Calgary (pps) Germanys Olympic Champion Patric Leitner / Alexander Resh won the second race of the Viessmann Luge World Cup in Calgary. The defending World Cup Overall Champions celebrate their first victory of the season with a total time of 1:27,150 minutes followed by Maek Grimmette / Brian Martin (1:27,272) from USA an their Teammates Sebastian Schmidt / Andre Forker (1:30,480). Leitner / Resh set in the first run new track record 43,578. In the second round Grimmette / Martin finished second run in 43,564 seconds. Canadas Grand Albrecht / Eric Pothier (1:27,613) celebrate on 4th place their best result ever.

Quotations:

Patric Leitner (Olympic Champion): „After the track record in first run we took less risk in the second run. In the past we made after a good first run too often too many mistakes. Overall we had a beautiful week in Calgary with a perfect end.“

Brian Martin (Olympic Silver Medalist): “Starting off with a good couple of races is certainly a momentum builder. ”My hope we will carry over next week to Oberhof and the european races.”

Andre Forker (Germany): „Two years ago at the Worlds we could not manage the course and finished only 10th. Now it worked much better. And it is time to attack Leitner / Resch and Grimmette / Martin.”

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