The Latvian hosts successfully defended their European Championship
team relay title as they beat Germany and Italy at the International
Luge Federation World Cup at Sigulda.
OBERHOF, Germany (AP) Johannes Ludwig of Germany clinched his first World Cup men’s overall season championship Saturday, becoming the fourth different slider to win the crown in the last four seasons.
Loch victorious again as Germans win both Luge World Cup races in Oberhof Saturday, 12 December 2020
German pair Toni Eggert and Sascha Benecken ended a streak of three consecutive World Cup wins for Austrians Thomas Steu and Lorenz Koller at the International Luge Federation (FIL) Luge World Cup event in Oberhof in Germany, while Felix Loch make it four straight wins to open the season.
The reigning world champions recorded their first men s doubles win of the 2020-2021 World Cup season after posting the best times on the first and second runs.
Steu and Koller lost ground on the first run, placing fourth, but finished in the silver-medal position, 0.155sec behind the Germans.