Oberhof (RWH) After six of 12 races, Natalie Geisenberger, Felix Loch and the doubles duo of Toni Eggert and Sascha Benecken, all of Germany, head the overall Viessmann Luge World Cup rankings in their disciplines. The second half of the post-Olympic winter will start next weekend at the fifth stop on the Viessmann World Cup tour in Oberhof in the Thuringian Forest. The third Viessmann Team Relay World Cup presented by BMW will close the weekend on Sunday. With five season victories under her belt, Olympic Champion Natalie Geisenberger is moving in leaps and bounds towards her third overall win in women’s luge after 2012-2013 and 2013-2014. The 26-year-old has stood at the top of the podium in five of the six World Cup races and has a comfortable lead of 180 points on Tatjana Hüfner of Germany. But 2010 Olympic Champion Hüfner won the Oberhof race last year, took gold in the German Championships on this track shortly before Christmas, and won one of her four World Championship gold medals here in 2008. The German lugers Geisenberger, Hüfner, Dajana Eitberger and Anke Wischnewski are at the top of the women’s overall rankings with 570, 390, 371 and 350 points, respectively. They are followed by Olympic bronze medallist Erin Hamlin from the USA with 341 points. Canada’s fourth-placed Olympian Alex Gough is already in sixth with 270 points, although she didn’t join the action in the post-Olympic winter until the third round in Calgary. In the men’s singles, Felix Loch moved back into the fast lane on his home track in Königssee, taking his third victory of the season after three winless races. The 25-year-old, who already has three Olympic gold medals to his name, wrote luge history in Oberhof in 2008, when he was celebrated as the youngest World Champion of all time at the tender age of 17. However, he only has a lead of 97 points on second-placed Dominik Fischnaller of Italy in the overall rankings. In third 140 points behind Loch are Oberhof’s local hero Andi Langenhan and US luger Chris Mazdzer. Langenhan’s Oberhof teammates Toni Eggert and Sascha Benecken have taken a dominant role in the doubles scene this season, replacing Olympic Champions Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt, who won six of the nine Viessmann World Cups last year. In Königssee Eggert-Benecken only missed their fifth win of the season because of what national coach Norbert Loch called “a rookie mistake” when going out of the circular Kreisel curve. But they are a force to be reckoned with in Oberhof. It was here that they collected their first ever Viessmann World Cup victory three years ago.