Austria's tobogganist celebrate perfect World Cup start with gold and bronze!

Austria's tobogganist celebrate perfect World Cup start with gold and bronze!

Austria's tobogganists and the World Kunstbahn World Championship in Whistler made a perfect start. In an exciting competition, Selina Egle and Lara Kipp secured the gold medal in the mixed double-seater, while Thomas Steu and Wolfgang Kindl also returned with gold in their luggage. Just two weeks earlier, they had to let the Germans go ahead to the Oberhof World Cup races, but this time they made short work with their opponents. With a time of 1: 22.894 minutes, they distanced the German teams by only 0.018 and 0.097 seconds, such as laola1.at reported

Madeleine Egle and David Gleirscher shone in the mixed insider and got the bronze medal. They only had to give up the German athletes Max Langenhan and Julia Taubitz as well as the US duo Jonathan Gustafson and Emily Sweeney. "We are happy to take it with us," said Egle, pleased with the successful performance. Gleirscher added that he was "Megahappy" about the medal win. On Friday, the next competition in the double-seaters and in the Women's Seidener is already pending for the Austrian athletes. Egle and Kipp are considered to be clear favorites, especially in the women's doubles.

dominance of the Austrians in the Luge

let's take a look at the current lute season: Madeleine Egle has established itself as the athlete who challenges the decades of German dominance in the women's World Cup. She won her fourth race of the season on Saturday and leads the overall ranking with 544 points ahead of Julia Taubitz from Germany (515 points), such as AP news With just two remaining races, Egle has the opportunity to write history and become the first non-German since 1997-98 that wins the overall World Cup. The Austrian athletes impressively show that they can belong to first place not only on the winner's podium in Luge-Sport, but also in the overall ranking.