Calgary (pps) At the Viessmann Luge World cup at Calgary, Germany’s 2002 Olympic Champions Patric Leitner/Alexander Resch celebrated their first season’s victory and their 24th total victory. The three-times World Champions won in a total time of one minute 27.315 seconds followed by Italy’s Christian Oberstolz/Patrick Gruber (0.448 seconds behind) and Austria’s former World Champion Tobias Schiegl/Markus Schiegl (0.570 seconds behind).
Mark Grimmette/Brian Martin from USA finished 5th. On their home track, Canada’s Chris Moffat/Mike Moffat realized 11th place.

Quotes:

Alexander Resch (2002 Olympic Champion and three-time World Champion)
„Oberstolz/Gruber gave us some sleepless nights, because they were so fast. But we worked. We tried something new with our material, this worked out very good. It is a good feeling to be on top after two 2nd places.”

Christian Oberstolz (Bronze medallist at the 2006 European Championships)
„In this shape Leitner/Resch are unbeatable. Four tenths of a second is a lot. But we are satisfied with 2nd place.”