East German Gabi Kohlisch, in her final...

East German Gabi Kohlisch, in her final race, won the women’s singles event at the 27th World Luge Championships at Calgary.

Kohlisch, 26, navigated down the 1,050-meter track at Canada Olympic Park in a combined time of 1 minute 32.553 seconds in two runs to edge Julia Antipova of the Soviet Union and West Germany’s Jana Bode.

Kohlisch’s trainer, Franz Schneider, died two weeks ago after suffering a heart attack in his car and crashing.