First victory for Skel/Wöller in Olympic WinterLeitner/Resch win Three-Track-TournamentIgls. For the first time in the Olympic winter, Germany`s winners of the past season´s overall World Cup results Steffen Skel/Steffen Wöller have have won a Viessmann Luge World Cup. The silver medalists of the past two World Championships realized their victory in 1:23,557 minutes followed by Italy´s Kurt Brugger/Wilfried Huber(1:23,749) and Christian Oberstolz/Christian Gruber (1:23,857). Due to their fourth place, Germany`s Patric Leitner/AlexanderResch (1:23,872) won the Three-Track-Tournament with 245 points followed by Skel/Wöller (240) and Brugger/Huber(195). Leitner/Resch are still in the lead in the overall World Cup standings with 345 points followed by Skel/Wöller (295) and Brugger/Huber (287). The best result for the USA was the fifth place of Mark Grimmette/Brian Martin (1:24,013). Tenth place went to Chris Moffat/Eric Pothier(1:25,491) from Canada.Quotes: Steffen Wöller (Germany), 2000/2001 World Cup Winners:The second run was really perfect. The previous night, we worked until one o´clock in the morning to make our sled fit for this special track.Wilfried Huber (Italy), 1992 Olympic Champion:We are getting better and better. We love such difficult tracks like the one in Oberhof because we can make use of our long-time experience.Christian Oberstolz (Italy), Winner of the Viessmann Luge World Cup at Lake Placid:I hope we have realized the ticket to the Olympics with this race. We were also third in Oberhof last year, so we really like this track.Karsten Albert takes the place of permanent winner Georg HacklHackl Champion of Three-Track-Tournament - Zöggeler leads Overall World Cup standings Oberhof. Like in the past season, Germany´s Karsten Albert won the Viessmann Luge World Cup at Oberhof. The silver medallist at the 1998 European Championships realized his second victory in the World Cup series in a total time of 1:29,456 minutens followed by his team-mates David Möller(1:29,518) and Denis Geppert (1:29,624). Germany`s three-time Olympic Champion Georg Hackl came in only on ninth place (1.30,152), but won the Three-Track-Tournament with 234 points ahead of Albert (225) and Austria´s Markus Prock (205). Italy´s World Champion Armin Zöggeler is now in the lead of the Viessmann Luge World Cup overall standings with 350 points, followed by Prock (345) and Hackl (339). The best result for the USA was the tenth place of Adam Heidt (1:30165). Tyler Seitz of Canada was placed 13th (1:30,388).Quotes: Karsten Albert (Germany), silver medallist at the 1998 European Championships:My first run was not so good, so I was a little bit angry. I am now very happy to have won in my livingroom on my home track.Georg Hackl (Germany), three-time Olympic champion (1992,1994 and 1998):There are such days in the life of an athlete. The trees do not always grow to the sky, as we say in Germany.
