Berchtesgaden (FIL) Cosmin Chetroiu, Raluca Stramaturaru and Eugen Radu/Marian Lazarescu are the 2007 Romanian luge champions.
For lack of a luge track in their home country, Romania’s national luge team was guest at the luge track in Königssee on March 8/9 in order to crown its national luge champions. The team was made up of 39 singles and 8 doubles athletes from nine Romanian clubs.
In the men’s singles competition, Cosmin Chetroiu won in 1:38,936 minutes ahead of Marian Tican (1:39,588) and Valentin Cretu (1:39,993). Raluca Stramaturaru captured the gold medal in women’s singles with a total finish time of 1:36,034 minutes. Silver went to Violeta Stramaturaru (1:37,442), bronze to Manuela Danci (1:38,947). In the doubles race, Eugen Radu/Marian Lazarescu (1:35,774) won ahead of Cosmin Chetroiu/Ionut Taran (1:40.026) and Constantin/Tican (1:40.789). The President of the International Luge Federation, Josef Fendt from Berchtesgaden, personally conducted the awards ceremonies at Königssee, which is only a few kilometers away from his home town.

The photo shows the Romanian national luge team with FIL President Fendt (front, in the middle), FIL Development Manager Ioan Apostol (left) and FIL Executive Director Hartmut Kardaetz (right).