2006–07 Luge World Cup Explained

The 2006–07 Luge World Cup was a multi race series over a season for luge. The season started on 18 November 2006 and ended on 18 February 2007. The World Cup is organised by the FIL.

Calendar

Date	Place	Disc.	Winner	Second	Third
November 18–19, 2006	Cesana^[1]	Men's	Armin Zöggeler		Reinhold Rainer
		Doubles	Christian Oberstolz Patrick Gruber		Gerhard Plankensteiner Oswald Haselrieder
		Women's	Silke Kraushaar-Pielach		Tatjana Hüfner
December 2–3, 2006	Park City^[2]	Men's	Armin Zöggeler		Stefan Höhener
		Doubles	Christian Oberstolz Patrick Gruber	Patric Leitner Alexander Resch	Gerhard Plankensteiner Oswald Haselrieder
		Women's	Silke Kraushaar-Pielach		Anke Wischnewski
December 9–10, 2006	Calgary^[3]	Men's	David Möller		Stefan Höhener
		Doubles	Patric Leitner Alexander Resch		Markus Schiegl Tobias Schiegl
		Women's	Tatjana Hüfner		Anke Wischnewski
		Team Relay	Maija Tīruma Andris Šics Juris Šics Mārtiņš Rubenis		Courtney Zablocki Mark Grimmette Brian Martin Tony Benshoof
December 16–17, 2006	Nagano^[4]	Men's	Armin Zöggeler		Mārtiņš Rubenis
		Doubles	Patric Leitner Alexander Resch		André Florschütz Torsten Wustlich
		Women's	Silke Kraushaar-Pielach		Tatjana Hüfner
		Team Relay	Silke Kraushaar-Pielach Patric Leitner Alexander Resch David Möller		Ashley Hayden Mark Grimmette Brian Martin Tony Benshoof
January 6–7, 2007	Königssee^[5]	Men's	Albert Demtschenko		David Möller
		Doubles	Patric Leitner Alexander Resch		Sebastian Schmidt Andre Forker
		Women's	Silke Kraushaar-Pielach		Anke Wischnewski
		Team Relay			Regan Lauscher Chris Moffat Mike Moffat Jeff Christie
December 16–17, 2006	Oberhof^[6]	Men's	David Möller		Armin Zöggeler
		Doubles	Christian Oberstolz Patrick Gruber		Gerhard Plankensteiner Oswald Haselrieder
		Women's	Silke Kraushaar-Pielach		Corinna Martini
January 20–21, 2007	Altenberg^[7]	Men's	Armin Zöggeler		Tony Benshoof
		Doubles	Markus Schiegl Tobias Schiegl		Christian Oberstolz Patrick Gruber
		Women's	Silke Kraushaar-Pielach		Anke Wischnewski
February 2–3, 2007	Innsbruck	FIL World Luge Championships 2007
February 10–11, 2007	Winterberg^[8]	Men's	Armin Zöggeler		Albert Demtschenko
		Doubles	Patric Leitner Alexander Resch		Markus Schiegl Tobias Schiegl
		Women's	Tatjana Hüfner		Natalya Yakuchenko
		Team Relay			Tobias Schiegl Markus Schiegl Nina Reithmayer Daniel Pfister
February 17–18, 2007	Sigulda^[9]	Men's	Armin Zöggeler		Albert Demtschenko
		Doubles	Gerhard Plankensteiner Oswald Haselrieder		Andreas Linger Wolfgang Linger
		Women's	Silke Kraushaar-Pielach		Nina Reithmayer

Standings

Men's singles

Pos.	Luger	CES	PAC	CAL	NAG	KÖN	OBH	ALT	WIN	SIG	Points
1.		1	1	4	1	2	3	1	1	1	815
2.			4	2	1		4	3	1	2	2	4	705
3.		3	4	7	5	9	6	11	5	8	451
4.		2	11	DNF	2	1			3	3	444
5.		6	3	3	19	4	10	4	10	10	440
6.	Mārtiņš Rubenis	8	23	2	3		4	29	4	2	432
7.	Jan Eichhorn	DNF	6	12	6	5	2	5	14	9	394
8.	Tony Benshoof	21	9	11	10	11	16	3	9	6	347
9.	Daniel Pfister	14	14	5	15	8	12	6	8	17	327
10.	Martin Abentung	7	7	9	8	18	17	12	17	11	310
11.	Johannes Ludwig	11	5	8	11	12	19		7	15	291
12.	Viktor Kneib	10	DNF	13	9	13	15	8	13	5	288
13.	Jeff Christie	25	12	6	17	10	8	9	DNF	16	264
14.	Wilfried Huber	5	15	14	14	17	24	15	15	12	262
15.	David Mair	12	16	15	13	22	11	14	16	19	241
16.	Felix Loch		10	18		6	9	7		24	211
17.	Christian Eigentler	27	8	23	23	16	36	16	12	29	191
18.	Patrick Schwienbacher	16	20	17		26	13	18	18	20	182
	Bengt Walden	9	32	24	7	14	22	17			182
20.	Kirill Serikov	29	21	20	18	15	20	26	26	14	181

Men's doubles

Pos.	Luger	CES	PAC	CAL	NAG	KÖN	OBH	ALT	WIN	SIG	Points
1.	Patric Leitner / Alexander Resch	2	2	1	1	1	2	2	1	7	786
2.		1	1	2	2	2	1	4	4	2	760
3.		3	3	7	9	9	3	3	2	1	589
4.		5	10	3	5	4	5	1	3	5	556
5.	Andreas Linger / Wolfgang Linger	4	5	6	4	5	9	6	9	3	478
6.	Mark Grimmette / Brian Martin	12	4	5	6	7	7	11	6	4	433
7.	André Florschütz / Torsten Wustlich	10	6	4	3	6	6	5			371
8.	Juris Šics / Andris Šics	6	8	8	8	12	14	8	11	8	354
9.	Peter Penz / Georg Fischler	13	12	10	7	10	10	7	7	13	338
10.		11		11	11	8	12	10	8	11	309
11.		14	13	17	DSQ	11	8	18	10	6	267
12.	Matt Mortensen / Garon Thorne	8	9	12	10	13	13	13			239
13.	Preston Griffall / Dan Joye	7	7	15	15	15	11	16			229
14.	Hans Peter Fischnaller / Klaus Kofler	15	15	13		16	15	15	13		189
	Marcel Lorenz / Christian Baude	16	11	9					5	10	189
	Andriy Kis / Yuriy Hayduk	20	18	18		18	18	19	15	14	189
17.	Sebastian Schmidt / Andre Forker					3	4	9			169
18.	Ján Harniš / Branislav Regec	17	20	16		21	23	17	DNF	19	155
19.	Vladislav Yuzhakov / Vladimir Makhnutin		DSQ	19	14	17		14	21	12	154
	Antonín Brož / Lukáš Brož	19	16	20		22	19	20	17		154

Women's singles

Pos.	Luger	CES	PAC	CAL	NAG	KÖN	OBH	ALT	WIN	SIG	Points
1.	Silke Kraushaar-Pielach	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	4	1	845
2.	Tatjana Hüfner	3	4	1	3	2	2	4	1	5	685
3.	Anke Wischnewski	2	3	3	5	3	4	3	2	9	604
4.	Nina Reithmayer		6	6	6	7	8	5	5	3	418
5.	Natalya Yakuchenko	8	11	18		12	9	9	3	2	364
6.	Ashley Hayden	13	8	7	4	18	6	11	8	11	361
7.	Veronika Halder	6	12	5	7	14	14	6	11	10	359
8.	Martina Kocher	9	14	9	10	9	5	7	7	15	354
9.	Erin Hamlin	7	5	14	20	6	11	13	12	20	317
10.	Sylke Otto	4	2	21	2	4					310
11.	Liliya Ludan	11	7	10		13	13	8	14	7	292
12.	Courtney Zablocki	14	10	11		10	7	12	15	14	266
13.	Ewelina Staszulonek	5	14	22	11	8	20	10		21	255
14.	Maija Tīruma	15	20	8	16	15	19	16	13	12	249
15.	Alexandra Rodionova	10	18	12	13	DNF	17	28	10	6	244
16.	Yulia Anashkina	19	16	13	12	16	16	19	16	13	236
17.	Regan Lauscher		9	4	8	11	12				207
18.	Anna Orlova	12	DNF		9		18	14	21	4	202
19.	Julia Clukey					5	10	15	9	16	181
20.	Veronika Sabolová	17	19	16		22	22	17	20	19	176

Team Relay

Pos.	Team	CAL	NAG	KÖN	WIN	Points
1.			1	1	1	300
2.		2	4	3	5	270
3.		3	3	4	4	260
4.			2	2	3	240
5.		1	5	DSQ	6	205
6.		4	7	DNF	2	191
7.			6	5	7	151
8.		5		6	8	147
9.		6		7	9	135
10.		7	9			85
11.			8	8		84
12.		DNF		9	DNS	39

Notes and References

1. http://www.fil-luge.org/index.php?id=383&event_id_fk=242&L= Results Cesana
2. http://www.fil-luge.org/index.php?id=383&event_id_fk=248&L= Results Park City
3. http://www.fil-luge.org/index.php?id=383&event_id_fk=254&L= Results Calgary
4. http://www.fil-luge.org/index.php?id=383&event_id_fk=259&L= Results Nagano
5. http://www.fil-luge.org/index.php?id=383&event_id_fk=260&L= Results Königssee
6. http://www.fil-luge.org/index.php?id=383&event_id_fk=264&L= Results Oberhof
7. http://www.fil-luge.org/index.php?id=383&event_id_fk=268&L= Results Altenberg
8. http://www.fil-luge.org/index.php?id=383&event_id_fk=273&L= Results Winterberg
9. http://www.fil-luge.org/index.php?id=383&event_id_fk=275&L= Results Altenberg