2008–09 Luge World Cup

2008–09 Luge World Cup
Winners
Men's singles	Armin Zöggeler
Doubles	Christian Oberstolz / Patrick Gruber
Women's singles	Tatjana Hüfner
Competitions
Venues	9

The 2008–09 Luge World Cup is a multi race tournament over a season for luge. The season started on 29 November 2008 and ended on 21 February 2009. The World Cup is organised by the FIL and sponsored by Viessmann. These cups served as qualifiers for the 2010 Winter Olympics luge events in Vancouver.

Calendar

Place	Date	Disc.	Winner	Second	Third
Igls	November 29, 2008	Doubles	Italy Gerhard Plankensteiner Oswald Haselrieder	Austria Andreas Linger Wolfgang Linger	Austria Markus Schiegl Tobias Schiegl
	November 30, 2008	Men's	Andi Langenhan (GER)	David Möller (GER)	Armin Zöggeler (ITA)
	November 30, 2008	Women's	Tatjana Hüfner (GER)	Natalie Geisenberger (GER)	Anke Wischnewski (GER)
Sigulda	December 6, 2008	Women's	Tatjana Hüfner (GER)	Natalia Yakushenko (UKR)	Anke Wischnewski (GER)
	December 6, 2008	Doubles	Italy Christian Oberstolz Patrick Gruber	Austria Andreas Linger Wolfgang Linger	Austria Peter Penz Georg Fischler
	December 7, 2008	Men's	Albert Demtschenko (RUS)	Armin Zöggeler (ITA)	David Möller (GER)
Winterberg	December 13, 2008	Men's	Armin Zöggeler (ITA)	David Möller (GER)	Johannes Ludwig (GER)
	December 13, 2008	Doubles	Italy Christian Oberstolz Patrick Gruber	Austria Markus Schiegl Tobias Schiegl	Germany Patric Leitner Alexander Resch
	December 14, 2008	Women's	Natalie Geisenberger (GER)	Tatjana Hüfner (GER)	Anke Wischnewski (GER)
Königssee	January 3, 2009	Doubles	Germany Patric Leitner Alexander Resch	Germany Tobias Wendl Tobias Arlt	Austria Andreas Linger Wolfgang Linger
	January 3, 2009	Women's	Tatjana Hüfner (GER)	Natalie Geisenberger (GER)	Anke Wischnewski (GER)
	January 4, 2009	Men's	Armin Zöggeler (ITA)	David Möller (GER)	Felix Loch (GER)
Cesana	January 10, 2009	Women's	Tatjana Hüfner (GER)	Natalie Geisenberger (GER)	Nina Reithmayer (AUT)
	January 10, 2009	Doubles	Italy Christian Oberstolz Patrick Gruber	Italy Gerhard Plankensteiner Oswald Haselrieder	Latvia Andris Šics Juris Šics
	January 11, 2009	Men's	Armin Zöggeler (ITA)	Felix Loch (GER)	Daniel Pfister (AUT)
Oberhof	January 17, 2009	Doubles	Germany Tobias Wendl Tobias Arlt	Germany Patric Leitner Alexander Resch	Germany André Florschütz Torsten Wustlich
	January 17, 2009	Men's	Jan Eichhorn (GER)	Felix Loch (GER)	David Möller (GER)
	January 18, 2009	Women's	Tatjana Hüfner (GER)	Natalie Geisenberger (GER)	Anke Wischnewski (GER)
Altenberg	January 24, 2009	Doubles	Italy Christian Oberstolz Patrick Gruber	Germany Patric Leitner Alexander Resch	Austria Andreas Linger Wolfgang Linger
	January 24, 2009	Women's	Natalie Geisenberger (GER)	Tatjana Hüfner (GER)	Anke Wischnewski (GER)
	January 25, 2009	Men's	Armin Zöggeler (ITA)	Felix Loch (GER)	David Möller (GER)
Lake Placid	February 6–8, 2009	FIL World Luge Championships 2009
Calgary	February 13, 2009	Women's	Tatjana Hüfner (GER)	Natalie Geisenberger (GER)	Veronika Halder (AUT)
	February 14, 2009	Men's	Armin Zöggeler (ITA)	Felix Loch (GER)	Albert Demtschenko (RUS)
	February 14, 2009	Doubles	Italy Christian Oberstolz Patrick Gruber	Austria Peter Penz Georg Fischler	Italy Gerhard Plankensteiner Oswald Haselrieder
Whistler	February 20, 2009	Women's	Natalie Geisenberger (GER)	Tatjana Hüfner (GER)	Anke Wischnewski (GER)
	February 20, 2009	Doubles	Germany André Florschütz Torsten Wustlich	Germany Patric Leitner Alexander Resch	Austria Andreas Linger Wolfgang Linger
	February 21, 2009	Men's	David Möller (GER)	Armin Zöggeler (ITA)	Felix Loch (GER)

Standings

Men's singles

Pos.	Luger	IGL	SIG	WIN	KÖN	CES	OBE	ALT	CAL	WHI	Points
1.	Armin Zöggeler	3	2	1	1	1	7	1	1	2	786
2.	David Möller	2	3	2	2	4	3	3	11	1	659
3.	Jan Eichhorn	4	6	4	5	6	1	5	13	7	506
4.	Felix Loch				3	2	2	2	2	3	480
5.	Andi Langenhan	1	13	5	8	14	8	7	5	5	453
6.	Daniel Pfister	7	7	6	4	3	5	4	4	dnf	447
7.	Albert Demtschenko	dnf	1	24	6	5	4	8	3	26	409
8.	Johannes Ludwig	11	9	3	19	13	6	6	23	4	373
9.	Viktor Kneib	5	5	8	dsq	7	11	14	8	6	352
10.	Martin Abentung	8	10	13	13	17	14	10	14	8	296
11.	Wolfgang Kindl	6	12	9	14	9	15	28	22	9	285
12.	Bengt Walden	21	15	19	7	16	9	15	7	18	273
13.	Reinhold Rainer	10	dnf	11	16	8	10	18	12	10	264
14.	Stefan Höhener	9	21	10	10	10	18	11	19	25	262
15.	David Mair	17	18	17	9	12	24	9	16	11	257
16.	Wilfried Huber	12	17	20	11	11	21	12	14	16	250
17.	Guntis Rēķis	23	4	7	23	18	16	20	30		222
18.	Manuel Pfister	19	27	16	17	15	20	19	9	15	219
19.	Jeff Christie	14	16	18	12	dnf	13	16	17	13	217
20.	Inārs Kivlenieks	16	11	12	18	19	22	25	25	17	211

Doubles

Pos.	Lugers	IGL	SIG	WIN	KÖN	CES	OBE	ALT	CAL	WHI	Points
1.	Christian Oberstolz / Patrick Gruber (ITA)	4	1	1	4	1	4	1	1	5	735
2.	Patric Leitner / Alexander Resch (GER)	5	9	3	1	6	2	2	4	2	629
3.	Andreas Linger / Wolfgang Linger (AUT)	2	2	6	3	4	6	3	6	3	590
4.	Tobias Wendl / Tobias Arlt (GER)	6	5	4	2	5	1	5	10	16	521
5.	Gerhard Plankensteiner / Oswald Haselrieder (ITA)	1	4	17	6	2	5		3	4	504
6.	Peter Penz / Georg Fischler (AUT)	7	3	19	5	9	9	6	2	8	448
7.	Markus Schiegl / Tobias Schiegl (AUT)	3	7	2	7	8	7	7	5	dnf	436
8.	Mark Grimmette / Brian Martin (USA)	11	6	7	8	10	8	10	9	7	371
9.	Andris Šics / Juris Šics (LAT)	9	11	9		3	11	8	11	6	342
10.	André Florschütz / Torsten Wustlich (GER)						3	4	7	1	276
11.	Michail Kuzmich / Stanislav Mikheev (RUS)	13	12	13	11	15	10	15	17	11	272
12.	Jan Harnis / Branislav Regec (SVK)	26	18	11	12	14	14	13	16	13	245
13.	Christian Niccum / Dan Joye (USA)	12	10	5	9				8	10	240
14.	Hans Peter Fischnaller / Patrick Schwienbacher (ITA)	10	dnf	18	14	12	16	12	13	15	232
15.	Vladislav Yuzhakov / Vladimir Makhnutin (RUS)	16	14	23	18	18	15	14	19	12	225
16.	Andriy Kis / Yuriy Hayduk (UKR)	18	13	12	19	13	21	22	24	14	221
17.	Chris Moffat / Mike Moffat (CAN)				10	11	12	9	12	9	212
18.	Antonín Brož / Lukáš Brož (CZE)	15	17	15	17	19	13	16	20		198
19.	Toni Eggert / Marcel Oster (GER)	8	8	8		7					172
20.	Ivan Nevmerzhitski / Oleg Medvedev (RUS)	22		10	13		17	11	18		166

Women's singles

Pos.	Luger	IGL	SIG	WIN	KÖN	CES	OBE	ALT	CAL	WHI	Points
1.	Tatjana Hüfner (GER)	1	1	2	1	1	1	2	1	2	855
2.	Natalie Geisenberger (GER)	2	4	1	2	2	2	1	2	1	785
3.	Anke Wischnewski (GER)	3	3	3	3	8	3	3	4	3	592
4.	Nina Reithmayer (AUT)	6	5	6	4	3	6	6	5	6	490
5.	Natalia Yakushenko (UKR)	8	2	5	7	4	4	5	8	9	484
6.	Erin Hamlin (USA)	4	11	8	11	9	24	8	7	5	369
7.	Veronika Halder (AUT)	10	6	11	10	10	14	19	3	8	354
8.	Alex Gough (CAN)	39	15	7	9	7	15	10	6	7	317
9.	Ewelina Staszulonek (POL)	7	18	14	6		8	7	21	12	287
10.	Anna Orlova (LAT)	9	7	9	23	12	12	24	10	24	276
11.	Martina Kocher (SUI)	23	17	10	8	11	9	15	13	20	270
12.	Steffi Sieger (GER)	5	10		5	6				4	256
13.	Meaghan Simister (CAN)	15	15	13	25	14	10	20	18	10	242
14.	Maija Tīruma (LAT)	dns			17	5	7	9	9	11	237
15.	Liliya Ludan (UKR)	16	12	16	27	13	18	17	15	15	225
16.	Natalia Khoreva (RUS)	14	13	25	13	18	13	16	24	16	224
17.	Tatiana Ivanova (RUS)	21	8	26	20	21	11	12		19	206
18.	Alexandra Rodionova (RUS)	13	21	17	15		17	14	17	14	204
19.	Corinna Martini (GER)			4			5	4	14		203
20.	Madoka Harada (JPN)	11	dnf	20	16	17	26	11	25	17	193

References

FIL-Luge.org December 19, 2008 on number of athletes allowed to participate for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. - accessed December 19, 2008.

Luge World Cup seasons

... 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17

2008–09 World Cup seasons in the winter sports

Alpine skiing Biathlon Bobsleigh Cross-country skiing Curling Figure skating Freestyle skiing Luge Nordic combined Short track Skeleton Ski jumping / Ski flying Snowboarding Speed skating

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