OBERHOF, Germany — Chevonne Forgan and Sophie Kirkby of the U.S. gained a bronze medal in a World Cup girls’s doubles luge race Saturday, their second podium end in three races this season.
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The Austrian group of Selina Egle and Lara Kipp gained the race, with the German group of Jessica Degenhardt and Cheyenne Rosenthal ending second for the third consecutive race.
Forgan and Kirkby had been third, benefitting from the German sled of Dajana Eitberger and Magdalena Matschina skidding and shedding time within the remaining meters of their second run.
“We’re so happy to get back on the podium,” Forgan mentioned. “I’m really happy to have two good runs today.”
Forgan and Kirkby — who’re third within the girls’s doubles World Cup standings via three races — completed sixth and seventh in two World Cup races on the historic Oberhof monitor final season.
“I thought the conditions were way better than last year,” Kirkby mentioned. “It was great turnout and lovely weather here in Oberhof for a World Cup.”
USA Luge had a top-five within the girls’s singles race Saturday, with Ashley Farquharson grabbing the fifth spot for her greatest end of the season. Austria’s Madeleine Egle gained the race, with teammate Lisa Schulte second and Germany’s Julia Taubitz third.
Emily Sweeney of the U.S. didn’t compete Saturday after feeling some neck discomfort. Sweeney has handled related points once in a while since breaking her neck in a crash on the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics.
Within the males’s doubles race, Germany took gold and silver with Hannes Orlamuender and Paul Gubitz profitable and Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt grabbing second. Thomas Steu and Wolfgang Kindl of Austria gained bronze.
Marcus Mueller and Ansel Haugsjaa had been the highest U.S. males’s sled, ending ninth within the doubles race. Kellogg-Ike sled sidelined
The U.S. males’s doubles group of Dana Kellogg and Frank Ike didn’t compete this weekend and will not be collectively on a sled once more for the foreseeable future.
Kellogg will endure surgical procedure on Monday to restore a dislocated shoulder. He received harm throughout a World Cup race in Igls, Austria, final weekend. Bobsled
Germany took 4 of six out there medals in bobsled World Cup races in Sigulda, Latvia, on Saturday. The Germans gained gold and silver in each races.
In girls’s monobob, Lisa Buckwitz held off fellow German slider Laura Nolte for the win, with Australia’s Breeana Walker grabbing third.
Kaysha Love of the U.S. led the People, ending sixth.
Francesco Friedrich and Simon Wulff gained once more in two-man, with Johannes Lochner and Georg Fleischhauer ending second. Austria took bronze, with the group of Markus Treichl and Sascha Stepan ending a couple of second behind Friedrich’s sled.
The U.S. sled of Frank del Duca and Carsten Vissering was eleventh. Up subsequent
Luge: World Cup males’s singles and group relay at Oberhof, Germany, Sunday.
Bobsled: World Cup two-man and two-woman at Sigulda, Latvia, Sunday.
Skeleton: World Cup at Winterberg, Germany, on Jan. 3.
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