[Translate to Deutsch:] Winterberg (pps). Gemany´s Olympic Champion Sylke Otto, who was already fixed as winner of the overall Viessmann Worldcup, leads the german luge team at the fi-nals in Winterberg to third total success in this winter. Two weeks before the World Championships in Segulda (Latvia), the World- and European Champion realized her 27th success in Viessmann luge World Cup in 1 minute 30,267 seconds followed by her teammates Barbara Niedernhuber (1:30,301), Anke Wischnewski (1:30,415) and Silke Kraushaar (1:30,480).
The overall World Cup, Sylke Otto finished with 685 points, followed by Kraushaar (535) and Niedernhuber (525).

Best athlet of the USA luge team was Brenna Margol (1:31,343) on rank twelve. Margol is also best US-Athlet in overall World Cup on rank eight (265).
Best Canadian athlet was Regan Lauscher (1:31,249) on tenth rank in Winterberg and tenth rank (248 points) in the overall World Cup standings.
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