Liberec (pps) At the 57th Congress of the International Luge Federation, FIL, in Liberec (CZE), Josef Benz, chairman of the Sport Commission artificial track, as well as Yury Sobota, Vice-President of Ukraine’s luge federation, and Jiri Zaoral of the Czech Republic - on the occasion of his 75th birthday - all received the FIL Medal of Honor in silver.
The FIL Medal of Honor in bronze was awarded to Canada’s Tim Farstad, who has been organising FIL competitions in Calgary, Canada, for many years, as well as to Christoph Mauer of the agency Infront, longtime marketing partner of the International Luge Federation.
