Sixth relay success for Austria's team

Oberhof (FIL/15.12.2024) The anniversary has been postponed. If Germany had won the EBERSPÄCHER Team Relay presented by BMW in Oberhof, it would have been the 50th victory in this competition. However, the Austrian lugers with Madeleine Egle, Thomas Steu/Wolfgang Kindl, Jonas Müller and Selina Egle/Lara Kipp continued their winning streak on the track in Thuringia. After 3:12.865 minutes, double helmswoman Egle released the touchpad. The sixth relay success for the red-white-red team. “Winning the team competition was the cherry on the cake, winning on a German track with a lead of four tenths is really cool,” said doubles pilot Thomas Steu.

Nevertheless, the German team of Julia Taubitz, Hannes Orlamünder/Paul Gubitz, Felix Loch, Jessica Degenhardt/Cheyenne Rosenthal) made it as exciting as it could be. They were only 0.416 seconds slower. “Of course we would have liked to win, but the result reflects the weekend,” said Germany's head coach Patric Leitner, ”the Austrians were very good, dominated and deserved to win the relay.” Italy (Verena Hofer, Ivan Nagler/Fabian Malleier, Dominik Fischnaller and Andrea Vötter/Marion Oberhofer) followed 1.374 seconds behind, ahead of Latvia (Kendija Aparjode, Martins Bots/Roberts Plume, Kristers Aparjods, Marta Robezniece/Kitija Bogdanova; 1.374 seconds back).

The US team (Ashley Farquharson, Marcus Mueller/Ansel Haugsjaa, Jonathan Gustafson, Chevonne Forgan/Sophia Kirkby; 1.963) came fifth ahead of Ukraine (Yulianna Tunytska, Ihor Hoi/Nazarii Kachmar, Andriy Mandziy, Olena Stetskiy/Oleksandra Mokh; 4.778).

Results of the EBERSPAECHER Team Relay World Cup presented by BMW on Sunday, December 15, 2024 in Oberhof: fil-luge.org/en/multimedia/eberspaecher-team-relay-world-cup-presented-by-bmw-25