OBERHOF, Germany — Canada’s Tristan Walker and Justin Snith matched a season-best fifth-place finish in doubles action at the luge World Cup on Saturday. Strong starts and solid runs propelled the Canadian duo based out of Calgary to a two-run time of one minute 22.673 seconds. They were .722 seconds off the leading pace set by Germany’s Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt, who set the golden standard at 1:21.951. Toni Eggert and Sascha Benecken clocked-in at 1:22.151 for the silver medal, while Latvia’s Andris Sics and Juris Sics slid to the bronze medal with a time of 1:22.274. Reid Watts was the lone Canadian in the men’s singles singles race.

Source: National Post February 09, 2019 16:18 UTC