Italians dominate luge World Cup

(AP) — Two-time Olympic champion Armin Zoeggeler celebrated his 48th World Cup victory, winning the singles race to complete an Italian sweep at a luge meet on Saturday.

Christian Oberstolz and Patrick Gruber won their first doubles race of the season to lead a 1-2 finish for Italy.

Zoeggeler won in a combined time of one minute 47.601 seconds for the two runs. Albert Demtschenko of Russia was 0.02 seconds back and two-time world champion David Moeller of Germany was third, 0.05 back.

Zoeggeler leads the overall standings with 555 points.

Oberstolz and Gruber had a combined time of 1 minute, 28.597 seconds over the two runs to score their 15th career victory. World champions Gerhard Plankensteiner and Oswald Haselrieder, also of Italy, were 0.20 seconds behind.

Patric Leitner and Alexander Resch of Germany, the 2002 Olympic champions, finished third. Marc Grimette and Brian Martin of the United States were fourth.

Three-time world champions Andre Florschuetz and Torsten Wustlich of Germany leads the overall standings with 442 points despite finishing 12th.