LugeTobogganing - Lillehammer
Sar & agrave; the gut of Lillehammer in Norway to host the seventh season of the act Luge World Cup on artificial track.
Friday 30 January 2015 7 minutes reading time
THE TRACK
The 'Norwegian plant, that & egrave; was the scene of the Olympic Games of 1994, & egrave; back in the calendar of the World Cup only last season after four years absence.
The track & egrave; located about fifteen kilometers from Lillehammer in resort & agrave; Hunderfossen and & egrave; was completed in 1992. The 'following year & egrave; played the first match valid for the maximum circuit of the sled, on that occasion the winners were the Austrian Markus Prock and Doris Neuner while between the double success and & ograve; Germans Stefan Krausse and Jan Behrendt.
The track renamed Lillehammer Olympiske Bob- og Akebane, & egrave; been little used in the field of World Cup tant '' & egrave; that were played only seven races valid for maximum circuit sledding and a single edition of the World Championship and of course the Olympic test of 1994.
The 'Plant & egrave; with more than 90 cubic meters of ammonia that is fed along the track through a branching of approximately 80 kilometers of piping. The refrigeration system can cool artificial gut even at temperatures higher than 20 degrees centigrade and the next. Not & egrave; coincidence, that in early October the track Scandinavian & egrave; was used by the various national as a test for the first seasonal on icy.
The Lillehammer Olympiske Bob- og Akebane will assign & agrave; again medals in five circles on the occasion of the Youth Olympic Games in 2016. Also at the youth level gut Norwegian & egrave; was the scene of the recent World Junior Championships which saw the 'Italy win the bronze medal in the women's test with Sandra Robatscher.
The Men's Track has a total length of 1365 meters & egrave; consists of 16 corners, while the basin of doubles and women's single & egrave; shorter by about 300 meters and has two curves in less.
PREVIOUS RACE IN THE DOUBLE
In the early morning of Saturday, January 31 will be the athletes of the snowmobile tandem to lift the curtain of the seventh round of the season. & Nbsp; In Norway the protagonists pi & ugrave; Expected will be without a doubt the two double Germans, Eggert Benecken overall leader and especially Wendl-Artl winners in Lillehammer last season, that the gut Scandinavian will try to precede their teammates if they want to continue to be in the game Combating Crystal Ball. & nbsp;
However, the leadership of the two associations Teutonic might be put under pressure on the track in Lillehammer. On gut Norwegian fact, does not compete often and this portrebbe lead to a reshuffling of the values ​​in the field due to disuse of the athletes to compete on this plant.
Consequently, among the favorites could fit some double that boast a lot of experience in the World Cup, as the brothers Latvian Andris and Juris Sics, and the combination of blue consists of Christian Oberstolz and Patrick Gruber second in Norway five years ago.
We must not forget also the red and white Penz-Fischler, eager for redemption after a disappointing ninth place in Winterberg, and blues Ludwig Rieder and Patrick Rastner called to confirm again in the top five after playing the first part of the season well below expectations .
dates
event
place
nat.
FIRST PLACE
nat
SECOND PLACE
nat
THIRD PLACE
nat.
16/11/13
w.c.01
Lillehammer
NOR
WENDL Tobias - Tobias ARLT
GER
EGGERT Toni - Sascha Benecken
GER
LINGER Andreas - LINGER Wolfgang
AUT
12/12/09
w.c.04
Lillehammer
NOR
LINGER Andreas - LINGER Wolfgang
AUT
Oberstolz Christian - GRUBER Patrick
ITA
Gerhard Plankensteiner - Oswald Haselrieder
ITA
01/18/03
w.c.05
Lillehammer
NOR
Patric Leitner - Alexander RESCH
GER
GRIMMETTE Mark - Brian MARTIN
USA
Florschuetz Andr & eacute; - Torsten WUSTLICH
GER
13/11/99
w.c.01
Lillehammer
NOR
Patric Leitner - Alexander RESCH
GER
GRIMMETTE Mark - Brian MARTIN
USA
SKEL Steffen - Steffen Woeller
GER
22/11/97
w.c.01
Lillehammer
NOR
GRIMMETTE Mark - Brian MARTIN
USA
Kurt Brugger - HUBER Wilfried
ITA
THORPE Chris - SHEER Gordy
USA
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