Sigulda. Markus Prock, Sylke Otto and Patric Leitner/Alexander Resch have won the Krombacher Challenge Cup at Sigulda (Latvia). Austria`s former World Champion Prock (49,666 sconds) came in ahead of his teammate Rainer Margreiter (49,835). Third place went to Italy`s World Champion Armin Zöggeler (49,870).World Champion Sylke Otto won in a time of 43,451 seconds in front of Olympic Champion Silke Kraushaar (43,470) and Iluta Gaile (43,721) from Latvia. In the doubles competition, Germany`s former World Champion Patric Leitner/Alexander Resch (43,300 seconds) were in the lead followed by Austria`s Tobias and Markus Schiegl (43,344) and Mark Grimmette/Brian Martin (43,466) from the USA. Now, only Germany`s Olympic Champion Georg Hackl and Leitner Resch are still able to catch the small jackpot of $ 10.000, but both have to win the final in Winterberg on January 25.
Quotes:
Markus Prock (Austria), three-time World Champion: "Everything´s going alright at the moment. First the European Championships and now this success. I didn`t expext the track to be so fast today. It is very difficult to get a good time on this track."
Sylke Otto (Germany), two-time World Champion: "My goal is to win the overall Challenge Cup standings for the third time in a row. This was a big step towards this aim."
Patric Leitner (Germany), two-time World Champion: "In the past few years we always had big problems in Sigulda. But this time, from the first training run on everything went perfect for us. Now we want to catch the small jackpot."
