Whistler (pps) Current World champion Erin Hamlin (USA) shares the same fate as Germany’s Felix Loch and André Florschuetz-Torsten Wustlich. The 22-year-old current World champion has to go through the qualification in the Nations Cup in order to make it to the women’s singles (13:00 hrs local time / 22:00 CET) of the Viessmann Luge World Cup. As 11th on the list of seeded lugers – only the last three events (Oberhof, Altenberg and Calgary) are factored-in – Hamlin is not automatically qualified for the World Cup.
She thus shares the same fate as Felix Loch and André Florschuetz-Torsten Wustlich, the 2008 World champions. At his comeback at the event in Koenigsee, Loch had to compete in the Nations Cup in order to qualify for the World Cup. By the same token, Florschuetz-Wustlich experienced the same fate at their comeback in Oberhof.
Due to a shoulder injury, Felix Loch had missed the first three events of the Viessmann Luge World Cup and thus not included on the list of seeded lugers. Florschuetz-Wustlich even missed the first five stops of the World Cup series because of a spinal disc surgery of André Florschuetz.
