Sochi (pps) Austria’s two-time Olympic Champions and brothers Andreas and Wolfgang Linger have met their match. At the Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, the 2010 and 2006 Olympic gold medal winners had to make do with the silver medal in the doubles event. The current World Champions Tobias Wendl-Tobias Arlt of Germany claimed the gold medal with a lead of 0.522 seconds, the biggest lead in the history of Olympic doubles competitions. The doubles team of Vancouver Olympic silver medallists Andris Sics-Juris Sics (LAT, 0.857 back) won the bronze medal.

Already in the first of two runs Wendl-Arlt set the new track record with 49.373 seconds.

Thanks to their two gold and one silver medal, the two Linger brothers are now on second place on the list of the most successful competitors in the Olympic doubles events, right behind the leaders Stefan Krauße-Jan Behrendt (GDR/GER), who have two gold and one silver and bronze medal each to their credit. With two Olympic gold medals, Hans Rinn-Norbert Hahn (GDR) hold third place.