Sylke Otto, Prock, and Florschütz/Wustlich win at KönigsseeKönigssee. Markus Prock, Sylke Otto and Andre Florschütz/ Torsten Wustlich have won the Krombacher Challenge Cup at Königssee. Austria`s former World Champion Prock (50.112 seconds) took a lead of only on thousandth of a second in front of Germany`s three time Olympic Champion Georg Hackl (50.113). Third place went to Italy`s World Champion Armin Zöggeler (50.127).Once again, there were three women from Germany on the top. World Champion Sylke Otto won in a time of 48.147 seconds in front of Olympic Champion Silke Kraushaar (48.464) and Barbara Niedernhuber (48.485).In the doubles competition Germany`s World Champions Andre Florschütz/ Torsten Wustlich (47.792 seconds) were in the lead followed by Austria`s Tobias and Markus Schiegl (47.835) and Mark Grimmette/ Brian Martin (47.929) from the USA.Statements:Markus Prock(Austria), three-time World Champion:"This was a very tough race. Nobody had an idea about the weather conditions and the material. I am very happy that I have won this race."Georg Hackl (Germany), three-time Olympic Champion:"One thousandth of a second - this is only three centimeters on this track. I am very proud to be so close behind the winner. In the past few years, I was not very lucky on my home track."Sylke Otto (Germany), two-time World Champion:"The Challenge Cup is a great event for the spectators as well as for the athletes. It is also a good opportunity to watch the other athletes."Andre Florschütz (Germany), 2001 World Champion:"The first two runs were very bad, only the last one in the final was good. We did not count with these weather conditions."
