The Olympic champions clocked a combined time of 1min 40.368sec in tricky conditions to move onto 35 wins, one clear of compatriots Patric Leitner and Alexander Resch, who retired in 2010.

By taking their sixth win of the season on the 2014 Olympic track, the Bavarian pairing relegated Russia's Andrey Bogdanov and Andrey Medvedev into second, 0.521 behind, and the Italian duo of Christian Oberstolz and Patrick Gruber into third, 0.624 adrift.

"The new ice created extremely difficult conditions," said Wendl, who won his third World Championship doubles title alongside Arlt last weekend in Königssee, Germany.

"That was the most difficult race we’ve ever competed in."

Americans Matthew Mortensen and Jayson Terdiman had held the lead at the halfway point but a mistake on their second run dropped them back to ninth.

Wendl and Arlt, who remain undefeated at the Sanki Sliding Center, have increased their tally in the overall World Cup standings to 867 points.

It gives them a comfortable 105-point advantage over defending champions Toni Eggert and Sascha Benecken, also of Germany, while Austria’s Peter Penz and Georg Fischler are currently lying third on 715 points.

Meanwhile in the women’s World Cup event, home favourite Tatiana Ivanova finally managed to win a race in Sochi having failed to do so at the 2014 Winter Olympics and 2015 European Championships.

Fresh from winning World Championship bronze, the two-time European champion took her second victory of the season with a time of 1:41.023, adding to her triumph in Sigulda, Latvia last month.

"It’s always special when an athlete wins on their home track," said Ivanova, Olympic silver medallist in the team relay.

"And I’ve finally done it.

"I’m over the moon."

Ivanova’s team-mate Victoria Demchenko was 0.129 seconds behind in second - a career-best result for the daughter of three-time Olympic silver medallist Albert Demchenko - with Olympic and world champion Natalie Geisenberger of Germany having to settle for third, 0.190 back.

Geisenberger retains her overall lead in the World Cup standings with 750 points, followed by the United States’ Summer Britcher on 645 and another American Erin Hamlin on 642.

The next round of the Luge World Cup is scheduled to take place in the German town of Altenberg from February 13 to 14 and will double as the 47th International Luge Federation European Championships.