| Doubles at the 2020 FIL European Luge Championships | ||||||||||
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| Venue | Lillehammer Olympic Bobsleigh and Luge Track | |||||||||
| Location | Lillehammer, Norway | |||||||||
| Dates | 18 January | |||||||||
| Competitors | 38 from 9 nations | |||||||||
| Winning time | 1:35.585 | |||||||||
| Medalists | ||||||||||
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The Doubles competition at the 2020 FIL European Luge Championships was held on 18 January 2020. [1]
All times are (UTC+1).
| Date | Time | Event |
|---|---|---|
| 18 January | 12:40 | Run 1 |
| 18 January | 14:00 | Run 2 |
Two runs in one day, were used to determine the winner. [2]
| Rank | Bib | Name | Country | Run 1 | Rank | Run 2 | Rank | Total | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 18 | Aleksandr Denisev Vladislav Antonov |  Russia | 47.779 | 1 | 47.806 | 1 | 1:35.585 | |
 | 16 | Thomas Steu Lorenz Koller |  Austria | 47.815 | 2 | 47.870 | 2 | 1:35.685 | +0.100 |
 | 12 | Vladislav Yuzhakov Iurii Prokhorov | Russia | 47.880 | 4 | 47.877 | 3 | 1:35.757 | +0.172 |
| 4 | 4 | Ivan Nagler Fabian Malleier |  Italy | 47.908 | 7 | 47.954 | 4 | 1:35.862 | +0.277 |
| 5 | 13 | Emanuel Rieder Simon Kainzwaldner | Italy | 47.842 | 3 | 48.156 | 9 | 1:35.998 | +0.413 |
| 6 | 9 | Wojciech Chmielewski Jakub Kowalewski |  Poland | 48.082 | 11 | 48.040 | 5 | 1:36.122 | +0.537 |
| 7 | 17 | Tobias Wendl Tobias Arlt |  Germany | 47.982 | 9 | 48.144 | 8 | 1:36.126 | +0.541 |
| 8 | 19 | Toni Eggert Sascha Benecken | Germany | 47.922 | 8 | 48.229 | 10 | 1:36.151 | +0.566 |
| 9 | 11 | Ludwig Rieder Patrick Rastner | Italy | 48.082 | 11 | 48.090 | 7 | 1:36.172 | +0.587 |
| 10 | 20 | Robin Geueke David Gamm | Germany | 48.182 | 14 | 48.089 | 6 | 1:36.271 | +0.686 |
| 11 | 21 | Vsevolod Kashkin Konstantin Korshunov | Russia | 47.896 | 6 | 48.406 | 12 | 1:36.302 | +0.717 |
| 12 | 8 | Kristens Putins Imants Marcinkēvičs |  Latvia | 48.026 | 10 | 48.351 | 11 | 1:36.377 | +0.792 |
| 13 | 15 | Oskars Gudramovičs Pēteris Kalniņš | Latvia | 48.108 | 13 | 48.479 | 13 | 1:36.587 | +1.002 |
| 14 | 3 | Ihor Stakhiv Andrii Lysetskyi |  Ukraine | 48.714 | 17 | 48.886 | 15 | 1:37.600 | +2.015 |
| 15 | 10 | Ihor Hoi Myroslav Levkovych | Ukraine | 49.457 | 19 | 48.797 | 14 | 1:38.254 | +2.669 |
| 16 | 2 | Filip Vejdělek Zdeněk Pěkný |  Czech Republic | 49.298 | 18 | 49.577 | 16 | 1:38.875 | +3.290 |
| 17 | 6 | Yannick Müller Armin Frauscher | Austria | 48.361 | 15 | 53.305 | 17 | 1:41.666 | +6.081 |
| 18 | 14 | Andris Šics Juris Šics | Latvia | 47.884 | 5 | 56.029 | 18 | 1:43.913 | +8.328 |
| 7 | Tomáš Vaverčák Matej Zmij |  Slovakia | 48.574 | 16 | Did not finish | ||||
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