New edition of the International Luge Regulations (IRO) published
Berchtesgaden (FIL/30 Aug 2024) The new edition of the International Luge Regulations (IRO) for the 2024/2025 season has been published following the resolutions of the 72nd FIL Congress in Lake Placid (USA) in June 2024.
The updated IRO will come into force from the coming season and contains all relevant information on artificial tracks, competitions, disciplines, starting orders, eligibility and technical regulations.
Important changes and innovations include:
EBERSPÄCHER Team Relay World Cup presented by BMW (6 stops):
1st EBERSPÄCHER Team Relay World Cup presented by BMW Innsbruck-Igls/AUT
2nd EBERSPÄCHER Team Relay World Cup presented by Oberhof/GER
3rd EBERSPÄCHER WC Sigulda/LAT
4th EBERSPÄCHER WC Altenberg/GER
5th EBERSPÄCHER WC Winterberg/GER
6th EBERSPÄCHER WC Yanqing/CHN
EBERSPÄCHER Mixed World Cup presented by Skechers (3 stages):
WC Lillehammer/NOR
WC Oberhof/GER
WC PyeongChang/KOR
Mixed event replaces sprint: The new mixed event replaces the previous sprint competition at the FIL World Championships and the EBERSPÄCHER World Cup.
Continental Championships season 2024/2025:
56th FIL European Championships 2025, WC Winterberg/GER
FIL America Pacific Championships 2025, WC PyeongChang/KOR
FIL Asian Championships 2025, WC PyeongChang/KOR
FIL Junior European Championships 2025, JWC Sigulda/LAT
FIL Junior America Pacific Championships 2025, JWC Oberhof/GER
New starting order in the EBERSPAECHER World Cup:
New regulations for the starting order in singles and doubles come into force.
Seeded groups: The seeded groups for the World Cup will be updated after each competition.
The starting order at the World Championships remains the same as at the previous World Championships in Oberhof 2023 and Altenberg 2024.
Further information and complete regulations:
The detailed changes and the complete regulations can be viewed in the new edition of the IRO 2024. The resolutions of the 72nd FIL Congress for Sport and Technology are highlighted in yellow and can be accessed via the following link: Link to the IRO Artificial Track 2024 -> 2024-iro-at-en-final-website-30082024.pdf (fil-luge.org)
IRO with a long tradition
The IRO looks back on a long history and is 33 years older than the International Luge Federation FIL itself. The first version of the IRO was adopted at the spring meeting of the International Sledding Federation (I.S.V.) in Prague in 1924. The I. S. V. as the predecessor association of the FIL and FIBT (later IBSF - International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation) was founded in Dresden on November 8, 1913. Within the I.S.V. and later the FIBT, there was a “Section Luge”, which held its first “technical” congress in Cortina (ITA) on February 7, 1953.
After the Section Luge split from the FIBT, the FIL was founded in Davos in 1957 as the International Luge Federation.
