Sylke Otto, David Möller, Thorpe/ Ives win in Winterberg Winterberg. Germany´s Sylke Otto, David Möller and Chris Thorpe/Clay Ives (USA) have won the Krombacher Challenge Cup final at Winterberg (Germany). The World Junior Champion Möller took the victory in 55,074 seconds followed by three-time Olympic Champion Georg Hackl (55,100) from Germany and USA´s Adam Heidt (55,469). World Champion Sylke Otto won in a time of 44,760 seconds in front of Olympic Champion Silke Kraushaar (45,076) and Barbara Niedernhuber (45,142).In the doubles competition, Chris Thorp/ Clay Ives (44,621) were in the lead followed by Germany´s Steffen Skel/Steffen Wöller (44,800) and their teammates Mark Grimmette/Brian Martin (45,818).With this defeat, Germany´s Olympic Champion Georg Hackl missed the small jackpot. He had to win this race in order to catch the prize money of US$ 10.000 US.Quotes:David Möller (Germany), World Junior Champion: I am very happy about this victory. I never expetcted it. I`m not sad not to be qualified for the Olympics. The others were simply better.Sylke Otto (Germany), two time World Champion: I have reached my goal of winning the overall Challenge Cup for the third time in a row. I like the track in Winterberg very much.Chris Thorpe (USA), Silver medallist in Nagano 1998: We are very happy. In practise we had a lot of problems. Our sled is now running well.