From Vatra Dornei, ROU
Rupert Brueggler & Tobias Angerer won the FIL World Championship for natural track luge in Vatra Dornei.
The 2015 World Championship silver medalists beat 2015 World and 2016 European champions Patrick Pigneter & Florian Clara by a commanding .78, and the rest of the field by over a second.
The race was limited to one heat due to morning rain that canceled the first heat of what was supposed to be a two-heat race.
Russians Aleksey Martyanov & Ivan Rodan finished with a bronze medal, edging Austrians Christian and Andreas Schopf. Christoph Regensburger & Dominik Holzknecht helped put all three Austrian teams in the top five with their fifth place finishing, just ahead of Pavel Porschnev & Ivan Lazarev, who finished sixth.
Results:
| Pos | Name | Nation | Bib | Total |
| 1 | Breuggler / Angerer | AUT | 1 | 1:21.16 |
| 2 | Pigneter / Clara | ITA | 12 | 1:21.94 |
| 3 | Martyanov / Rodin | RUS | 3 | 1:22.48 |
| 4 | Schopf / Schopf | AUT | 11 | 1:22.64 |
| 5 | Regensburger / Holzknecht | AUT | 14 | 1:22.95 |
| 6 | Porshnevv / Lazarev | RUS | 13 | 1:23.33 |
| 7 | Egorov / Popov | RUS | 7 | 1:23.40 |
| 8 | Demchuk / Lenko | UKR | 10 | 1:26.09 |
| 9 | Limmer / Dietz | GER | 4 | 1:27.11 |
| 10 | Dragicevic / Dragicevic | SLO | 5 | 1:27.30 |
| 11 | Morosan / Taslaoanu | ROU | 2 | 1:28.07 |
| 12 | Ercoskun / Dellalbasi | TUR | 9 | 1:29.00 |
| 13 | Sitkowski / Budny | POL | 6 | 1:31.24 |