From St. Moritz, SUI
(February 28, 2026) – The newly crowned Olympic champions slid to their second straight gold medal with their first win of the World Cup season in St. Moritz.
Andrea Vötter and Marion Oberhofer threw down the quickest time of the competition on Saturday to win by over a half of a second.
They were the second team off in the first heat, and watched as team after team failed to get within three tenths of their first heat time. The closest team was Germany’s youngest team in Elisa-Marie Storch and Pauline Patz, with Latvias’Anda Upite and Madara Pavlova third.
The second heat saw World Cup leaders Selina Egle and Lara Kipp take the lead from seventh place with the quickest run of the heat and slide up the leaderboard ahead of both Poland’s Nikola Domowicz and Dominika Piwkowska and then Latvia’s Marta Robezniece and Kitija Bogdanova.
The climb for Egle and Kipp stopped at what would be fifth place. Olympic silver medalists Dajana Eitberger and Magdalena Matschina picked them off by a few hundredths before themselves being bumped out of the leader’s box by Upite and Pavlova.
Storch and Patz then slid to the lead ahead of the Latvians, but had a run that had left some speed out on the track, leaving the door wide open for the Olympic champs.
Vötter and Oberhofer’s second start was the quickest of the race, and their slide was nearly flawless on their way to a .595 second victory over Storch and Patz, with Upite and Pavlova third.
Eitberger and Matschina were fourth, Egle and Kipp fifth, and Domowicz and Piwkowska sixth.
With Egle and Kipp’s fifth place finish, the duo clinched the season title ahead of Eitberger and Matschina.
After Degenhardt and Rosenthal had a disastrous first run, they dropped to third in the standings behind their teammates.
Results:
| Pos | Name | Nation | Bib | Start 1 | Start 2 | Run 1 | Run 2 | Total |
| 1 | Vötter / Oberhofer | ITA | 2 | 3.250 | 5.233 | 54.175 | 54.331 | 1:48.506 |
| 2 | Storch / Patz | GER | 6 | 3.318 | 3.278 | 54.532 | 54.569 | 1:49.101 |
| 3 | Upite / Pavlova | LAT | 8 | 3.336 | 3.358 | 54.544 | 54.567 | 1:49.111 |
| 4 | Eitberger / Matschina | GER | 10 | 3.296 | 3.290 | 54.548 | 54.943 | 1:49.491 |
| 5 | Egle / Kipp | AUT | 7 | 3.300 | 3.350 | 55.179 | 54.329 | 1:49.508 |
| 6 | Domowicz / Piwkowska | POL | 4 | 3.398 | 5.362 | 54.943 | 55.022 | 1:49.965 |
| 7 | Robezniece / Bogdanova | LAT | 11 | 3.299 | 3.290 | 54.588 | 55.813 | 1:50.401 |
| 8 | Falkensteiner / Huber | ITA | 3 | 3.397 | 3.400 | 55.236 | 55.176 | 1:50.412 |
| 9 | Stetskiv / Mokh | UKR | 5 | 3.374 | 3.330 | 55.335 | 55.280 | 1:50.615 |
| 10 | Stramaturaru / Manolescu | ROU | 1 | 3.365 | 3.365 | 56.023 | 55.359 | 1:51.382 |
| 11 | Degenhardt / Rosenthal | GER | 9 | 3.233 | 3.241 | 57.463 | 54.568 | 1:52.031 |