• Young Latvian luge racers went to South Korea with the hope of getting good places, and they succeeded, but only Jānis Gruzdulis-Borovojs and Ādens Eduards Čepulis, who won second place in the doubles competition, won medals so far. In the fight for another medal in the team competition, they were joined by Edvards Marts Markitāns, who won fourth place, and Margita Sirsniņa, who won fifth place.
• A total of 10 teams competed in the team competition. The Latvians started in seventh place, while the South Korean luge racers led the race. Sirsniņa executed its trip well, but was weaker for Markitāns, splitting Sirsniņa’s lead. Everything was solved by the Latvian pair, who clearly surpassed the representative of South Korea, putting Latvia at the top of the ranking with a total time of 2:30.299 minutes.
• The Germans were next to start, with individual race winner Antonina Pičmana creating a lead of 0.625 seconds. The Latvian team recovered a couple of tenths thanks to a not so lucky ride by Silas Sartots, but the Germans’ medal hopes were dashed by the two crews, unable to bring their team to the finish line of the relay and count the result. The Austrians fought fiercely with the Latvian team, but Paul Soher’s one-second lead on Markitans was not enough to overcome the Latvians, who were still 0.112 seconds ahead.
• The Latvians began the external fight for gold medals with the Italian team with a lead of 0.003 seconds for Sirsniņa against Aleksandar Oberštolcs, but Leon Hasselrieder easily erased this deficit, turning it into an advantage of almost nine tenths. Although Gruzdulis-Borovojs/Čepulis showed the best time among the pairs, the Italian competitors, the winners of the pairs competition Filips Bruners/Manuels Vaizenštainers, lost only slightly, beating the Latvian team by 0.829 seconds and becoming the winners of the competition, while the silver went to Latvia.
Gangwon World Youth Winter Olympics, Luge, Relay
VTeamResult1.Italy2:29.4702.Latvia+0.8293.Austria+0.9514.South Korea+3.4405.Ukraine+3.9926.Poland+4.058
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