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2017 FIL World Luge Championships – Women's Sprint
The Women's sprint competition at the 2017 World Championships was held on 27 January 2017. A qualification was held to determine the 15 participants. Results The final was started at 13:33. References {{DEFAULTSORT:2017 FIL World Luge Championships - Women's sprint Women's sprint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olympic Sliding Centre Innsbruck
The Olympic Sliding Centre Innsbruck is a venue for bobsleigh, luge and skeleton located in Igls, Austria (southeast of Innsbruck). The most recent version of the track was completed in 1975 and is the first permanent, combination artificially refrigerated bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track, serving as a model for other tracks of its kind worldwide. It hosted the bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton competitions for the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics.2012 Winter Youth Games venue listings in bid packages. - accessed 2 June 2010. History In 1935, Igls hosted the two-man event of the world bobsleigh championships when the track ran from Römerstra ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tatiana Ivanova
Tatiana Ivanovna Ivanova (russian: Татьяна Ивановна Иванова; born 16 February 1991) is a Russian luger who has competed since 2000. She won the women's singles event at the FIL European Luge Championships in 2010, 2012, 2018 and 2020. Ivanova debuted in the World Cup in the 2008–09 season, finishing 17th. Career She competed at her first Olympics in Vancouver, where she finished fourth. The same year Ivanova won the European Championships in Sigulda. Two years later the Russian finished second in the World Championships in Altenberg and successfully defended her title at the European Championships in Paramonovo. At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, originally Ivanova, together with Albert Demchenko, Alexander Denisyev, and Vladislav Antonov won the silver medal in the team relay. In December 2017, she was one of eleven Russian athletes who were banned for life from the Olympics by the International Olympic Committee, after doping offences at the 2014 Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Vötter
Andrea Vötter (born 3 April 1995) is an Italian luger. Vötter competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics for Italy. In the Women's singles she placed 19th. Vötter's best Luge World Cup The Luge World Cup season is a yearly competition first organized by the International Luge Federation since 1977–78. The World Cup is the highest level season-long competition in the sport. Men's singles *Medals: Women's singles *Med ... overall finish is 7th in 2018–19. References External links * 1995 births Living people Italian female lugers Italian lugers Lugers at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics Lugers at the 2014 Winter Olympics Lugers at the 2018 Winter Olympics Lugers at the 2022 Winter Olympics Olympic lugers for Italy Sportspeople from Brixen 21st-century Italian women Italian people of Austrian descent {{Italy-luge-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia Taubitz
Julia Taubitz (born 1 March 1996) is a German luger. She participated at the 2019 FIL World Luge Championships The 2019 FIL World Luge Championships took place under the auspices of the International Luge Federation at the Winterberg bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track in Winterberg, Germany from 25 to 27 January 2019. Schedule Five events were held. M ..., winning a medal. Career She made her debut in the Luge World Cup at the age of 19 on November 28, 2015 on the Olympia Eiskanal Igls , where she won the bronze medal at the 2014 Junior World Championships. In her first World Cup races, she finished 18th. On January 16, 2016, she finished ninth on the Oberhof luge track, a top 10 result for the first time. She was the fourth German starter for the Luge World Championships 2016 on the artificial ice track in Königsseequalify and reached sixth place on January 29, 2016 in the sprint competition, which was held for the first time. A day later she reached sixth place again in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Summer Britcher
Summer Britcher (born March 21, 1994) is an American luger who earned a place on the Olympic team to compete at the 2014 Winter Olympics . She was the youngest woman on the U.S. Olympic Luge team in Sochi. Life Britcher is the daughter of Carrie Britcher and Baltimore City Fire Department Battalion Chief William Britcher. She first became involved in luge at age 11, when she spoke to Gordy Sheer of USA Luge at a promotional/scouting event called the Luge Challenge at the Ski Liberty in Pennsylvania. Sheer suggested she go to Lake Placid for a try-out. Britcher later moved to Lake Placid to train. Britcher attended Susquehannock High School in Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, where she played on the soccer and tennis teams. She graduated from high school in 2012. Britcher won a gold medal in the team relay at the 2012 Youth Winter Olympics The 2012 Winter Youth Olympic Games (german: Olympische Jugend-Winterspiele 2012), officially known as the I Winter Youth Olympic Games (YOG), w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulla Zirne
Ulla Zirne (born 6 August 1995) is a Latvian luger. She was born in Riga. She competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi Sochi ( rus, Со́чи, p=ˈsotɕɪ, a=Ru-Сочи.ogg) is the largest resort city in Russia. The city is situated on the Sochi River, along the Black Sea in Southern Russia, with a population of 466,078 residents, up to 600,000 residents in ..., in women's singles. References External links * 1995 births Living people Lugers at the 2014 Winter Olympics Lugers at the 2018 Winter Olympics Latvian female lugers Olympic lugers for Latvia Lugers at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics Sportspeople from Riga {{Latvia-luge-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birgit Platzer
Birgit Platzer (born 14 October 1992 in Kirchdorf an der Krems) is an Austrian luger. Platzer competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics for Austria. In the Women's singles she placed 23rd. As of September 2014, Platzer's best performance at the FIL World Luge Championships is 16th, in the 2012 Championships. As of September 2014, Platzer's best Luge World Cup overall finish is 19th in 2012–13 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. I .... References External links * * 1992 births Living people Austrian female lugers Lugers at the 2014 Winter Olympics Lugers at the 2018 Winter Olympics Olympic lugers for Austria People from Kirchdorf an der Krems Sportspeople from Upper Austria 21st-century Austrian women 21st-century Austrian people {{Austria-luge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miriam Kastlunger
Miriam-Stefanie Kastlunger (born 2 March 1994, Innsbruck) is an Austrian luger. She represented Austria at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi in women's and team relay competitions. In the women's singles, she finished 17th. In the team relay, together with Wolfgang Kindl (men's single) and Andreas Linger / Wolfgang Linger (double), she became 7th. Kastlunger was both women's and team relay champion in luge at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics The 2012 Winter Youth Olympic Games (german: Olympische Jugend-Winterspiele 2012), officially known as the I Winter Youth Olympic Games (YOG), were an international multi-sport event for youths that took place in Innsbruck, Austria, on 13–22 J ... which took place in Innsbruck. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kastlunger, Miriam 1994 births Living people Austrian female lugers Olympic lugers for Austria Lugers at the 2014 Winter Olympics Lugers at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics Youth Olympic gold medalists for Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kimberley McRae
Kimberley McRae (born May 24, 1992) is a Canadian luger who has competed since 2011 on the Senior FIL World Cup Circuit McRae competed for Canada at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia and at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed .... References External links * Kimberley McRaeat Luge Canada * * * * 1992 births Living people Canadian female lugers Olympic lugers for Canada Lugers at the 2014 Winter Olympics Lugers at the 2018 Winter Olympics Sportspeople from Victoria, British Columbia {{Canada-luge-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dajana Eitberger
Dajana Eitberger (born 7 January 1991) is a German luger. She currently represents Germany in the women's singles event in the Luge World Cup. Career During the 2014–15 Luge World Cup season she was victorious in one event which was the final race of the season in Sochi. During that season she came in second twice and third four time and finished second in the overall standing behind her teammate, Natalie Geisenberger. The event in Sochi and doubled as the European championship and as such she is the current European champion. During the 2015–16 Luge World Cup Eitberger was on the winners platform on the podium once (at the season opener in Igls Innsbruck (; bar, Innschbruck, label=Austro-Bavarian ) is the capital of Tyrol and the fifth-largest city in Austria. On the River Inn, at its junction with the Wipp Valley, which provides access to the Brenner Pass to the south, it had a pop ...), was second twice and third three times. She once again finished the season s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Igls
Innsbruck (; bar, Innschbruck, label=Austro-Bavarian ) is the capital of Tyrol and the fifth-largest city in Austria. On the River Inn, at its junction with the Wipp Valley, which provides access to the Brenner Pass to the south, it had a population of 132,493 in 2018. In the broad valley between high mountains, the so-called North Chain in the Karwendel Alps (Hafelekarspitze, ) to the north and Patscherkofel () and Serles () to the south, Innsbruck is an internationally renowned winter sports centre; it hosted the 1964 and 1976 Winter Olympics as well as the 1984 and 1988 Winter Paralympics. It also hosted the first Winter Youth Olympics in 2012. The name means "bridge over the Inn". History Antiquity The earliest traces suggest initial inhabitation in the early Stone Age. Surviving pre-Roman place names show that the area has been populated continuously. In the 4th century the Romans established the army station Veldidena (the name survives in today's urban district Wilt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
