Jamanka arrived in the Canadian city as the reigning Olympic, European and World Cup champion and she added the world title to that list by completing her four runs alongside Annika Drazek in a combined time of 3min 30.08sec at the Whistler Sliding Centre.

The German duo produced a blistering performance to break the track record on their third run, stopping the clock at 52.01sec.

They finished 1.06 ahead of nearest challengers and compatriots Stephanie Schneider and Ann-Christin Strack, who took silver in 3:31.14.

Canada's Christine de Bruin and Kristen Bujnowski were a further 0.11 adrift in third.

Defending champion Elana Meyers Taylor of the United States and Lake Kwaza endured a disastrous outing as they crashed just short of the finish line in their third run and were unable to complete the fourth.

"It was amazing," said Jamanka. 

"I can't believe that we really made it and we are world champions.

"The last run was very, very bad and I was disappointed about myself.

"The third one was great. 

"We went down the track in first place and we were just like 'just do your thing.'"

There was further success for Germany in the team event as they nation continued their domination of this year's World Championships.

The team of skeleton athlete Christopher Grotheer, two-woman bobsleigh athletes Anna Köhler and Lisa Sophie Gericke, women's skeleton competitor Sophia Griebel and the two-man bobsleigh duo of and Johannes Lochner and Marc Rademacher retained their title in 3:31.85.

Their time was 0.15 quicker than Canada, represented by Dave Greszczyszyn, Christine de Bruin and Kristen Bujnowski, Mirela Rahneva, and Nick Poloniato and Keefer Joyce.

The second American squad of Greg West, Brittany Reinbolt and Jessica Davis, Savannah Graybill, and Geoffrey Gadbois and Kristopher Horn earned bronze.