From St. Moritz, SUI
(March 1, 2026) – It was a different race than the Olympics for Max Langenhan, but the outcome was the same: The German out-slid the field handily to win gold.
Jonas Müller took the lead in the first heat with an outstanding run that was good enough to be the quickest of the race. Two sleds later, Langenhan nearly matched Müller’s effort to slide into second place by just eight thousands of a second. With nobody else with two tenths of a second of the duo, the race for gold seemed to be between the duo.
In the second heat, Felix Loch slid to the lead ahead of Wolfgang Kindl, but was quickly overtaken by Langenhan by .347 with just Müller to go.
Müller’s second start was just a tick off of his season-record first start, and while he trailed Langenhan early, it looked as if he’d have a top two finish at worst. But he was just a little early into Telephone, and a late exit caused a skid that while he was able to control it, it was enough to drop him behind the two Germans into third, giving Langenhan the victory, with Loch second and Müller third.
“The first run everything felt amazing,” Langenhan told FIL TV after the race. Ït was perfect, like ten-of-ten weather for St. Moritz. In the second run I had some mistakes, but in the end we had an amazing week with some amazing conditions on the track.”
For Loch, silver was a great outcome given the starts from the guys around him.
“I struggled a little bit at the start, so the start times weren’t so good,” Loch said after the race. “Max and Jonas were both better there, but I’m really happy with the second place. It was a great weekend and I’m looking forward for Altenberg!”
A somewhat disappointed Müller seemed a bit lost as to what happened after his second run, but was still okay with the outcome.
“It’s really tricky there in Horseshoe and Telephone,” Müller said. “My first run was super smooth up there. I’m not really sure what happened with the second one. It’s kind of like what happened in training, I had one good run and one bad run. But you saw today lots of people had lots of problems, so I’m super happy with my third place.”
Wolfgang Kindl slid to fourth place, nearly a half of a second out of the medals. Dominik Fischnaller put down a huge second run that slid him up the leaderboard from 12th to fifth, while Kristers Aparjods slid form ninth to sixth.
Results:
| Pos | Name | Nation | Bib | Start 1 | Start 2 | Run 1 | Run 2 | Total |
| 1 | Max Langenhan | GER | 15 | 5.155 | 5.148 | 66.061 | 66.341 | 2:12.402 |
| 2 | Felix Loch | GER | 17 | 5.173 | 5.177 | 66.256 | 66.493 | 2:12.749 |
| 3 | Jonas Müller | AUT | 13 | 5.135 | 5.159 | 66.053 | 67.107 | 2:13.160 |
| 4 | Wolfgang Kindl | AUT | 16 | 5.242 | 5.253 | 66.753 | 66.897 | 2:13.650 |
| 5 | Dominik Fischnaller | ITA | 8 | 5.186 | 5.227 | 67.407 | 66.781 | 2:14.188 |
| 6 | Kristers Aparjods | LAT | 14 | 5.174 | 5.199 | 67.274 | 67.075 | 2:14.349 |
| 7 | Gints Berzins | LAT | 10 | 5.143 | 5.196 | 67.254 | 67.155 | 2:14.409 |
| 8 | Nico Gleirscher | AUT | 12 | 5.171 | 5.191 | 67.545 | 66.891 | 2:14.436 |
| 9 | David Nößler | GER | 6 | 5.304 | 5.256 | 67.368 | 67.195 | 2:14.563 |
| 10 | Lukas Peccei | ITA | 18 | 5.227 | 5.260 | 67.272 | 67.380 | 2:14.652 |
| 11 | Anton Dukach | UKR | 3 | 5.235 | 5.260 | 67.250 | 67.553 | 2:14.803 |
| 12 | Alex Gufler | ITA | 4 | 5.299 | 5.315 | 67.425 | 67.568 | 2:14.993 |
| 13 | Timon Grancagnolo | GER | 7 | 5.247 | 5.265 | 68.154 | 67.000 | 2:15.154 |
| 14 | Kaspars Rinks | LAT | 5 | 5.269 | 5.285 | 67.240 | 68.292 | 2:15.532 |
| 15 | Valentin Cretu | ROU | 2 | 5.275 | 5.275 | 67.400 | 68.199 | 2:15.599 |
| 16 | Eduard-Mihai Craciun | ROU | 19 | 5.321 | 5.315 | 67.937 | 67.911 | 2:15.848 |
| 17 | Mateusz Sochowicz | POL | 24 | 5.182 | 5.194 | 67.880 | 68.348 | 2:16.228 |
| 18 | Bruno Mick | SVK | 21 | 5.323 | 5.365 | 69.290 | 68.581 | 2:17.871 |
| 19 | Walter Vikstroem | FIN | 22 | 5.403 | 70.694 | |||
| 20 | Stefan Doktor | SVK | 23 | 5.474 | 71.240 | |||
| 21 | Vlad-Florin Musei | ROU | 20 | 5.411 | 71.816 | |||
| DNF | Leon Felderer | ITA | 1 | 5.227 | 5.228 | 67.836 | DNF | |
| DNS | Andriy Mandziy | UKR | 11 | DNS | ||||
| DSQ | David Gleischer | AUT | 9 | 5.220 | 67.657 | DSQ |