WINTERBERG, Germany (AP) World champion Natalie Geisenberger led a German sweep of the top three spots in the third World Cup luge race to maintain her perfect start to the season on Sunday.
The 25-year-old Geisenberger was fastest in both runs down the Hochsauerland course to finish in acombined time of 1 minute, 53.457 seconds for her 19th career victory.
Olympic champion Tatjana Huefner overcame earlier back problems to finish second in 1:53.897, while Anke Wischnewski clocked 1:54.101 to complete the German success.
Canada's Alex Gough was fourth, 0.925 seconds behind Geisenberger, followed by Russia's Tatiana Ivanova.
United States pair Erin Hamlin and Kat Hansen were sixth and seventh.
Geisenberger leads the standings with 300 points, ahead of Huefner (200) and Wischnewski (186).
However, a mistake from Geisenberger at the start of the team relay later Sunday cost Germany the chance of making it a perfect 4-for-4 in gold medals from the weekend.
Italy's Sandra Gasparini, Dominik Fischnaller and Christian Oberstolz with Patrick Gruber took advantage and won in a track record combined time of 2:25.874.
Hansen and American team mates Greg West, Christian Niccum and Jayson Terdiman were second, ahead of Austria's Nina Reithmayer, Daniel Pfister and Peter Penz with Georg Fischler.
The Germans had to make do with ninth.
On Saturday, Germany's Chris Eissler was the surprise winner of the men's singles race on his World Cup debut, and world champions Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt claimed their second doubles victory of the season.