FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships 2010

Last updated March 31, 2019

The FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships 2010 was held 15–17 January 2010 in Sankt Sebastian, Austria. A team event debuted at these championships, the first change to the FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships since they began in 1970.^[1] Italy earned their 100th medal at these championships.

The FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships, part of the International Luge Federation (FIL), have taken place since 1970. A team event was added for the 2010 championships. For information on artificial track luge championships in Europe that have been contested since 1914, please see FIL European Luge Championships.

The FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships 1970 took place in Kapfenberg, Austria.

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe. Located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, Italy shares open land borders with France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia and the enclaved microstates San Marino and Vatican City. Italy covers an area of 301,340 km² (116,350 sq mi) and has a largely temperate seasonal and Mediterranean climate. With around 61 million inhabitants, it is the fourth-most populous EU member state and the most populous country in Southern Europe.

Men's singles

16 January 2010 following women's run 2. 17 January 2010 at 09:30 CET (run 2) and 12:00 CET.^[1] Pigneter won his first gold medal in this event after two straight bronzes. He also won his second gold and third medal at these championships with the fastest time in all three runs.^[2]

Central European Time (CET), used in most parts of Europe and a few North African countries, is a standard time which is 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). The time offset from UTC can be written as UTC+01:00. The same standard time, UTC+01:00, is also known as Middle European Time and under other names like Berlin Time, Warsaw Time and Romance Standard Time (RST), Paris Time or Rome Time.

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Patrick Pigneter (ITA)	3:32.24
Silver	Thomas Kammerlander (AUT)	3:33.24
Bronze	Anton Blasbichler (ITA)	3:33.93

Women's singles

16 January 2010 following doubles run 1. Run 2 at 12:00 CET same day. 17 January 2010 at 11:00 CET.^[1] Gietl led after the first run while Lanthaler had the fastest second and third runs, but it was not enough to catch Lavrentyeva, who won her second straight championships and third overall. Lanthaler earned her first medal in the championships while Gietl won her third straight bronze.^[2]

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Yekaterina Lavrentyeva (RUS)	3:38.76
Silver	Evelin Lanthaler (ITA)	3:38.84
Bronze	Renate Gietl (ITA)	3:39.08

Men's doubles

First run on 16 January 2010 at 09:30 CET. Second run on 11:30 CET same day.^[1] Pigneter and Clara won their first European title by having the fastest times in both runs. Three-time defending World Champions Pavel Porzhnev and Ivan Lazarev of Russia finished sixth.^[3]

Pavel Porzhnev is a Russian luger who has competed since 1998. A natural track luger, he won seven medals at the FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships with a three golds, two silvers, and two bronze.

Ivan Lazarev is a Russian luger who has competed since 1998. A natural track luger, he won seven medals at the FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships with a three golds, two silvers, and two bronzes.

Russia, officially the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and North Asia. At 17,125,200 square kilometres (6,612,100 sq mi), Russia is by far or by a considerable margin the largest country in the world by area, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area, and the ninth most populous, with about 146.77 million people as of 2019, including Crimea. About 77% of the population live in the western, European part of the country. Russia's capital, Moscow, is the largest metropolitan area in Europe proper and one of the largest cities in the world; other major cities include Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg and Nizhny Novgorod. Extending across the entirety of Northern Asia and much of Eastern Europe, Russia spans eleven time zones and incorporates a wide range of environments and landforms. From northwest to southeast, Russia shares land borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia and North Korea. It shares maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk and the U.S. state of Alaska across the Bering Strait. However, Russia recognises two more countries that border it, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, both of which are internationally recognized as parts of Georgia.

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Italy (Patrick Pigneter, Florian Clara)	2:30.77
Silver	Poland (Andrzej Laszczak, Damian Waniczek)	2:32.29
Bronze	Russia (Aleksandr Yegorov, Pyotr Popov)	2:32.58

Mixed team

15 January 2010 at 18:30 CET.^[1] Points were awarded rather than by time.^[4]

Medal	Athlete	Points
Gold	Austria (Melanie Batkowski, Thomas Kammerlander, Christian Schopf, Andreas Schopf)	86
Silver	Italy (Renate Gietl, Alex Gruber, Patrick Pigneter, Florian Clara)	85
Bronze	Austria (Marlies Wagner, Gerald Kammerlander, Christian Schatz, Gerhard Mühlbacher)	80

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy (ITA)	2	2	2	6
2	Austria (AUT)	1	1	1	3
3	Russia (RUS)	1	0	1	2
4	Poland (POL)	0	1	0	1
Totals (4 Nations)		4	4	4	12

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