From Umhausen, AUT
Feb. 17, 2018 – Patrick Pigneter & Florian Clara won the 2017/2018 World Cup on natural track, clinching it with a win in Umhausen.
The Italian duo simply needed to finish in the top half of the field to clinch their title, and found themselves in second behind Russians Pavel Porshnev & Ivan Lazarev going into the second run.
On their second trip down Umhausen, Pigneter & Clara put the pressure on the Russians on the strength of a heat-fastest run. Porshne & Lazarev couldn’t answer, coming down .4 slower and handing the victory to the Italians.
The World Cup title is the fourth in five years for Pigneter & Clara, with Porshnev & Lazarev being the only other team to win in that time (2016/2017 World Cup season). Over the course of the 2017/2018 campaign, Pigneter & Clara won all but one event (a sixth place in Deutschnofen, Italy).
Porshnev & Lazarev finished second, ahead of teammates Aleksandr Egorov & Petr Popov, who finished third.
The Austrian duos of Brüggler & Angerer and Achenrainer & Brugger finished fourth and fifth, respectively, while Folie & Gaio rounded out the top six.
Results:
| Pos | Names | Nation | Bib | Run 1 | Run 2 | Total |
| 1 | Pigneter / Clara | ITA | 15 | 1:18.12 | 1:21.45 | 2:39.57 |
| 2 | Porshnev / Lazarev | RUS | 12 | 1:17.88 | 1:21.85 | 2:39.73 |
| 3 | Egorov / Popov | RUS | 13 | 1:18.19 | 1:22.04 | 2:40.23 |
| 4 | Brüggler / Angerer | AUT | 14 | 1:18.77 | 1:21.81 | 2:40.58 |
| 5 | Achenrainer / Brugger | AUT | 5 | 1:19.18 | 1:23.47 | 2:42.65 |
| 6 | Folie / Gaio | ITA | 10 | 1:20.44 | 1:23.00 | 2:43.44 |
| 7 | Martyanov / Rodin | RUS | 11 | 1:19.55 | 1:24.51 | 2:44.06 |
| 8 | Demchuk / Lenko | UKR | 8 | 1:21.21 | 1:24.47 | 2:45.68 |
| 9 | Jedrzejko / Budny | POL | 9 | 1:21.82 | 1:25.15 | 2:46.97 |
| 10 | Haselrieder / Gruber | ITA | 3 | 1:22.20 | 1:25.31 | 2:47.51 |
| 11 | Limmer / Dietz | GER | 6 | 1:23.38 | 1:26.08 | 2:47.78 |
| 12 | Guzeloglu / Ercoskun | TUR | 4 | 1:21.85 | 1:26.08 | 2:47.93 |
| 13 | Rydl / Rejnart | CZE | 1 | 2:01.59 | 1:41.03 | 3:42.62 |
