FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships 2010
The 23rd FIL Luge Natural Track Championship was held from January 15 to 17 2010 to nature luge track Mariazellerland in the municipality of Saint Sebastian in Styria instead. In addition to the single-seat heritage Advertise Ladies and gentlemen and the doubles team for the first time a competition was held at the European Championships, the team's two -seater (men and women ) and a doubles pair took part in the. At the start were athletes from ten European countries (Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, Austria, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Ukraine and the United Kingdom ) as well as two guest sledders from Canada and South Korea. The most successful was the Italian Federation, who won two gold, silver and bronze medals. The most successful athletes was the Italian Pigneter Patrick who brought the Einsitzerbewerb and also won the doubles competition together with Florian Clara and silver with the team.
Single Seater Men
Date: January 16 ( first championship round ) and 17th January 2010 ( 2nd and 3rd scoring run )
European champion in the men's single seater was Laufbestzeiten in all three rounds of the Italians Patrick Pigneter. At the European Championships in 2006 and 2008 he finished third. The silver medal was won by Austrian Thomas Kammerlander with exactly one second behind and took the bronze medal Italians Anton Blasbichler, who remained with the eighth term of the third passage just ahead of his countryman Alex Gruber. Blasbichler was in 1993 and 1999, European champion in the recliner, 2008, he was runner-up. The defending champion Robert Batkowski finished eighth. Of 45 reported lugers attended 5 out of the first run and not in the second run. The Briton Ian Greer retired after an inconsequential fall in the first round. The second run was interrupted after a fall of the Bulgarian Georgi Antschow long time. 37 participants attended in the standings.
Single Seater Ladies
Date: January 16 ( 1st and 2nd championship round ) and 17th January 2010 ( 3 championship round )
In single-seater of women, the Russian Ekaterina Lawrentjewa sat with their second- best time by all three scoring runs. For them, it was the third European title after 2004 and 2008. The silver medal went to Evelyn Lanthaler from Italy, despite the fastest time in the second and third pass their deficit from the first run could not make up. Won bronze Renate Gietl, also from Italy, which was in the lead after the first run. Of the 17 reported and launched participants all came in the standings.
Two-seater
Date: 16 January 2010 ( both races )
In the doubles, the Italians Patrick Pigneter and Florian Clara secured with Laufbestzeiten in both scoring runs the European title. At Euro 2008, it won the silver medal. In second place landed the Poles Andrzej Laszczak and Damian Waniczek, each achieved the second fastest time in both runs. For them, it was also the second doubles medal after third place. Third at the European Championships in 2002 were the Russian Alexander Yegorov and Pyotr Popov with the respective third-best running times. They won at the last European Championship bronze also. The winners of the last three European Championships, the Russians Pavel and Ivan Lazarev Porschnew, were ranked number six.
Team competition
Date: January 15, 2010
In the inaugural team event were ten teams from seven nations at the start. Italy, Austria and Russia put two teams; Bulgaria, Germany, Poland and Ukraine each one. A team consisted of a single-seater each of the ladies and the gentlemen as well as a doubles pair. The running times were converted into points, with the fastest time per run 30 points were awarded. Case of a tie was ranked according to the total time of all three passages. European Team Champion Team Austria was I before I Italy and Austria II Fourth place team Italy II landed with equal points with fifth-placed team Russia I, but had a poorer overall time. The top three teams could each win one of the three runs, best total time the team had Italy I.