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Bruno Banani finishes 32nd at Sochi Olympics [1]

Sochi, Russia

Tuesday, February 11, 2014 - 16:45.  Updated on Wednesday, February 12, 2014 - 10:09.

Bruno Banani 

Australia may have won the Rugby League World Cup but Tonga has a faster Luger. Tonga’s first winter Olympian, Bruno Banani beat Australia’s Alexander Ferlazzo to 32nd place in the Luge Men’s Singles at the Sochi Winter Olympic Games and was ahead of Ferlazzo by only less than half a second.

The Luge Men’s Singles ended on Sunday February 9th at the Sanki Sliding Centre with Bruno finishing 32nd out of 39 Lugers. Bruno was ahead of lugers from Australia, Norway, Korea, Moldova, India, Bulgaria and Chinese Taipei.

Bruno was six seconds short of the winner and Gold medallist Felix Loch of Germany who produced a track record of 3 minutes and 27:526 seconds (3:27:526). Silver went to Albert Demchenko of Russia (3:28:002) and Bronze to Armin Zoeggeler of Italy (3:28:797).

Bruno Banani’s official time was 3 minutes and 33.676 seconds (3:33.676) or six seconds short of gold.

Sochi’s Luge Men Singles event provides four runs for lugers to slide down a 1,475 meter slope as fast as they can. The times for each run are then added together with the quickest time deciding the gold medal.

Luge is a sport of extreme speed with lugers sliding at speeds of up to 140 km’s per hour.

Results below

1.     Felix Loch  (Germany, time: 3:27.526) Gold Medal

2.     Albert Demchenko (Russia, 3:28.002) Silver Medal

3.     Armin Zoeggeler (Italy, 3:28.797) Bronze Medal

4.     Andi Langenhan (Germany, 3:29.355)

5.     Semen Pavlichenko (Russia, 3:29.436)

6.     Dominik Fischnaller (Italy, 3:29.479)

7.     Aleksander Peretyagin (Russia, 3:29.495)

8.     Reinhard Egger (Austria, 3:29.506)

9.     Wolfgang Kindl (Austria, 3:29.663)

10. Martins Rubenis (Latvia, 3:29.697)

11. Samuel Edney (Canada, 3:29.777)

12. Gregory Carigiet (Switzerland, 3:29.795)

13. Christopher Mazdzer (USA, 3:29.954)

14. David Moeller (Germany, 3:30.239)

15. Daniel Pfister ( Austria, 3:30.276)

16. Inars Kivlenieks (Latvia, 3:30.525)

17. Thor Haug Noerbech (Norway, 3:30.565)

18. Toennes Stang Rolfsen (Norway, 3:30.910)

19. Emanuel Rieder (Italy, 3:30.945)

20. Jozef Ninis (Slovakia, 3:31.131)

21. Kristaps Maurins (Latvia, 3:31.215)

22. Tucker West (USA, 3:31.217)

23. Maciej Kurowski (Poland, 3:31.397)

24. Aidan Kelly (USA, 3:31.799)

25. Ondrej Hyman (Czech, 3:31.858)

26. Mitchel Malyk (Canada, 3:32.157)

27. John Fennell (Canada, 3:32.716)

28. Andriy Kis (Ukraine, 3:32.796)

29. Valentin Cretu (Romania, 3:32.885)

30. Hidenari Kanayama (Japan, 3:33.583)

31. Andriy Mandziy (Ukraine, 3:33.602)

32. Bruno Banani (Tonga, 3:33.676)

33. Alexander Ferlazzo (Australia, 3:34.044)

34. Jo Alexander Koppang (Norway, 3:35.792)

35. Donghyeon Kim (Korea, 3:36.385)

36. Bogdan Macovei (Moldova, 3:36.566)

37. Shiva Keshavan (India, 3:37.149)

38. Stanislav Benyov (Bulgaria, 3:39.080)

39. Te-An LIEN (Chinese Taipei, 3:48.091)

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