From Park City, USA
(December 12, 2025) – Germany’s Dajana Eitberger and Magdalena Matschina are on a roll in an Olympic year where their fiercest rivals may be their teammates.
The duo set the track record in the first heat and had the two quickest runs of the competition on their way to a convincing gold medal in Park City.
They were the final of the seeded teams off the top in Park City in the first heat and had just seen the track record fall four times before them. Their first run was nearly flawless as they slid to a lead of over a tenth of a second over Austria’s Selina Egle and Lara Kipp, who’d lowered the track record a few moments before.
While their second run wasn’t as quick, it was still faster than anyone else throughout either heat as they won by over a quarter of a second ahead of Egle and Kipp, with the Austrians taking silver.
Eitberger had won previously in singles competition in Park City, but wasn’t sure if that experience would matter. It did.
“I was a little scared, because I thought it could be a big difference between the singles and doubles sled,” she told FIL TV after the race. “But my lines worked in both. We couldn’t be happier!”
With a shorter week, the tour had less time to practice, but that short turnaround time did not matter to Egle.
“This was just our second time here, so it was difficult with fewer runs to prepare,” she said. “I wasn’t too nervous and told myself ‘it is what it is’ and I think we did a really great job!”
The battle for third was between Italy’s Andrea Vötter and Marion Oberhofer and Germans Jessican Degenhardt and Cheyenne Rosenthal, with the latter taking the position despite a great second by the Italians. But in an Olympic year where likely only one team gets to the Games, third still puts Degenhardt and Rosenthal back in Olympic qualifying.
Reflecting on their race, Degenhardt had mixed emotions about her race.
“It was tough, we had such as short training week,” Degenhardt said. “We had good start times but some mistakes on the way down. We’re happy with a bronze but…yeah, we’re still fighting.”
Vötter and Oberhofer were fourth, ahead of Chevonne Forgan and Sophia Kirkby who were fifth on home ice.
Canadians Beattie Podulsky and Kailey Allan were sixth, one week after a career-best fifth place finish in Winterberg.
Americans Maya Chan and Sophia Gordon crashed in Nation’s Cup and had trouble in their first run, but had a strong second effort to jump from 12th to ninth.
Results:
| Pos | Name | Nation | Bib | Start 1 | Start 2 | Run 1 | Run 2 | Total |
| 1 | Eitberger / Matschina | GER | 13 | 3.172 | 3.165 | 43.514 | 43.626 | 1:27.140 |
| 2 | Egle / Kipp | AUT | 11 | 3.199 | 3.210 | 43.666 | 43.750 | 1:27.416 |
| 3 | Degenhardt / Rosenthal | GER | 10 | 3.164 | 3.168 | 43.799 | 43.849 | 1:27.648 |
| 4 | Vötter / Oberhofer | ITA | 4 | 3.168 | 3.176 | 43.913 | 43.834 | 1:27.747 |
| 5 | Forgan / Kirkby | USA | 9 | 3.168 | 3.177 | 43.903 | 44.018 | 1:27.921 |
| 6 | Podulsky / Allan | CAN | 8 | 3.179 | 3.196 | 44.112 | 44.284 | 1:28.396 |
| 7 | Upite / Pavlova | LAT | 7 | 3.211 | 3.215 | 44.198 | 44.199 | 1:28.397 |
| 8 | Falkensteiner / Huber | ITA | 1 | 3.235 | 3.227 | 44.334 | 44.530 | 1:28.864 |
| 9 | Chan / Gordon | USA | 15 | 3.239 | 3.229 | 44.907 | 44.136 | 1:29.043 |
| 10 | Stetskiv / Mokh | UKR | 12 | 3.180 | 3.193 | 44.414 | 44.744 | 1:29.158 |
| 11 | Domowicz / Piwkowska | POL | 5 | 3.228 | 3.224 | 44.552 | 44.614 | 1:29.166 |
| 12 | Stramaturaru / Manolescu | ROU | 14 | 3.228 | 3.214 | 44.995 | 44.936 | 1:29.931 |
| 13 | Storch / Patz | GER | 2 | 3.203 | 3.198 | 44.161 | 46.692 | 1:30.853 |
| DNF | Gulijienaiti / Zhao | CHN | 3 | 3.534 | 3.437 | 47.473 | DNF | |
| DNF | Robezniece / Bogdanova | LAT | 6 | 3.167 | DNF |