St. Moritz (pps) Armin Zoeggeler of Italy, Russia’s Viktor Kneyb, the Austrian doubles team of brothers Andreas and Wolfgang Linger as well as Christian-Oberstolz-Patrick Gruber, Italy, will be starring in the role of “The last of the Mohicans” in St. Moritz. Already 12 years ago, these lugers competed in the 34th FIL Luge World Championships in the Upper Engadin. At the 2000 World Championships, Zoeggler won the silver medal ahead of Georg Hackl of Germany. World Champion was Hackl’s teammate Jens Mueller. Patrick Leitner-Alexander Resch earned the gold medal while Oberstolz-Gruber were fourth. The Linger brothers posted a 13th-place result, Kneyb was in 29th place. World Championship titles to Otto, Mueller and Leitner-Resch At the World Championships Sylke Otto, Barbara Niedernhuber and Sonja Wiedemann, all of Germany, made a clean sweep in the women’s singles. The World Championship doubles title went to Leitner-Resch. Their teammates Steffen Skel and Steffen Woeller won the silver medal ahead of the US team of Mark Grimmette and Brian Martin. The German quartet “Germany II”, (namely Hackl, Kraushaar, Skel-Woeller) earned the World Championship top spot on the podium ahead of “Germany I” (Mueller, Otto, Leitner-Resch) and Austria (Markus Prock, Angelika Neuner, Tobias Schiegl-Markus Schiegl). Last World Cup winners: Kraushaar, Prock and Leitner-Resch The winners of the last World Cup event in St. Moritz in the 1998-1999 season were: Silke Kraushaar (ahead of teammate Sylke Otto and Andrea Tagwerker of Austria) in the women’s singles, Austrian Markus Prock (ahead of compatriots Rainer Margreiter and Gerhard Gleirscher) in the men’s singles and the German doubles team Leitner-Resch (ahead of Grimmette-Martin and Schiegl-Schiegl).

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