Igls (pps) Due to their first season`s victory, Germany`s Olympic Champions Patric Leitner/Alexander Resch took the lead in the overall standings. At Viessmann Luge World Cup at Igls (Austria) Leitner /Resch won in a total time of 1:20,234 seconds followed by Austria`s Tobias Schiegl/Markus Schiegl (1:20,434) and Germany`s Andre Florschütz/Torsten Wustlich (1:20,954).
One week before the World Cup finals at Königssee Leitner/Resch are leading with 528 points followed by Florschütz/Wustlich (514) and Italy`s Christian Oberstolz/Patrick Gruber (490).
USA`s Mark Grimmette/Brian Martin finished on 6th place (1:20,826).

Patric Leitner (GER), World Champions 1999 and 2000, Olympic Champion 2002:
„Between christmas and New Year we worked very hard. This is now the result of this work. It is pretty nice to come to his hometrack and leading the World Cup. At Königssee we will be even better than in Igls, I promise.“

Markus Schiegl (AUT), World Champions 1996 and 1997:
„This was our second result for the podium. I hope, now we know how to do well. Our goal is to win a medal at the World Championships at Nagano.“

Andre Florschütz (GER), Weltmeister 2001: „Even we lost the lead in the overall standings, we are satisfied. we made two solid runs and are in the top three. But it will be very difficult to beat Leitner/Resch on theier hometrack at the finals.”