Against a nine-nation field, the three sleds raced to a combined time of two minutes, 31.121 seconds.  Benshoof clocked a single run time of 49.769 seconds, while Hayden posted a one-run time of 50.868.  Grimmette and Martin, who returned to the same track where they won Olympic bronze in 1998, raced to a single-heat total of 50.484.

David Moeller, Silke Kraushaar-Pielach, and the doubles team of Patric Leitner and Alexander Resch paced Team Germany to a gold medal finish.  All three sliders recorded first place times on their way to a combined total of 2:30.156, while Team Austria came away with the silver medal.  Martin Abentung, Nina Reithmayer, and the pair of Andreas Linger and Wolfgang Linger combined to race to a total time of 2:31.101, .945 seconds behind the Germans and just .02 seconds in front of the U.S. squad.

Team Latvia slid to a fifth place result, but held onto first place in the series standings, while Team Canada maintained its grip on second place following a fourth place finish.

In the men’s singles event, Italy’s Armin Zoeggeler raced to his third World Cup win of the season but more importantly, the 32-year-old joined Austria’s Markus Prock and Germany’s Georg Hackl as the only three sliders ever to record 33-career series victories. 

The two-time Olympic champion raced to a two-run time of 1:39.469, only .084 seconds ahead of Russia’s Albert Demtschenko, who finished second with a combined time of 1:39.553.  Demtschenko settled for silver after leading Zoeggeler by more than a tenth of a second after the first heat.  Latvia’s Martins Rubenis emerged as the race’s bronze medalist after recording a two-heat time of 1:39.554.

Benshoof, a two-time Olympian, posted a 10th place result and a two-run time of 1:40.129.