Chevonne Forgan and Sophia Kirkby led Team USA, placing fourth in women’s doubles. Earlier in the day during the Nation’s Cup qualifying race, Tucker West secured a new start record.

Ashley Farquharson placed sixth in the women’s World Cup luge competition held at the 2018 Olympic sliding venue. She was the lone U.S. sled entered in the women’s race.

In the mixed doubles event, the men’s duo og Zack DiGregorio and Sean Hollander alongside the women’s team of Chevonne Forgan and Sophia Kirkby finished sixth, as did the mixed singles team of Tucker West and Farquharson.

The mixed event features two sleds; a man and a woman or a men’s doubles sled and a women’s doubles sled. In the singles competition, the male athlete takeshis run like a normal trip down the track, but instead of the clock stopping at the traditional finish line, he strikes a pad hanging over the track, which opens the gate for the female athlete. The clock stops when she strikes the pad at the bottom of the track. Doubles follow the same format.

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Women’s doubles

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Forgan, of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, and Kirkby of Lake Placid, the only women’s doubles team representing the United States, set a start record. This achievement marked the first start record for the discipline recorded on the PyeongChang track. With the fastest starts in both heats, the duo finished a strong fourth place with a time of 1 minute 34.238 seconds.

Germany’s Jessica Degenhardt and Cheyenne Rosenthal took the gold in 1:33.618, followed by 2025 World Champions Selina Egle and Lara Kipp of Austria in second in 1:33.641. Dajana Eitberger and Magdalena Matschina of Germany were third in 1:34.013.

With six World Cup gold medals this season, Egle/Kipp are the overall leaders with 735 points. Degenhardt/Rosenthal are second with 660, and Forgan/Kirkby are third with 541. Team USA’s Maya Chan of Chicago and Sophia Gordon of Sussex, Wisconsin, who competed in select events this season, are 12th with 165.

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Men’s doubles

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2022 Olympians Zack DiGregorio and Sean Hollander are representing the U.S. in Asia, as teammates Marcus Mueller and Ansel Haugsjaa are currently with the Junior National Team in Oberhof, Germany. Yesterday, Mueller, of Brookfield, Wisconsin and Haugsjaa of Framingham, Massachusetts won the Junior World Cup race.

DiGregorio, of Medway, Massachusetts, and Hollander, of Lake Placid, placed seventh in Saturday’s race with a time of 1:33.235.

The gold medal went to Austria’s Thomas Steu and Wolfgang Kindl with a time of 1:32.578. The Germans completed with the podium with Toni Eggert and Florian Mueller in second in 1:32.580, and Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt third in 1:32.680.

Wendl/Arlt lead the overall points with 645, Steu/Kindl are second with 560 and Latvia’s Martins Bots and Roberts Plume are third with 556. DiGregorio/Hollander are in ninth with 291, and Mueller/Haugsjaa are 11th with 281. Americans Dana Kellogg of Chesterfield, Massachusetts and Frank Ike of Lititz, Pennsylvania, who left the circuit due to injury earlier in the season, are 24th with 58 points.

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Men’s singles

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Like many sleds in the discipline, curve nine presented challenges, including for West, of Lake Placid. The three-time Olympian was the start leader in both heats but hit the wall entering curve nine on the second run, resulting in a 12th place finish in 1:36.668.

Olympian Gustafson, of Massena, was consistent in both runs, but an issue toward the end of the second heat cost him time. He finished the day in 13th place with a time of 1:36.722.

Austria’s Wolfgang Kindl was first in 1:35.422, followed by Dominik Fischnaller of Italy in second in 1:35.514. Latvia’s Kristers Aparjods took the bronze in 1:35.533.

Despite placing fifth in Saturday’s race, Germany’s Max Langenhan remains the overall World Cup leader with 616 points. Nico Gleirscher of Austria is second with 558, and Germany’s Felix Loch is third with 505. Gustafson is 11th and West is in 12th, with 240 and 230 points, respectively. Americans who competed during the World Cup season, but are not in Asia, include Aidan Mueller of West Islip who is in 28th place with 85 points, Matt Greiner of Park City, Utah is 33rd with 52 and Hunter Harris of East Fairfield, Vermont is 37th with 35 points.

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Women’s singles

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Olympian Farquharson of Park City, Utah, competing for the first time at the Alpensia Sliding Center, finished sixth in 1:33.380. This was her fourth top six finish of the season.

2024 World Champion Lisa Schulte of Austria won her first-ever World Cup with a two-run combined time of 1:32.923. Germany’s Merle Fraebel was second in 1:33.296. Hannah Prock of Austria, competing in her second race of the year after a long recovery from a back injury, was third in 1:33.300.

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Mixed doubles

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Olympians DiGregorio and Hollander teamed with two-time World Championship medalists Forgan and Kirkby to place sixth in 1:38.517.

The race was won by Germany 1 in 1:37.835, with Austria second in 1:38.037 and Germany 2 third in 1:38.162.

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Mixed singles

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Three-time Olympian West and Farquharson both had clean runs and clocked a combined time of 1:39.214 to place sixth. With a reduced team size for the final two World Cup events, the duo was the only U.S. entry in the competition.

The race was won by Austria 2, featuring Wolfgang Kindl and Lisa Schulte in 1:38.613. Kindl also won the men’s singles race and the doubles race with teammate Thomas Steu. He was also a member of the silver medal-winning team in the mixed doubles event. Germany 1 was second in 1:38.635 and Germany 2 was third in 1:38.887.

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World Cup standings

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Farquharson is in seventh place with 345 points heading into the final event of the season next weekend as the only remaining U.S. women’s singles competitor. Emily Sweeney of Lake Placid is currently ranked 11th and will finish the season with 293 points. Summer Britcher of Glen Rock, Pennsylvania and now sits in 23rd place.

Madeline Egle of Austria, Schulte, and Julia Taubitz of Germany have set up an exciting conclusion to the World Cup season. They have 590, 570 and 557 points, respectively, as the circuit travels to China for next weekend’s season finale.