Taubitz takes World Cup lead, Fischnaller continues 殺到する
SIGULDA, Latvia (AP) - Germany´s Julia Taubitz moved into the World Cup women´s standings lead on Sunday, while Italy´s Dominik Fischnaller continued his late-season 殺到する in the race for the men´s 全体にわたる 肩書を与える.
Taubitz won a World Cup sprint race and that finish, 連合させるd with a third-place showing from Russia´s Tatyana Ivanova, was enough for Taubitz to take over the women´s lead. Taubitz 持つ／拘留するs a 13-point lead over Ivanova with three races left.
Russia´s Viktoriia Demchenenko was second on Sunday and is third in the standings, though she´s so far 支援する of Taubitz and Ivanova that a 肩書を与える is 極端に ありそうもない. She could be mathematically 除去するd as 早期に as next 週末 in Oberhof, Germany.
For the U.S., Emily Sweeney was 14th in the women´s sprint. Sweeney was the only USA Luge sled to qualify for the three sprint races on Sunday.
Fischnaller was second in the men´s sprint, cutting the gap with standings leader Roman Repilov of Russia 基本的に in half. Fischnaller was 111 points behind Repilov entering the sprint and is now within 58 points of the lead.
Semen Pavlichenko of Russia won the men´s sprint, followed by Fischnaller and Austria´s David Gleirscher. Earlier Sunday, in the World Cup men's 十分な-length luge race, Germany's Johannes Ludwig won, followed by Repilov and Gleirscher.
勝利者 Johannes Ludwig, of Germany, 中心, second placed Roman Repilov of Russia, left, and third placed David Gleirscher of Austria celebrate on the podium after a men's race at the Luge World Cup event in in Sigulda, Latvia, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Roman Koksarov)
In the （テニスなどの）ダブルス sprint, Latvia´s Kristens Putins and Imants Marcinkevics were the surprise 勝利者s, 持つ／拘留するing off two teams - Italy´s Emanuel Rieder and Simon Kainzwaldner and Latvia´s Andris Sics and Juris Sics - by only seven-thousandths of a second. The Rieder-Kainzwaldner and Sics-Sics teams 株d the silver.
Even without メダルs in the （テニスなどの）ダブルス sprint Sunday, the German sled of Toni Eggert and Sascha Benecken remained in the World Cup points lead, 60 points ahead of fellow Germans Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt. Those are the only two teams left with a 現実主義の chance of winning the season-long 肩書を与える.
