2016 FIL World Championships – Team Relay

From Königssee, GER

The three World Champions in women’s, men’s, and double’s luge all joined up on the German squad for the Team Relay World Championship, with predictable results.

Germany was faster in all three splits, winning by over a second and a half ahead of Latvia. The battle for third was a close one, with Canada pulling out just ahead of Russia to take bronze.

Russia finished fourth, just .04 ahead of the United States, who rounded out the top five.

Results:

Pos Names Nation Bib Split 1 Split 2 Total
1 Geisenberger / Loch / Wendl & Arlt GER 13 53.626 1:48.591 2:44.062
2 Cauce / Kivlenieks / Sics & Sics LAT 11 53.754 1:49.668 2:45.614
3 Gough / Malyk / Walker & Snith CAN 8 54.105 1:49.987 2:45.907
4 Ivanova / Pavlichenko / Bogdanov & Medvedev RUS 12 53.995 1:50.025 2:46.105
5 Hamlin / Mazdzer / Mortensen & Terdiman USA 10 54.000 1:49.739 2:46.145
6 Platzer / Kindl / Penz & Fischler AUT 7 54.489 1:50.311 2:46.167
7 Robatscher / Fischnaller / Oberstolz & Gruber ITA 9 54.806 1:50.711 2:47.077
8 Kuls / Kurowski / Chmielewski & Kowalewski POL 6 55.146 1:51.405 2:48.920
9 Stramaturaru / Cretu / Atodiresei & Musei ROU 5 55.119 1:51.328 2:49.578
10 Sung / Kim / Park & Cho KOR 2 55.517 1:53.058 2:50.543
11 Noskova / Hyman / Broz & Broz CZE 4 56.044 1:52.830 2:50.609
12 Gburova / Ninis / Simonak & Solcansky SLO 3 55.300 1:51.731 2:51.020
13 Stetskiv / Dukach / Obolonchyk & Zakharkiv UKR 1 57.214 1:55.051 2:53.878