Luge at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Men's singles

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Men's singles
at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games
Venue Alpensia Sliding Centre near Pyeongchang, South Korea
Dates10–11 February
Competitors40 from 21 nations
Winning time3:10.702
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg David Gleirscher Flag of Austria.svg  Austria
Silver medal icon.svg Chris Mazdzer Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Bronze medal icon.svg Johannes Ludwig Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
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The men's luge at the 2018 Winter Olympics was held between 10 and 11 February 2018 at the Alpensia Sliding Centre near Pyeongchang, South Korea. [1]

The event was won by David Gleirscher, who became the first Austrian to win men's luge since 1968. Chris Mazdzer won the silver medal, whereas Johannes Ludwig won the bronze. For all of them, this was the first Olympic medal, and the Mazdzer's medal is the first ever medal for the United States in men's singles luge. This is the first time since 1988 than none of the medalists in men's luge had a medal of previous Olympics. The favorite and the defending Olympic champion, Felix Loch, was leading the field after three runs, but in the last run made a mistake which cost him a medal.

Qualifying athletes

The field included the 2010 and the 2014 Olympic champion Felix Loch, who is also the 2017–18 Luge World Cup winner, the 2016–17 Luge World Cup winner Roman Repilov, and Wolfgang Kindl who finished second in the 2017–18 Luge World Cup. None of them won a medal.

Competition schedule

All times are (UTC+9).

DateTimeEvent
10 February19:10Run 1
10 FebruaryRun 2
11 February18:50Run 3
11 FebruaryRun 4

Results

Four runs, split over two days, were used to determine the winner. [2] [3]

RankBibAthleteCountryRun 1RankRun 2RankRun 3RankRun 4RankTotalBehind
Gold medal icon.svg11 David Gleirscher Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 47.652147.835747.584447.63143:10.702
Silver medal icon.svg13 Chris Mazdzer Flag of the United States.svg  United States 47.800547.717247.534147.67773:10.728+0.026
Bronze medal icon.svg3 Johannes Ludwig Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 47.764347.9401447.625647.60333:10.932+0.230
44 Dominik Fischnaller Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 47.9301047.9671647.562347.47513:10.934+0.232
55 Felix Loch Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 47.674247.625147.560248.109193:10.968+0.266
619 Samuel Edney Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 47.862947.755447.7591047.64563:11.021+0.319
714 Kevin Fischnaller Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 47.853847.793547.596547.81283:11.054+0.352
86 Roman Repilov Olympic flag.svg  Olympic Athletes from Russia 47.776447.740347.9481547.64453:11.108+0.406
92 Wolfgang Kindl Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 47.9551147.858947.7991247.52123:11.133+0.431
1010 Andi Langenhan Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 48.0831847.850847.630747.870133:11.433+0.731
118 Kristers Aparjods Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 47.822647.834647.8581347.942173:11.456+0.754
1224 Reid Watts Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 47.9601247.8951047.7871147.848113:11.490+0.788
1322 Stepan Fedorov Olympic flag.svg  Olympic Athletes from Russia 48.0351347.9361347.755947.882143:11.608+0.906
141 Semen Pavlichenko Olympic flag.svg  Olympic Athletes from Russia 48.3372447.9231247.716847.883153:11.859+1.157
157 Reinhard Egger Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 48.2212047.9031147.9631747.840103:11.927+1.225
1625 Mitchel Malyk Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 48.0751748.0501847.9521647.869123:11.946+1.244
1720 Emanuel Rieder Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 48.0401448.0471747.9721848.082183:12.141+1.439
1823 Taylor Morris Flag of the United States.svg  United States 48.0721548.7933247.8581347.82493:12.547+1.845
1926 Maciej Kurowski Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 48.1031948.4672448.1582247.885163:12.613+1.911
2017 Inārs Kivlenieks Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 48.2742148.3702248.0662048.112203:12.822+2.120
2116 Ondřej Hyman Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 48.3242348.2762048.31325Did not advance2:24.913N/A
2231 Adam Rosen Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 48.4772548.4102348.280232:25.167
2335 Anton Dukach Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 48.8882748.3072148.303242:25.498
2421 Arturs Dārznieks Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 48.3052248.6712948.602282:25.578
2512 Jozef Ninis Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia 47.833750.0143748.095212:25.942
269 Tucker West Flag of the United States.svg  United States 48.4842647.9421549.593372:26.019
2715 Mateusz Sochowicz Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 49.0472948.2031948.930312:26.180
2827 Alexander Ferlazzo Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 48.0731648.5872749.351362:26.191
2918 Valentin Crețu Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 49.0302849.0853348.424262:26.539
3029 Lim Nam-kyu Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea 49.4613148.5912848.620292:26.672
3139 Andrei Turea Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 49.4823248.4892649.314352:27.285
3236 Giorgi Sogoiani Flag of Georgia.svg  Georgia 49.3003049.1513449.008332:27.459
3334 Rupert Staudinger Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 49.6263349.2593548.957322:27.842
3437 Shiva Keshavan Flag of India.svg  India 50.5783648.7103148.900302:28.188
3533 Jakub Šimoňák Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia 51.7243848.6903048.522272:28.936
3640 Nikita Kopyrenko Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Kazakhstan 50.1473550.3273849.244342:29.718
3728 Pavel Angelov Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria 51.5693749.4493650.094392:31.112
3838 Lien Te-an Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg  Chinese Taipei 52.1213951.4723950.545402:34.138
3930 Tilen Sirše Flag of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia 49.8873458.7764049.646382:38.309
4032 Andriy Mandziy Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 1:02.9354048.4732547.981192:39.389

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  2. Results after run 2 [ permanent dead link ]
  3. Final results