LAKE PLACID, N.Y. -- Canadians Alex Gough and Kim McRae both landed on the podium Saturday at a luge World Cup event.

Gough, of Calgary, took silver while McRae, also of Calgary, finished third. Germany's Natalie Geisenberger held off the Canadian charge to win the gold medal with a time of one minute, 28.211 seconds on the highly-technical 16-corner track.

"It is always fun to be on the podium, and it is way more fun to be there with a teammate," said the 30-year-old Gough. "It was a lot of fun for Kim and I to be up there together today."

Feeding off a triple-medal performance on home ice in Calgary one week ago, and a bronze medal breakthrough by the doubles tandem of Tristan Walker and Justin Snith on Friday, Gough and McRae made a statement of their own in the women's singles race.

Gough won her second-straight silver medal with a time of 1:28.315. McRae slid to her first podium of the year, clocking a third-place time of 1:28.352.

"We were all so happy for the doubles team to have a good race yesterday," said Gough. "It built excitement within the team and we wanted to follow that up with a good result today."

Gough put down the second-fastest down time in the first heat on the 1,135-metre channel of ice that winds its way down Mount Hoevenberg.

"This is a technical track that has sections you just need to get," Gough said. "We only got four training runs this week so we had to figure it out quickly. These results leave us with good confidence going into the new year. We are excited to have time off and then go to Konigssee which is a track we all enjoy."

McRae's bronze was the 25-year-old's third-career World Cup medal.

"This was huge for me," said McRae. "The first half (of the season) has been up and down so it is nice to come into the break with a podium."

Geisenberger fought through snowy conditions Saturday to get her fourth luge victory this season. It was the 42nd career World Cup singles gold medal for Geisenberger, extending her series record.

"This win is a really great feeling," Geisenberger said. "I had a hard time in training. It was not as I wished. I like the track, I like the challenge, but the challenge is not easy."

Geisenberger now has six career wins on the Mount Van Hoevenberg track -- tying the record set by Italian legend Armin Zoeggler. Later Saturday, the German doubles team of Toni Eggert and Sascha Benecken won a sprint World Cup race and that victory gave them six golds in Lake Placid.

Geisenberger is also now a nine-time Lake Placid medallist, one behind Zoeggler's record. She finished two runs in 1 minute, 28.211 seconds.

In the men's sprint, Wolfgang Kindl of Austria won gold, followed by Johannes Ludwig of Germany and newly qualified Olympic-teamer Taylor Morris of the U.S.

Germany won four golds, one silver and a bronze out of the six races over the weekend. Canada won four medals (two silver, two bronze), Austria won three medals (one gold, two silver), and Russia (one gold, one silver) and the U.S. (two bronze) medalled twice. Latvia won a bronze.