Sigulda (pps) Austria`s Wolfgang Linger/Andreas Linger have repeated their victory at the World Championships last February in Sigulda. By the 1. Viessmann Luge World Cup on the same track, the Austrian brothers celebrated their second world cup success after Altenberg last winter. Linger/Linger won in a totel time of 1 minute 26,493 seconds follwod by Italy`s Christian Oberstolz/Patrick Gruber (1 minute 26,570) and their teammates Tobias Schiegl/Markus Schiegl (1 minute 26,776).

Quotes:

Andreas Linger (World Champion 2003):
"Sigulda seems to be one of our favorite tracks. There are always a lot of good doubles and it is very pleaesant to win such a race.

Patrick Gruber (Italy):
"This was a perfect start into the season. Though we have had some problems during our practise, we could improve for the race."

Tobias Schiegl (World Champion 1996 and 1997):
"Never before we finished on third place after such a big mistake we made in the first run. But our second run was nearly perfect."