Luge at the 2018 Winter Olympics

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Luge
at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games
Luge, PyeongChang 2018.svg
Luge pictogram at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Venue Alpensia Sliding Centre
Dates10–15 February 2018
No. of events4 (2 men, 1 women, 1 mixed)
Competitors110 from 24 nations
  2014
2022  

Luge at the 2018 Winter Olympics was held at the Alpensia Sliding Centre near Pyeongchang, South Korea. A total of four luge events were held, between 10 and 15 February 2018.

Qualification

A maximum of 110 athletes were allowed to compete at the Games. Countries were assigned quotas using the world rankings of results from 1 November 2017 to 31 December 2017. [1]

Competition schedule

The following was the competition schedule for all four events. [2]

All times are (UTC+9).

DateTimeEvent
10 February19:10 Men's singles runs 1 and 2
11 February18:50 Men's singles runs 3 and 4
12 February19:50 Women's singles runs 1 and 2
13 February19:30 Women's singles runs 3 and 4
14 February20:20 Doubles runs 1 and 2
15 February21:30 Team relay

Medal summary

Medal table

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 3126
2Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 1113
3Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 0112
4Flag of the United States.svg  United States 0101
Totals (4 entries)44412

Events

EventGoldSilverBronze
Men's singles [3]
details
David Gleirscher
Flag of Austria.svg  Austria
3:10.702 Chris Mazdzer
Flag of the United States.svg  United States
3:10.728 Johannes Ludwig
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
3:10.932
Women's singles [4]
details
Natalie Geisenberger
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
3:05.232 Dajana Eitberger
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
3:05.599 Alex Gough
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
3:05.644
Doubles [5]
details
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
Tobias Wendl
Tobias Arlt
1:31.697Flag of Austria.svg  Austria
Peter Penz
Georg Fischler
1:31.785Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
Toni Eggert
Sascha Benecken
1:31.987
Team relay [6]
details
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
Natalie Geisenberger
Johannes Ludwig
Tobias Wendl
Tobias Arlt
2:24.517Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
Alex Gough
Samuel Edney
Tristan Walker
Justin Snith
2:24.872Flag of Austria.svg  Austria
Madeleine Egle
David Gleirscher
Peter Penz
Georg Fischler
2:24.988

Participating nations

A total of 110 athletes from 24 nations (including the IOC's designation of Olympic Athletes from Russia) were scheduled to participate. [7] [8]

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References

  1. "Qualification Systems for XXIII Olympic Winter Games, PyeongChang 2018" (PDF). International Luge Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 November 2017. Retrieved 13 November 2017.
  2. "Schedule". POCOG. Archived from the original on 5 November 2017. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
  3. Men's singles results
  4. Women's singles results
  5. Doubles results
  6. Team relay results
  7. "Ranking list" (PDF). fil-luge.org. Retrieved 13 February 2017.
  8. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 February 2018. Retrieved 20 February 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)