2015/2016 FIL Natural Track World Cup – Men’s Luge – Race 6

From Umhausen, AUT

Thomas Kammerlander hung out in the medals all season long, winning the European Championships, but unable to find gold in any of the first five World Cup events. Finally, in the final race of the season, the European champ scored a World Cup gold medal in his home nation.

Kammerlander was the quickest slider in both heats to take gold ahead of Italian Patrick Pigneter. Pigneter’s second run was third fastest, but enough to keep him ahead of countryman Alex Gruber, who took bronze.

Italy rounded out the entire top five behind Kammerlander, with Pigneter’s doubles teammate Florian Clara finishing fourth, just ahead of Stefan Federer. Florian Glatzl of Austria finished sixth.

Jack Leslie finished 16th for New Zealand, while Samuel Budd finished 25th for Great Britain.

Results:

Pos Name Nation Bib Run 1 Run 2 Total
1 Thomas Kammerlander AUT 39 1:14.61 1:14.08 2:28.69
2 Patrick Pigneter ITA 41 1:14.90 1:14.48 2:29.38
3 Alex Gruber ITA 40 1:15.32 1:14.29 2:29.61
4 Florian Clara ITA 37 1:15.15 1:14.58 2:29.73
5 Stefan Federer ITA 33 1:15.48 1:15.07 2:30.55
6 Florian Glatzl AUT 35 1:15.58 1:15.34 2:30.92
7 Aleksandr Egorov RUS 38 1:15.65 1:15.98 2:31.63
8 Georg Maurer GER 28 1:16.45 1:15.85 2:32.30
9 Gregori Bukin RUS 36 1:16.31 1:16.11 2:32.42
10 Christian Schopf AUT 31 1:16.30 1:16.52 2:32.82
11 Stanislav Kovshik RUS 34 1:15.96 1:17.26 2:33.22
12 Ivan Lazarev RUS 20 1:16.37 1:17.29 2:33.66
13 Marius Schmelzer GER 18 1:17.36 1:16.91 2:34.27
14 Thomas Hörburger AUT 4 1:17.23 1:17.30 2:34.53
15 Adam Jedrzejko POL 30 1:18.16 1:16.45 2:34.61
16 Jack Leslie NZL 26 1:17.89 1:17.39 2:35.28
17 Christian Wichan GER 24 1:17.69 1:17.92 2:35.61
18 Miha Meglic SLO 14 1:19.11 1:18.22 2:37.33
19 Mattia Colle SUI 17 1:19.07 1:19.58 2:38.65
20 Petar Savov BUL 23 1:20.01 1:19.61 2:39.62
21 Andryi Demchuk UKR 19 1:19.48 1:21.04 2:40.52
22 Daniel Hofmann SUI 27 1:19.75 1:22.48 2:42.23
23 Tadej Dragicevic SLO 29 1:22.37 1:22.55 2:44.92
24 Yordan Dimitrov BUL 22 1:21.62 1:24.17 2:45.79
25 Samuel Budd GBR 25 1:24.16 1:22.83 2:46.99