From Altenberg, GER
(January 16, 2026) – Susanne Kreher and Axel Jungk both won silver medals during their individual races earlier in the day, and slid to gold in the final Mixed Team event over great Britain’s Amelia Coltman and Matt Weston.
Early on, the United States’ Kelly Curtis and Austin Florian took the lead from The Netherlands’ Kimberley Bos and Joeri van Kuppeveld on the strength of a race-quickest start by Florian and what would pair of top six slides from both athletes.
That effort kept the Americans in the leaders’ box as neither Italian team could match the combined pace of Curtis and Florian. But eventually the duo met their match in the form of Kreher and Jungk.
Kreher started off with a top three start on a top five reaction time and put down a big run to take a nice .69 lead over Curtis with Jungk still to come. Jungk’s start was .28 off of Florian’s pacse, but the bleeding stopped early, as Jungk pulled ahead and took the lead by 1.1 seconds over the Americans.
Coltman and Weston were up next. Coltman’s run was off of the pace set by Kreher, leaving some work for Weston to do. And while Weston, the World Cup champion, put down the quick run for the men, it wasn’t enough to entirely close the gap to Jungk and the Brits found themselves in second place with a handful of teams still to go.
After the Chinese team of Dan Zhao and Qinwei Lin and second British team of Freya Tarbit and Marcus Wyatt were able to match the pace of the top three, there was only Germany’s Jacqueline Pfeifer and Christopher Grotheer still to go. Pfeifer threw down an incredible run, .31 quicker than anyone on the women’s side. But Grotheer seemed to have trouble at the top of his run, and while he was able to hold onto a medal, he fell back to third after an apparent hamstring injury suffered at the start.
That gave the win to Kreher and Jungk, with Coltman and Weston silver and Pfiefer and Grotheer bronze.
Curtis and Florian were fourth, Tarbit and Wyatt fifth, with Zhao and Lin rounding out the top six.
In the four race season points, Great Britain won the World Cup title, with Germany second and the United States third. Germany and Great Britain’s second teams were fourth and fifth.
Results:
| Pos | Names | Nation | Bib | Reac W | Time W | Reac M | Time M | Total |
| 1 | Susanne Kreher / Axel Jungk | GER-2 | 9 | 0.16 | 60.19 | 0.16 | 58.02 | 1:58.21 |
| 2 | Amelia Coltman / Matt Weston | GBR-2 | 10 | 0.17 | 60.66 | 0.17 | 57.90 | 1:58.56 |
| 3 | Jacqueline Pfeifer / Christopher Grotheer | GER-1 | 13 | 0.18 | 59.88 | 0.20 | 59.03 | 1:58.91 |
| 4 | Kelly Curtis / Austin Florian | USA | 6 | 0.23 | 60.88 | 0.22 | 58.43 | 1:59.31 |
| 5 | Freya Tarbit / Marcus Wyatt | GBR-1 | 12 | 0.24 | 60.99 | 0.16 | 58.41 | 1:59.40 |
| 6 | Dan Zhao / Qinwei Lin | CHN-1 | 11 | 0.12 | 60.84 | 0.26 | 58.76 | 1:59.60 |
| 7 | Valentina Margaglio / Amedeo Bagnis | ITA-1 | 8 | 0.22 | 61.07 | 0.20 | 58.70 | 1:59.77 |
| 8 | Alessandra Fumagalli / Mattia Gaspari | ITA-2 | 7 | 0.29 | 60.95 | 0.14 | 58.99 | 1:59.94 |
| 9 | Kimberley Bos / Joeri van Kuppeveld | NED | 4 | 0.18 | 60.48 | 0.13 | 59.63 | 2:00.11 |
| 10 | Julia Erlacher / Florian Auer | AUT | 3 | 0.15 | 61.53 | 0.16 | 59.25 | 2:00.78 |
| 11 | Yuxi Li / Haifeng Zhu | CHN-2 | 5 | 0.14 | 61.26 | 0.22 | 59.56 | 2:00.82 |
| 12 | Sara Schmied / Vinzenz Buff | SUI | 2 | 0.23 | 61.59 | 0.23 | 59.66 | 2:01.25 |
| 13 | Aline Pelckmans / Colin Freeling | BEL | 1 | 0.07 | 62.14 | 0.16 | 64.40 | 2:06.54 |