Altenberg (pps) World and defending Champion Germany won the second Team Relay event in Altenberg. The German quartet with Natalie Geisenberger, Felix Loch and Tobias Wendl-Tobias Arlt earned a clear victory ahead of Austria with Nina Reithmayer, Wolfgang Kindl and the doubles with Peter Penz-Georg... [more] |  |
| Artificial Track News 09.12.12 | |
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| Andi Langenhan on second place ahead of Johannes Ludwig | |
| Felix Loch sets up track record to claim second season’s victory
Altenberg (pps) In December 2009 Germany’s Felix Loch celebrated his very first Viessmann LugeWorld Cup victory on the track in Altenberg; in February 2012 the 23-year old then claimed his third World Championship... [more] |
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| Artificial Track News 08.12.12 | |
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| Second season’s victory ahead of Anke Wischnewski and Corinna Martini | |
| A round dozen World Cup wins for Natalie Geisenberger
Altenberg (pps) Natalie Geisenberger of Germany made it a round dozen wins. At the third stop of the Viessmann Luge World Cup series in Altenberg, the 2012 World bronze medalist celebrated her 12th individual victory.... [more] |
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| Artificial Track News 08.12.12 | |
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| Third race – third victory | |
| Wendl-Arlt to score a hattrick
Altenberg (pps) It was the third race and they earned their third victory: in the pre-Olympic season the doubles team with Tobias Wendl-Tobias Arlt seems to be in class of their own. After their victories in Innsbruck-Igls and Koenigssee, the current... [more] |
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| Artificial Track News 07.12.12 | |
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| 16 Nations at season’s opener of Junior’s World Cup | |
| Lillehammer (pps) 16 Nations in Lillehammer gather in Lillehammer /Norway for the season’s opener in Junior’s World Cup Luge this weekend. 24 juniors, 23 female juniors and 13 doubles applied for the competition on the Olympic track of 1994. Lillehammer will be as well the host of the Youth Olympic... [more] |  |