2016 FIL Natural Track European Championships – Double’s Luge

From Passeiertal, ITA

The Italian team of Pigneter & Clara stayed perfect on their 2015/2016 season, this time winning gold in the 2016 European Championships. The team was the fastest in both runs of the two-heat race, dominating the race in Passeiertal.

Austrians Schopf & Schopf finished in second, with Russians Porshnev & Lazarev finishing third. Regensburger & Holzknecht and Brüggler & Angerer finished fourth and fifth respectively for Austria, putting three Austrian teams in the top five. Egorov & Popov finished sixth.

The British team of Budd & Unwin finished 13th.

Results:

Pos Names Nation Bib Run 1 Run 2 Total
1 Pigneter / Clara ITA 14 60.74 61.29 2:02.03
2 Schopf / Schopf AUT 7 61.50 61.35 2:02.85
3 Porshnev / Lazarev RUS 10 61.60 61.54 2:03.14
4 Regensburger / Holzknecht AUT 13 61.96 61.71 2:03.67
5 Brüggler / Angerer AUT 11 62.39 62.14 2:04.53
6 Egorov / Popov RUS 12 62.11 62.58 2:04.69
7 Martianov / Rodin RUS 8 62.99 62.26 2:05.25
8 Folie / Gruber ITA 5 64.15 63.73 2:07.88
9 Dragicevic / Dragicevic SLO 9 64.71 64.90 2:09.61
10 Jedrzejko / Spratek POL 6 65.62 65.49 2:11.11
11 Savov / Dimitrov BUL 4 66.57 66.44 2:13.01
12 Demchuk/ Lenko UKR 2 67.39 67.09 2:14.48
13 Budd / Unwin GBR 3 67.39 67.80 2:15.19
14 Filimon / Ivan ROU 1 70.74 71.34 2:22.08