From Whistler, CAN
(February 7, 2025) – Selina Egle and Lara Kipp have been the class of the women’s doubles field over the course of the 2024/2025 season. They won gold for the seventh straight race, this time giving them a World Championship gold.
As they have so many times this season, Egle and Kipp led the field after the first heat. Behind them sat Germany in second and third with Dajana Eitberger and Magdalena Matschina in second and Jessica Degenhardt and Cheyenne Rosenthal in third.
In the second heat, Degenhardt and Rosenthal did everything they could as they took the lead from Italy’s Andrea Vötter and Marion Oberhofer with a track record run. That lead then held as teammates Eitberger and Matschina couldn’t quite match their time and fell to second with the Austrians still to go.
Egle and Kipp pulled off the top a little slower than the German leaders, and gave away time throughout the run. Briefly, timing and scoring showed Degenhardt and Rosenthal ahead, but the Austrians were too good through the final few curves as they pulled back ahead and won by .029 for their second straight World Championship gold.
For the seventh time this season, Degenhardt and Rosenthal finished second, with Eitberger and Matschina bronze in their first World Championships together.
“This is unbelievable,” Egle told FIL’s Kate Hansen after the race. “Being a world champion for the second time is incredible! We really didn’t expect this!”
While silver may have been a bit disappointing for Degenhart and Rosenthal, Rosenthal was still happy with their result.
“We’re proud to be here with a silver medal,” she said. “We weren’t so good out of Curve 16, but we’re proud!”
For Dajana Eitberger, who was competing in her last World Championships on her way to retirement after the 2026 Olympic Games, a bronze was the culmination of a steadily improving season.
“The beginning of the season was tough,” she told Hansen. “We’re happy with this result toward the end of our season!”
Vötter and Oberhofer once again missed out on a medal with a fourth place finish. Americans Chevonne Forgan and Sophia Kirkby set the start record on their way to a fifth-place finish, while Latvians Marta Robezniece and Kitija Bogdanova was sixth.
Canadians Beattie Podulsky and Kailey Allan were eighth, and Americans Maya Chan and Sophia Gordon crashed in their first run and did not finish.
Through four events in the FIL World Championships, here’s how the medal tally looks:
1. Germany (2G, 2S, 3B)
2. Austria (2G, 1B)
T3. USA (1S)
T3. Latvia (1S)
Results:
| Pos | Name | Nation | Bib | Start 1 | Start 2 | Run 1 | Run 2 | Total |
| 1 | Egle / Kipp | AUT | 7 | 3.418 | 3.247 | 38.858 | 38.866 | 1:17.724 |
| 2 | Degenhardt / Rosenthal | GER | 9 | 3.371 | 3.373 | 38.947 | 38.806 | 1:17.753 |
| 3 | Eitberger / Matschina | GER | 4 | 3.386 | 3.382 | 38.927 | 38.857 | 1:17.784 |
| 4 | Vötter / Oberhofer | ITA | 8 | 3.385 | 3.392 | 38.967 | 38.930 | 1:17.897 |
| 5 | Forgan / Kirkby | USA | 11 | 3.371 | 3.357 | 39.023 | 38.945 | 1:17.968 |
| 6 | Robezniece / Bogdanova | LAT | 12 | 3.422 | 3.415 | 38.993 | 39.088 | 1:17.968 |
| 7 | Upite / Kaluma | LAT | 10 | 3.393 | 3.392 | 39.104 | 39.029 | 1:18.133 |
| 8 | Podulsky / Allan | CAN | 3 | 3.400 | 3.418 | 39.143 | 39.265 | 1:18.408 |
| 9 | Stramaturaru /Manolescu | ROU | 6 | 3.472 | 3.472 | 39.577 | 39.574 | 1:19.151 |
| 10 | Domowicz / Piwkowska | POL | 1 | 3.447 | 3.440 | 39.811 | 39.506 | 1:19.317 |
| 11 | Stetskiv / Mokh | UKR | 2 | 3.447 | 3.427 | 39.801 | 39.980 | 1:19.781 |
| DNF | Chan / Gordon | USA | 5 | 3.419 | DNF |