| Doubles at the I Winter Youth Olympic Games | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Olympic Sliding Centre Innsbruck | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 16 January | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 22 from 11 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 1:25.194 | ||||||||||||
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| Luge at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics | |||
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| Singles | boys | girls | |
| Doubles | open | ||
| Relay | mixed | ||
The doubles luge at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics took place on 16 January at the Olympic Sliding Centre Innsbruck.
Two runs were used to determine the winner. [1]
| Rank | Bib | Athlete | Country | Run 1 | Rank 1 | Run 2 | Rank 2 | Total | Behind |
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 | 6 | Florian Gruber Simon Kainzwaldner |  Italy | 42.590 | 1 | 42.604 | 1 | 1:25.194 | |
 | 8 | Tim Brendl Florian Funk |  Germany | 42.700 | 2 | 42.658 | 2 | 1:25.358 | +0.164 |
 | 5 | Ty Andersen Pat Edmunds |  United States | 42.817 | 3 | 42.949 | 4 | 1:25.766 | +0.572 |
| 4 | 2 | Yury Kalinin Sergey Belyayev |  Russia | 43.000 | 5 | 42.946 | 3 | 1:25.946 | +0.752 |
| 5 | 1 | Jozef Čikovský Patrik Tomaško |  Slovakia | 42.930 | 4 | 43.018 | 7 | 1:25.948 | +0.754 |
| 6 | 10 | Thomas Steu Lorenz Koller |  Austria | 43.013 | 6 | 42.999 | 6 | 1:26.012 | +0.818 |
| 7 | 9 | Kristens Putins Imants Marcinkēvičs |  Latvia | 43.415 | 7 | 42.985 | 5 | 1:26.400 | +1.206 |
| 8 | 4 | Cosmin Atodiresei Ștefan Musei |  Romania | 43.513 | 9 | 43.589 | 9 | 1:27.102 | +1.908 |
| 9 | 11 | Jakub Firlej Mateusz Woźniak |  Poland | 43.498 | 8 | 43.805 | 10 | 1:27.303 | +2.109 |
| 10 | 7 | Stanislav Maltsev Oleg Faskhutdinov |  Kazakhstan | 44.007 | 10 | 43.451 | 8 | 1:27.458 | +2.264 |
| 3 | Volodymyr Buryy Anatolii Lehedza |  Ukraine | 44.028 | 11 | Did not start | ||||
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Youth Olympic champions in Luge – boys' / mixed doubles | |
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| Boys | |