ALTENBERG, Germany (AP) — Germany’s Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt won a World Cup doubles race to cut the gap on compatriots Toni Eggert and Sascha Benecken in the luge standings on Saturday.
Wendl and Arlt, the world and Olympic champions, were quickest in both runs for a combined time of 1 minute, 23.146 seconds, edging the World Cup leaders by 0.072.
Latvian brothers Andris and Juris Sics were third, two-tenths of a second back, ahead of Austria’s Peter Penz and Georg Fischler.
With just Sunday’s sprint and next week’s final race in Sochi remaining, Eggert and Benecken lead Wendl and Arlt by 40 points. Two second-place finishes would be enough for Eggert and Benecken to claim the title even if Wendl and Arlt won both events.
The men’s race takes place later Saturday.
