FIL Congress awards 2027th Luge World Championships to Innsbruck / Junior World Championships in Sankt Moritz and Winterberg

Bucharest (FIL/18 June 2023) On June 18, 2023, the delegates of the 71st FIL Congress in Bucharest (ROU) chose the Olympic track Innsbruck-Igls (AUT) as the venue of the 54th FIL World Championships.

The Austrian Luge Federation (ÖRV) with its Olympic track in Innsbruck received 21 votes against Lake Placid (USA/12 votes).

Thus, Austria will host a FIL World Championship for the eighth time. While the track in Imst hosted the World Championships in 1963 and 1978, the Olympic track in Igls hosted the Luge World Championships exactly every ten years from 1977 to 2017. In 2027, for the sixth time in five decades, luge athletes will compete for World Championship medals at the foot of the Patscherkofel mountain in Tyrol. The President of the Austrian Luge Federation (ÖRV), Markus Prock, and its Secretary General, Helmut Ruetz, described it as an "unwritten law" that the FIL has hosted a World Championship exactly every ten years since 1977.

"Hosting a World Championships in one's own country is of immense importance and offers great opportunities to promote the sport. The Olympic luge track in Igls is in need of extensive reconstruction. We are pleased about the attractive concept of our competitor Lake Placid and hope that the track in the American Adirondack Mountains will apply for the 2028 World Championships. I already promise our friends from New York State the Austrian vote", says ÖRV President Markus Prock.

The Junior World Championships on artificial track will be held in St. Moritz (SUI) in 2025 and in Winterberg (GER) in 2027. The representatives of 33 national sports federations voted on the World Junior Championships.