Nagano (RWH) Korea’s Eun Ryung Sung, Hidenari Kanayama of Japan and Jin-Yong Park and Jung Myung Cho of Korea have won the 17th Asian Luge Championships in Nagano, Japan. Eun Ryung Sung, who finished 29th at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi (RUS), relegated teammate Eun-Ju Choi and Harada Hoshima of Japan to second and third place. Hidenari Kanayama came in first ahead of India’s defending champion Shiva Keshavan and Dong Hyeon Kim of Korea. In the doubles, the title went to Jin-Yong Park and Jung Myung Cho (KOR). For the first time ever, athletes from Turkey were among the competitors at the Asian Championships and went straight for gold: Buse Cetin won the junior women’s race.