Germany claim World Cup relay win in St Moritz
BySportsbeat
Updated 19/02/2023 at 23:14 GMT
Germany return to the top of the World Cup standings with victory, with previous leaders Latvia missing the podium. On the world's only natural ice track, the German quartet of Dajana Eitberger, Max Langenhan and two-man pairing Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt eased to what was a fifth victory from five events at this World Cup meet.
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Germany continued their luge dominance with a record 45th team relay victory at the World Cup meet in St. Moritz.
On the world's only natural ice track, the German quartet of Dajana Eitberger, Max Langenhan and two-man pairing Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt eased to what was a fifth victory from five events at this World Cup meet.
The quartet claimed gold in a time of 2:51.301, narrowly ahead of pairings from America and Austria.
The American quartet of Emily Sweeney, Tucker West and double Zachary Di Gregorio and Sean Hollander claimed silver, 0.254s behind.
And it was bronze for the Austrian quartet of Madeleine Egle, Nico Gleirscher and double Thomas Steu and Lorenz Koller, who were 0.415s behind the winners.
Latvia finished in fourth, with Poland fifth, Romanian sixth and China seventh.
After three second place finishes in a row prior to this, Germany has now moved ahead of Latvia and tops the overall standings, with America a distant third.
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