Oberhof (pps) Olympic silver medalists Mark Grimmette/Brian Martin (USA) finished 4th at Viessmann Luge World Cup in Oberhof (Germany) and are still in the lead in the overall standings. Italy`s Gerhard Plankensteiner/Oswald Haselrieder celebrated theier 3rd Victory in Viessmann Luge World Cup with a total time of one minute 23,594 seconds followed by Steffen Skel/Steffen Wöller (1:23,865) from Germany and Austria`s Tobias Schiegl/Markus Schiegl (1:23,904).
Mark Grimmette/Brian Martin are leading in the overall standings with 245 points fol-lowed by Olympic Champions Patric Leitner/Alexander Resch (219) from Germany and Plankensteiner /Haselrieder (178).

Quotes:

Gerhard Plankensteiner (Italy): „It was a long time sinve our last victory, 1997 in Na-gano. It took five years to win once more. We hope, we must not wait such a long time til the next victory.”

Steffen Wöller (Germany): „It was the last race for our coach Rene Frield. We would like to dedicate the victory to him, but we missed. Sorry for that and thank you the work I das done with us.”

Tobias Schiegl (Österreich): „Things getting better and better. First run we had some mistakes, but second run was nearly perfect.”

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