Innsbruck-Igls (pps) Tatjana Hüfner from Germany won on the Olympic track in Igls at the 39th World Championships of the International Luge Federation (FIL) the first time the gold medal. The Olympic-third referred with the minimum time in the second run and total time of 1:19,808 minutes her team-colleague Anke Wischnewski (0.140 seconds behind) and Silke Kraushaar-Pielach, (0:172 behind) to the places two and three. Silke Kraushaar-Pielach, Olympic champion 2002 and in front after the first run, fluffed the start of the second run and also her second world champion title after 2004.

Quotes

Tatjana Hüfner (Olympic-third and world champion 2007)
“I am overwhelmed. I miss the words now. I did not count with that. I did not see the mistake of Silke. The track speaker called my attention to this."

Anke Wischnewski (world championship third 2005 and second 2007)
“I was third 2005 and now second. For sure I will try to catch the title in Oberhof 2008. But this will be very hard, particularly because Silke will drive her last race there.”

Silke Kraushaar-Pielach (Olympic champion 1998 and world champion 2004)
“I wanted to make the first paddle-beat very strong. I am very disappointed. The highlight of the season is the world championship, there must not happen such a mistake. In the training I made the same mistake and then I thought, this will not happen again in the race.”