From Königssee, GER
The three World Champions in women’s, men’s, and double’s luge all joined up on the German squad for the Team Relay World Championship, with predictable results.
Germany was faster in all three splits, winning by over a second and a half ahead of Latvia. The battle for third was a close one, with Canada pulling out just ahead of Russia to take bronze.
Russia finished fourth, just .04 ahead of the United States, who rounded out the top five.
Results:
Pos | Names | Nation | Bib | Split 1 | Split 2 | Total |
1 | Geisenberger / Loch / Wendl & Arlt | GER | 13 | 53.626 | 1:48.591 | 2:44.062 |
2 | Cauce / Kivlenieks / Sics & Sics | LAT | 11 | 53.754 | 1:49.668 | 2:45.614 |
3 | Gough / Malyk / Walker & Snith | CAN | 8 | 54.105 | 1:49.987 | 2:45.907 |
4 | Ivanova / Pavlichenko / Bogdanov & Medvedev | RUS | 12 | 53.995 | 1:50.025 | 2:46.105 |
5 | Hamlin / Mazdzer / Mortensen & Terdiman | USA | 10 | 54.000 | 1:49.739 | 2:46.145 |
6 | Platzer / Kindl / Penz & Fischler | AUT | 7 | 54.489 | 1:50.311 | 2:46.167 |
7 | Robatscher / Fischnaller / Oberstolz & Gruber | ITA | 9 | 54.806 | 1:50.711 | 2:47.077 |
8 | Kuls / Kurowski / Chmielewski & Kowalewski | POL | 6 | 55.146 | 1:51.405 | 2:48.920 |
9 | Stramaturaru / Cretu / Atodiresei & Musei | ROU | 5 | 55.119 | 1:51.328 | 2:49.578 |
10 | Sung / Kim / Park & Cho | KOR | 2 | 55.517 | 1:53.058 | 2:50.543 |
11 | Noskova / Hyman / Broz & Broz | CZE | 4 | 56.044 | 1:52.830 | 2:50.609 |
12 | Gburova / Ninis / Simonak & Solcansky | SLO | 3 | 55.300 | 1:51.731 | 2:51.020 |
13 | Stetskiv / Dukach / Obolonchyk & Zakharkiv | UKR | 1 | 57.214 | 1:55.051 | 2:53.878 |