| Men's singles at the XIV Olympic Winter Games | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Sarajevo Olympic Bobsleigh and Luge Track | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 9–12 February | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 32 from 16 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 3:04.549 | ||||||||||||
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| Luge at the 1984 Winter Olympics | ||
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| Singles | men | women |
| Doubles | men | |
The men's singles luge competition at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo was held from 9 to 12 February, at Sarajevo Olympic Bobsleigh and Luge Track. [1] [2]
| Rank [1] | Athlete | Country | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total |
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 | Paul Hildgartner |  Italy | 46.182 | 46.271 | 45.871 | 45.934 | 3:04.258 |
 | Sergey Danilin |  Soviet Union | 46.433 | 46.284 | 46.176 | 46.069 | 3:04.962 |
 | Valery Dudin | Soviet Union | 46.385 | 46.334 | 46.201 | 46.092 | 3:05.012 |
| 4 | Michael Walter |  East Germany | 46.196 | 46.305 | 46.358 | 46.172 | 3:05.031 |
| 5 | Torsten Görlitzer | East Germany | 46.177 | 46.205 | 46.571 | 46.176 | 3:05.129 |
| 6 | Ernst Haspinger | Italy | 46.157 | 46.562 | 46.438 | 46.170 | 3:05.327 |
| 7 | Yury Kharchenko | Soviet Union | 46.310 | 46.469 | 46.337 | 46.432 | 3:05.548 |
| 8 | Markus Prock |  Austria | 46.458 | 46.571 | 46.345 | 46.465 | 3:05.839 |
| 9 | Norbert Huber | Italy | 46.888 | 46.629 | 46.265 | 46.127 | 3:05.909 |
| 10 | Gerhard Sandbichler | Austria | 46.601 | 46.613 | 46.542 | 46.697 | 3:06.453 |
| 11 | Wolfgang Schädler |  Liechtenstein | 46.815 | 47.019 | 46.654 | 46.509 | 3:06.997 |
| 12 | Thomas Rzeznizok |  West Germany | 46.704 | 46.970 | 47.154 | 46.539 | 3:07.367 |
| 13 | Norbert Loch | East Germany | 46.784 | 46.886 | 47.214 | 46.830 | 3:07.714 |
| 14 | Frank Masley |  United States | 46.890 | 47.073 | 46.797 | 46.990 | 3:07.750 |
| 15 | Georg Fluckinger | Austria | 47.552 | 47.000 | 46.989 | 46.448 | 3:07.989 |
| 16 | Dušan Dragojević |  Yugoslavia | 47.480 | 47.332 | 47.465 | 47.338 | 3:09.615 |
| 17 | David Gilman | United States | 47.341 | 48.178 | 47.151 | 47.187 | 3:09.857 |
| 18 | Martin Förster |  Czechoslovakia | 47.691 | 47.718 | 47.756 | 47.528 | 3:10.693 |
| 19 | Fredrik Wickman |  Sweden | 47.693 | 47.850 | 47.808 | 47.579 | 3:10.930 |
| 20 | Takashi Takagi |  Japan | 48.402 | 47.527 | 47.877 | 47.329 | 3:11.135 |
| 21 | Timothy Nardiello | United States | 47.899 | 47.799 | 47.784 | 47.838 | 3:11.320 |
| 22 | Asle Strand |  Norway | 48.567 | 47.629 | 47.784 | 47.573 | 3:11.553 |
| 23 | Stanislav Ptáčník | Czechoslovakia | 48.133 | 47.746 | 47.706 | 48.060 | 3:11.645 |
| 24 | Tsukasa Hirakawa | Japan | 47.732 | 48.015 | 47.776 | 48.241 | 3:11.764 |
| 25 | Sun Kuang-Ming |  Chinese Taipei | 50.090 | 48.080 | 49.174 | 47.946 | 3:15.290 |
| 26 | Mike Howard |  Great Britain | 50.415 | 50.090 | 48.343 | 48.315 | 3:17.163 |
| 27 | André Usborne | Great Britain | 49.901 | 49.853 | 49.447 | 48.438 | 3:17.639 |
| 28 | Suad Karajica | Yugoslavia | 54.075 | 48.293 | 47.797 | 48.123 | 3:18.288 |
| 29 | Chris Prentice | Great Britain | 50.033 | 50.074 | 50.384 | 49.283 | 3:19.774 |
| 30 | George Tucker |  Puerto Rico | 53.962 | 52.097 | 53.271 | 52.873 | 3:32.203 |
| - | Johannes Schettel | West Germany | 47.318 | 47.071 | 46.947 | DQ | - |
| - | Ioan Apostol |  Romania | 46.388 | DQ | - | - | - |
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