From Moscow, RUS
For the first time this season, Ekaterina Lavrentyeva took gold in women’s luge. On her home track, the Russian came down over .8 faster than anyone else in the race to move up to third in World Cup points.
Evelin Lanthaler finished second, continuing her fantastic start to the season, having done no worse than silver (Kühtai and Moscow). She edged Austrian Tina Unterberger, who finished just .06 out of silver.
Ludmila Astramovich made it two Russians in the top five with her fourth place finish, just ahead of Greta PInggera, who finished fifth.
Results:
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PosNameNationBibTime1Ekaterina LavrentyevaRUS1137.172Evelin LanthalerITA1438.003Tina UnterbergerAUT1338.064Ludmila AstramovichRUS938.375Greta PinggeraITA1238.976Svetlana ZaravinaRUS840.207Michelle DiepoldAUT1040.338Lisa WalchGER542.209Petra DragicevicSLO742.9010Michaela NiemetzGER643.6511Tamara FissoreARG21:02.4412Irma KarisikBIH33:00.09NRMarina ShchekalevaKAZ1NR
