| Boys' singles at the II Winter Youth Olympic Games | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Lillehammer Olympic Bobsleigh and Luge Track | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 14 February | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 22 from 21 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 1:35.309 | ||||||||||||
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| Luge at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics | |||
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| Singles | boys | girls | |
| Doubles | open | ||
| Relay | mixed | ||
The boys' singles luge at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics took place on 14 February at the Lillehammer Olympic Bobsleigh and Luge Track. [1]
| Rank | Bib | Athlete | Country | Run 1 | Rank 1 | Run 2 | Rank 2 | Total | Behind |
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 | 7 | Kristers Aparjods |  Latvia | 47.691 | 1 | 47.618 | 1 | 1:35.309 | – |
 | 8 | Paul-Lukas Heider |  Germany | 47.999 | 3 | 47.956 | 4 | 1:35.955 | +0.646 |
 | 12 | Reid Watts |  Canada | 48.086 | 5 | 47.908 | 2 | 1:35.994 | +0.685 |
| 4 | 2 | Bastian Schulte |  Austria | 48.125 | 7 | 47.924 | 3 | 1:36.049 | +0.740 |
| 5 | 9 | Fabian Malleier |  Italy | 48.082 | 4 | 48.037 | 5 | 1:36.119 | +0.810 |
| 6 | 5 | Yevgeny Petrov |  Russia | 47.979 | 2 | 48.177 | 8 | 1:36.156 | +0.847 |
| 7 | 10 | Ivan Nagler | Italy | 48.105 | 6 | 48.139 | 6 | 1:36.244 | +0.935 |
| 8 | 13 | Aleksander Melås |  Norway | 48.239 | 8 | 48.150 | 7 | 1:36.389 | +1.080 |
| 9 | 21 | Leonard Cepoi |  Moldova | 48.656 | 9 | 48.580 | 9 | 1:37.236 | +1.927 |
| 10 | 11 | Lucas Gebauer-Barrett |  Great Britain | 48.821 | 11 | 48.650 | 10 | 1:37.471 | +2.162 |
| 11 | 3 | Lasha Peradze |  Georgia | 48.721 | 10 | 48.786 | 13 | 1:37.507 | +2.198 |
| 12 | 22 | Svante Kohala |  Sweden | 48.999 | 15 | 48.677 | 11 | 1:37.676 | +2.367 |
| 13 | 4 | Ihor Stakhiv |  Ukraine | 48.964 | 14 | 48.771 | 12 | 1:37.735 | +2.426 |
| 14 | 1 | Richard Gavlas |  Slovakia | 48.895 | 12 | 48.949 | 14 | 1:37.844 | +2.535 |
| 15 | 16 | Justin Taylor |  United States | 48.908 | 13 | 49.248 | 16 | 1:38.156 | +2.847 |
| 16 | 19 | Adrien Maitre |  France | 49.826 | 17 | 49.096 | 15 | 1:38.922 | +3.613 |
| 17 | 20 | Michael Lejsek |  Czech Republic | 49.676 | 16 | 49.992 | 18 | 1:39.668 | +4.359 |
| 18 | 14 | Chiang Chun-hung |  Chinese Taipei | 49.998 | 18 | 50.624 | 19 | 1:40.622 | +5.313 |
| 19 | 18 | Cengizhan Kaplan |  Turkey | 50.410 | 19 | 51.378 | 20 | 1:41.788 | +6.479 |
| 20 | 17 | Kacper Tarnawski |  Poland | 58.299 | 20 | 49.746 | 17 | 1:48.045 | +12.736 |
| 15 | Ayduan Rizov |  Bulgaria | DNF | ||||||
| 6 | Andrei Turea |  Romania | |||||||
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Youth Olympic champions in Luge – boys' singles | |
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