DiGregorio And Hollander Give USA Luge Its First World Cup Doubles Win In 18 Years – News18

LAKE PLACID, N.Y.: Zach DiGregorio and Sean Hollander gave the U.S. its first luge World Cup doubles gold medal in almost 18 years on Friday, successful the opening race of the season at Mount Van Hoevenberg.

DiGregorio and Hollander had the second-quickest time in each heats and completed in 1 minute, 27.630 seconds. That was 0.052 seconds higher than the Austrian sled of Thomas Steu and Wolfgang Kindl, who had the lead after Run 1 however had simply the seventh-finest time within the second warmth.

It was the primary win for a U.S. sled within the final 184 World Cup males’s doubles races, going again to Dec. 9, 2005 — when Mark Grimmette and Brian Martin acquired the final of their 11 World Cup wins.

The World Cup luge circuit is in Lake Placid this weekend for the primary time since 2019. Chris Mazdzer, the 2018 Olympic males’s silver medalist for the U.S., will take the ultimate run of his profession within the males’s dash race there on Saturday.

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