Shiva Keshavan, a Winter Olympian from India, has won the gold medal at the Asian Luge Championship on 23rd Dec, 2016. He survived an injury to clinch the gold at the championship in Nagano,
Keshavan dominated the event, finishing the 2 heat race, in 1:39:962 seconds, 103.4 km/hr was his top speed in the race.
Tanaka Shohei of Japan clinched the silver medal in the event with a combined time of 1:44.874 seconds. His top speed was 124.6 km/hr.
Bronze medal went to Chinese Taipei’s Lien Te-An. He completed the race in 45,120 with a top speed of 126.3 km/hr.
It is an annual Luge competition for Asian countries and it came into existence in 1998.
Competition is held in different formats, namely men and women single events and men’s double events.
All editions of the competition are held by Spiral bobsleigh luge and skeleton track at Nagano, Japan.
Apart from this, earlier in 2016, he was forced to withdraw his nomination from the 2016 World Championships
As per reports, he will participate in the 2017 World Championship that will be held in Innsbruck, Austria.
He will compete on the World Cup circuit in the lead up to the qualification process for the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in Korea.
Know More About Shiva Keshavan- 5 time Olympian.
- Indian representative to compete in luge at Winter Olympic Games
- Born: Aug 25, 1981.
- He set a new Asian speed record at 134.3 km/h (83.5 mph) after beating the previous record of 131.9 km/h (82.0 mph).
- He won gold medal in Asia Cup 2011 at Nagano in Japan.
- In 2012, he set a new Asian track record at 49.590 seconds.
