2016/2017 FIL Natural Track World Cup – Men’s Luge – Race 2

From Latsch, ITA

Patrick Pigneter stayed perfect early in the 2016/2017 FIL Natural Track season. The Italian was the only athlete under 1:01 in each run, beating Austrian Thomas Kammerlander by well over a second.

Kammerlander came into the second heat just a tenth ahead of Pigneter’s teammate Alex Gruber. Gruber was quicker in the second heat, but only by .08, giving Kammerlander the silver medal by just .02.

Austrian Florian Glatzl finished in fourth place, a half second behind Gruber. Russian Juri Talikh was the only non-Italian or Austrian in the top eight with a fifth place finish.

Great Britain had its most successful natural track race in a while, placing two of their three athletes in the top 20. Doubles teammates Dex Unwin and Joshua Reeves finished 19th and 20th, while Samuel Budd finished 22nd.

Results:

Pos Name Nation Bib Run 1 Run 2 Total
1 Patrick Pigneter ITA 52 1:00.34 1:00.88 2:01.22
2 Thomas Kammerlander AUT 50 1:01.36 1:01.17 2:02.53
3 Alex Gruber ITA 49 1:01.46 1:01.09 2:02.55
4 Florian Glatzl AUT 22 1:01.75 1:01.30 2:03.05
5 Juri Talikh RUS 45 1:01.76 1:01.46 2:03.22
6 Michael Scheikl AUT 48 1:01.68 1:01.59 2:03.27
7 Florian Clara ITA 43 1:01.51 1:01.77 2:03.28
8 Florian Breitenberger ITA 44 1:01.55 1:01.77 2:03.32
9 Gregori Bukin RUS 51 1:02.48 1:01.61 2:04.09
10 Jakov Bukin RUS 8 1:02.50 1:01.91 2:04.41
11 Aleksandr Egorov RUS 46 1:02.27 1:02.17 2:04.44
12 Marius Schmelzer GER 33 1:03.61 1:02.92 2:06.53
13 Bernd Neurauter AUT 47 1:03.31 1:03.41 2:06.72
14 Jack Leslie NZL 40 1:03.70 1:03.06 2:06.76
15 Isa Guzeloglu TUR 7 1:05.86 1:05.81 2:11.67
16 Iliev Veselin BIH 38 1:07.08 1:05.02 2:12.10
17 Daniel Hofmann SUI 39 1:07.29 1:06.05 2:13.34
18 Andryi Demchuk UKR 34 1:07.51 1:06.27 2:13.78
19 Dex Unwin GBR 35 1:09.68 1:09.59 2:19.27
20 Joshua Reeves GBR 29 1:10.28 1:09.61 2:19.89
21 Tadej Dragicevic SLO 23 1:11.04 1:10.29 2:21.33
22 Samuel Budd GBR 37 1:11.76 1:10.24 2:22.00
23 Coskun Ercoskun TUR 11 1:12.70 1:09.88 2:22.58
24 Yordan Dimitrov BUL 32 1:13.30 1:13.35 2:26.65
25 Muhammet Dellalbasi TUR 12 1:07.20 1:26.14 2:33.34
NAS Christan Wichan GER 21 1:04.66 No Time