Sochi (pps) The new Olympic luge Champions guaranteed the victory in the Team Relay event. As expected, the German squad with the four gold medal winners Natalie Geisenberger, Felix Loch and Tobias Wendl-Tobias Arlt claimed the Olympic victory at the Olympic Games in Sochi. Witnessed by IOC president Thomas Bach and Albert II, Prince of Monaco the German team members at the first Winter Games in Russia, thus claimed their second gold medal each. After his victory at the 2010 Olympic Games in the men’s singles it was already Loch’s third gold medal. During his active luge career, Loch’s mentor Georg Hackl also claimed three Olympic victories – all in the men’s singles. Additionally, Hackl earned two silver medals.

Host Russia with Tatiana Ivanova, Albert Demchenko and Alexandr Denisyev-Vladislav Antonov earned a silver medal, the second medal for the Russian Luge Federation. It was Albert Demchenko as the oldest competitor in the men’s singles who wrote a chapter of luge history when he claimed the silver medal. The Latvian team Eliza Tiruma, Martins Rubenis and Andris Sics/Juris Sics went down in the history of the International Luge Federation as the winner of the Team Relay bronze medal. After the double’s bronze medal for Sics-Sics it was also Latvias second luge medal at the Sochi Olympics.