Bott/Robert Plume completed the first run in 41.879 seconds, achieving the best time and ahead of the closest followers, Austrian Yannick Müller and Armin Frauscher, by five hundredths of a second.
In the second race, the Latvians lost 126 thousandths of a second to the Austrians Tomas Stei and Wolfgang Kindl, and spent a minute and 23.900 seconds on the track in the sum of the two races.
Šević-Mikeļšević/Babris took 12th place in the first race, losing 0.587 seconds to the compatriots, they were also twelfth in the second race, taking 11th place overall and losing 1.250 seconds to the winners.
Baltgalvis/Jakseboga made several mistakes at the top of the track in the first race, but managed to take 18th place and qualify for the second race as the last. In it, they achieved the 14th fastest time and moved up to 16th place, Bot with Plum losing 2.361 seconds.
Bot/Plūme had scored one victory and twice finished second in four races of the previous season, Šević-Mikelšević started the first three stages with Lukas Krasta, who was injured, and was replaced by Babris. Baltgalvis/Jakseboga competed in the World Cup for the first time in Sigulda only in the previous stage.
On Saturday in Altenberg, Kristers Aparjods took fourth place at the World Cup in luge, Gints Bērziņš ranked sixth and Kaspars Rinks ranked tenth.
The home team won the double victory. Max Langenhaan was fastest in both heats and clocked one minute and 48.219 seconds over the two heats, 23 hundredths of a second ahead of Felix Loch, who swapped third place in heat one for second in heat two.
Italy’s Dominik Fischnaller was third in the two-run aggregate, who finished third in the second after fourth in the first run and lost 0.399 seconds to Langenhahn in the two-run aggregate.
Aparjod hit the curb twice in the middle of the course in the first run, but was able to set the fifth fastest time, and in the second run, after making a small mistake at the top of the track, he posted the fourth best time, 0.579 seconds behind Langenhan in the two runs.
Just before Aparjoda’s first run, one of the favorites, Austrian Wolfgang Kindl, fell after hitting the roof of the track, and the Latvian had to wait longer than expected for the start.
He managed to pass Austria’s Niko Gleirscher, who after second place in the first race managed only the 11th best result in the second and finished fifth, 81 hundredths of a second behind the winner.
Bērziņš was sixth in both races, losing one thousandth of a second to Aparjoda in the first race, and he also finished in this place, losing 0.904 seconds to Langenhan.
Rink took tenth place in the first race, but achieved the ninth fastest time in the second, finishing tenth in the 30-athlete competition. He lost 1.299 seconds to Langenhann.
In the overall standings, N. Glairsher is still the first with 386 points, Langenhan has 371 and Loch 315 points.
Aparjods has risen to fourth place with 276 points, Bērziņš is in tenth place with 183 points, Rinks is in 15th place with 139 points and Roberts Lazdāns is in 43rd place with ten points earned in one stage.
The leader of the Latvian national team this season is Aparjods, who achieved the best result in the previous stage in Sigulda, finishing second behind the Austrian Niko Gleiršer.
It has already been reported that Latvian teams Marta Robežniece/Kitija Bogdanova and Anda Upīte/Zane Kaluma took fourth and fifth place respectively in the doubles competition on Saturday.
On Sunday, there will be a women’s singles competition and a team relay.
Elīna Ieva Bota, Kendija Aparjod, Kristers Aparjod and Gints Bērziņš, as well as two pairs of Mārtiņš Bots/Roberts Plūme, Marta Robežniece/Kitija Bogdanova and Anda Upīte/Zane Kaluma, had secured a place in the fifth round of the World Cup without the Nations Cup. Eduards Ševics-Mikelševics/Gustavs Babris, Raimonds Baltgalvis/Uldis Jakseboga and Kaspars Rinks also did it on Friday in the Nations Cup.
In the 2024/2025 season, the World Cup stages will still take place in Germany, South Korea and China. The sixth stage of the competition will take place on January 18 and 19 at another German track in Winterberg, and at the same time there will also be a European Championship. On the other hand, the world championship will take place on the Whistler track in Canada from February 6 to 8.
Source: www.diena.lv
