2015/2016 FIL Natural Track World Cup – Double’s Luge – Race 1

From Kühtai, AUT

The first race of the 2015/2016 FIL Natural Track World Cup was held as a parallel race, in bracket form. The Italian team of Patrick Pigneter & Florian Clara took the win, cruising to victory against the Austrian team of Christoph Regensburger & Dominik Holzknecht in the final round.

Both teams had to beat Russian teams to get to the finals, and in the third place, the team of Egorov & Popov took the win over two heats against teammates Kovshik & Tarasov to take the bronze medal.

Results:

Pos Names Nation Bib
1 Pigneter / Clara ITA 12
2 Regensburger / Holzknecht AUT 10
3 Egorov / Popov RUS 11
4 Kovshik / Tarasov RUS 6
5 Schopf / Schopf AUT 4
6 Folie / Gruber ITA 5
7 Dragicevic / Dragicevic SLO 7
8 Guzeloglu / Ozcan TUR 2
9 Jedrzejko / Szuler POL 3
10 Brüggler / Angerer AUT 9
11 Porshnev / Lazarev RUS 8