| Team relay at the 2021 FIL European Luge Championships | |
|---|---|
| Venue | Sigulda bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track |
| Location | Sigulda, Latvia |
| Dates | 10 January |
| Winning time | 2:12.833 |
| Medalists | |
The team relay competition at the 2021 FIL European Luge Championships was held on 10 January 2021. [1]
The event was started at 13:56. [2]
| Rank | Bib | Athlete | Country | Women's singles | Men's singles | Doubles | Total | Behind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 8–1 8–2 8–3 | Tatiana Ivanova Semen Pavlichenko Vsevolod Kashkin / Konstantin Korshunov |  Russia | 43.103 | 44.529 | 45.201 | 2:12.833TR | |
 | 7–1 7–2 7–3 | Elīza Tiruma Artūrs Dārznieks Andris Šics / Juris Šics |  Latvia | 43.295 | 44.745 | 44.960 | 2:13.000 | +0.167 |
 | 10–1 10–2 10–3 | Natalie Geisenberger Felix Loch Tobias Wendl / Tobias Arlt |  Germany | 43.406 | 44.598 | 45.018 | 2:13.022 | +0.189 |
| 4 | 6–1 6–2 6–3 | Andrea Vötter Dominik Fischnaller Ludwig Rieder / Patrick Rastner |  Italy | 43.477 | 44.593 | 45.579 | 2:13.649 | +0.816 |
| 5 | 2–1 2–2 2–3 | Katarína Šimoňáková Jozef Ninis Tomáš Vaverčák / Matej Zmij |  Slovakia | 44.039 | 45.128 | 45.694 | 2:14.861 | +2.028 |
| 6 | 5–1 5–2 5–3 | Olena Stetskiv Andriy Mandziy Ihor Stakhiv / Andrii Lysetskyi |  Ukraine | 43.794 | 45.171 | 46.128 | 2:15.093 | +2.260 |
| 7 | 3–1 3–2 3–3 | Klaudia Domaradzka Mateusz Sochowicz Wojciech Chmielewski / Jakub Kowalewski |  Poland | 45.270 | 44.955 | 45.192 | 2:15.417 | +2.584 |
| 9–1 9–2 9–3 | Madeleine Egle Nico Gleirscher Thomas Steu / Lorenz Koller |  Austria | Disqualified | |||||
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