From Park City, USA
(December 17, 2022) – The FIL World Cup held its second Sprint World Cup of the season in Park City. Below are the results.
Men’s Doubles
Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt won their first World Cup gold medal of the season with a win in the Sprint World Cup. They edged out teammates Toni Eggert and Sascha Benecken by .01 for gold, while Austria’s Yannic Müller and Armin Frauscher finished third, .03 back.
Austria took fourth and fifth as well, with Juri Gatt and Riccardo Schöpf in fourth and Thomas Steu and Lorenz Koller in fifth. Germany’s Hannes Orlamünder and Paul Gubitz finished sixth.
USA’s Zach Digregorio and Sean Hollander finished seventh, one spot ahead of teammates Dana Kellogg and Duncan Segger in eighth. Canada’s Devin Wardrope and Cole Zajanski finished 11th.
At the holiday break, Eggert and Benecken have a 25 point lead over Gatt and Schöpf, with Wendl and Arlt in the hunt in third.
| Pos | Name | Nation | Bib | St. Speed | Finish |
| 1 | Wendl / Arlt | GER | 13 | 82.9 | 31.862 |
| 2 | Eggert / Benecken | GER | 15 | 83.9 | 31.872 |
| 3 | Müller / Frauscher | AUT | 3 | 82.7 | 31.892 |
| 4 | Gatt / Schöpf | AUT | 14 | 83.3 | 31.931 |
| 5 | Steu / Koller | AUT | 11 | 83.1 | 31.971 |
| 6 | Orlamünder / Gubitz | GER | 7 | 83.6 | 31.986 |
| 7 | Digregorio / Hollander | USA | 12 | 84.3 | 32.038 |
| 8 | Kellogg / Segger | USA | 8 | 83.0 | 32.060 |
| 9 | Bots / Plume | LAT | 9 | 83.3 | 32.073 |
| 10 | Chmielewski / Kowalewski | POL | 5 | 83.5 | 32.167 |
| 11 | Wardrope / Zajanski | CAN | 1 | 82.9 | 32.238 |
| 12 | Rieder / Rastner | ITA | 6 | 82.8 | 32.253 |
| 13 | Vavercak / Zmij | SVK | 2 | 83.2 | 32.460 |
| DSQ | Sevics-Mikelsevics / Krasts | LAT | 4 | DSQ | |
| DSQ | Rieder / Kainzwaldner | ITA | 10 | DSQ |
Women’s Doubles
One day after a crash that left Selina Egle injured to the point she did not start the women’s luge event, Egle and teammate Lara Kipp won the women’s sprint event. They beat out Andrea Vötter and Marion Oberhofer for their third gold medal of the season. Vötter and Oberhofer took silver, while current world champions Jessica Degenhardt and Cheyenne Rosenthal finished third.
USA’s Summer Britcher and Emily Sweeney finished fourth for the fourth time in a row, just ahead of teammates Maya Chan and Reannyn Weiler in fifth. Canada’s Caitlin Nash and Natalie Corless finished sixth. USA’s Chevonne Forgan and Sophia Kirkby finished seventh.
Vötter and Oberhofer have the World Cup point lead going into the break, with Egle and Kipp only 5 points back. Degenhardt and Rosenthal are third, while Britcher and Sweeney are fourth.
| Pos | Name | Nation | Bib | St. Speed | Finish |
| 1 | Egle / Kipp | AUT | 3 | 82.6 | 32.195 |
| 2 | Vötter / Oberhofer | ITA | 8 | 83.2 | 32.322 |
| 3 | Degenhardt / Rosenthal | GER | 7 | 82.6 | 32.470 |
| 4 | Britcher / Sweeney | USA | 5 | 82.7 | 32.506 |
| 5 | Chan / Weiler | USA | 4 | 82.3 | 32.517 |
| 6 | Nash / Corless | CAN | 6 | 82.4 | 32.563 |
| 7 | Forgan / Kirkby | USA | 2 | 82.4 | 32.761 |
| 8 | Stramaturaru / Manolescu | ROU | 1 | 81.8 | 33.968 |
Men’s Luge
Italy’s Dominik Fischnaller defended his gold medal in men’s luge on Friday with a gold in the sprint on Saturday, setting a track record with his run. Fischnaller beat the previous day’s bronze medalist, David Gleirscher by .088 on his way to his second straight victory.
Felix Loch finished third.
Jonny Gustafson of the United States finished fourth from the first starting spot, .002 ahead of Italy’s Leon Felderer. Alex Ferlazzo finished sixth for Australia.
USA’s Tucker West and Chris Mazdzer finished seventh and eighth respectively.
Fischnaller’s win, plus Wolfgang Kindl’s tough 14th place finish, gives Fischnaller a 57 point lead going into the break. David Glerischer sits third, while Felix Loch is fourth despite not starting the Igls sprint race.
| Pos | Name | Nation | Bib | St. Speed | Finish |
| 1 | Dominik Fischnaller | ITA | 15 | 114.1 | 27.552 |
| 2 | David Gleirscher | AUT | 13 | 113.2 | 27.640 |
| 3 | Felix Loch | GER | 14 | 113.0 | 27.682 |
| 4 | Jonathan Gustafson | USA | 1 | 114.2 | 27.729 |
| 5 | Leon Felderer | ITA | 3 | 114.5 | 27.731 |
| 6 | Alexander Ferlazzo | AUS | 5 | 113.1 | 27.742 |
| 7 | Tucker West | USA | 12 | 114.6 | 27.805 |
| 8 | Chris Mazdzer | USA | 6 | 113.5 | 27.817 |
| 9 | Kristers Aparjods | LAT | 7 | 113.7 | 27.885 |
| 10 | Jozef Ninis | SVK | 8 | 113.2 | 27.912 |
| 11 | Jonas Müller | AUT | 2 | 113.1 | 27.928 |
| 12 | David Nößler | GER | 10 | 112.5 | 28.006 |
| 13 | Gints Berzins | LAT | 9 | 113.6 | 28.020 |
| 14 | Wolfgang Kindl | AUT | 11 | 107.9 | 28.197 |
| 15 | Timon Grancagnolo | GER | 4 | 113.2 | 28.257 |
Women’s Luge
Germany went one-two in the women’s sprint race, with Julia Taubitz beating teammate Dajana Eitberger, who had won gold earlier in the day.
USA’s Brittney Arndt secured her first career podium finish with a bronze. Earlier in the day she’d finished seventh in the women’s luge event, a career-best to that point.
Ashley Farquharson finished fourth for the United States, with Germany’s Anna Berreiter and Italy’s Andrea Vötter rounding out the top six.
USA’s Summer Britcher and Emily Sweeney finished seventh and tenth, respectively.
Taubitz’s win, coupled with a tough finish for Austria’s Madeleine Egle, put Taubitz in the overall point lead going into the break. Egle is second, with Sweeney and Eitberger tied for third. All four American women are in the top ten, with Britcher eighth, Farquharson ninth, and Arndt tenth.
| Pos | Name | Nation | Bib | St. Speed | Finish |
| 1 | Julia Taubitz | GER | 13 | 83.5 | 31.717 |
| 2 | Dajana Eitberger | GER | 15 | 83.5 | 31.816 |
| 3 | Brittney Arndt | USA | 9 | 83.1 | 31.902 |
| 4 | Ashley Farquharson | USA | 7 | 83.2 | 31.950 |
| 5 | Anna Berreiter | GER | 12 | 83.3 | 31.953 |
| 6 | Andrea Vötter | ITA | 8 | 82.4 | 31.962 |
| 7 | Summer Britcher | USA | 4 | 83.2 | 32.000 |
| 8 | Sandra Robatscher | ITA | 6 | 83.3 | 32.013 |
| 9 | Lisa Schulte | AUT | 11 | 83.0 | 32.018 |
| 10 | Emily Sweeney | USA | 14 | 83.6 | 32.028 |
| 11 | Nina Zöggeler | ITA | 1 | 82.8 | 32.042 |
| 12 | Merle Fräbel | GER | 5 | 83.0 | 32.073 |
| 13 | Natalie Maag | SUI | 2 | 83.1 | 32.079 |
| 14 | Madeleine Egle | AUT | 10 | 83.2 | 32.122 |
| 15 | Elina Vitola | LAT | 3 | 83.2 | 32.128 |
