Luge 2018 - 2019 Discussion Thread

[hckošice 14,794]

Still a nice result, a win is a win the more important fact is that At least there someone behind Ninis for the future who may be able to compete in the world cup.

[phelps 7,664]

1 ora fa, hckosice ha scritto:

Still a nice result, a win is a win the more important fact is that At least there someone behind Ninis for the future who may be able to compete in the world cup.

 

well, you already have a good young man (Jakub Simonak), who was 11th in the Nations Cup and then 27th in the World Cup race in Innsbruck ("only" 4 positions and half a second behind Ninis)...

and also a promising double (Tomas Vavercak and Matej Zmij), who were 5th in the Nations Cup and then 13th in the World Cup race (always in innsbruck)...

and in the Austrian WC stage, there was also a girl (Andrea Pavlikova) at the start, even if she didn't get as good results as the guys (she was only 35th out of 38 starters in the Nations Cup)...

so, the situation for Slovak Luge sport is not so dark as you could think (OK, the top positions are still far away...and maybe they will never get close to that...but at least you already have a full set of world cup level lugers...and maybe in Beijing you'll have a chance to start also in the team event)...

Edited December 7, 2018 by phelps

[phelps 7,664]

Dominik Fischnaller, Andrea Voetter and Ludwig Rieder/Patrick Rastner are the Italian champions in their respective category for the 2018/2019 season...

Dominik won a close race with a 0.1 sec margin over his cousin Kevin in the men's single; Andrea won the women's single with a wider margin (over 2/10 of a second) over the young Verena Hofer (Nina Zoeggeler ended up in 5th place); Rieder & Rastner won the doubles' competition, which turned out to be the most exciting of the entire day, with only 17/1000 of a second advantage over the youth world champions, Ivan Nagler/Fabian Malleier (and also Emanuel Rieder/Simon Kainzwaldner, who ended up in 3rd place, were very close, just 61/1000 of a second outside the winning time)...

p.s. the races were held in Oberhof (GER) as in Italy we're still without a track (even a modest one, good just for a few national races)...

Edited December 29, 2018 by phelps

[heywoodu 14,954]

Max Langenhan and Cheyenne Rosenthal, both from Germany, are the new junior world champions.

https://www.fil-luge.org/cdn/uploads/ergebnis-junioren-01-02-19.pdf

https://www.fil-luge.org/cdn/uploads/ergebnis-juniorinnen-01-02-19.pdf

[hckošice 14,794]

and a very nice 10th place for Skupek

[phelps 7,664]

2 ore fa, heywoodu ha scritto:

Max Langenhan and Cheyenne Rosenthal, both from Germany, are the new junior world champions.

https://www.fil-luge.org/cdn/uploads/ergebnis-junioren-01-02-19.pdf

https://www.fil-luge.org/cdn/uploads/ergebnis-juniorinnen-01-02-19.pdf

 

for Italy, in the girls' race, very disappointing outcome for Verena Hofer, who lost a very much anticipated gold medal because of a very poor 1st run...

meanwhile the bronze medal won by Lukas Gufler among the boys has to be considered a good result...

let's see what happens tomorrow in the doubles' race, with another chance for Italy (namely, Gufler and Felderer) to get some satisfaction in this really shady winter for our luge sport...

Edited February 1, 2019 by phelps

[heywoodu 14,954]

Orlamünder/Gubitz are the junior doubles world champions.

https://www.fil-luge.org/cdn/uploads/ergebnis-doppelsitzer-02-02-19.pdf

[hckošice 14,794]

Vaverčák/Zmij always close of the podiums like it was at the Youth Olympics or at the European championships last month, this time again very close, nice 5th place.

[phelps 7,664]

14 ore fa, phelps ha scritto:

 

for Italy, in the girls' race, very disappointing outcome for Verena Hofer, who lost a very much anticipated gold medal because of a very poor 1st run...

meanwhile the bronze medal won by Lukas Gufler among the boys has to be considered a good result...

let's see what happens tomorrow in the doubles' race, with another chance for Italy (namely, Gufler and Felderer) to get some satisfaction in this really shady winter for our luge sport...

 

[phelps 7,664]

and the Junior World Champs end with the local team (Austria) winning the Team Relay, thus spoiling the German party and avoiding the clean sweep by the guys from North of the Border...

Germany ended up the team race in second place and Russia in 3rd...

Italy had another shameful moment when Alex Gufler, already losing a lot of time since the start of his stint, made a big mistake and blew all of our chances away with a depressing DNF...

full result, here:

https://www.fil-luge.org/cdn/uploads/ergebnis-team-02-02-19.pdf

 

2019 Junior World Championships Final Medal Table

 

GER,  3 / 1 / 1
AUT,  1 / 1 / 0
RUS,  0 / 1 / 2

ITA,  0 / 1 / 1

 

Edited February 2, 2019 by phelps