| Men's singles at the XVI Olympic Winter Games | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | La Plagne | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 9–10 February | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 34 from 18 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 3:02.363 | ||||||||||||
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| Luge at the 1992 Winter Olympics | ||
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| Singles | men | women |
| Doubles | men | |
The men's singles luge competition at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville was held on 9 and 10 February, at La Plagne. [1] [2]
| Rank [1] | Athlete | Country | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total |
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 | Georg Hackl |  Germany | 45.190 | 45.351 | 46.026 | 45.796 | 3:02.363 |
 | Markus Prock |  Austria | 45.356 | 45.330 | 46.075 | 45.908 | 3:02.669 |
 | Markus Schmidt | Austria | 45.243 | 45.416 | 46.254 | 46.029 | 3:02.942 |
| 4 | Norbert Huber |  Italy | 45.506 | 45.400 | 46.105 | 45.962 | 3:02.973 |
| 5 | Jens Müller | Germany | 45.435 | 45.598 | 46.023 | 46.136 | 3:03.192 |
| 6 | Robert Manzenreiter | Austria | 45.573 | 45.550 | 46.222 | 45.922 | 3:03.267 |
| 7 | Oswald Haselrieder | Italy | 45.698 | 45.319 | 46.252 | 46.007 | 3:03.276 |
| 8 | René Friedl | Germany | 45.609 | 45.503 | 46.274 | 46.157 | 3:03.543 |
| 9 | Sergey Danilin |  Unified Team | 45.708 | 45.622 | 46.281 | 46.162 | 3:03.773 |
| 10 | Duncan Kennedy |  United States | 45.553 | 45.849 | 46.258 | 46.192 | 3:03.852 |
| 11 | Gerhard Plankensteiner | Italy | 45.676 | 45.752 | 46.313 | 46.167 | 3:03.908 |
| 12 | Wendel Suckow | United States | 45.838 | 45.874 | 46.416 | 46.067 | 3:04.195 |
| 13 | Agris Elerts |  Latvia | 45.785 | 45.906 | 46.456 | 46.527 | 3:04.674 |
| 14 | Mikael Holm |  Sweden | 46.202 | 45.794 | 46.914 | 46.382 | 3:05.292 |
| 15 | Oleg Yermolin | Unified Team | 46.046 | 46.176 | 46.569 | 46.504 | 3:05.295 |
| 16 | Eduard Burmistrov | Unified Team | 46.138 | 46.032 | 46.612 | 46.728 | 3:05.510 |
| 17 | Kazuhiko Takamatsu |  Japan | 46.283 | 46.065 | 46.838 | 46.614 | 3:05.800 |
| 18 | Harington Telford |  Canada | 45.924 | 46.426 | 46.829 | 47.016 | 3:06.195 |
| 19 | Petr Urban |  Czechoslovakia | 46.211 | 46.285 | 46.961 | 46.812 | 3:06.269 |
| 20 | Jan Kohoutek | Czechoslovakia | 46.156 | 46.261 | 46.958 | 47.067 | 3:06.442 |
| 21 | Robert Pipkins | United States | 47.996 | 45.878 | 46.601 | 46.424 | 3:06.899 |
| 22 | Olivier Fraise |  France | 46.287 | 47.278 | 46.981 | 46.814 | 3:07.360 |
| 23 | Nick Ovett |  Great Britain | 46.517 | 46.456 | 47.257 | 47.173 | 3:07.403 |
| 24 | Christi-Adrian Sudu | Canada | 46.669 | 46.576 | 47.328 | 47.225 | 3:07.798 |
| 25 | Pablo García |  Spain | 46.521 | 46.818 | 47.256 | 47.715 | 3:08.310 |
| 26 | Ioan Apostol |  Romania | 46.728 | 46.913 | 47.516 | 47.626 | 3:08.783 |
| 27 | Ian Whitehead | Great Britain | 46.814 | 47.121 | 47.613 | 47.356 | 3:08.904 |
| 28 | Yves Boyer | France | 47.378 | 46.917 | 47.891 | 47.644 | 3:09.830 |
| 29 | Simon Payne |  Bermuda | 47.741 | 47.517 | 47.942 | 47.973 | 3:11.173 |
| 30 | Kyle Heikkila |  Virgin Islands | 46.886 | 47.170 | 48.486 | 48.636 | 3:11.178 |
| 31 | Rubén González |  Argentina | 47.301 | 47.238 | 48.086 | 49.152 | 3:11.777 |
| 32 | Frédéric Bertrand | France | 47.663 | 47.800 | 48.443 | 49.050 | 3:12.956 |
| 33 | Igor Špirić |  Yugoslavia | 48.261 | 47.947 | 48.707 | 48.508 | 3:13.423 |
| 34 | Ismar Biogradlić | Yugoslavia | 48.997 | 48.570 | 49.783 | 49.305 | 3:16.655 |
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