Germany Leads World Bobsleigh, Luge Championships

German luge world championship

st. Moritz, Switzerland (AP) — Germany gained her first two bobsleigh gold medals at this 12 months’s World Championships. Laura Norte gained the ladies’s monobob and Johannes Lochner gained his two-seater championship.

Kylie Humphries of the US is second in monobob, her solely US medal up to now at subsequent weekend’s championships in St. Moritz.

Germany’s Francesco Friedrich completed second within the two-man, ending his seventh consecutive world championship on the occasion. He’s additionally his two-time defending Olympic champion in each twos and his fours.

The championship continues subsequent weekend with the ladies’s bobsleigh and four-man competitors.

Luge

Germany gained gold in eight of the 9 occasions on the World Luge Championships in Oberhof, Germany on Sunday.

The doubles sled of Toni Eggert and Sascha Benecken gained three world titles over the weekend.

Anna Berreiter was a two-time world champion (girls’s singles, group relay). The German girls’s doubles group of Jessica Degenhardt and Cheyenne Rosenthal additionally gained two world titles (girls’s doubles and girls’s doubles dash).

Different German winners embody Dajana Eitberger (girls’s dash), Felix Loch (males’s dash) and Max Langenhan (as a part of the group relay).

One other gold medal awarded went to Jonas Müller of Austria in males’s singles.

USA did not win a medal on the World Championships.

skeleton

Germany’s Susanne Kreher gained the ladies’s skeleton world championships in St. Moritz, and Britain’s Matt Weston gained the lads’s race.

Canada’s Mirella Rahneva was the one North American medalist to win bronze within the girls’s occasion.