Cesana Pariol (pps) Germany’s women lugers celebrated their 65th victory at the season’s opener in Viessmann World Cup at Cesana Pariol. Silke Kraushaar-Pielach, the Olympic Champion from Nagano 1998, realized her 29th World Cup victory in a total time of one minute 36,444 seconds.
Second place went to Anke Wischnewski (+ 0,021 seconds) her Team-mates Tatjana Hüfner (0,147), Bronze Medallist at the Turin games, and Sylke Otto. Two-time Olympic Champion (2002 and 2006) Otto made a big mistake in the first run, but finished with the best time in the second run on 4th place.
Like Otto Courtney Zablocki from usa made a mistake in the first run. But the third best time in the second run moved her up from 21st place to 13th place in the final results. Ashley Hayden finished even one place better. Canada’s Alex Gough, 7th after first run, crashed in the second one.
Quotes:
Silke Kraushaar-Pielach (Olympic Champion 1998):
„I’m very happy to catch such a good start in the season. You never know, where you stand at the start of a new winter. After my wedding, I think, I can fly.”
Anke Wischnewski (3rd rank World Championships 2005)
„This is a very difficult track, but I’m in good shape. Even last season I was quit good, but here have been three better ones in our team.”
Tatjana Hüfner (Olympia-Dritte 2006):
„I’m very disappointed, because I had a big mistake in curve nine. “