WINTERBERG, Germany -- U.S. Olympic bronze medal winners Mark Grimmette and Brian Martin broke a heat record Saturday while capturing the doubles at the luge World Cup.
Martin and Grimmette set the new record of 45.978 seconds on their rain-soaked second run.Martin and Grimmette won in a combined time of 1 minute, 32.641 seconds, followed by Austrian cousins Tobias and Markus Schiegl and Germany's Patrick Leitner and Alexander Resch.
Americans Chris Thorpe and Gordy Sheer were fourth. Teammates Christian Niccum and Matt McClain, who have already won two events, were 15th after crashing on the second run.
WORLD CUP SKI JUMPING: At Harrachov, Czech Republic, World champion ski jumper Janne Ahonen of Finland scored his second World Cup victory of the season Saturday, soaring a record 132 meters in the second round of a ski jumping event on the 120-kilometer hill.
Ahonen, who was seventh after the first round, leaping an average 109 meters, beat Rony Hornschuh of Germany by 13 points.
Japan's Kazuoshi Funaki finished third, with jumps of 107.5 and 123 1/2 meters.
CROSS COUNTRY: At Davos, Switzerland, triple Olympic champion Bjoern Daehlie of Norway captured his third consecutive victory Saturday, winning a men's 30-kilometer classic cross country ski race.
Daehlie covered the 18 1/2 miles in 1 hour, 14 minutes, 49.2 seconds, beating out world champion Alexei Prokurorov of Russia by more than half a minute. He strengthened his lead in the season standings.
In the women's competition, two-time Olympic gold medal winner Olga Danilova of Russia won the 15-kilometer classic, edging World Cup overall leader Bente Martinsen of Norway. It was Danilova's first victory of the season.
SNOWBOARDING: At Bend, Ore., Ross Powers and Shannon Dunn, who overcame steady rain to win Olympic medals last February, outlasted stinging zero-degree cold Saturday to win Grand Prix halfpipe contests at Mount Bachelor Ski Area.
Powers, the World Cup halfpipe leader whose first two runs scored highest in the best two-of-three contest, received 81.3 points. Runnerup Canadian Michael Michaelchuck had 79.6 and Adam Petraska of Chester Vt., who lives about 10 miles from Powers, was third with 77.8.