Eggert & Benecken Win 5th Gold of the Season

From Sigulda, LAT

(Jan. 12, 2019) – For the fourth consecutive race and fifth time overall this season, Toni Eggert & Sascha Benecken won gold in the FIL World Cup.

The Germans were the quickest in both heats to win by .379 over Latvians Oskars Gudramovics & Peteris Kalnins.

Eggert & Benecken have failed to medal only once during the 2018/2019 season (Igls Sprint race), and have opened up over a full race advantage over the rest of the field in the World Cup.

Latvia finished second and third, with Gudramovics & Kalnins being joined on the podium by Andris & Juris Sics.

Tobias Wendl & Tobias Arlt finished fourth, ahead of Italians Ludwig Rieder & Patrick Rastner and Emanuel Rieder & Simon Kainzwaldner.

The American duo of Chris Mazdzer and Jayson Terdiman finished 11th.

Results:

Pos	Names	Nation	Bib	Start 1	Start 2	Run 1	Run 2	Total
1	Eggert / Benecken	GER	12	1.558	1.545	42.049	42.060	1:24.119
2	Gudramovics / Kalnins	LAT	7	1.603	1.583	42.220	42.278	1:24.498
3	Sics / Sics	LAT	15	1.558	1.583	42.284	42.304	1:24.588
4	Wendl / Arlt	GER	16	1.546	1.537	42.369	42.414	1:24.783
5	Rieder / Rastner	ITA	11	1.590	1.551	42.405	42.383	1:24.788
6	Rieder / Kainzwaldner	ITA	6	1.570	1.593	42.505	42.425	1:24.930
7	Yuzhakov / Prokhorov	RUS	9	1.581	1.602	42.598	42.400	1:24.998
8	Nagler / Malleier	ITA	5	1.601	1.600	42.574	42.439	1:25.013
9	Denisev / Antonov	RUS	4	1.568	1.653	42.569	42.507	1:25.076
10	Steu / Koller	AUT	18	1.553	1.539	42.611	42.468	1:25.079
11	Mazdzer / Terdiman	USA	13	1.677	1.671	42.640	42.530	1:25.170
12	Putins / Marcinkevics	LAT	14	1.581	1.617	42.798	42.467	1:25.265
13	Kashkin / Korshunov	RUS	10	1.586	1.626	42.776	42.564	1:25.340
14	Geueke / Gamm	GER	17	1.591	1.567	43.037	42.545	1:25.582
15	Chmielewski / Kowalewski	POL	8	1.566	1.548	43.337	42.801	1:26.138
16	Park / Kang	KOR	3	1.573	1.597	42.937	43.278	1:26.215
17	Stakhiv / Lysetskyy	UKR	2	1.630	1.627	43.792	43.369	1:27.161
18	Vejdelek / Pekny	CZE	1	1.753	1.769	44.402	44.566	1:2.968