FIL World Luge Championships 2011


The FIL World Luge Championships 2011 took place 28–30 January 2011 in Cesana, Italy at the Cesana Pariol bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track. A total of 19 countries competed.

Medalists

Men's singles

's Felix Loch is the defending Olympic and world champion in this event. The event took place on 29 January at 15:00 CET. Zöggeler came from 0.057 seconds down after the first run to defeat defending world champion Loch by 0.021 seconds. It was the Italian's sixth world championship overall, but his first since the 2005 championships in Park City, Utah in the United States where Zöggeler won his 2002 Olympic gold medal.
37 athletes from 18 countries competed.
RankBibAthleteCountryRun 1Run 2TotalBehind
6Armin Zöggeler51.56851.9701:43.538
1Felix Loch51.51152.0481:43.559+0.021
4Andi Langenhan51.82752.1861:44.013+0.475
3David Möller51.80352.3181:44.121+0.583
2Reinhold Rainer52.03652.1351:44.171+0.633
11Daniel Pfister51.95752.2191:44.176+0.638
7Jan-Armin Eichhorn51.94052.2841:44.224+0.686
9Wolfgang Kindl52.02652.2411:44.267+0.729
12Viktor Kneyb52.24552.2001:44.445+0.907
1016Mārtiņš Rubenis52.16052.3221:44.482+0.944
118Reinhard Egger52.22752.4031:44.630+1.092
1215David Mair52.27852.3621:44.640+1.102
1219Bengt Walden52.33552.3051:44.640+1.102
1422Manuel Pfister52.27952.4171:44.696+1.158
1514Gregory Carigiet52.24152.4861:44.727+1.189
1613Samuel Edney52.32952.4141:44.743+1.205
1720Jozef Ninis52.32452.4211:44.745+1.207
1810Jeff Christie52.34152.4611:44.802+1.264
1923Maciej Kurowski52.43652.3831:44.819+1.281
2018Evgeniy Voskresenskiy52.32352.6111:44.934+1.396
2121Inars Kivlenieks52.55152.3981:44.949+1.411
2226Brendan Hauptmann52.56252.4191:44.981+1.443
2329Chris Mazdzer52.51552.5631:45.078+1.540
2417Thor Haug Norbech52.33053.2331:45.563+2.025
2527Semen Pavlichenko52.46053.1621:45.622+2.084
2624Jo Alexander Koppang52.631
2730Andriy Mandziy52.905
2825Tonnes Stang Rolfsen52.907
2928Ondrej Hymann53.128
3037Valentin Cretu53.187
3131Andriy Kis53.202
325Albert Demchenko53.325
3332Bogdan Macovei53.425
3434Karol Stuchlak54.142
3533Hindenari Kanayama54.154
3635Bruno Banani55.698
3736Danej Navrboc56.740

Women's singles

of the United States in the defending world champion while Germany's Tatjana Hüfner in the defending Olympic champion. The event took place on 29 January at 08:20 CET.
26 athletes from 13 countries competed.
Hüfner rebounded from her disappointing finish at the 2009 championships with her third gold medal in this event. Defending champion Hamlin finished 14th. Geisenberger won her third straight silver in this event. Gough becomes the first Canadian woman to medal at the World Championships and the second Canadian overall after Miroslav Zajonc's gold in the men's singles event at the 1983 championships.
RankBibAthleteCountryRun 1Run 2TotalBehind
1Tatjana Hüfner46.97646.9931:33.969
8Natalie Geisenberger47.02747.2161:34.243+0.274
10Alex Gough47.05147.3621:34.413+0.444
4Nina Reithmayer47.17447.2961:34.470+0.501
2Anke Wischnewski47.32847.2631:34.591+0.622
7Carina Schwab47.22747.4311:34.658+0.689
3Veronika Halder47.37447.5731:34.947+0.978
9Martina Kocher47.47547.5391:35.014+1.045
13Alexandra Rodionova47.47247.5691:35.041+1.072
106Sandra Gasparini47.46147.6701:35.131+1.162
115Tatiana Ivanova47.53247.7141:35.246+1.277
1217Julia Clukey47.66747.7301:35.397+1.428
1312Arianne Jones47.77347.7751:35.548+1.579
1411Erin Hamlin48.23447.3261:35.560+1.591
1516Veronika Sabolova47.90047.9341:35.834+1.865
1615Ksenia Tsyplakova47.76048.1341:35.894+1.925
1719Ashley Walden48.16248.0031:36.165+2.196
1820Raluca Stramaturaru48.54048.3251:36.865+2.896
1914Maija Tiruma47.76449.4151:37.179+3.210
2024Violeta Stramaturaru48.95448.8571:37.811+3.842
2126Morgane Villien49.303
2221Maryna Halaydzhyan49.316
2323Natalia Khoreva50.572
2425Mihaela Chiras51.153
22Morgane Bonnefoy
18Ewelina Staszulonek

Men's doubles

Italy's Gerhard Plankensteiner and Oswald Haselrieder are the defending world champions. Austria's Andreas and Wolfgang Linger are the two-time defending Olympic champions. Plankensteiner and Haselrieder retired between the 2010 Winter Olympics and the start of the 2010-11 Luge World Cup. The first run of the event will take place on 29 January at 19:00 CET while the second run will take place at 09:00 CET the next day.
RankBibAthleteCountryRun 1Run 2TotalBehind
6Andreas Linger
Wolfgang Linger
46.66846.6121:33.280
10Christian Oberstolz
Patrick Gruber
46.75246.7601:33.512+0.232
7Andris Šics
Juris Šics
46.90946.8191:33.728+0.448
3Vladislav Yuzhakov
Vladimir Makhnutin
46.91946.8201:33.739+0.459
11Ludwig Rieder
Patrick Rastner
47.04147.0171:34.058+0.778
2Hans Peter Fischnaller
Patrick Schwienbacher
47.01747.0541:34.071+0.791
16Matthew Mortensen
Preston Griffall
47.05547.0721:34.127+0.847
14Tristan Walker
Justin Snith
47.16346.9831:34.146+0.866
12Ronny Pietrasik
Christian Weise
47.14547.0061:34.151+0.871
104Toni Eggert
Sascha Benecken
47.19946.9941:34.193+0.913
111Christian Niccum
Jayson Terdiman
46.95547.2531:34.208+0.928
125Mikhail Kuzmich
Stanislav Mikheev
47.16747.1491:34.316+1.036
1313Ivan Nevmerzhitski
Vladimir Prokhorov
47.08147.3071:34.388+1.108
148Peter Penz
Georg Fischler
46.75747.9171:34.674+1.394
1518Ján Harniš
Branislav Regec
47.50447.2991:34.803+1.523
1615Antonín Brož
Lukáš Brož
47.47047.3431:34.813+1.533
1717Paul Ifrim
Andrei Anghel
47.60348.4261:36.029+2.749
1820Arthur Petyniak
Adam Wanielista
48.237
1919Cosmin Chetroiu
Ionuţ Ţăran
48.250
9Tobias Wendl
Tobias Arlt
47.866

Mixed team relay

The German team of Loch, Natalie Geisenberger, André Florschütz, and Torsten Wustlich were the defending world champions. The event was to have taken place on 30 January at 10:20 CET, but was cancelled due to technical problems.

Medal table