From Königssee, Germany
Not surprisingly, there’s a German team on the top of the leaderboard after heat 1. The team of Martini/Waicker sits .44 ahead of a pack of sleds battling for second.
A huge push for the Meyers/Azevedo USA1 sled leaves them second, one hundredth ahead of GER1 and five hundredths ahead of SUI1.
Jazmine Fenlator makes one of her best runs in the World Cup tour, sitting 9th A disappointing run mid-way down leaves Bree Schaaf and USA2 16th.
| Pos | Names | Nation | Draw | Run 1 |
| 1 | Martini/Wiacker | GER 1 | 3 | 51.86 |
| 2 | Meyers/Azevedo | USA 1 | 8 | 52.30 |
| 3 | Schneiderheinze/Senkel | GER 2 | 9 | 52.31 |
| 4 | Humphries/Baadsvik | CAN 1 | 11 | 52.34 |
| 5 | Meyer/Schenk | SUI 1 | 10 | 52.35 |
| 6 | Kiriasis/Lammert | GER 3 | 5 | 52.45 |
| 7 | Tambovtseva/Ismailova | RUS 2 | 1 | 52.63 |
| 8 | Willemsen/Vannieuwenhuyse | BEL 1 | 15 | 52.72 |
| 9 | Fenlator/Marcum | USA 3 | 14 | 52.74 |
| 10 | Fedorova/Udobkina | RUS 1 | 2 | 52.75 |
| 11 | Radjenovic/Gorincu | AUS 1 | 13 | 52.75 |
| 12 | Walker/Cooke | GBR 1 | 4 | 52.79 |
| 13 | Hengster/Versen | AUT 1 | 7 | 52.98 |
| 14 | Tokovaya/Pahmutova | RUS 3 | 12 | 53.06 |
| 15 | Willemarck/Van Leuven | BEL 2 | 17 | 53.15 |
| 16 | Schaaf/Eberling | USA 2 | 6 | 53.27 |
| 17 | Tronescu/Spataru | ROU 1 | 16 | 53.88 |
