| Men's singles at the XVIII Olympic Winter Games | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Spiral | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 8–9 February | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 34 from 18 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 3:18.436 | ||||||||||||
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| Luge at the 1998 Winter Olympics | |||
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| Doubles | open | ||
The men's singles luge competition at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano was held on 8 and 9 February, at Spiral. [1] [2]
The event was won by Georg Hackl, who became the first luger to win the gold medal in 3 successive Winter Olympics after winning the event in Albertville and Lillehammer. Armin Zöggeler of Italy took silver and Jens Müller - the bronze medal. Markus Prock, the silver medalist from Lillehammer, finished outside medal position in 4th. [1]
All times are (UTC+9).
| Date | Time | Event |
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| 8 February | 14:00 | Run 1 |
| 8 February | Run 2 | |
| 9 February | 14:00 | Run 3 |
| 9 February | Run 4 |
| Rank | Bib | Athlete | Country | Run 1 | Rank | Run 2 | Rank | Run 3 | Rank | Run 4 | Rank | Total | Deficit |
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 | 3 | Georg Hackl |  Germany | 49.619 | 1 | 49.573 | 1 | 49.614 | 1 | 49.630 | 1 | 3:18.436 | — |
 | 8 | Armin Zöggeler |  Italy | 49.715 | 2 | 49.690 | 2 | 49.737 | 3 | 49.797 | 3 | 3:18.939 | +0.503 |
 | 11 | Jens Müller | Germany | 49.954 | 4 | 49.700 | 3 | 49.729 | 2 | 49.710 | 2 | 3:19.093 | +0.657 |
| 4 | 4 | Markus Prock |  Austria | 49.861 | 3 | 49.732 | 4 | 49.863 | 4 | 50.200 | 11 | 3:19.656 | +1.220 |
| 5 | 9 | Markus Kleinheinz | Austria | 50.016 | 5 | 49.779 | 5 | 49.918 | 8 | 50.011 | 9 | 3:19.724 | +1.288 |
| 6 | 1 | Wendel Suckow |  United States | 50.069 | 6 | 49.871 | 7 | 49.908 | 6 | 49.880 | 5 | 3:19.728 | +1.292 |
| 7 | 10 | Gerhard Gleirscher | Austria | 50.161 | 9 | 49.816 | 6 | 49.911 | 7 | 49.897 | 7 | 3:19.785 | +1.349 |
| 8 | 7 | Reinhold Rainer | Italy | 50.105 | 8 | 50.008 | 9 | 49.897 | 5 | 49.936 | 8 | 3:19.946 | +1.510 |
| 9 | 12 | Adam Heidt | United States | 50.401 | 13 | 49.899 | 8 | 49.971 | 9 | 49.827 | 4 | 3:20.098 | +1.662 |
| 10 | 5 | Norbert Huber | Italy | 50.100 | 7 | 50.129 | 11 | 50.026 | 10 | 49.883 | 6 | 3:20.138 | +1.702 |
| 11 | 6 | Mikael Holm |  Sweden | 50.324 | 11 | 50.197 | 14 | 50.146 | 13 | 50.131 | 10 | 3:20.798 | +2.362 |
| 12 | 2 | Karsten Albert | Germany | 50.353 | 12 | 50.172 | 13 | 50.080 | 11 | 50.499 | 17 | 3:21.104 | +2.668 |
| 13 | 20 | Larry Dolan | United States | 50.558 | 15 | 50.163 | 12 | 50.140 | 12 | 50.267 | 12 | 3:21.128 | +2.692 |
| 14 | 34 | Mārtiņš Rubenis |  Latvia | 50.758 | 22 | 50.491 | 19 | 50.603 | 16 | 50.300 | 13 | 3:22.152 | +3.716 |
| 15 | 15 | Clay Ives |  Canada | 50.632 | 17 | 50.348 | 16 | 50.858 | 21 | 50.437 | 16 | 3:22.275 | +3.839 |
| 16 | 13 | Shigeaki Ushijima |  Japan | 50.747 | 20 | 50.405 | 17 | 50.716 | 19 | 50.435 | 15 | 3:22.303 | +3.867 |
| 17 | 21 | Guntis Rēķis | Latvia | 50.676 | 18 | 50.296 | 15 | 50.545 | 15 | 50.798 | 22 | 3:22.315 | +3.879 |
| 18 | 17 | Tyler Seitz | Canada | 50.689 | 19 | 50.948 | 23 | 50.400 | 14 | 50.405 | 14 | 3:22.442 | +4.006 |
| 19 | 18 | Bengt Walden | Sweden | 50.750 | 21 | 50.479 | 18 | 50.722 | 20 | 50.601 | 18 | 3:22.552 | +4.116 |
| 20 | 19 | Aleksandr Zubkov |  Russia | 50.488 | 14 | 50.944 | 22 | 50.650 | 17 | 50.619 | 19 | 3:22.701 | +4.265 |
| 21 | 31 | Anders Söderberg | Sweden | 50.878 | 23 | 50.696 | 21 | 50.708 | 18 | 50.747 | 21 | 3:23.029 | +4.593 |
| 22 | 14 | Reto Gilly |  Switzerland | 50.594 | 16 | 50.646 | 20 | 51.485 | 25 | 50.627 | 20 | 3:23.352 | +4.916 |
| 23 | 34 | Ismar Biogradlić |  Bosnia and Herzegovina | 51.252 | 25 | 51.170 | 25 | 51.384 | 24 | 51.363 | 24 | 3:25.169 | +6.733 |
| 24 | 29 | Spyros Pinas |  Greece | 51.628 | 28 | 51.123 | 24 | 51.335 | 22 | 51.294 | 23 | 3:25.380 | +6.944 |
| 25 | 30 | Sandris Berzinš | Latvia | 51.220 | 24 | 51.370 | 26 | 51.341 | 23 | 51.460 | 25 | 3:25.391 | +6.955 |
| 26 | 32 | Ion Cristian Stanciu |  Romania | 51.608 | 27 | 51.386 | 27 | 51.927 | 27 | 51.602 | 26 | 3:26.523 | +8.087 |
| 27 | 33 | Patrick Singleton |  Bermuda | 51.434 | 26 | 51.579 | 28 | 51.839 | 26 | 52.243 | 28 | 3:27.095 | +8.659 |
| 28 | 25 | Shiva Keshavan |  India | 52.315 | 29 | 52.127 | 29 | 52.043 | 28 | 51.900 | 27 | 3:28.385 | +9.949 |
| 29 | 23 | Lee Gi-ro |  South Korea | 54.299 | 32 | 52.875 | 30 | 53.472 | 30 | 54.075 | 29 | 3:34.721 | +16.285 |
| 30 | 28 | Hsieh Hsiang-chun |  Chinese Taipei | 54.192 | 31 | 53.093 | 31 | 53.325 | 29 | 54.159 | 30 | 3:34.769 | +16.333 |
| 31 | 22 | Gang Gwang-bae | South Korea | 53.492 | 30 | 53.829 | 32 | 53.685 | 31 | 54.952 | 31 | 3:35.958 | +17.522 |
| 32 | 26 | Lee Yong | South Korea | 54.842 | 33 | 54.838 | 33 | 54.731 | 32 | 55.996 | 32 | 3:40.407 | +21.971 |
| - | 16 | Albert Demchenko | Russia | 50.224 | 10 | 50.011 | 10 | 50.118 | - | DQ | - | - | N/A |
| - | 27 | Andrus Paul |  Estonia | DQ | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | N/A |
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