RNRM Luge Team

Ukaf Wsa Armed Forces Ice Sports competition weeks are underway! This years RNRM Luge Team team are at the Olympiaparken - Lillehammer and have just completed their first training week on the notoriously tricky track.

Over the next few days we will be sharing with you facts about Luge and sled maintenance, showing you how to get involved, introducing you to the team and most importantly, keeping you updated with how the team perform in the upcoming competitions.

We're glad to have you along for the journey to share in all things with us! ❄️🛷

Today was the Royal Navy Luge Championships at Lillehammer Olympiapark. A crash in the second run made for an exciting race in the Open Championship!

RN Service Championships 2025

Men’s
🥇 Lt William Kemp RN
🥈 Lt Jordan Moore RN
🥉 AET Laurence Mapar

Women’s
🥇 LCpl Caitlyn Meynell

Open
🥇 Lt William Kemp RN
🥈 LCpl Caitlyn Meynell
🥉 Lt Jordan Moore RN

Congratulations to all those who raced - bring on the Inter Service Championships!

Week 1 complete!

That’s the Single Service training week complete! Great runs from all the team which is shaping up nicely for the coming week. They are currently enjoying a couple of days well deserved rest prior to the @ukafwintersports Armed Forces Ice Championships next week. The RN Luge team ended the week with what is fast becoming a tradition - the Ice Bar. Built over the training week, it is our opportunity to host the @britisharmyluge and @rafluge teams to build inter Service luge relationships as well as thanking our coaches for their support. #lugelove #navyfit #rnwsa

First two Single Service training days are complete! The team are getting to grips with the tricky track which is Lillehammer Olympiapark.

Each morning the team undertake a track walk to talk through the lines that they should be taking for each corner and the cues for steering points. This helps ingrain the track into the athletes minds and allow for visualisation ‘runs’.

Yesterday saw the athletes start at Corner 10 and, with all of them having successful runs, today they moved up to Corner 7. This now sees them reaching the bottom of the tracks in speeds of 90kph+.

It’s time for the Armed Forces Ice Championships! This week is the Single Service training week and today RN Luge teamed up with British Army Luge for their first track walks at Lillehammer Olympiapark, Norway. The track walk was lead by GB Luge coach Mike Berger.

This afternoon sleds were allocated and we go for the first training runs tomorrow 😊

Luge season for the RN Luge team has started in style!

Six grassroots and three novice sliders travelled to Eiskanal Bludenz to take part in a week’s training camp, supported by Olympian Mike Howard and British Army Luge coach Graham Holmes. The athletes learnt about sled construction and maintenance, track dynamics and sled control whilst also trying their hand at the fastest sport on ice.
Reaching speeds up to 80kph, the athletes progressed up the track, all the while improving their sled handling, reaction times and Luge starts. The week culminated in the RN Grassroots and Novice Championships for 2024:

Grassroots Championship (1st season sliding)
🥇 AET Laurence Mapar
🥈 Lt Freddie Morton-King
🥉 Lt Cdr Ashley Morgan

Novice Championship (1st two seasons sliding)
🥇 AB Rhiannon Phillips
🥈 Lt Will Kemp
🥉 AET Laurance Mapar

Congratulations to all who trained and competed and welcome to the family! Next stop, the Armed Forces Ice Championship Lillehammer Olympiapark in March 🛷❄️❤️

Want to give the fastest sport on ice a try?
Want the chance to travel around Europe to chase adrenaline?
Want two+ weeks out of the office each year?! 🤪

Come try out the sport of Luge on our purpose built training ramp using wheeled sleds. All contact details are on the poster, follow the QR code to sign up!

Yesterday was the Armed Forces Ice Championships 2024 Olympia Bob Run St. Moritz - Celerina. 26 athletes from the Royal Navy, British Army Luge and RAFLuge lined up to compete for the title of Inter Services champion over two runs. The first run order is decided by a random draw with the second run order being the slowest athlete to fastest athlete from the first run. The aggregate times from both runs then decide the overall placings. The team championship is decided by the aggregate time for the fastest 4 members of each team.

Despite a couple of rocky runs from our athletes, the Royal Navy team managed to secure their best ever finishing position! In addition, Team Captain, Wtr Kaliska Clarke, took an impressive 🥈 in the Ladies competition 😊

Full results below:

Men’s Inter Service Luge Championship
🥇 Sgt JP Kibble RAF
🥈 Cpl Henry Parkin RAF
🥉 Flt Lt Scott Steele RAF

Ladies Inter Services Luge Championship
🥇 Maj Lucy Wyatt ARMY
🥈 Wtr Kaliska Clarke RN
🥉 AS1 Ailsa Dermidy RAF

Inter Services Luge Team Championship
🥇RAF
🥈Royal Navy
🥉British Army

Huge congratulations RAF Luge to for their comprehensive victory in both the Men’s and Team completions. Also well done to all the British Army Luge athletes for giving us a close run for our money! It was definitely one of the most exciting Luge competitions in recent years.

Thank you to our coaches; Mike Howard, Mike Berger, Dani Scott and Rupert Staudinger, without whom we wouldn’t be able to train and compete.

Also big thanks to the Olympia Bobrun track team for running such a great location and looking after all of us.

Finally thank you to UK Armed Forces Winter Sports Association and our sponsors for allowing us to continue pursuing our crazy sport year on year 😊 bring on 2025!

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Royal Navy Winter Sports - RNWSA
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Race day impressions - RNRM Luge Championships 2024

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Start 📸 Olympia Bob Run St. Moritz - Celerina

The RNRM Luge Championships took place Olympia Bob Run St. Moritz - Celerina on Tues 20 Feb 2024.
The race took place over two runs with the aggregate time from both runs deciding the winners. Luge is the fastest sport on ice and times are measured down to 1/1000th second which can lead to some exciting racing!

Results were as follows:

Ladies
🥇Lt Cdr Emma Miles 119.785 secs
🥈Wtr Kaliska Clarke 120.335 secs
🥉AB2 Rhiannon Phillips
121.423 secs

Mens
🥇Lt Jordan Moore RN 118.548 secs
🥈Lt William Kemp RN 120.953 secs
🥉CPO Tommy O’Toole 121.210 secs

Navy Overall Championship
🥇 Lt Jordan Moore RN
🥈 Lt Cdr Emma Miles
🥉 Wtr Kaliska Clarke

Fastest start went to Lt Will Kemp with 3.835 secs.

Fastest speed went to Lt Cdr Emma Miles with 115.465 kph.

Well done to all our athletes! We look forward to seeing how they go at the Inter Services Competition later this week. 🛷❄️❤️

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