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"That sounds wonderful," said Taubitz of her title
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Julia Taubitz is the outstanding athlete of the 50th Luge World Championships and made the triumph perfect for the German women.
After her victory in the sprint, the 24-year-old celebrated her first world championship title in the classic discipline on Sunday in a single-seater and thus rose to double world champion.
At the same time she led a German fourfold success at Königssee.
Long-time dominator and Olympic champion Natalie Geisenberger was more than three tenths of a second behind as second, Dajana Eitberger took bronze.
Anna Berreiter was fourth to miss her first World Cup medal.
A total of 20 athletes went into the ice channel in the second round.
"That sounds wonderful"
"That sounds wonderful," said Taubitz of the title "Luge Queen", which she now wears for the first time, "I didn't expect that, so much can always happen on this track."
For Taubitz, the triumph in the past two years had certainly been indicated, in 2019 and 2020 she became vice world champion in each case, and last season she won the overall World Cup.
It wasn't until 2015 that she made her debut in the World Cup at the age of only 19.
Geisenberger, however, missed the chance of her fifth world title on Saturday, with which she would have set Tatjana Hüfner's record.
Silver for the 32-year-old is just as impressive as bronze for Eitberger: Both had only returned from their baby breaks at the beginning of the season.
Taubitz has already won her second gold medal at the World Championships at Königssee, and on Friday she won the sprint for the first time.
In the non-Olympic competition, too, the German quartet made the first four places among themselves.
At the last 30 world championships, the winner was not a German only four times.
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