Luge doubles at the XXIV Olympic Winter Games | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Xiaohaituo Bobsleigh and Luge Track | ||||||||||||
Date | 9 February | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 34 from 14 nations | ||||||||||||
Teams | 17 | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 1:56.554 | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Luge at the 2022 Winter Olympics | |||
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Qualification | |||
Singles | men | women | |
Doubles | open | ||
Relay | mixed | ||
The doubles competition in luge at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 9 February, at the Xiaohaituo Bobsleigh and Luge Track in Yanqing District, China. [1] Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt of Germany, the 2014 and 2018 champions, won the event again. The 2018 bronze medalists, Toni Eggert and Sascha Benecken, won the silver medal. Thomas Steu and Lorenz Koller of Austria won the bronze, their first Olympic medal.
The 2018 silver medalists, Peter Penz and Georg Fischler, retired from competitions. Eggert and Benneken were leading the 2021–22 Luge World Cup before the Olympics, with Wendl and Arlt second. The two pairs were considered to be the prime gold contenders. [2] Andris Šics and Juris Šics, the bronze medalists of the 2014 Olympics, were consistent though the 2021/2022 season and were standing third in the World Cup before the Olympics. In the race, they finished fifth.
The qualification is based on the cumulative points of the Olympic Season from 1 July 2021 to January 10, 2022. A total of 36 (18 pairs) quota spots are available to athletes to compete at the games. Each NOC can enter a maximum of three athletes.
In the doubles, all nations with a pair in the top 25 qualified one slot. If there were remaining spots left, the second best sled of each nation in the top 28 was awarded an additional quota, if there were any remaining spots.
On December 17, 2021, the International Luge Federation announced that the qualification system was changed. The qualification system was changed due to training runs being cancelled at the first World Cup, and equipment not being delivered to the following World Cups. The new system saw athletes qualify based on their top four results during the World Cup season, (as opposed to the previous all seven results counting). [3]
On January 19, 2022, the International Luge Federation announced the list of qualified athletes. [4]
Number of sleds | Athletes total | Nation |
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2 | 16 | Germany Latvia Austria ROC |
1 | 20 | Italy Poland Canada United States South Korea Slovakia Ukraine Romania Czech Republic China [a] |
18 | 36 |
The second qualified sled from Austria did not start.
Rank | Bib | Athlete | Country | Run 1 | Rank | Run 2 | Rank | Total [5] | Behind |
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5 | Tobias Wendl Tobias Arlt | Germany | 58.255 TR | 1 | 58.299 | 1 | 1:56.554 | ||
2 | Toni Eggert Sascha Benecken | Germany | 58.300 | 2 | 58.353 | 2 | 1:56.653 | +0.099 | |
11 | Thomas Steu Lorenz Koller | Austria | 58.426 | 3 | 58.639 | 3 | 1:57.065 | +0.511 | |
4 | 3 | Mārtiņš Bots Roberts Plūme | Latvia | 58.628 | 5 | 58.791 | 5 | 1:57.419 | +0.865 |
5 | 1 | Andris Šics Juris Šics | Latvia | 58.703 | 6 | 58.734 | 4 | 1:57.437 | +0.883 |
6 | 4 | Emanuel Rieder Simon Kainzwaldner | Italy | 58.602 | 4 | 58.995 | 7 | 1:57.597 | +1.043 |
7 | 10 | Tristan Walker Justin Snith | Canada | 58.895 | 7 | 59.023 | 8 | 1:57.918 | +1.364 |
8 | 8 | Alexander Denisyev Vladislav Antonov | ROC | 59.040 | 9 | 58.953 | 6 | 1:57.993 | +1.439 |
9 | 7 | Wojciech Chmielewski Jakub Kowalewski | Poland | 58.992 | 8 | 59.073 | 9 | 1:58.065 | +1.511 |
10 | 6 | Andrei Bogdanov Yuri Prokhorov | ROC | 59.376 | 11 | 59.132 | 11 | 1:58.508 | +1.954 |
11 | 15 | Zack DiGregorio Sean Hollander | United States | 59.389 | 12 | 59.126 | 10 | 1:58.515 | +1.961 |
12 | 12 | Park Jin-yong Cho Jung-myung | South Korea | 59.361 | 10 | 59.366 | 12 | 1:58.727 | +2.173 |
13 | 9 | Tomáš Vaverčák Matej Zmij | Slovakia | 1:00.138 | 15 | 59.704 | 13 | 1:59.842 | +3.288 |
14 | 13 | Vasile Gîtlan Darius Şerban | Romania | 59.694 | 13 | 1:00.243 | 16 | 1:59.937 | +3.383 |
15 | 14 | Ihor Stakhiv Andrii Lysetskyi | Ukraine | 59.983 | 14 | 1:00.080 | 15 | 2:00.063 | +3.509 |
16 | 17 | Filip Vejdělek Zdeněk Pěkný | Czech Republic | 1:00.248 | 16 | 59.869 | 14 | 2:00.117 | +3.563 |
17 | 16 | Huang Yebo Peng Junyue | China | 1:00.732 | 17 | 1:00.840 | 17 | 2:01.572 | +5.018 |
Tobias Wendl is a German luger who has competed since 1993, acting as a front. He won a silver medal in the men's doubles event at the 2008 FIL World Luge Championships in Oberhof, Germany, a silver and a bronze at the FIL European Luge Championships 2010 in Sigulda, a gold at the FIL World Luge Championships 2013, and two gold medals at his debut Winter Olympics at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. He is also a Master Sergeant in the German Army.
Germany competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, from 4 to 20 February 2022.
The Czech Republic competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, from 4 to 20 February 2022.
Switzerland competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, from 4 to 20 February 2022.
The following is about the qualification rules and the quota allocation for the luge at the 2022 Winter Olympics.
Argentina competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, from 4 to 20 February 2022.
Australia competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, from 4 to 20 February 2022.
Bosnia and Herzegovina competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, from 4 to 20 February 2022.
Bulgaria competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, from 4 to 20 February 2022.
South Korea competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, from 4 to 20 February 2022.
Latvia competed in the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, from 4 — 20 February 2022, gaining 1 medal.
Georgia competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, from 4 to 20 February 2022.
The two-man competition in bobsleigh at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 14 February and 15 February, at the Xiaohaituo Bobsleigh and Luge Track in Yanqing District of Beijing. The event was won by Francesco Friedrich and Thorsten Margis who repeated their 2018 success. Johannes Lochner and Florian Bauer won the silver medal, and Christoph Hafer and Matthias Sommer the bronze medal, for each of them the first Olympic medal. This was the only podium sweep at the 2022 Olympics.
The two-woman competition in bobsleigh at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 18 February and 19 February, at the Xiaohaituo Bobsleigh and Luge Track in Yanqing District of Beijing. Laura Nolte and Deborah Levi of Germany won the event, the first Olympic medal for them. Mariama Jamanka and Alexandra Burghardt, also of Germany, won the silver medal, and Elana Meyers Taylor and Sylvia Hoffman, of the United States, bronze.
The four-man competition in bobsleigh at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 19 February and 20 February, at the Xiaohaituo Bobsleigh and Luge Track in Yanqing District of Beijing. Francesco Friedrich, Thorsten Margis, Candy Bauer, and Alexander Schüller of Germany won the gold medal, and Friedrich thereby successfully defended his 2018 Olympic title. Germany-2 driven by Johannes Lochner won the silver medal, and Canada-1, driven by Justin Kripps, won the bronze.
The men's singles competition in luge at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 5 February and 6 February, at the Xiaohaituo Bobsleigh and Luge Track in Yanqing District. Johannes Ludwig of Germany won the event. For him this was the first individual Olympic gold medal. Wolfgang Kindl of Austria won the silver, and Dominik Fischnaller of Italy bronze. For Kindl and Fischnaller, these were their first Olympic medals.
The women's singles competition in luge at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 7 February and 8 February, at the Xiaohaituo Bobsleigh and Luge Track in Yanqing District. The defending champion Natalie Geisenberger of Germany won the event, becoming the first ever triple Olympic champion in women's luge. This was her fifth Olympic gold medal. Her compatriot Anna Berreiter won the silver medal, and Tatiana Ivanova, representing the Russian Olympic Committee, the bronze. This was the first Olympic medal for Berreiter and first individual medal for Ivanova, who already has the silver for the 2014 team relay.
The team relay competition in luge at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 10 February, at the Xiaohaituo Bobsleigh and Luge Track in Yanqing District of China's municipality of Beijing. The event was won by Natalie Geisenberger, Johannes Ludwig, Tobias Wendl / Tobias Arlt. All these athletes had previously won gold in their corresponding events. In particular, for Geisenberger this was the sixth gold Olympic medal, more than any other luger had ever won. Austria, with Madeleine Egle, Wolfgang Kindl, and Thomas Steu / Lorenz Koller, won silver, and Latvia, with Elīza Tīruma, Kristers Aparjods, and Mārtiņš Bots / Roberts Plūme, bronze.
The men's competition in skeleton at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 10 February and 11 February, at the Xiaohaituo Bobsleigh and Luge Track in Yanqing District of Beijing. Christopher Grotheer of Germany won the event, with Axel Jungk, also of Germany, being the silver medalist, and Yan Wengang of China the bronze medalist. For each of them, these were their first Olympic medals.
The women's competition in skeleton at the 2022 Winter Olympics will be held on 11 February and 12 February, at the Xiaohaituo Bobsleigh and Luge Track in Yanqing District of Beijing. Hannah Neise of Germany became the Olympic champion. Jaclyn Narracott of Australia won silver, and Kimberley Bos of the Netherlands bronze. For all of them these were their first Olympic medals, moreover, Narracott's and Bos's medals were the first Olympic medals in skeleton for Australia and the Netherlands. Bos's bronze was the first medal for Netherlands in an ice sport that doesn't involve any type of skating.