Luge news - Wolfgang Kindl wins second World Cup title in Whistler
BySportsbeat
Updated 01/12/2018 at 15:11 GMT
World champion Wolfgang Kindl broke the track record at the Whistler Sliding Centre as he claimed his second World Cup win of the season.
Luge World cup Innsbruck : Sprint Men - Wolfgang Kindl
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The Austrian finished in 49.837 seconds, to follow-up the Sprint World Cup title that he claimed in Innsbruck-Igls last month.
He pushed double Olympic champion Felix Loch and teammate Reinhard Egger down into second and third respectively with his winning run in Canada.
Kindl, 30, was one of 13 athletes to break the two-year-old track record set at 50.109 seconds by American Tucker West.
He now tops the World Cup standings with 270 points ahead of German Johannes Ludwig (215 points) and Loch (205 points).
"I never expected to be able to win on this track with its flat stretch at the start," Kindl said.
"Despite a few ongoing aches and pains, things are going very well for me.
"Of course, it is my goal to win the overall standings of the World Cup one day.
"Recently, I have always managed to be one of the front-runners but it has never actually come to anything yet."
Meanwhile, Germany swept the medals in the men's doubles - with Toni Eggert and his partner Sascha Benecken taking the gold.
Team mates Robin Johannes Geueke and David Gamm came in second while Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt finished off the podium.
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