2015/2016 FIL World Cup - Doubles Luge - Race 9

From Winterberg, GER

Much like their women’s luge counterparts, Germany’s doubles teams went one-two in their final race of the season. The team of Toni Eggert and Sascha Benecken dominated the event, putting down the fast time in both heats to cruise to victory ahead of countrymen Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt.

Wendl and Arlt did manage to put down the second fastest run in both heats, and was the only other team to break the 1:27 barrier. Latvian qualifiers Oskars Gudramovics and Peteris Kalnins finished in the bronze medal position, just over a half-second back of Eggert and Benecken.

Alexandr Denisyev and Anton Valdislav finished fourth, hundredths ahead of Robin Geüke and David Gamm. the Italian team of Rieder and Rastner finished sixth.

It was a relatively disappointing end to the FIL season for the American team of Matthew Mortensen and Jayson Terdiman, finishing 11th. Canadians Tristan Walker and Justin Snith finished three spots ahead in eighth.

Results:

Pos	Names	Nation	Bib	Run 1	Run 2	Total
1	Eggert / Benecken	GER	14	43.158	43.315	1:26.473
2	Wendl / Arlt	GER	16	43.507	43.356	1:26.863
3	Gudramovics / Kalnins	LAT	7	43.552	43.503	1:27.055
4	Denisyev / Antonov	RUS	8	43.554	43.578	1:27.132
5	Geüke / Gamm	GER	10	43.517	43.626	1:27.143
6	Rieder / Rastner	ITA	15	43.583	43.584	1:27.167
7	Sics / Sics	LAT	12	43.656	43.596	1:27.252
8	Walker / Snith	CAN	11	43.508	43.833	1:27.341
9	Bogdanov / Medvedev	RUS	13	43.726	43.625	1:27.351
10	Oberstolz / Gruber	ITA	18	43.639	43.723	1:27.362
11	Mortensen / Terdiman	USA	19	43.760	43.664	1:27.424
12	Broz / Broz	CZE	4	43.856	43.900	1:27.756
13	Chmielewski / Kowalewski	POL	9	43.979	43.924	1:27.903
14	Yuzhakov / Prokhorov	RUS	17	43.880	44.024	1:27.904
15	Kvicala / Kudera	CZE	2	44.051	44.152	1:28.203
16	Simonak / Solcansky	SVK	3	44.195	44.133	1:28.328
17	Steu / Koller	AUT	6	43.629	45.975	1:29.604
18	Putins / Matuzels	LAT	5	43.965	51.275	1:35.240
19	Autodiresei / Musei	ROU	1	44.613	DNF
20	Penz / Fischler	AUT	20	DNF