FIL European Luge Championships 1914
The first European Luge Championships were held on 1 and 2 February 1914 in Reichenberg the ridge.
With 88 participants in the men and 33 doubles, the first European Championships were a sporty hit and one of the biggest sporting events of the year in Europe in luge. In addition, there was a financial success. The number of spectators tickets sold was stated by the sports correspondent Graz on both days of competition with 30,000. The Prague daily paper estimated the number of visitors on the first day of competition at 60,000, the Neue Freie Presse reported " tens of thousands " of spectators.
In the official program of the European Championships titles were awarded in the men and in the doubles. In addition to the European Championships, the Championship of the Sudeten lands were held in the women 's and men's two-seater. There and drove out of competition at the European Championships also known personalities, the Prince and Princess of Schaumburg -Lippe, Prince Lobkowitz and Prince Schwarzenberg, with. The women's race for the championship of the Sudeten lands won from Anna Skoda Austria. Today, Skoda is still often performed as the first European Champion.
The competitions on behalf of the company founded in 1913 Central European Luge Association, the German - Austrian sled sports clubs, the German bobsleigh covenant, German Bobsleighverband, the International Sled Club Davos and the carriage and Bobsleighklub monastery and thus three nations were carried out belonged.
Date: February 1, 1914 At the start, 88 luger. The EM was decided in two races. The local hero Rudolf Kauschka decided the competition, with nine seconds ahead of its own. It came to several falls, but they all ran off lightly.
Doubles
* The notation Karl Löbl is called.
Date: February 2, 1914 At the start, had 33 doubles, the first six runners are yet known. The race was held other than the individual races in one run. There were plans for two, but had to leave before the first pass, the race program can be reduced to a passage, because the clear weather the route had become too soft. Falls there were none.