Pigneter Leads Italian Sweep in Jaufental

February 3, 2024 ken Luge News, News 0

From Jaufental, ITA

(From February 3, 2024) – Patrick Pigneter led an Italian sweep of the podium on Saturday, beating out teammates Fabian Brunner and Matthias Lambacher for gold.

Patrick Pigneter (Courtesy FIL / Andreas Ebermann)

Pigneter opened up a big lead after the first heat, over three quarters of a second over Brunner, with Lambacher the only other slider within a second of Pigneter.

The second heat saw Lambacher come back to Austria’s Michael Scheikl, leaving Brunner and Pigneter to battle amongst themselves.

Brunner slid to what would be a heat-fastest downtime in the second heat to guarantee himself no worse than a silver medal. Pigneter responded, and while his downtime was off the pace of Brunner, he’d left himself plenty of cushion to take gold.

The margin of victory was a half of a second.

Pigneter’s gold was his fourth in five races.

Lambacher took bronze, ahead of Scheikl in fourth. Daniel Gruber finished fifth and Swiss slider Stefan Federer sixth.

Torrey Cookman finished 15th for the United States, with Teammate Mason Palecek in 23rd.

With two races to go in the 2023/2024 FIL World Cup season, Pigneter has a sizeable lead over Michael Scheikl, with Daniel Gruber, Florian Clara and Fabian Brunner rounding out the top five.

Results:

Pos Name Nation Bib Start 1 Start 2 Run 1 Run 2 Total
1 Patrick Pigneter ITA 34 9.59 9.67 52.85 53.40 1:46.25
2 Fabian Brunner ITA 30 9.59 9.55 53.64 53.12 1:46.76
3 Matthias Lambacher ITA 19 9.69 9.65 53.82 53.77 1:47.59
4 Michael Scheikl AUT 31 9.79 9.51 54.15 53.59 1:47.74
5 Daniel Gruber ITA 32 9.59 9.81 54.04 54.12 1:48.16
6 Stefan Federer SUI 29 9.71 9.70 53.89 54.69 1:48.58
7 Gabriel Halcin SVK 22 9.83 9.84 54.54 54.18 1:48.72
8 Miguel Brugger AUT 26 9.86 9.59 54.60 54.13 1:48.73
9 Florian Markt AUT 25 9.83 9.85 54.24 54.52 1:48.76
10 Vid Kralj SLO 27 9.89 9.70 55.15 54.15 1:49.30
11 Sebastian Feldhammer AUT 24 9.83 9.75 54.59 54.73 1:49.32
12 Jerome Almer SUI 20 9.94 9.85 55.47 54.82 1:50.29
13 Ziga Kralj SLO 28 10.09 9.77 56.49 54.00 1:50.49
14 Marco Almer SUI 11 10.12 10.16 55.65 55.14 1:50.79
15 Torrey Cookman USA 15 10.06 9.99 55.87 55.08 1:50.95
16 Simon Dietz GER 23 9.93 10.12 55.53 55.48 1:51.01
17 Bine Mekina GER 21 9.97 11.49 54.63 57.13 1:51.76
18 Dominik Neupauer SVK 14 10.02 9.87 56.10 56.41 1:52.51
19 Remi d’ Aviau de Ternay FRA 17 10.17 10.18 56.05 56.48 1:52.53
20 Peter Neupauer SVK 18 10.19 10.02 56.80 56.57 1:53.37
21 Coskun Ercoskun NOR 8 10.17 10.46 56.76 56.89 1:53.65
22 David Rydl CZE 7 9.98 10.49 57.10 56.67 1:53.77
23 Mason Palecek USA 13 10.42 10.22 57.41 57.35 1:54.76
24 Tomas Hasek CZE 6 10.33 10.51 59.05 58.01 1:57.06
25 Wojciech Kwiecinski POL 3 10.42 10.52 58.99 58.24 1:57.23
26 Shohei Tanaka SUI 16 11.58 11.59 60.74 61.56 2:02.30