From St. Sebastian, AUT
(Jan. 21, 2018) The doubles team of Patrick Pigneter & Florian Clara stayed perfect on the season, winning by .57 in St. Sebastian.
Pigneter & Clara carried a .75 of a second advantage over Russians Aleksandr Egorov & Petr Popov into the second heat. Egorov & Popov put the pressure on the Italians with the fastest run of the second heat. Pigneter & Clara responded, finishing .18 behind the Russians in the heat to take their fourth gold medal in as many events this season. Egorov & Popov finished second, .57 back, while Austrians Rupert Brüggler & Tobias Angerer finished third, 2.7 seconds back.
Pavel Porshnev & Ivan Lazarev, Aleksey Martyanov & Ivan Rodin, and Adam Jedrzejko & Patrick Budney rounded out the top six.
Pigneter & Clara’s win gives them a near insurmountable lead going into the final two races of the season. While anything short of a win in Deutschnofen won’t clinch the season for the Italians, a pair of sixth place finishes in the final two events will be enough to win the World Cup title.
Results:
| Pos | Names | Nation | Bib | Run 1 | Run 2 | Total |
| 1 | Pigneter / Clara | ITA | 13 | 1:14.60 | 1:15.08 | 2:29.68 |
| 2 | Egorov / Popov | RUS | 12 | 1:15.35 | 1:14.90 | 2:30.25 |
| 3 | Brüggler / Angerer | AUT | 10 | 1:15.51 | 1:16.87 | 2:32.38 |
| 4 | Porshnev / Lazarev | RUS | 11 | 1:16.22 | 1:16.21 | 2:32.43 |
| 5 | Martyanov / Rodin | RUS | 9 | 1:16.14 | 1:16.50 | 2:32.64 |
| 6 | Jedrzejko / Budny | POL | 7 | 1:21.41 | 1:20.41 | 2:41.82 |
| 7 | Limmer / Dietz | GER | 3 | 1:21.80 | 1:20.14 | 2:41.94 |
| 8 | Ercoskun / Ozcan | TUR | 6 | 1:25.72 | 1:23.99 | 2:49.71 |
| 9 | Demchuk / Lenko | UKR | 2 | 1:28.39 | 1:22.55 | 2:50.94 |
