2015–16 Luge World Cup Explained

The 2015–16 Luge World Cup was a multi race tournament over a season for luge, organised by the FIL. The season started on 28 November 2015 in Igls, Austria and ended on 21 February 2016 in Winterberg, Germany.

Calendar

Venue	Date	Details
Innsbruck	28–29 November 2015
Lake Placid	4–5 December 2015
Park City	11–12 December 2015	no Team relay
Calgary	18–19 December 2015	no Team relay
Sigulda	9–10 January 2016
Oberhof	16–17 January 2016	no Team relay
Sochi	6–7 February 2016
Altenberg	13–14 February 2016
Winterberg	20–21 February 2016

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Results

Men's singles

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
Innsbruck	Dominik Fischnaller	1:40.687 (50.263 / 50.424)	Armin Frauscher	1:40.693 (50.290 / 50.403)	Wolfgang Kindl	1:40.719 (50.361 / 50.358)
Lake Placid	Chris Mazdzer	1:42.808 (51.400 / 51.408)	Tucker West	1:42.841 (51.425 / 51.416)	Wolfgang Kindl	1:42.848 (51.457 / 51.391)
Park City	Chris Mazdzer	1:30.960 (45.479 / 45.481)	Wolfgang Kindl	1:31.056 (45.499 / 45.557)	Felix Loch	1:31.087 (45.525 / 45.562)
Park City (Sprint)	Wolfgang Kindl	28.033	Dominik Fischnaller	28.219	Felix Loch	28.232
Calgary	Felix Loch	1:30.304 (45.064 / 45.240)	Chris Mazdzer	1:30.628 (45.172 / 45.456)	Wolfgang Kindl	1:30.673 (45.175 / 45.498)
Calgary (Sprint)	Felix Loch	30.091	Roman Repilov	30.279	Wolfgang Kindl	30.329
Sigulda	Felix Loch	1:36.316 (48.136 / 48.180)	Semen Pavlichenko	1:36.531 (48.392 / 48.139)	Tucker West	1:36.775 (48.440 / 48.335)
Oberhof	Felix Loch	1:26.068 (43.029 / 43.039)	Andi Langenhan	1:26.453 (43.175 / 43.278)	Ralf Palik	1:26.547 (43.191 / 43.356)
Oberhof (Sprint)	Felix Loch	33.416	Andi Langenhan	33.624	Ralf Palik	33.668
Sochi	Felix Loch	1:43.967 (51.950 / 52.017)	Wolfgang Kindl	1:44.399 (52.191 / 52.208)	Dominik Fischnaller	1:44.431 (52.112 / 52.319)
Altenberg	Felix Loch	1:47.556 (53.780 / 53.776)	Roman Repilov	1:47.885 (53.994 / 53.891)	Chris Mazdzer	1:47.902 (53.934 / 53.968)
Winterberg	Stepan Fedorov	1:47.210 (53.977 / 53.233)	Chris Mazdzer	1:47.245 (54.024 / 53.221)	Dominik Fischnaller	1:47.276 (53.878 / 53.398)

Women's singles

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
Innsbruck	Dajana Eitberger	1:19.795 (39.827 / 39.968)	Natalie Geisenberger	1:20.009 (40.003 / 40.006)	Alex Gough	1:20.017 (40.015 / 40.002)
Lake Placid	Erin Hamlin	1:27.961 (43.912 / 44.049)	Emily Sweeney	1:28.136 (44.033 / 44.103)	Summer Britcher	1:28.221 (44.148 / 44.073)
Park City	Summer Britcher	1:27.537 (43.825 / 43.712)	Erin Hamlin	1:27.614 (43.860 / 43.754)	Dajana Eitberger	1:27.770 (43.872 / 43.898)
Park City (Sprint)	Summer Britcher	32.477	Erin Hamlin	32.514	Dajana Eitberger	32.576
Calgary	Natalie Geisenberger	1:33.569 (46.818 / 46.751)	Erin Hamlin	1:33.581 (46.814 / 46.767)	Summer Britcher	1:33.712 (46.949 / 46.763)
Calgary (Sprint)	Summer Britcher	31.129	Dajana Eitberger	31.132	Tatiana Ivanova	31.186
Sigulda	Tatiana Ivanova	1:23.634 (41.840 / 41.794)	Tatjana Hüfner	1:23.731 (41.841 / 41.890)	Natalie Geisenberger	1:23.766 (41.881 / 41.885)
Oberhof	Tatjana Hüfner	1:23.006 (41.355 / 41.651)	Natalie Geisenberger	1:23.048 (41.414 / 41.634)	Dajana Eitberger	1:23.139 (41.386 / 41.753)
Oberhof (Sprint)	Natalie Geisenberger	26.250	Dajana Eitberger	26.308	Tatjana Hüfner	26.374
Sochi	Tatiana Ivanova	1:41.023 (50.534 / 50.489)	Victoria Demchenko	1:41.152 (50.684 / 50.468)	Natalie Geisenberger	1:41.213 (50.679 / 50.534)
Altenberg	Tatjana Hüfner	1:46.379 (53.359 / 53.020)	Elīza Cauce	1:46.590 (53.283 / 53.307)	Tatiana Ivanova	1:46.692 (53.339 / 53.353)
Winterberg	Tatjana Hüfner	1:53.009 (56.734 / 56.275)	Natalie Geisenberger	1:53.138 (56.963 / 56.175)	Tatiana Ivanova	1:53.368 (57.091 / 56.277)

Doubles

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
Innsbruck	Toni Eggert Sascha Benecken	1:19.381 (39.689 / 39.692)	Peter Penz Georg Fischler	1:19.492 (39.769 / 39.723)	Tobias Wendl Tobias Arlt	1:19.836 (39.754 / 40.082)
Lake Placid	Toni Eggert Sascha Benecken	1:27.583 (43.781 / 43.802)	Peter Penz Georg Fischler	1:27.965 (43.954 / 44.011)	Andris Šics Juris Šics	1:28.107 (43.976 / 44.131)
Park City	Tobias Wendl Tobias Arlt	1:27.092 (43.650 / 43.442)	Toni Eggert Sascha Benecken	1:27.567 (43.858/ 43.709)	Peter Penz Georg Fischler	1:27.679 (43.846 / 43.833)
Park City (Sprint)	Christian Oberstolz Patrick Gruber	32.521	Tobias Wendl Tobias Arlt	32.537	Toni Eggert Sascha Benecken	32.564
Calgary	Toni Eggert Sascha Benecken	1:28.223 (44.098 / 44.125)	Peter Penz Georg Fischler	1:28.327 (44.193 / 44.134)	Tobias Wendl Tobias Arlt	1:28.580 (44.522 / 44.058)
Calgary (Sprint)	Tobias Wendl Tobias Arlt	36.310	Peter Penz Georg Fischler Toni Eggert Sascha Benecken	36.316
Sigulda	Tobias Wendl Tobias Arlt	1:23.642 (41.778 / 41.864)	Oskars Gudramovičs Pēteris Kalniņš	1:23.980 (41.965 / 42.015)	Peter Penz Georg Fischler	1:24.013 (42.009 / 42.004)
Oberhof	Tobias Wendl Tobias Arlt	1:21.713 (40.693 / 41.020)	Toni Eggert Sascha Benecken	1:22.322 (41.052 / 41.270)	Peter Penz Georg Fischler	1:22.450 (41.157 / 41.293)
Oberhof (Sprint)	Tobias Wendl Tobias Arlt	26.166	Toni Eggert Sascha Benecken	26.440	Andris Šics Juris Šics	26.470
Sochi	Tobias Wendl Tobias Arlt	1:40.368 (50.376 / 49.992)	Andrey Bogdanov Andrey Medvedev	1:40.889 (50.439 / 50.450)	Christian Oberstolz Patrick Gruber	1:40.992 (50.327 / 50.665)
Altenberg	Toni Eggert Sascha Benecken	1:22.890 (41.502 / 41.388)	Tobias Wendl Tobias Arlt	1:23.269 (41.684 / 41.585)	Peter Penz Georg Fischler	1:23.471 (41.712 / 41.759)
Winterberg	Toni Eggert Sascha Benecken	1:26.473 (43.158 / 43.315)	Tobias Wendl Tobias Arlt	1:26.863 (43.507 / 43.356)	Oskars Gudramovičs Pēteris Kalniņš	1:27.055 (43.552 / 43.503)

Team Relay

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
Innsbruck	Dajana Eitberger Andi Langenhan Toni Eggert Sascha Benecken	2:09:035 (41.506 / 1:25.207)	Elīza Cauce Artūrs Dārznieks Andris Šics Juris Šics	2:09:428 (41.691 / 1:25.543)	Sandra Robatscher Dominik Fischnaller Ludwig Rieder Patrick Rastner	2:09:799 (41.891 / 1:25.673)
Lake Placid	Erin Hamlin Chris Mazdzer Justin Krewson Andrew Sherk	2:32.767 (49.464 / 1:40.504)	Elīza Cauce Inars Kivlenieks Andris Šics Juris Šics	2:33.638 (50.026 / 1:41.679)	Tatiana Ivanova Semen Pavlichenko Andrey Bogdanov Andrey Medvedev	2:33.695 (49.885 / 1:41.281)
Sigulda	Tatjana Hüfner Felix Loch Tobias Wendl Tobias Arlt	2:14.386 (43.620 / 1:28.880)	Elīza Cauce Artūrs Dārznieks Oskars Gudramovičs Pēteris Kalniņš	2:14.602 (43.823 / 1:29.089)	Tatiana Ivanova Semen Pavlichenko Andrey Bogdanov Andrey Medvedev	2:14.757 (43.275 / 1:28.269)
Sochi	Tatiana Ivanova Semen Pavlichenko Andrey Bogdanov Andrey Medvedev	2:50.392 (55.313 / 1:52.397)	Natalie Geisenberger Felix Loch Tobias Wendl Tobias Arlt	2:50.397 (55.921 / 1:53.060)	Miriam Kastlunger Wolfgang Kindl Peter Penz Georg Fischler	2:51.775 (56.195 / 1:53.623)
Altenberg	Tatjana Hüfner Felix Loch Toni Eggert Sascha Benecken	2:24.204 (47.157 / 1:35.508)	Kimberley McRae Mitchel Malyk Tristan Walker Justin Snith	2:24.550 (47.229 / 1:35.789)	Elīza Cauce Artūrs Dārznieks Andris Šics Juris Šics	2:24.982 (47.105 / 1:36.148)
Winterberg	Arianne Jones Mitchel Malyk Tristan Walker Justin Snith	2:26.595 (47.956 / 1:37.359)	Tatiana Ivanova Stepan Fedorov Alexander Denisyev Vladislav Antonov	2:27.127 (48.003 / 1:37.440)	Miriam Kastlunger Wolfgang Kindl Thomas Steu Lorenz Koller	2:27.237 (48.243 / 1:37.392)

Standings

Men's singles

|- class="wikitable sortable" style="background:#f7f8ff; text-align:center; border:gray solid 1px;"|- style="background:#ccc;"! style="width:10px;"|Pos.! style="width:215px;"|Luger! style="width:45px;"|Points|-| 1. ||align="left"| * || 940|-| 2. ||align="left"| || 795|-| 3. ||align="left"| || 700|-| 4. ||align="left"| || 628|-| 5. ||align="left"| || 617|-| 6. ||align="left"| || 590|- | 7. ||align="left"| || 524|-| 8. ||align="left"| || 481|-| 9. ||align="left"| || 395|-| 10. ||align="left"| || 377|-

• (*Champion 2015)

Men's singles Sprint

|- class="wikitable sortable" style="background:#f7f8ff; text-align:center; border:gray solid 1px;"|- style="background:#ccc;"! style="width:10px;"|Pos.! style="width:215px;"|Luger! style="width:55px;"|Agg. time|-| 1. ||align="left"| || 1:31.739|-| 2. ||align="left"| || 1:32.165|-| 3. ||align="left"| || 1:32.532|-| 4. ||align="left"| || 1:32.647|-| 5. ||align="left"| || 1:32.714|-| 6. ||align="left"| || 1:32.723|- | 7. ||align="left"| || 1:32.790|-| 8. ||align="left"| || 1:33.122

Women's singles

|- class="wikitable sortable" style="background:#f7f8ff; text-align:center; border:gray solid 1px;"|- style="background:#ccc;"! style="width:10px;"|Pos.! style="width:215px;"|Luger! style="width:45px;"|Points|- | 1. ||align="left"| * || 895|-| 2. ||align="left"| || 771|-| 3. ||align="left"| || 769|-| 4. ||align="left"| || 747|-| 5. ||align="left"| || 726|-| 6. ||align="left"| || 712|-| 7. ||align="left"| || 583|-| 8. ||align="left"| || 537|-| 9. ||align="left"| || 425|-| 10. ||align="left"| || 391|-

• (*Champion 2015)

Women's singles Sprint

|- class="wikitable sortable" style="background:#f7f8ff; text-align:center; border:gray solid 1px;"|- style="background:#ccc;"! style="width:10px;"|Pos.! style="width:215px;"|Luger! style="width:55px;"|Agg. time|-| 1. ||align="left"| || 1:30.016|- | 2. ||align="left"| || 1:30.061|-| 3. ||align="left"| || 1:30.132|-| 4. ||align="left"| || 1:30.279|-| 5. ||align="left"| || 1:30.344|-| 6. ||align="left"| || 1:30.543|-| 7. ||align="left"| || 1:30.692|-| 8. ||align="left"| || 1:30.727|-| 9. ||align="left"| || 1:30.784|-| 10. ||align="left"| || 1:30.834|-

Doubles

|- class="wikitable sortable" style="background:#f7f8ff; text-align:center; border:gray solid 1px;"|- style="background:#ccc;"! style="width:10px;"|Pos.! style="width:215px;"|Luger! style="width:45px;"|Points|-| 1. ||align="left"| Tobias Wendl
Tobias Arlt || 1037|-| 2. ||align="left"| Toni Eggert
Sascha Benecken* || 962|-| 3. ||align="left"| Peter Penz
Georg Fischler || 785|-| 4. ||align="left"| Christian Oberstolz
Patrick Gruber || 668|-| 5. ||align="left"| Matthew Mortensen
Jayson Terdiman || 532|- | 6. ||align="left"| Andris Šics
Juris Šics || 530|- | 7. ||align="left"| Emanuel Rieder
Patrick Rastner || 486|-| 8. ||align="left"| Andrei Bogdanov
Andrei Medvedev || 482|-| 9. ||align="left"| Robin Johannes Geueke
David Gamm || 481|-| 10. ||align="left"| Tristan Walker
Justin Snith || 449|-

• (*champion 2015)

Doubles Sprint

|- class="wikitable sortable" style="background:#f7f8ff; text-align:center; border:gray solid 1px;"|- style="background:#ccc;"! style="width:10px;"|Pos.! style="width:215px;"|Luger! style="width:55px;"|Agg. time|-| 1. ||align="left"| Tobias Wendl
Tobias Arlt || 1:35.013|-| 2. ||align="left"| Toni Eggert
Sascha Benecken || 1:35.320|-| 3. ||align="left"| Peter Penz
Georg Fischler || 1:35.378|-| 4. ||align="left"| Christian Oberstolz
Patrick Gruber || 1:35.658|-| 5. ||align="left"| Matthew Mortensen
Jayson Terdiman || 1:35.780|-| 6. ||align="left"| Alexander Denisyev
Vladislav Antonov || 1:36.186|-| 7. ||align="left"| Thomas Steu
Lorenz Koller || 1:36.197|-| 8. ||align="left"| Tristan Walker
Justin Snith || 1:36.222|- | 9. ||align="left"| Ludwig Rieder
Patrick Rastner || 1:36.325|-| 10. ||align="left"| Robin Johannes Geueke
David Gamm || 1:36.448|-

Team Relay

|- class="wikitable sortable" style="background:#f7f8ff; text-align:center; border:gray solid 1px;"|- style="background:#ccc;"! style="width:10px;"|Pos.! style="width:215px;"|Luger! style="width:45px;"|Points|- | 1. ||align="left"| * || 491|-| 2. ||align="left"| || 385|-| 3. ||align="left"| || 375|-| 4. ||align="left"| || 355|-| 5. ||align="left"| || 325|-| 6. ||align="left"| || 322|-| 7. ||align="left"| || 286|-| 8. ||align="left"| || 227|-| 9. ||align="left"| || 216|-| 10. ||align="left"| || 156|-

• (*champion 2015)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Schedule 2015/16 Artificial Track . FIL . November 29, 2015.