The 2021 50th FIL World Luge Championships were held from 29 to 31 January 2021 in Königssee, Germany.50th FIL World Luge Championships They were originally awarded to Canada, but were moved because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Russia doping ban On 9 December 2019, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) banned Russia from all international sport for a period of four years, after the Russian government was found to have tampered with laboratory data that it provided to WADA in January 2019 as a condition of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency being reinstated. As a result of the ban, WADA plans to allow individually cleared Russian athletes to take part in the 2021-2022 World Championships and 2022 Summer Olympics under a neutral banner, as instigated at the 2018 Winter Olympics, but they will not be permitted to compete in team sports. The title of the neutral banner has yet to be determined; WADA Compliance Review Committee head Jonathan Taylor stated that the IOC would not be able to use "Olympic Athletes from Russia" (OAR) as it did in 2018, emphasizing that neutral athletes cannot be portrayed as representing a specific country. Russia later filed an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against the WADA decision. After reviewing the case on appeal, CAS ruled on 17 December 2020 to reduce the penalty that WADA had placed on Russia. Instead of banning Russia from sporting events, the ruling allowed Russia to participate at the Olympics and other international events, but for a period of two years, the team cannot use the Russian name, flag, or anthem and must present themselves as "Neutral Athlete" or "Neutral Team". The ruling does allow for team uniforms to display "Russia" on the uniform as well as the use of the Russian flag colors within the uniform's design, although the name should be up to equal predominance as the "Neutral Athlete/Team" designation.
Schedule Seven events were held.Schedule
All times are local (UTC+1).
DateTimeEvents29 January09:00Men's sprint qualificationDoubles' sprint qualificationWomen's sprint qualification12:45Men's sprint final13:40Doubles' sprint final14:30Women's sprint final30 January09:30Doubles 1st run10:50Doubles 2nd run12:50Men 1st run15:00Men 2nd run31 January10:00Women 1st run11:50Women 2nd run13:30Team relay
Medal summary Medal table
Medalists Men's singlesMen's singles resultsRoman Repilov Russian Luge Federation 1:37.810 1:37.872 1:38.027Men's sprintMen's sprint results 38.375Semen Pavlichenko Russian Luge Federation 38.416 38.417Women's singlesWomen's singles results 1:41.132 1:41.447 1:41.604Women's sprintWomen's sprint results 39.101 39.112 39.300DoublesDoubles resultsToni EggertSascha Benecken 1:39.931Tobias WendlTobias Arlt 1:40.086Andris ŠicsJuris Šics 1:40.591Doubles' sprintDoubles' sprint resultsTobias WendlTobias Arlt 39.126Andris ŠicsJuris Šics 39.140Toni EggertSascha Benecken 39.161Team relayTeam relay resultsMadeleine EgleDavid GleirscherThomas Steu/Lorenz Koller 2:43.139Julia TaubitzFelix LochToni Eggert / Sascha Benecken 2:43.177Kendija AparjodeArtūrs DārznieksAndris Šics/Juris Šics 2:43.571
References
External links FIL website