| Men's singles at the XX Olympic Winter Games | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Cesana Pariol | ||||||||||||
| Dates | February 11 – 12 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 36 from 19 nations | ||||||||||||
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| Luge at the 2006 Winter Olympics | |||
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| Doubles | open | ||
The men's luge at the 2006 Winter Olympics began on February 11, and was completed on February 12 at Cesana Pariol.
The men's singles luge event was run over two days, with the first two runs on February 11, and the second two runs on February 12. The total time was the combined time of all four runs. [1]
| Place | Athlete | Country | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Total | Behind |
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 | Armin Zöggeler |  Italy | 51.718 | 51.414 | 51.430 | 51.526 | 3:26.088 | — |
 | Albert Demtschenko |  Russia | 51.747 | 51.543 | 51.396 | 51.512 | 3:26.198 | +0.110 |
 | Mārtiņš Rubenis |  Latvia | 51.913 | 51.497 | 51.561 | 51.474 | 3:26.445 | +0.357 |
| 4 | Tony Benshoof |  United States | 51.907 | 51.458 | 51.674 | 51.559 | 3:26.598 | +0.510 |
| 5 | David Möller |  Germany | 52.085 | 51.533 | 51.655 | 51.655 | 3:26.711 | +0.623 |
| 6 | Jan Eichhorn | Germany | 52.103 | 51.469 | 51.656 | 51.515 | 3:26.743 | +0.655 |
| 7 | Georg Hackl | Germany | 51.856 | 51.583 | 51.806 | 51.674 | 3:26.919 | +0.831 |
| 8 | Reinhold Rainer | Italy | 51.926 | 51.696 | 51.647 | 51.733 | 3:27.002 | +0.914 |
| 9 | Markus Kleinheinz |  Austria | 52.140 | 51.767 | 51.841 | 51.839 | 3:27.587 | +1.499 |
| 10 | Wilfried Huber | Italy | 52.095 | 51.748 | 51.848 | 51.984 | 3:27.675 | +1.587 |
| 11 | Viktor Kneib | Russia | 52.050 | 52.150 | 51.981 | 51.884 | 3:28.065 | +1.977 |
| 12 | Reiner Margreiter | Austria | 52.200 | 51.880 | 52.234 | 51.800 | 3:28.114 | +2.026 |
| 13 | Daniel Pfister | Austria | 52.317 | 52.103 | 52.058 | 51.882 | 3:28.360 | +2.272 |
| 14 | Jeff Christie |  Canada | 52.382 | 52.027 | 52.013 | 51.939 | 3:28.361 | +2.273 |
| 15 | Stefan Höhener |  Switzerland | 52.459 | 51.989 | 52.124 | 52.212 | 3:28.784 | +2.696 |
| 16 | Adam Rosen |  Great Britain | 52.610 | 52.130 | 52.093 | 52.150 | 3:28.983 | +2.895 |
| 17 | Kaspars Dumpis | Latvia | 52.432 | 52.063 | 52.391 | 52.402 | 3:29.288 | +3.200 |
| 18 | Jonathan Myles | United States | 52.579 | 52.267 | 52.230 | 52.332 | 3:29.408 | +3.320 |
| 19 | Samuel Edney | Canada | 52.663 | 52.523 | 52.360 | 52.311 | 3:29.857 | +3.769 |
| 20 | Takahisa Oguchi |  Japan | 52.795 | 52.449 | 52.498 | 52.366 | 3:30.108 | +4.020 |
| 21 | Guntis Rekis | Latvia | 52.769 | 52.338 | 52.307 | 52.742 | 3:30.156 | +4.068 |
| 22 | Jozef Ninis |  Slovakia | 52.769 | 52.517 | 52.525 | 52.386 | 3:30.197 | +4.109 |
| 23 | Christian Niccum | United States | 53.669 | 52.675 | 52.306 | 52.539 | 3:31.189 | +5.101 |
| 24 | Kiril Serikov | Russia | 54.164 | 52.468 | 52.473 | 52.790 | 3:31.895 | +5.807 |
| 25 | Shiva Keshavan |  India | 53.729 | 52.972 | 52.696 | 52.540 | 3:31.937 | +5.849 |
| 26 | Domen Pociecha |  Slovenia | 53.141 | 53.073 | 53.039 | 53.072 | 3:32.325 | +6.237 |
| 27 | Jakub Hyman |  Czech Republic | 53.262 | 53.667 | 52.964 | 52.930 | 3:32.823 | +6.735 |
| 28 | Ma Chih-Hung |  Chinese Taipei | 53.939 | 53.605 | 53.977 | 53.620 | 3:35.141 | +9.053 |
| 29 | Kim Min-Kyu |  South Korea | 53.748 | 54.961 | 53.528 | 53.344 | 3:35.581 | +9.493 |
| 30 | Bogdan Macovei |  Moldova | 55.681 | 55.101 | 54.005 | 53.599 | 3:38.386 | +12.298 |
| 31 | Peter Iliev |  Bulgaria | 54.806 | 55.189 | 55.761 | 53.927 | 3:39.683 | +13.595 |
| 32 | Werner Hoeger |  Venezuela | 56.754 | 55.411 | 56.256 | 55.169 | 3:43.590 | +17.502 |
| 33 | Jaroslav Slavik | Slovakia | 52.786 | 52.066 | 73.877 | 52.156 | 3:50.885 | +24.797 |
| 34 | Shigeaki Ushijima | Japan | 53.306 | 89.310 | 52.414 | 52.318 | 4:07.348 | +41.260 |
| 35 | Mark Hatton | Great Britain | 52.790 | 52.720 | 94.895 | 52.494 | 4:12.899 | +46.811 |
| — | Ian Cockerline | Canada | 52.290 | 52.107 | 52.255 | DNF | — | — |
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