WM title for Max Langenhan, World Cup record for Felix Loch: The German toboggan team has crowned an outstanding and especially golden weekend with a double victory and a success in the team relay at the World Championships in Whistler.
In the one-seater, 25-year-old Langenhan defended his World Cup title in front of Altmeister Loch (35), who passed the Italian toboggan icon Armin Zöggeler with his eleventh World Cup medal.
In the final team relay, Germany’s tobogganing in Langenhan, Julia Taubitz, Hannes Orlamünder/Paul Gubitz and Jessica Degenhardt/Cheyenne Rosenthal also secured gold and thus made it full of medal. For the new national coach Patric Leitner, it was a huge success at his first World Cup.
“A dream day. In the end it is simply awesome to stand with Felix,” said Langenhan, who, despite a broken foot, grabbed his World Cup title five and six. “Sensational,” added the three -time Olympic champion Loch, in the one -seater he has now won six gold, four times silver and once bronze: “What more do we want?”
Langenhan and Taubitz had already ensured a successful start to the title fights on the 2010 Olympic railway on Thursday with gold in the mixed insider, Taubitz secured gold in the one-seater. Orlamünder and Gubitz had surprisingly triumphed in the double seat on Saturday. “Huge, more is not possible. That was great days,” said Leitner: “A mega horny team performance.”