Germany Edges Austria for Team Relay Gold

From Königssee, GER

(Jan 6., 2019) – Germany won its 37th FIL World Cup Team Relay competition, edging out Austria for gold in Königssee.

(Courtesy FIL TV)

The Germans went out to a quick start with Julia Taubitz opening up a .2 second lead over Hannah Prock of Austria. Prock’s teammate, Königssee men’s gold medalist Reinhard Egger, moved the Austrians into the lead after his run. A great run by Toni Eggert and Sascha Benecken was enough to move the Germans to the top of the podium by two tenths of a second over Austria.

The United States finished with a bronze medal, their second of the weekend (Summer Britcher), a half second off the pace set by Germany.

Latvia, Russia, and Canada rounded out the top six.

Results:

Pos Names Nation Bib Women Men Total
1 Taubitz / Bley / Eggert & Benecken GER 12 54.824 1:51.393 2:47.982
2 Prock / Egger / Steu & Koller AUT 8 55.087 1:51.392 2:48.182
3 Britcher / West / Mazdzer & Terdiman USA 10 55.200 1:51.608 2:48.487
4 Cauce / Kivlenieks / Sics & Sics LAT 7 55.087 1:51.747 2:48.662
5 Ivanova / Fedorov / Kashkin & Korshunov RUS 11 55.252 1:51.985 2:49.030
6 Maxwell / Watts / Walker & Snith CAN 9 56.435 1:53.284 2:50.252
7 Simonakova / Ninis / Vavercak & Smij SVK 2 56.068 1:54.498 2:51.518
8 Vötter / D. Fischnaller / Nagler & Malleier ITA 6 58.146 1:54.498 2:51.518
9 Marsikova / Lejsek / Vejdelek & Pekny CZE 1 56.862 1:55.556 2:54.307
10 Domaradzka / Kurowski / Chmielewski & Kowalewski POL 5 56.998 1:54.130 2:52.083
11 Stetskiv / Dukach / Stakhiv & Lysetskyy UKR 4 57.034 1:54.133 2:55.153
DNF Stramaturaru / Cretu / Gitlan & Musei ROU 3 55.920 1:52.829 DNF