Deutschnofen/Nova Ponenete (ck) - In a spectacular race with an interruption due to a light problem the new World Cup leader Patrick Pigneter showed excellent nerves. His Italian team mate had to stop his run and repeat it as the lights went off in a stretch of the track. Pigneter as well as Thomas Schopf, ranked second after the first run, had to wait for Clara to walk back to the start. “It was difficult”, said Pigneter who won the double as well as the single event within one day. “It is already exhausting to build up the right tension four times in a day, but today it was five times. But I had an excellent run and I felt really good.” Austria´s Thomas Schopf achieved his best career result. After two third places he finished second. “I managed to keep cool. Eventually I had two small mistakes in my run, but altogether I am glad that I did pretty well in spite of the situation with the light.” Most affected was Hannes Clara who went through an emotional rollercoaster: “I saw that it was dark ahead of me, but first I thought it was just one lamp which did not work. When I saw that a whole section of the track was dark, I just stopped. First I felt like in a shock, I was not my usual self and everything felt strange. But then I had a cup of tea and tried to focus again”, said Clara who finished third. Russia´s record winner is back on top: Ekatharina Lavrentjeva has won her first race in this season and the 26th in her career. With Evelyn Lanthaler (ITA) as runner up a new face was seen on the podium: “My goal was to finish fourth as so far a fifth place was my best result. I never would have thought that I can do so well here, even though my training performance was good already.” She is still a junior, so her next race will be next week´s European Junior Championships before she will return to her hometown Moos/Passeier for the World Championships. Serial winner Renate Gietl (ITA) had to settle for the third place. “I had a mistake in the first run which caused the time gap which I did not manage to make up for in the second run. But I have had three perfect races this season, so I am still satisfied”, she said. Final Results: Women (16): 1. Ekatharina LAVRENTJEVA (RUS), 0:55,25(1), 0:55,27(1), 1:50,52 2. Evelyn LANTHALER (ITA), 0:55,50(3), 0:55,40(2), 1:50,90 3. Renate GIETL (ITA), 0:55,49(2), 0:55,43(3), 1:50,92 4. Melanie BATKOWSKI (AUT), 0:55,67(4), 0:56,08(4), 1:51,75 5. Renate KASSLATTER (ITA), 0:56,93(9), 0:56,55(5), 1:53,48 6. Tamara SCHWARZ (ITA), 0:56,54(5), 0:57,08(8), 1:53,62 7. Julia VETLOVA (RUS), 0:56,61(6), 0:57,07(7), 1:53,68 8. Michaela MAURER (GER), 0:56,82(8), 0:56,89(6), 1:53,71 9. Tina UNTERBERGER (AUT), 1:53,93 10. Marlies WAGNER (AUT), 1:54,31 Men (39): 1. Patrick PIGNETER (ITA), 0:53,51(1), 0:54,12(1), 1:47,63 2. Thomas SCHOPF (AUT), 0:53,88(2), 0:54,44(2), 1:48,32 3. Hannes CLARA (ITA), 0:54,03(3), 0:54,64(4), 1:48,67 4. Anton BLASBICHLER (ITA), 0:54,59(6), 0:54,47(3), 1:49,06 5. Rudi RESCH (ITA), 0:54,45(4), 0:54,6(5), 1:49,12 6. Andreas CASTIGLIONI (ITA), 0:54,74(7), 0:54,80(6), 1:49,54 7. Stefan GRUBER (ITA), 0:54,47(5), 0:55,15(7), 1:49,62 8. Michael SCHEIKL (AUT), 0:55,03(9), 0:55,21(8), 1:50,24 9. Robert BATKOWSKI (AUT), 1:50,50 10. Gernot SCHWAB (AUT), 1:50,52 11. Damian WANICZEK (POL), 1:50,94 12. Florian BATKOWSKI (AUT), 1:50,96 13. Gerald KAMMERLANDER (AUT), 1:50,97 14. Georg MAURER (GER), 1:51,00 20. Kaj JOHNSON (CAN), 1:53,28 25. John GIBSON (CAN), 1:54,77 29. Greg JONES (CAN), 1:58,33 World Cup Standings (4/6): Women: 1. Renate GIETL (ITA) 370 2. Ekatharina LAVRENTJEVA (RUS) 340 3. Melanie BATKOWSKI (AUT) 285 4. Evelyn LANTHALER (ITA) 250 5. Renate KASSLATTER (ITA) 221 6. Julia VETLOVA (RUS) 192 6. Marlies WAGNER (AUT) 192 8. Tamara SCHWARZ (ITA) 173 9. Tina UNTERBERGER (AUT) 148 10. Katrin MLADEK (AUT) 137 Men: 1. Patrick PIGNETER (ITA) 331 2. Thomas SCHOPF (AUT) 271 3. Gerald KAMMERLANDER (AUT) 262 4. Robert BATKOWSKI (AUT) 224 5. Michael SCHEIKL (AUT) 222 6. Gernot SCHWAB (AUT) 220 7. Hannes CLARA (ITA) 211 8. Anton BLASBICHLER (ITA) 199 9. Florian BREITENBERGER (ITA) 151 10. Stefan GRUBER (ITA) 148 15. Kaj JOHNSON (CAN) 100 27. John GIBSON (CAN) 56 35. Greg JONES (CAN) 34