Eggert & Benecken Win 8th Gold of the Season

From Lillehammer, NOR

(Jan. 20, 2018) Toni Eggert & Sascha Benecken have been nearly flawless on the 2017/2018 World Cup tour. They continued that near-perfection in Lillehammer.

The German duo were the fastest in each heat, setting a track record in their first run and a start record in their second on their way to a .130 victory over Austrians Peter Penz & Georg Fischler.

Eggert & Benecken (Courtesy FIL TV)

The win for Eggert and Benecken was their eighth on the season. The pair have yet to finish off the podium, having finished no worse than second all season (Königssee and the Winterberg Sprint events).

Penz & Fischler’s silver medal is their fifth this season, and save for one disastrous weekend in Winterberg, they haven’t been outside of the top five all season.

Tobias Wendl & Tobias Arlt finished third, while the teams of Sics & Sics, Gudramovics & Kalnins, and Denisev & Antonov rounded out the top six.

The American duo of Matt Mortensen & Jayson Terdiman had a rough run in the first heat that left them in 13th. A fifth-fastest second run moved them up the order to a finish of eighth. Teammates Justin Krewson & Andrew Sherk also moved up from 12th to 11th in the second run.

Canadians Tristan Walker & Justin Snith struggled to find their form in Norway, but did move up from 15th to 12th in the second heat.

Results:

Pos Names Nation Bib Start 1 Start 2 Run 1 Run 2 Total
1 Eggert / Benecken GER 18 2.273 2.268 47.283 47.303 1;34.586
2 Penz / Fischler AUT 19 2.287 2.283 47.374 47.342 1:34.716
3 Wendl / Arlt GER 14 2.274 2.277 47.487 47.614 1:35.101
4 Sics / Sics LAT 10 2.302 2.299 47.667 47.693 1:35.360
5 Gudramovics / Kalnins LAT 8 2.296 2.313 47.710 47.786 1:35.496
6 Denisev / Antonov RUS 13 2.309 2.306 47.779 47.745 1:35.524
7 Nagler / Malleier ITA 7 2.278 2.282 47.820 47.759 1:35.579
8 Mortensen / Terdiman USA 9 2.346 2.313 47.870 47.717 1:35.587
9 Chmielewski / Kowalewski POL 6 2.290 2.297 47.737 47.957 1:35.694
10 Bogdanov / Medvedev RUS 12 2.307 2.304 47.844 47.863 1:35.707
11 Krewson / Sherk USA 5 2.295 2.290 47.857 47.967 1:35.824
12 Walker / Snith CAN 15 2.272 2.274 48.127 47.812 1:35.939
13 Rieder / Rastner ITA 11 2.292 2.291 48.074 48.007 1:36.081
14 Solcansky / Stuchlak SVK 3 2.315 2.318 48.290 48.328 1:36.618
15 Yuzhakov / Prokhorov RUS 4 2.346 2.321 47.814 50.032 1:37.846
16 Steu / Koller AUT 16 2.295 2.295 47.742 51.348 1:39.090
DNF Atodiresei / Musei ROU 1 2.366 2.334 48.754 DNF
DNS Park / Cho KOR 2 2.382 48.869 DNS
DSQ Geueke / Gamm GER 17 DSQ