| Girls' doubles at the III Winter Youth Olympic Games | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | St. Moritz-Celerina Olympic Bobrun | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 18 January | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 22 from 11 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 1:51.443 | ||||||||||||
| Medalists | |||||||||||||
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| Luge at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics | ||
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| Singles | boys | girls |
| Doubles | boys | girls |
| Relay | mixed | |
The girls' doubles luge at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics took place on 18 January at the St. Moritz-Celerina Olympic Bobrun. [1]
The first run was held at 11:00 and the second run at 12:00. [2] [3]
| Rank | Bib | Athlete | Country | Run 1 | Rank 1 | Run 2 | Rank 2 | Total | Behind |
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 | 3 | Jessica Degenhardt Vanessa Schneider |  Germany | 55.748 | 1 | 55.695 | 1 | 1:51.443 | |
 | 7 | Caitlin Nash Natalie Corless |  Canada | 56.294 | 4 | 56.415 | 2 | 1:52.709 | +1.266 |
 | 6 | Viktorija Ziediņa Selīna Elizabete Zvilna |  Latvia | 56.488 | 5 | 56.555 | 3 | 1:53.043 | +1.600 |
| 4 | 5 | Maya Chan Reannyn Weiler |  United States | 56.145 | 3 | 57.095 | 6 | 1:53.240 | +1.797 |
| 5 | 11 | Nikola Domowicz Dominika Piwkowska |  Poland | 56.705 | 6 | 56.781 | 4 | 1:53.486 | +2.043 |
| 6 | 1 | Natalia Korotaeva Viktoriia Chirkova |  Russia | 56.087 | 2 | 58.292 | 10 | 1:54.379 | +2.936 |
| 7 | 2 | Bianka Petríková Nikola Trembošová |  Slovakia | 57.742 | 10 | 57.026 | 5 | 1:54.768 | +3.325 |
| 8 | 10 | Petra Tolomey Daria Căciulan |  Romania | 57.488 | 9 | 57.303 | 7 | 1:54.791 | +3.348 |
| 9 | 4 | Markéta Nováková Anna Vejdělková |  Czech Republic | 56.790 | 8 | 58.068 | 9 | 1:54.858 | +3.415 |
| 10 | 8 | Nadiia Antoniuk Oleksandra Mokh |  Ukraine | 56.773 | 7 | 58.530 | 11 | 1:55.303 | +3.860 |
| 11 | 9 | Adriana Adam Aliona Busuioc |  Moldova | 58.079 | 11 | 57.709 | 8 | 1:55.788 | +4.345 |
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Youth Olympic champions in Luge – girls' doubles | |
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