2016 FIL Natural Track European Championships – Men’s Luge

From Passeiertal, ITA

Austria made a solid showing in the men’s luge European Championships, taking gold and bronze, putting four men in the top six.

Thomas Kammerlander won his first gold of the 2015/2016 season on Italian soil, ahead of perennial favorite Patrick Pigneter. The Austrian was fastest in both heats, and was the only athlete to break 56 seconds, easily taking gold ahead of the Italian.

Pigneter finished second, over a second ahead of third place Christian Schopf, who took bronze.

David Clayton of Great Britain finished 35th.

Results:

Pos Name Nation Bib Run 1 Run 2 Total
1 Thomas Kammerlander AUT 41 55.84 55.90 1:51.74
2 Patrick Pigneter ITA 43 56.04 56.07 1:52.11
3 Christian Schopf AUT 31 56.61 56.74 1:53.35
4 Alex Gruber ITA 42 56.49 56.97 1:53.46
5 Florian Glatzl AUT 37 56.79 57.10 1:53.89
6 Bernd Neurauter AUT 35 56.90 57.05 1:53.95
7 Gregori Bukin RUS 38 56.97 57.01 1:53.98
8 Stefan Federer ITA 33 57.01 57.15 1:54.16
9 Florian Freitenberger ITA 32 56.71 57.77 1:54.48
10 Stanislav Kovshik RUS 34 57.16 57.37 1:54.53
10 Aleksandr Egorov RUS 40 56.81 57.72 1:54.53
12 Florian Clara ITA 39 57.15 57.45 1:54.60
13 Georg Maurer GER 28 57.47 57.14 1:54.61
14 Juri Talikh RUS 36 57.65 57.55 1:55.20
15 Armin Folie ITA 14 57.51 57.86 1:55.37
16 Aleksey Martyanov RUS 17 57.72 58.18 1:55.90
17 Adam Jedrzejko POL 30 57.13 59.47 1:56.60
18 Marius Schmelzer GER 16 58.13 58.69 1:56.82
19 Martin Mayerhofer AUT 13 58.06 59.30 1:57.36
20 Egor Dorofeev RUS 2 59.11 59.28 1:58.39
21 Christian Wichan GER 24 59.24 59.22 1:58.64
22 Iliev Veselin BUL 21 58.71 60.04 1:58.75
23 Fabian Achenrainer AUT 11 59.37 59.41 1:58.78
24 Andryi Demchuk UKR 18 59.38 60.34 1:59.72
25 Petar Savov BUL 23 60.14 60.84 2:00.98
26 Josef Limmer GER 3 60.87 61.20 2:02.07
27 Daniel Hofmann SUI 27 63.53 62.04 2:05.57
28 Ciprian Tazlaoanu ROU 15 62.39 63.30 2:05.69
28 Yordan Dimitrov BUL 22 62.63 63.06 2:05.69
30 Adrian Filimon ROU 12 63.64 62.52 2:06.16
31 Myroslav Lenko UKR 8 63.83 62.80 2:06.63
32 Kacper Spratek POL 10 65.35 66.04 2:11.39
33 Dzevad Gacanin BIH 7 67.88 64.39 2:12.27
34 Denis Naichuk UKR 6 67.15 66.69 2:13.84
35 David Clayton GBR 1 69.64 66.55 2:16.19
36 Alex Millet SUI 9 68.58 68.75 2:17.33
37 Patryk Budny POL 4 69.09 68.27 2:17.36
38 Kacper Pietraszko POL 5 71.52 72.50 2:24.02
NT Tadej Dragicevic SLO 29 NT