2023–24 Luge World Cup

2023–24 Luge World Cup
Discipline	Men	Women
Singles Overall	Max Langenhan (1)	Julia Taubitz (4)
Singles	Max Langenhan (1)	Julia Taubitz (2)
Singles Sprint	Max Langenhan (1)	Julia Taubitz (5)
Doubles Overall	Thomas Steu (2) / Wolfgang Kindl (1)	Andrea Vötter / Marion Oberhofer (2)
Doubles	Thomas Steu (2) / Wolfgang Kindl (1)	Jessica Degenhardt / Cheyenne Rosenthal (1)
Doubles Sprint	Mārtiņš Bots / Roberts Plūme (1)	Selina Egle / Lara Michaela Kipp (2)
Team Relay	Germany (18)
Competition
Edition	47th	47th
Locations	7	7

The 2023–24 Luge World Cup (official: Eberspächer Luge World Cup) was a multi-race series over a season of Luge, organised by International Luge Federation (FIL).

The season started on 8 December 2023 in Lake Placid, United States, and concluded on 3 March 2024 in Sigulda, Latvia.

The season featured a break in January for the FIL World Luge Championships in Altenberg, Germany.

Map of world cup hosts

All 7 locations hosting world cup events in this season (including Altenberg – venue of the World Championships).

Europe Winterberg Altenberg Oberhof Innsbruck-Igls Sigulda
North America Lake Placid Whistler

World Championships also as European Championships

Schedule

Stage	Location	Date	Men's Singles	Women's Singles	Men's Doubles	Women's Doubles	Sprint	Team	Details
1	Lake Placid	7–9 December 2023	●	●	●	●	●
2	Whistler	14–16 December 2023	●	●	●	●		●
3	Winterberg	5–7 January 2024	●	●	●	●		●
4	Innsbruck-Igls	12–14 January 2024	●	●	●	●		●	also European Championships
WC	Altenberg	26–28 January 2024	●	●	●	●	●	●	World Championships (not included in the World Cup)
5	Altenberg	2–4 February 2024	●	●	●	●		●
6	Oberhof	9–11 February 2024	●	●	●	●		●
7		16–18 February 2024	●	●	●	●	●
8	Sigulda	23–25 February 2024	●	●	●	●	●
9		2–3 March 2024	●	●	●	●		●

Men

Calendar

#	Date	Place (In brackets Stage)	Discipline	Winner	Time	Second	Time	Third	Time	R.
1	8 December 2023	Lake Placid (1)	Singles	Max Langenhan	1:41.952 (50.944 / 51.008)	Jonas Müller	1:42.398 (51.164 / 51.234)	Nico Gleirscher	1:42.585 (51.270 / 51.315)
2			Doubles	United States Zachary DiGregorio Sean Hollander	1:27.630 (43.790 / 43.840)	Austria Thomas Steu Wolfgang Kindl	1:27.682 (43.645 / 44.037)	Austria Juri Gatt Riccardo Schöpf	1:27.702 (43.851 / 43.851)
3	9 December 2023		Singles Sprint	Max Langenhan	33.257	Felix Loch	33.560	Nico Gleirscher	33.595
4			Doubles Sprint	Latvia Mārtiņš Bots Roberts Plūme	37.872	Austria Thomas Steu Wolfgang Kindl	37.877	Germany Tobias Wendl Tobias Arlt	38.019
5	15 December 2023	Whistler (2)	Singles	Max Langenhan	1:40.093 (50.091 / 50.002)	Jonas Müller	1:40.348 (50.214 / 50.134)	Kristers Aparjods	1:40.572 (50.314 / 50.258)
6			Doubles	Germany Tobias Wendl Tobias Arlt	1:17.300 (38.668 / 38.632)	Austria Thomas Steu Wolfgang Kindl	1:17.378 (38.624 / 38.754)	Germany Hannes Orlamünder Paul Constantin Gubitz	1:17.405 (38.713 / 38.692)
7	6 January 2024	Winterberg (3)	Doubles	Austria Juri Gatt Riccardo Schöpf	1:26.145 (43.105 / 43.040)	Germany Tobias Wendl Tobias Arlt	1:26.211 (43.271 / 42.940)	Germany Hannes Orlamünder Paul Constantin Gubitz	1:26.236 (43.158 / 43.078)
8	7 January 2024		Singles	Max Langenhan	1:43.695 (51.885 / 51.810)	Dominik Fischnaller	1:43.871 (51.889 / 51.982)	Kristers Aparjods	1:43.877 (51.999 / 51.878)
55th FIL European Championships 2024 (12–14 January)
9	13 January 2024	Innsbruck-Igls (4)	Doubles	Austria Thomas Steu Wolfgang Kindl	1:18.690 (39.344 / 39.346)	Latvia Mārtiņš Bots Roberts Plūme	1:18.862 (39.414 / 39.448)	Germany Tobias Wendl Tobias Arlt	1:18.986 (39.510 / 39.476)
10	14 January 2024		Singles	Jonas Müller	1:38.655 (49.288 / 49.367)	Nico Gleirscher	1:38.981 (49.469 / 49.512)	Max Langenhan	1:39.083 (49.599 / 49.484)
52nd FIL World Luge Championships 2024 (26–28 January)
WCH	26 January 2024	Altenberg	Doubles Sprint	Latvia Mārtiņš Bots Roberts Plūme	27.863	Austria Thomas Steu Wolfgang Kindl	27.895	Austria Juri Gatt Riccardo Schöpf	27.973
			Singles Sprint	David Gleirscher	33.001	Max Langenhan	33.071	Kristers Aparjods	33.124
	27 January 2024		Singles	Max Langenhan	1:47.813 (53.943 / 53.870)	Nico Gleirscher	1:48.574 (54.230 / 54.344)	Felix Loch	1:48.630 (54.303 / 54.327)
			Doubles	Austria Juri Gatt Riccardo Schöpf	1:22.924 (41.453 / 41.471)	Austria Thomas Steu Wolfgang Kindl	1:22.970 (41.506 / 41.464)	Germany Tobias Wendl Tobias Arlt	1:23.279 (41.721 / 41.558)
11	3 February 2024	Altenberg (5)	Singles	Max Langenhan	1:51.162 (56.360 / 54.802)	David Gleirscher	1:51.283 (55.479 / 55.804)	Kristers Aparjods	1:51.289 (55.831 / 55.458)
12			Doubles	Austria Juri Gatt Riccardo Schöpf	1:24.991 (42.531 / 42.460)	Austria Thomas Steu Wolfgang Kindl	1:24.999 (42.539 / 42.460)	Italy Emanuel Rieder Simon Kainzwaldner	1:25.116 (42.646 / 42.470)
13	10 February 2024	Oberhof (6), (7)	Doubles	Austria Thomas Steu Wolfgang Kindl	1:23.928 (42.114 / 41.814)	Germany Hannes Orlamünder Paul Constantin Gubitz	1:24.051 (42.161 / 41.890)	Germany Tobias Wendl Tobias Arlt	1:24.118 (42.233 / 41.885)
14	11 February 2024		Singles	Kristers Aparjods	1:27.263 (44.031 / 43.232)	Max Langenhan	1:27.305 (43.858 / 43.447)	David Gleirscher	1:27.381 (44.218 / 43.163)
15	17 February 2024		Singles	Jonas Müller	1:26.033 (43.015 / 43.018)	Max Langenhan	1:26.109 (43.047 / 43.062)	Felix Loch	1:26.131 (43.083 / 43.048)
16			Doubles	Austria Thomas Steu Wolfgang Kindl	1:23.333 (41.552 / 41.781)	Germany Tobias Wendl Tobias Arlt	1:23.406 (41.651 / 41.755)	Germany Hannes Orlamünder Paul Constantin Gubitz	1:23.452 (41.686 / 41.766)
17	18 February 2024		Singles Sprint	Max Langenhan	33.562	Jonas Müller	33.586	Wolfgang Kindl	33.595
18			Doubles Sprint	Germany Hannes Orlamünder Paul Constantin Gubitz	26.027	Austria Thomas Steu Wolfgang Kindl	26.049	Germany Tobias Wendl Tobias Arlt	26.123
19	24 February 2024	Sigulda (8), (9)	Doubles	Latvia Mārtiņš Bots Roberts Plūme	1:23.308 (41.516 / 41.792)	Germany Tobias Wendl Tobias Arlt	1:23.326 (41.534 / 41.792)	Austria Thomas Steu Wolfgang Kindl	1:23.582 (41.734 / 41.848)
20	25 February 2024		Singles	Felix Loch	1:35.650 (43.887 / 43.763)	Kristers Aparjods	1:35.709 (47.841 / 47.868)	Max Langenhan	1:35.962 (48.060 / 47.902)
21			Singles Sprint	Felix Loch	27.223	Kristers Aparjods	27.290	David Gleirscher	27.325
22			Doubles Sprint	Latvia Mārtiņš Bots Roberts Plūme	30.714	Germany Tobias Wendl Tobias Arlt	30.801	Italy Emanuel Rieder Simon Kainzwaldner	30.843
23	2 March 2024		Doubles	Latvia Mārtiņš Bots Roberts Plūme	1:22.915 (41.412 / 41.503)	Germany Tobias Wendl Tobias Arlt	1:23.010 (41.472 / 41.538)	Austria Thomas Steu Wolfgang Kindl	1:23.301 (41.574 / 41.727)
24	3 March 2024		Singles	Kristers Aparjods	1:35.169 (47.676 / 47.493)	Felix Loch	1:35.315 (47.644 / 47.671)	Nico Gleirscher	1:35.414 (47.659 / 47.755)

Standings

Singles Overall

Rank	after all 12 events	Points
1	Max Langenhan	970
2	Kristers Aparjods	841
3	Felix Loch	765
4	Jonas Müller	723
5	David Gleirscher	655
6	Nico Gleirscher	653
7	Dominik Fischnaller	621
8	Wolfgang Kindl	606
9	Tucker West	447
10	Jonathan Eric Gustafson	387

Singles

Rank	after all 9 events	Points
1	Max Langenhan	710
2	Kristers Aparjods	660
3	Jonas Müller	578
4	Felix Loch	520
5	Nico Gleirscher	491

Singles Sprint

Rank	after all 3 events	Points
1	Max Langenhan	260
2	Felix Loch	245
3	Kristers Aparjods	181
4	David Gleirscher	171
5	Wolfgang Kindl	167

Doubles Overall

Rank	after all 12 events	Points
1	Thomas Steu / Wolfgang Kindl	966
2	Tobias Wendl / Tobias Arlt	885
3	Mārtiņš Bots / Roberts Plūme	876
4	Hannes Orlamünder / Paul Constantin Gubitz	736
5	Juri Gatt / Riccardo Schöpf	701
6	Emanuel Rieder / Simon Kainzwaldner	566
7	Yannick Müller / Armin Frauscher Zachary DiGregorio / Sean Hollander	525
9	Ivan Nagler / Fabian Malleier	447
10	Dana William Kellogg / Frank Ike	406

Doubles

Rank	after all 9 events	Points
1	Thomas Steu / Wolfgang Kindl	741
2	Tobias Wendl / Tobias Arlt	660
3	Mārtiņš Bots / Roberts Plūme	630
4	Juri Gatt / Riccardo Schöpf	535
5	Hannes Orlamünder / Paul Constantin Gubitz	534

Doubles Sprint

Rank	after all 3 events	Points
1	Mārtiņš Bots / Roberts Plūme	246
2	Thomas Steu / Wolfgang Kindl Tobias Wendl / Tobias Arlt	225
4	Hannes Orlamünder / Paul Constantin Gubitz	202
5	Juri Gatt / Riccardo Schöpf	166

Women

Calendar

#	Date	Place (In brackets Stage)	Discipline	Winner	Time	Second	Time	Third	Time	R.
1	8 December 2023	Lake Placid (1)	Doubles	Austria Selina Egle Lara Michaela Kipp	1:28.924 (44.437 / 44.487)	Germany Dajana Eitberger Saskia Schirmer	1:29.037 (44.564 / 44.473)	Italy Andrea Vötter Marion Oberhofer	1:29.470 (44.716 / 44.754)
2	9 December 2023		Singles	Madeleine Egle	1:28.710 (44.050 / 44.660)	Julia Taubitz	1:28.898 (44.207 / 44.691)	Summer Britcher	1:29.117 (44.322 / 44.795)
3			Doubles Sprint	Austria Selina Egle Lara Michaela Kipp	38.340	United States Chevonne Forgan Sophia Kirkby	38.443	Germany Dajana Eitberger Saskia Schirmer	38.477
4			Singles Sprint	Julia Taubitz	37.451	Ashley Farquharson	37.550	Emily Sweeney	37.565
5	15 December 2023	Whistler (2)	Singles	Julia Taubitz	1:18.066 (39.032 / 39.034)	Anna Berreiter	1:18.177 (39.107 / 39.070)	Merle Fräbel	1:18.179 (39.130 / 39.049)
6	16 December 2023		Doubles	Germany Jessica Degenhardt Cheyenne Rosenthal	1:18.371 (39.189 / 39.182)	Germany Dajana Eitberger Saskia Schirmer	1:18.451 (39.220 / 39.231)	Italy Andrea Vötter Marion Oberhofer	1:18.466 (39.219 / 39.247)
7	6 January 2024	Winterberg (3)	Doubles	Germany Jessica Degenhardt Cheyenne Rosenthal	1:27.131 (43.510 / 43.621)	Italy Andrea Vötter Marion Oberhofer	1:27.155 (43.552 / 43.603)	Austria Selina Egle Lara Michaela Kipp	1:27.175 (43.679 / 43.496)
8			Singles	Madeleine Egle	1:51.392 (55.632 / 55.760)	Julia Taubitz	1:51.421 (55.668 / 55.753)	Hannah Prock	1:51.697 (55.742 / 55.955)
55th FIL European Championships 2024 (12–14 January)
9	13 January 2024	Innsbruck-Igls (4)	Singles	Madeleine Egle	1:19.200 (39.599 / 39.601)	Julia Taubitz	1:19.224 (39.622 / 39.602)	Anna Berreiter	1:19.439 (39.747 / 39.692)
10			Doubles	Germany Jessica Degenhardt Cheyenne Rosenthal	1:20.178 (40.114 / 40.064)	Italy Andrea Vötter Marion Oberhofer	1:20.192 (40.070 / 40.122)	Latvia Marta Robežniece Kitija Bogdanova	1:20.438 (40.262 / 40.176)
52nd FIL World Luge Championships 2024 (26–28 January)
WCH	26 January 2024	Altenberg	Singles Sprint	Julia Taubitz	37.702	Natalie Maag	37.774	Elīna Ieva Vītola	37.813
			Doubles Sprint	Italy Andrea Vötter Marion Oberhofer	28.421	Latvia Anda Upīte Zane Kaluma	28.438	Latvia Marta Robežniece Kitija Bogdanova	28.467
	27 January 2024		Doubles	Austria Selina Egle Lara Michaela Kipp	1:24.761 (42.364 / 42.397)	Latvia Anda Upīte Zane Kaluma	1:24.811 (42.334 / 42.477)	United States Chevonne Forgan Sophia Kirkby	1:24.897 (42.563 / 42.334)
	28 January 2024		Singles	Lisa Schulte	1:43.901 (52.082 / 51.819)	Julia Taubitz	1:44.005 (52.154 / 51.851)	Madeleine Egle	1:44.076 (52.192 / 51.884)
11	3 February 2024	Altenberg (5)	Doubles	Italy Andrea Vötter Marion Oberhofer	1:25.337 (42.810 / 42.527)	Latvia Anda Upīte Kitija Bogdanova	1:25.538 (42.781 / 42.757)	Germany Dajana Eitberger Saskia Schirmer	1:25.548 (42.800 / 42.748)
12	4 February 2024		Singles	Julia Taubitz	1:47.971 (54.774 / 53.197)	Elīna Ieva Vītola	1:48.120 (54.584 / 53.536)	Lisa Schulte	1:48.268 (54.526 / 53.742)
13	10 February 2024	Oberhof (6), (7)	Doubles	Germany Jessica Degenhardt Cheyenne Rosenthal	1:26.244 (43.195 / 43.049)	Italy Andrea Vötter Marion Oberhofer	1:26.277 (43.202 / 43.075)	Austria Selina Egle Lara Michaela Kipp	1:26.365 (43.121 / 43.244)
14			Singles	Merle Fräbel	1:24.956 (42.564 / 42.392)	Madeleine Egle	1:25.080 (42.878 / 42.202)	Julia Taubitz	1:25.108 (42.977 / 42.131)
15	17 February 2024		Doubles	Germany Dajana Eitberger Saskia Schirmer	1:25.889 (42.934 / 42.955)	Italy Andrea Vötter Marion Oberhofer	1:25.897 (42.858 / 43.039)	Germany Jessica Degenhardt Cheyenne Rosenthal	1:25.898 (42.852 / 43.046)
16	18 February 2024		Singles	Julia Taubitz	1:24.426 (41.978 / 42.448)	Anna Berreiter	1:24.477 (42.064 / 42.413)	Madeleine Egle	1:24.542 (41.952 / 42.590)
17			Doubles Sprint	Austria Selina Egle Lara Michaela Kipp	26.425	Germany Dajana Eitberger Saskia Schirmer	26.537	Italy Andrea Vötter Marion Oberhofer	26.539
18			Single Sprint	Julia Taubitz	25.864	Natalie Maag	25.958	Anna Berreiter	26.014
19	24 February 2024	Sigulda (8), (9)	Singles	Anna Berreiter	1:23.405 (41.799 / 41.606)	Elina Ieva Vitola	1:23.423 (41.779 / 41.644)	Julia Taubitz	1:23.486 (41.757 / 41.729)
20			Doubles	Germany Jessica Degenhardt Cheyenne Rosenthal	1:25.743 (42.610 / 43.133)	Italy Andrea Vötter Marion Oberhofer	1:25.828 (42.728 / 43.100)	Germany Dajana Eitberger Saskia Schirmer	1:25.851 (42.758 / 43.093)
21	25 February 2024		Singles Sprint	Julia Taubitz	30.652	Kendija Aparjode	30.760	Emily Sweeney	30.858
22			Doubles Sprint	Italy Andrea Vötter Marion Oberhofer	31.187	Austria Selina Egle Lara Michaela Kipp	31.261	Germany Dajana Eitberger Saskia Schirmer	31.335
23	2 March 2024		Doubles	Germany Jessica Degenhardt Cheyenne Rosenthal	1:24.648 (42.271 / 42.377)	Germany Dajana Eitberger Saskia Schirmer	1:24.902 (42.448 / 42.454)	Austria Selina Egle Lara Michaela Kipp	1:24.931 (42.486 / 42.445)
24	3 March 2024		Singles	Elīna Ieva Vītola	1:23.176 (41.685 / 41.491)	Anna Berreiter	1:23.250 (41.747 / 41.503)	Merle Fräbel	1:23.291 (41.819 / 41.472)

Standings

Singles Overall

Rank	after all 12 events	Points
1	Julia Taubitz	1034
2	Anna Berreiter	791
3	Madeleine Egle	742
4	Elīna Ieva Vītola	622
5	Lisa Schulte	616
6	Ashley Farquharson	612
7	Merle Fräbel	611
8	Emily Sweeney	583
9	Kendija Aparjode	559
10	Natalie Maag	522

Singles

Rank	after all 9 events	Points
1	Julia Taubitz	734
2	Anna Berreiter	651
3	Madeleine Egle	622
4	Elīna Ieva Vītola	522
5	Lisa Schulte	469

Singles Sprint

Rank	after all 3 events	Points
1	Julia Taubitz	300
2	Emily Sweeney	190
3	Kendija Aparjode	186
4	Natalie Maag	170
5	Ashley Farquharson	166

Doubles Overall

Rank	after all 12 events	Points
1	Andrea Vötter / Marion Oberhofer	955
2	Jessica Degenhardt / Cheyenne Rosenthal	895
3	Dajana Eitberger / Saskia Schirmer	886
4	Selina Egle / Lara Michaela Kipp	859
5	Chevonne Forgan / Sophia Kirkby	706
6	Olena Stetskiv / Oleksandra Mokh	449
7	Maya Chan / Reannyn Weiler	426
8	Raluca Strămăturaru / Mihaela-Carmen Manolescu	420
9	Adikeyoumu Gulijienaiti / Jiaying Zhao	343
10	Nikola Domowicz / Dominika Piwkowska	293

Doubles

Rank	after all 9 events	Points
1	Jessica Degenhardt / Cheyenne Rosenthal	780
2	Andrea Vötter / Marion Oberhofer	725
3	Dajana Eitberger / Saskia Schirmer	661
4	Selina Egle / Lara Michaela Kipp	574
5	Chevonne Forgan / Sophia Kirkby	511

Doubles Sprint

Rank	after all 3 events	Points
1	Selina Egle / Lara Michaela Kipp	285
2	Andrea Vötter / Marion Oberhofer	230
3	Dajana Eitberger / Saskia Schirmer	225
4	Chevonne Forgan / Sophia Kirkby	195
5	Olena Stetskiv / Oleksandra Moch	125

Team Relay

#	Date	Place (In brackets Stage)	Winner	Time	Second	Time	Third	Time	R.
1	16 December 2023	Whistler (2)	Germany	2:48.665	Austria	2:49.215	United States	2:49.311
2	7 January 2024	Winterberg (3)	Germany	3:11.425	Austria	3:11.468	United States	3:12.676
55th FIL European Championships 2024 (12–14 January)
3	14 January 2024	Innsbruck-Igls (4)	Austria	2:52.190	Germany	2:52.376	Italy	2:52.651
52nd FIL World Luge Championships 2024 (26–28 January)
WCH	28 January 2024	Altenberg	Germany	3:10.869	United States	3:11.227	Latvia	3:11.275
4	4 February 2024	Altenberg (5)	Latvia	3:14.445	United States	3:15.448	Romania	3:16.301
5	11 February 2024	Oberhof (6)	Germany	3:12.942	Latvia	3:13.092	Austria	3:13.230
6	3 March 2024	Sigulda (9)	Germany	2:57.516	Latvia	2:57.657	United States	2:58.522

Rankings

Rank	after all 6 events	Points
1	Germany	540
2	Austria	446
3	United States	410
4	Latvia	380
5	Italy	300
6	Ukraine	290
7	Romania	205
8	China	185
9	Poland	148
10	Canada	50

Podium table by nation

Table showing the World Cup podium places (gold–1st place, silver–2nd place, bronze–3rd place) by the countries represented by the athletes.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany	29	21	21	71
2	Austria	14	14	16	44
3	Latvia	8	9	4	21
4	Italy	2	6	6	14
5	United States	1	3	6	10
6	Switzerland	0	1	0	1
7	Romania	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		54	54	54	162

Points distribution

The table shows the number of points won in the 2023–24 Luge World Cup for men and women.

Place	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
Singles, Doubles & Relay	100	85	70	60	55	50	46	42	39	36	34	32	30	28	26	25	24	23	22	21