Lillehammer (pps) Germany`s Sylke Otto and Georg Hackl and Mark Grimmette/Brian Martin form USA won the Krombacher Challenge Cup on friday in Lillehammer (noreway).
Olympic silver medalists Grimmette/Martin (47,978) won followed by Germany`s Olympic Champions Patric Leitner/Alexander Resch (48,200) and Austria`s Tobias Schiegl/Markus Schiegl (48,564).
The Olympic Champion Otto, who won already the first race in Altenberg, clocked in the final in 48,392 seconds followed by her teammates Barbara Niedernhuber (48,447) and Silke Kraushaar (48,470) and Latvia`s Anna Orlova (48,494).
The men`s race took three-times Olympic Champion Georg Hackl (49,854) from Germany. Second place went to Austria`s Markus Kleinheinz (49,915), third place to Italy`s Olympic Champion Armin Zöggeler (50,055).

Stimmen:

Sylke Otto (Olympiasiegerin, Welt- und Europameisterin):
„Now i have won two races, but there are still two races to good. The challenge cup is a good training session – but a very good payed training session before the world cup.“

Mark Grimmette (Ollympia-Zweiter):
„This was a very good start in the new year. We made some training weeks in the past on this track. And brian and I made our first race together 1996 on this track. And we qualified in this race for the us-team – so we like Lillehammer.”

Georg Hackl (dreimaliger Olympiasieger):
„I love the landscape here, the track and my memories, because i won my second olympic gold on this track. But this track is very difficult. Even I am not able to make every run per-fekt.”

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