Lazarev at 2010 European Championships | ||
Medal record | ||
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Natural track luge | ||
Representing Russia | ||
World Championships | ||
2005 Latsch | Men's doubles | |
2007 Grande Prairie | Men's doubles | |
2011 Umhausen | Men's doubles | |
2003 Železniki | Men's doubles | |
2005 Latsch | Mixed team | |
2009 Moos | Mixed team | |
2011 Umhausen | Mixed team | |
European Championships | ||
2004 Hüttau | Men's doubles | |
2006 Umhausen | Men's doubles | |
2008 Olang | Men's doubles |
Ivan Lazarev (born 4 November 1983) 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 (Men's doubles: 2005, 2007, 2011), two silvers (Men's doubles: 2003, Mixed team: 2005), and two bronzes (Mixed team: 2009, 2011).
Lazarev also won three gold medals in the men's doubles event at the FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships (2004, 2006, 2008).
Wolfgang Linger is an Austrian retired luger who has competed internationally since 2000. As young children, he and his older brother Andreas learned to luge on a former Olympic luge track, and at age 14 began competing as a doubles team for the first time. Linger has won five medals at the FIL World Luge Championships with three golds and two bronzes. He also earned seven medals at the FIL European Luge Championships with a gold, three silvers, and three bronzes. The Lingers were overall Luge World Cup men's doubles champions in 2011-12 and scored 15 World Cup race victories. In 2005, he broke his leg in a crash, but the next year at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy won the gold medal in doubles luge. He repeated this feat at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada, defeating another team of brothers, Andris and Juris Šics of Latvia.
Oswald Haselrieder OMRI is an Italian luger of Austrian descent who competed internationally from 1988 to 2010. He achieved success at junior level, taking two bronze medals in singles and a gold in doubles at the World Junior Championships, the latter achieved in partnership with Dietmar Pierhofer. Haselrider and Pierhofer continued to compete together until 1995, when they split up and Haselrieder joined forces with Gerhard Plankensteiner. Haselrieder went on to win the bronze medal in the men's doubles event at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin after competing in three previous Winter Olympic Games: in 1992 in the singles event and in doubles in 1998 and 2002. He went on to compete in a fifth Olympics in 2010: he retired soon afterwards after sustaining an injury in training in March of that year.
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