Innsbruck-Igls (pps) Germany’s World Champions Andre Florschütz/Torsten Wustlich celebrated their first victory of the season and are close before the nomination to the Olympic Winter Games at Turin. At Innsbruck-Igls they won in a total time of one minute 19,704 seconds. Second and third place went to Italy with Christian Oberstolz/Patrick Gruber (0,023 seconds back) Gerhard Plankensteiner/Oswald Haselrieder (0,031 seconds back).

Germany’s Olympic Champions finished only on 4th place, but they are still in the lead in the overall standings with 526 points. Only ten points behind are Oberstolz/Gruber (516). Before the World Cup finals at Oberhof at the end of January, Austria’s Tobias Schiegl/Markus Schiegl (445) take the 3rd place.

Quotes:

Andre Florschütz (GER / World Champions 2001 and 2005)
„We just believe in our start at Turin when the coaches have officially told us. But we are able to race best times on the Olympic track at Cesana. Today we used runners we used only once before. This was a good choice. “

Christian Oberstolz (ITA / Defending World Cup Champion)
„First place would have been better, because in this case we would have got back the leadership in the overall standings. The final at Oberhof will be exciting.”

Oswald Haselrieder (ITA)
„We are a little bit disappointed; we thought we could slide better. But there have been some mistakes. “

Photo: Florschütz/Wustlich at the third Viessmann-World Cup in Altenberg (November 26/27, 2005)