2009–10 Luge World Cup

The 2009–10 Luge World Cup was a multi race tournament over a season for luge. The season started 17 November 2009 in Calgary, Canada and ended 31 January 2010 in Cesana, Italy. The World Cup was organised by the FIL and sponsored by Viessmann. This cup served as qualifiers up to 31 December 2009 (last qualifier at Lillehammer, Norway) for the 2010 Winter Olympics luge events in Vancouver.

2009–10 Luge World Cup

Winners
Men's singles	Armin Zöggeler (ITA)
Doubles	André Florschütz / Torsten Wustlich (GER)
Women's singles	Tatjana Hüfner (GER)
Team relay	Germany
Competitions
Venues	8
← 2008/09 2010/11 →

Calendar

Venue	Date	Details
Calgary	20–21 November 2009
Innsbruck	28–29 November 2009
Altenberg	5–6 December 2009
Lillehammer	12–13 December 2009
Königssee	2–3 January 2010
Winterberg	9–10 January 2010
Oberhof	16–17 January 2010
Cesana	30–31 January 2010

Results

Men's singles

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
Calgary^[1]	Armin Zöggeler   Italy	1:30.068 45.046/45.022	David Möller   Germany	1:30.124 45.014/45.110	Albert Demtschenko   Russia	1:30.166 45.044/45.122
Innsbruck^[2]	Armin Zöggeler   Italy	1:37.988 48.775/49.213	Wilfried Huber   Italy	1:38.085 48.957/49.128	Viktor Kneib   Russia	1:38.091 49.179/48.912
Altenberg^[3]	Felix Loch   Germany	1:48.911 54.515/54.396	Armin Zöggeler   Italy	1:48.969 54.495/54.474	Albert Demtschenko   Russia	1:49.049 54.572/54.477
Lillehammer^[4]	Albert Demtschenko   Russia	1:40.356 50.191/50.165	Armin Zöggeler   Italy	1:40.406 50.183/50.223	Felix Loch   Germany	1:40.674 50.396/50.278
Königssee^[5]	Albert Demtschenko   Russia	1:34.176 47.127/47.049	Armin Zöggeler   Italy	1:34.549 47.350/47.199	David Möller   Germany	1:34.640 47.360/47.280
Winterberg^[6]	Armin Zöggeler   Italy	1:47.601 53.890/53.711	Albert Demtschenko   Russia	1:47.621 53.667/53.954	David Möller   Germany	1:47.652 54.008/53.644
Oberhof^[7]	Andi Langenhan   Germany	1:31.383 45.777/45.606	Johannes Ludwig   Germany	1:31.466 45.825/45.641	Jan-Armin Eichhorn   Germany	1:31.477 45.704/45.773
Cesana^[8]	Armin Zöggeler   Italy	1:43.115 51.611/51.504	Felix Loch   Germany	1:43.434 51.786/51.648	Johannes Ludwig   Germany	1:43.493 51.758/51.735

Doubles

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
Calgary^[9]	Patric Leitner Alexander Resch   Germany	1:27.855 44.095/43.760	André Florschütz Torsten Wustlich   Germany	1:27.886 43.926/43.960	Christian Oberstolz Patrick Gruber   Italy	1:28.059 44.046/44.013
Innsbruck^[10]	Patric Leitner Alexander Resch   Germany	1:18.631 39.278/39.353	André Florschütz Torsten Wustlich   Germany	1:18.732 39.380/39.352	Andreas Linger Wolfgang Linger   Austria	1:18.737 39.344/39.393
Altenberg^[11]	André Florschütz Torsten Wustlich   Germany	1:24.460 42.240/42.220	Peter Penz Georg Fischler   Austria	1:24.479 42.215/42.264	Christian Oberstolz Patrick Gruber   Italy	1:24.565 42.245/42.320
Lillehammer^[12]	Andreas Linger Wolfgang Linger   Austria	1:36.829 48.409/48.420	Christian Oberstolz Patrick Gruber   Italy	1:36.917 48.470/48.447	Gerhard Plankensteiner Oswald Haselrieder   Italy	1:37.053 48.474/48.579
Königssee^[13]	Tobias Wendl Tobias Arlt   Germany	1:34.496 47.362/47.134	André Florschütz Torsten Wustlich   Germany	1:34.584 47.382/47.202	Andreas Linger Wolfgang Linger   Austria	1:34.590 47.309/47.281
Winterberg^[14]	Christian Oberstolz Patrick Gruber   Italy	1:28.597 44.323/44.274	Gerhard Plankensteiner Oswald Haselrieder   Italy	1:28.805 44.432/44.373	Patric Leitner Alexander Resch   Germany	1:28.990 44.447/44.543
Oberhof^[15]	André Florschütz Torsten Wustlich   Germany	1:25.567 42.717/42.850	Tobias Wendl Tobias Arlt   Germany	1:25.633 42.781/42.852	Patric Leitner Alexander Resch   Germany	1:26.001 43.028/42.973
Cesana^[16]	Tobias Wendl Tobias Arlt   Germany	1:32.982 46.407/46.575	Christian Oberstolz Patrick Gruber   Italy	1:32.991 46.293/46.698	Patric Leitner Alexander Resch   Germany	1:33.011 46.430/46.581

Women's singles

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
Calgary^[17]	Tatjana Hüfner   Germany	1:33.691 46.824/46.867	Natalie Geisenberger   Germany	1:33.858 46.903/46.955	Anke Wischnewski   Germany	1:34.024 46.981/47.043
Innsbruck^[18]	Natalie Geisenberger   Germany	1:19.229 39.569/39.660	Tatjana Hüfner   Germany	1:19.282 39.638/39.644	Anke Wischnewski   Germany	1:19.289 39.663/39.626
Altenberg^[19]	Tatjana Hüfner   Germany	1:47.555 53.815/53.740	Natalie Geisenberger   Germany	1:47.744 53.904/53.840	Anke Wischnewski   Germany	1:47.994 54.066/53.928
Lillehammer^[20]	Tatjana Hüfner   Germany	1:37.579 48.856/48.723	Natalie Geisenberger   Germany	1:37.595 48.848/48.747	Erin Hamlin   United States	1:37.616 48.791/48.825
Königssee^[21]	Tatjana Hüfner   Germany	1:35.324 47.787/47.537	Natalie Geisenberger   Germany	1:35.550 47.896/47.654	Steffi Sieger   Germany	1:35.867 47.992/47.875
Winterberg^[22]	Natalie Geisenberger   Germany	1:53.179 56.714/56.465	Tatjana Hüfner   Germany	1:53.189 56.792/56.397	Erin Hamlin   United States	1:53.329 56.777/56.552
Oberhof^[23]	Tatjana Hüfner   Germany	1:25.936 42.920/43.016	Anke Wischnewski   Germany	1:26.203 43.158/43.045	Natalie Geisenberger   Germany	1:26.322 43.071/43.251
Cesana^[24]	Natalie Geisenberger   Germany	1:33.811 46.817/46.994	Tatjana Hüfner   Germany	1:33.873 46.887/46.986	Erin Hamlin   United States	1:33.925 46.884/47.041

Team relay

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
Innsbruck^[25]	Canada Samuel Edney Alex Gough Chris Moffat / Mike Moffat	2:10.864 41.253 / 44.769 / 44.842	Austria Reinhard Egger Nina Reithmayer Andreas Linger / Wolfgang Linger	2:11.868 41.631 / 45.109 / 45.128	Latvia Guntis Rēķis Maija Tīruma Andris Šics / Juris Šics	2:12.094 41.725 / 45.466 / 44.903
Altenberg^[26]	Germany Felix Loch Tatjana Hüfner Tobias Wendl / Tobias Arlt	2:25.742 47.258 / 49.257 / 49.227	United States Tony Benshoof Erin Hamlin Christian Niccum / Dan Joye	2:26.680 47.402 / 49.426 / 49.852	Canada Samuel Edney Alex Gough Chris Moffat / Mike Moffat	2:26.941 47.371 / 49.935 / 49.635
Königssee^[27]	Germany Felix Loch Tatjana Hüfner Tobias Wendl / Tobias Arlt	2:38.302 53.260 / 51.424 / 53.618	Austria Daniel Pfister Nina Reithmayer Andreas Linger / Wolfgang Linger	2:38.951 53.713 / 51.683 / 53.555	Canada Samuel Edney Alex Gough Chris Moffat / Mike Moffat	2:39.077 53.439 / 51.350 / 54.288
Winterberg^[28]	Germany Johannes Ludwig Tatjana Hüfner Tobias Wendl / Tobias Arlt	2:25.827 49.253 / 47.598 / 48.976	Austria Wolfgang Kindl Nina Reithmayer Andreas Linger / Wolfgang Linger	2:26.392 49.357 / 47.845 / 49.190	United States Bengt Walden Erin Hamlin Mark Grimmette / Brian Martin	2:26.663 49.280 / 47.776 / 49.607
Oberhof^[29]	Germany David Möller Tatjana Hüfner Patric Leitner / Alexander Resch	2:29.779 50.245 / 48.891 / 50.643	Austria Daniel Pfister Nina Reithmayer Andreas Linger / Wolfgang Linger	2:30.258 50.545 / 49.337 / 50.376	Italy Armin Zöggeler Sandra Gasparini Christian Oberstolz / Patrick Gruber	2:30.684 50.369 / 49.973 / 50.342

Standings

Men's singles

Pos.	Luger	CAL	IGL	ALT	LIL	KON	WIN	OBE	CES	Points
1.	Armin Zöggeler (ITA)	1	1	2	2	2	1	6	1	705
2.	Albert Demtschenko (RUS)	3	9	3	1	1	2	4	31	534
3.	Felix Loch (GER)	4	4	1	3	9	17	7	2	484
4.	David Möller (GER)	2	7	4	6	3	3	5	15	462
5.	Reinhold Rainer (ITA)	15	5	14	4	7	5	8	4	372
6.	Johannes Ludwig (GER)	19	15	5	10	29	4	2	3	366
7.	Jan-Armin Eichhorn (GER)	11	6	7	17	8	8	3	9	347
8.	Andi Langenhan (GER)	16	11	6	22	4	12	1	21	340
9.	Tony Benshoof (USA)	6	10	10	9	13	13	11	5	310
10.	Viktor Kneib (RUS)	8	3	9	8	5	dsq	16	10	309
11.	David Mair (ITA)	21	21	11	5	14	6	13	6	286
12.	Daniel Pfister (AUT)	18	8	12	12	6	11	10	13	279
13.	Wilfried Huber (ITA)	20	2	21	11	17	15	15	16	261
14.	Wolfgang Kindl (AUT)	14	14	15	15	11	7	9	12	259
15.	Samuel Edney (CAN)	5	18	8	–	15	24	51	7	210
16.	Stefan Höhener (SUI)	24	25	37	14	12	9	19	11	192
17.	Manuel Pfister (AUT)	25	17	16	13	10	19	20	dnf	188
18.	Reinhard Egger (AUT)	7	13	17	16	27	26	26	24	186
19.	Bengt Walden (USA)	10	19	18	21	30	29	25	17	164
19.	Gregory Carigiet (SUI)	17	23	42	24	16	14	32	8	164

Doubles

Pos.	Lugers	CAL	IGL	ALT	LIL	KON	WIN	OBE	CES	Points
1.	André Florschütz / Torsten Wustlich (GER)	2	2	1	5	2	12	1	6	592
2.	Patric Leitner / Alexander Resch (GER)	1	1	6	6	4	3	3	3	570
3.	Christian Oberstolz / Patrick Gruber (ITA)	3	4	3	2	5	1	19	2	547
4.	Tobias Wendl / Tobias Arlt (GER)	11	5	5	8	1	5	2	1	526
5.	Andreas Linger / Wolfgang Linger (AUT)	4	3	4	1	3	9	4	4	519
6.	Gerhard Plankensteiner / Oswald Haselrieder (ITA)	–	8	8	3	8	2	5	dnf	336
7.	Andris Šics / Juris Šics (LAT)	7	6	11	9	10	10	8	7	329
8.	Christian Niccum / Dan Joye (USA)	dsq	12	9	4	6	8	9	5	317
9.	Markus Schiegl / Tobias Schiegl (AUT)	5	7	10	10	9	6	6	dnf	312
10.	Mark Grimmette / Brian Martin (USA)	8	18	15	13	11	4	7	11	295
11.	Peter Penz / Georg Fischler (AUT)	6	13	2	7	7	dnf	10	–	293
12.	Hans Peter Fischnaller / Patrick Schwienbacher (ITA)	15	20	7	11	12	7	12	8	279
13.	Pavel Kuzmich / Boris Kuryschkin (RUS)	23	16	12	17	–	13	16	9	193
14.	Vladislav Yuzhakov / Vladimir Makhnutin (RUS)	12	14	19	18	19	17	12	-	183
15.	Chris Moffat / Mike Moffat (CAN)	10	11	14	–	14	21	11	–	180
16.	Mikhail Kuzmich / Stanislav Mikheev (RUS)	16	–	17	–	16	11	13	10	174
17.	Jan Harnis / Branislav Regec (SVK)	9	10	18	14	dsq	22	14	–	173
18.	Andriy Kis / Yuriy Hayduk (UKR)	18	19	24	16	13	16	21	–	162
19.	Lubos Jira / Matej Kvicala (CZE)	21	24	16	22	17	23	18	–	146
20.	Antonín Brož / Lukáš Brož (CZE)	24	31	27	19	18	14	17	–	138

Women's singles

Pos.	Luger	CAL	IGL	ALT	LIL	KON	WIN	OBE	CES	Points
1.	Tatjana Hüfner (GER)	1	2	1	1	1	2	1	2	755
2.	Natalie Geisenberger (GER)	2	1	2	2	2	1	3	1	710
3.	Anke Wischnewski (GER)	3	3	3	5	4	4	2	9	509
4.	Erin Hamlin (USA)	7	9	5	3	5	3	8	3	447
5.	Nina Reithmayer (AUT)	5	6	6	7	6	7	6	10	383
6.	Corinna Martini (GER)	4	5	4	14	–	5	5	5	368
7.	Alex Gough (CAN)	6	4	12	–	12	6	12	4	316
8.	Veronika Halder (AUT)	8	10	8	6	14	15	7	11	304
9.	Alexandra Rodionova (RUS)	9	11	7	8	10	16	15	6	298
10.	Natalya Yakuchenko (UKR)	20	8	24	4	18	8	4	–	265
11.	Martina Kocher (SUI)	13	16	15	18	9	13	11	7	253
12.	Maija Tīruma (LAT)	12	7	9	10	13	dnf	17	14	235
13.	Julia Clukey (USA)	11	12	–	19	7	10	14	17	222
14.	Megan Sweeney (USA)	29	22	17	13	17	11	16	8	211
15.	Regan Lauscher (CAN)	10	15	14	–	11	14	9	–	191
16.	Tatiana Ivanova (RUS)	18	21	11	9	26	dnf	10	20	188
17.	Ewelina Staszulonek (POL)	14	17	20	17	8	12	dnf	–	171
18.	Sandra Gasparini (ITA)	21	51	16	11	16	9	18	–	167
19.	Natalia Khoreva (RUS)	19	18	dnf	24	15	18	13	19	163
20.	Meaghan Simister (CAN)	17	14	10	–	25	17	19	–	150
30.	Steffi Sieger (GER)	–	–	–	–	3	–	–	–	70

Team relay

Pos.	Team	IGL	ALT	KON	WIN	OBE	Points
1.	Germany	DSQ	1	1	1	1	400
2.	Austria	2	5	2	2	2	395
3.	Canada	1	3	3	5	7	341
4.	Latvia	3	4	4	4	4	310
5.	United States	4	2	DSQ	3	5	270
6.	Russia	7	7	5	6	6	247
7.	Slovakia	6	8	6	9	8	223
8.	Ukraine	5	10	DNF	7	–	137
9.	Romania	8	9	–	8	–	123
10.	Italy	DNF	6	DNF	DSQ	3	120
11.	Czech Republic	–	11	7	DSQ	9	119
12.	Poland	DSQ	–	–	–	–	0

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