After his victory in Whistler, Felix Loch also impressed at the next overseas World Cup.

The luge record world champion took a good second place on the US track in Park City, just under two tenths of a second faster was the Italian Dominik Fischnaller.

Third was David Gleirscher from Austria.

"It didn't work at all in the upper section of the track, but I was still able to make the best of it," said Loch: "After that it was really good, I can definitely be very satisfied with second place." The second-best German was David Nössler as a strong seventh, the 21-year-old is making his World Cup debut this winter.

Two weeks after the clear result at the season opener in Innsbruck, there is a very balanced picture at the top: At that time Austria, now trained by Germany's luge icon Georg Hackl, celebrated a quadruple victory.

At the World Cups in North America, the top riders from Germany, Austria and Italy were now close together.

Second victory for Eggert/Benecken

In the doubles, Toni Eggert/Sascha Benecken achieved their second win in a row.

The world champions won with a lead of 33 thousandths over Juri Gatt/Riccardo Schöpf from Austria and thus also took the lead in the World Cup series.

The Bavarian Olympic champions Tobias Wendl/Tobias Arlt impressed with third place.

Jessica Degenhardt and Cheyenne Rosenthal took second place in women's doubles.

The two Germans benefited from major problems of the Austrians Selina Egle and Lara Kipp, who were ahead of them after the first run, who got off track with their sled in the decision, touched the sides of the ice channel several times and fell back to sixth place.

Andrea Vötter/Marion Oberhofer from Austria won with a lead of six tenths of a second.

Caitlin Nash/Natalie Corless of Canada were third.