Americans Chevonne Forgan and Sophia Kirkby won their second bronze medal in three years at the World Luge Championships in women's doubles, which will be held for the first time at the 2026 Olympics.
Austrians Serena Eagle and Lara Michaela Kipp defeated Latvians Anda Upite and Zane Karma to win the two-run event by five-hundredths of a second.
Folgan and Kirkby were 136,000ths behind at Altenberg, Germany.
Forgan, 23, and Kirkby, 22, won bronze in the women's doubles at the inaugural World Championships in 2022.
In late 2022, the IOC announced that women's doubles would be among the events added to the next Winter Games in 2026.
Also on Saturday, German Max Langenhan won gold in the men's singles, a year after winning silver.
Austria's David Gleischer, the 2018 Olympic champion, won the silver medal. Felix Loch, the 2010 and 2014 Olympic champion, won his 10th career world medal in this event, bronze.
Three-time Olympian Tucker West was the top American in fourth place, falling 65 thousandths of a second from winning his first individual world medal.
Wendell Sackow, the 1993 world champion, is the only American to win a men's singles medal in world championship history.
The Austrians played a one-two in the men's doubles with Uri Gutt and Riccardo Schopf, and Thomas Støy and Wolfgang Kindl.
Germans Tobias Wendl and Tobias Alt, who have won the last three Olympic Pick titles, moved up from fourth place after the first run to win bronze, their ninth consecutive world medal in the event. Obtained.
The world luge competition concludes on Sunday with the women's singles and team relays.