Egle Sets Start Records in Sigulda Victory

From Sigulda, LAT

(January 9, 2022) – Madeleine Egle continued her streak of strong finishes with a gold medal in Sigulda.

Egle broke the start record in the first heat, and then lowered it again in the second heat, and had the fastest split at every point in both heats on her way to a .180 second victory over World Cup point leader Julia Taubitz.

The win for Egle was her fourth of the season, and her fifth straight medal. For Taubitz, the silver was her eighth medal in nine events.

Between the two, Taubitz holds the lead by under 100 points over Egle with four points events to go.

Tatyana Ivanova came back from a leg injury in Sochi to win a bronze medal with two very consistent runs.

Natalie Geisenberger had the second quickest run of the second heat to move up from seventh in the first heat to finish fourth, just ahead of Russia’s Viktoriia Demchenko in fifth.

Latvia’s Eliza Tiruma finished sixth on her home ice.

The United States’ women struggled in Sigulda. Emily Sweeney was fifth after her first heat but fell to 11th on the second run. Summer Britcher, who was 17th after the first run, crashed and broke her sled on the second trip down and received a DNF.

Trinity Ellis led the way for Canada in 17th place, while Kailey Allan finished 25th. Natalie Corless crashed on her first run and received a DNF.

Results:

Pos	Name	Nation	Bib	Start 1	Start 2	Run 1	Run 2	Total
1	Madeleine Egle	AUT	23	1.606	1.590	42.087	42.105	1:24.192
2	Julia Taubitz	GER	26	1.642	1.629	42.128	42.244	1:24.372
3	Tatyana Ivanova	RUS	15	1.626	1.628	42.168	42.242	1:24.410
4	Natalie Geiseberger	GER	25	1.648	1.647	42.305	42.237	1:24.542
5	Viktoriia Demchenko	RUS	22	1.622	1.619	42.268	42.290	1:24.558
6	Eliza Tiruma	LAT	27	1.629	1.633	42.301	42.299	1:24.600
7	Lisa Schulte	AUT	7	1.635	1.646	42.359	42.354	1:24.713
8	Elina Vitola	LAT	16	1.617	1.615	42.378	42.343	1:24.721
9	Ekaterina Katnikova	RUS	18	1.648	1.644	42.432	42.421	1:24.853
10	Anna Berreiter	GER	24	1.641	1.624	42.481	42.390	1:24.871
11	Emily Sweeney	USA	28	1.615	1.609	42.295	42.620	1:24.915
12	Diana Loginov	RUS	13	1.626	1.625	42.435	42.565	1:25.000
13	Andrea Vötter	ITA	21	1.612	1.614	42.534	42.488	1:25.022
14	Ulla Zirne	LAT	10	1.693	1.704	42.503	42.548	1:25.051
15	Hannah Prock	AUT	19	1.667	1.663	42.537	42.563	1:25.100
16	Natalie Maag	SUI	6	1.638	1.655	42.620	42.539	1:25.159
17	Trinity Ellis	CAN	12	1.664	1.660	42.596	42.575	1:25.171
18	Sandra Robatscher	ITA	8	1.632	1.645	42.340	42.940	1:25.280
19	Sigita Berzina	LAT	14	1.625	1.637	42.969	42.364	1:25.333
20	Verena Hofer	ITA	9	1.632	1.653	42.820	42.744	1:25.564
21	Raluca Stramaturaru	ROU	2	1.683	1.661	42.763	42.856	1:25.619
22	Olena Stetskiv	UKR	11	1.640	1.642	42.642	43.014	1:25.656
23	Nina Zöggeler	ITA	17	1.672	1.665	42.866	42.824	1:25.690
24	Yulianna Tunytska	UKR	5	1.628	1.643	42.725	43.300	1:26.025
25	Kailey Allan	CAN	4	1.655	1.665	43.401	42.739	1:26.140
DNF	Summer Britcher	USA	20	1.623	1.608	42.574	DNF
DNF	Natalie Corless	CAN	3	1.698		DNF
DNS	Aileen Frisch	KOR	1			DNS