| Girls' singles at the I Winter Youth Olympic Games | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Olympic Sliding Centre Innsbruck | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 16 January | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 24 from 15 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 1:20.197 | ||||||||||||
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| Luge at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics | |||
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| Singles | boys | girls | |
| Doubles | open | ||
| Relay | mixed | ||
The girls' singles luge at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics took place on 16 January at the Olympic Sliding Centre Innsbruck. [1]
The first run was held at 14:00 and the second run at 15:35. [2]
| Rank | Bib | Athlete | Country | Run 1 | Rank 1 | Run 2 | Rank 2 | Total | Behind |
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 | 9 | Miriam Kastlunger |  Austria | 40.107 | 2 | 40.090 | 1 | 1:20.197 | |
 | 3 | Saskia Langer |  Germany | 40.056 | 1 | 40.358 | 5 | 1:20.414 | +0.217 |
 | 11 | Ulla Zirne |  Latvia | 40.184 | 3 | 40.295 | 2 | 1:20.479 | +0.282 |
| 4 | 12 | Nina Prock | Austria | 40.247 | 4 | 40.352 | 4 | 1:20.599 | +0.402 |
| 5 | 5 | Summer Britcher |  United States | 40.321 | 5 | 40.309 | 3 | 1:20.630 | +0.433 |
| 6 | 2 | Andrea Vötter |  Italy | 40.352 | 6 | 40.393 | 6 | 1:20.745 | +0.548 |
| 7 | 6 | Ekaterina Katnikova |  Russia | 40.441 | 7 | 40.502 | 8 | 1:20.943 | +0.746 |
| 8 | 23 | Gry Martine Mostue |  Norway | 40.757 | 8 | 40.760 | 10 | 1:21.517 | +1.320 |
| 9 | 10 | Olena Stetskiv |  Ukraine | 40.837 | 11 | 40.800 | 11 | 1:21.637 | +1.440 |
| 10 | 1 | Vendula Kotenová |  Czech Republic | 40.809 | 10 | 40.857 | 12 | 1:21.666 | +1.469 |
| 11 | 4 | Tara Disturnal |  Canada | 40.793 | 9 | 40.903 | 13 | 1:21.696 | +1.499 |
| 12 | 18 | Natalia Biesiadzka |  Poland | 41.044 | 13 | 40.921 | 15 | 1:21.965 | +1.768 |
| 13 | 20 | Galyna Kurechko | Ukraine | 41.107 | 15 | 40.916 | 14 | 1:22.023 | +1.826 |
| 14 | 13 | Raychel Germaine | United States | 40.856 | 12 | 41.324 | 18 | 1:22.180 | +1.983 |
| 15 | 14 | Ana Maria Şovăială |  Romania | 41.233 | 17 | 41.134 | 16 | 1:22.367 | +2.170 |
| 16 | 22 | Elena Poştoacă | Romania | 41.125 | 16 | 41.325 | 19 | 1:22.450 | +2.253 |
| 17 | 15 | Tatiana Zifčáková |  Slovakia | 41.080 | 14 | 41.727 | 21 | 1:22.807 | +2.610 |
| 18 | 17 | Karoline Frimo Melås | Norway | 41.604 | 19 | 41.240 | 17 | 1:22.844 | +2.647 |
| 19 | 24 | Nikola Drajnová | Slovakia | 41.574 | 18 | 41.326 | 20 | 1:22.900 | +2.703 |
| 20 | 7 | Victoria Demchenko | Russia | 43.006 | 22 | 40.478 | 7 | 1:23.484 | +3.287 |
| 21 | 19 | Petra Petko |  Croatia | 42.094 | 20 | 41.780 | 22 | 1:23.874 | +3.677 |
| 22 | 21 | Ema Bago | Croatia | 42.351 | 21 | 42.379 | 23 | 1:24.730 | +4.533 |
| 23 | 8 | Maria Messner | Italy | 44.728 | 23 | 40.550 | 9 | 1:25.278 | +5.081 |
| 16 | Darya Kudryavtseva |  Kazakhstan | Did not finish | Did not start | |||||
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Youth Olympic champions in Luge – girls' singles | |
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