Luge men's singles at the XXIV Olympic Winter Games | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Xiaohaituo Bobsleigh and Luge Track | ||||||||||||
Date | 5, 6 February | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 34 from 21 nations | ||||||||||||
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Luge at the 2022 Winter Olympics | |||
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Qualification | |||
Singles | men | women | |
Doubles | open | ||
Relay | mixed | ||
The men's singles competition in luge at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 5 February (heats 1 and 2) and 6 February (heats 3 and 4), at the Xiaohaituo Bobsleigh and Luge Track in Yanqing District. [1] 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 defending champion was David Gleirscher, who was standing in the 10th position at the 2021–22 Luge World Cup before the Olympics and qualified for the competition. [2] Chris Mazdzer, the 2018 silver medalist, qualified as well. Johannes Ludwig, the 2018 bronze medalist, was leading the 2021–22 Luge World Cup before the Olympics and considered the top favorite. [3] Wolfgang Kindl was the second in the World Cup, and the 2010 and 2014 Olympic champion Felix Loch was the third.
Ludwig won three runs out of four, in two of them setting the track record. Kindl won the second run and was second in the other three. Fischnaller was third in three runs.
The qualification is based on the cumulative points of the Olympic Season from 1 July 2021 to January 10, 2022. A total of 35 quota spots are available to athletes to compete at the games. Each NOC can enter a maximum of three athletes.
In the men's singles, all nations with an athlete in the top 50 qualified one slot. If there were remaining spots left, the second best athlete of each nation in the top 32 was awarded an additional quota, with the third best being awarded a 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 will see athletes qualify based on their top four results during the World Cup season, (as opposed to the previous all seven results counting). [4]
On January 19, 2022 the International Luge Federation announced the list of qualified athletes. [5]
Number of sleds | Athletes total | Nation |
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2 | 4 | ![]() ![]() |
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35 | 35 |
Rank | Bib | Athlete | Country | Run 1 | Rank | Run 2 | Rank | Run 3 | Rank | Run 4 | Rank | Total [6] | Behind |
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![]() | 4 | Johannes Ludwig | ![]() | 57.063 TR | 1 | 57.438 | 2 | 57.043 TR | 1 | 57.191 | 1 | 3:48.735 | |
![]() | 1 | Wolfgang Kindl | ![]() | 57.110 | 2 | 57.430 | 1 | 57.117 | 2 | 57.238 | 2 | 3:48.895 | +0.160 |
![]() | 10 | Dominik Fischnaller | ![]() | 57.361 | 3 | 57.444 | 3 | 57.461 | 5 | 57.420 | 3 | 3:49.686 | +0.951 |
4 | 2 | Felix Loch | ![]() | 57.383 | 5 | 57.500 | 4 | 57.510 | 7 | 57.485 | 6 | 3:49.878 | +1.143 |
5 | 3 | Kristers Aparjods | ![]() | 57.364 | 4 | 57.597 | 6 | 57.399 | 4 | 57.693 | 9 | 3:50.053 | +1.318 |
6 | 5 | Max Langenhan | ![]() | 57.606 | 9 | 57.536 | 5 | 57.521 | 8 | 57.429 | 4 | 3:50.092 | +1.357 |
7 | 7 | Gints Bērziņš | ![]() | 57.414 | 7 | 57.709 | 7 | 57.480 | 6 | 57.570 | 7 | 3:50.173 | +1.438 |
8 | 18 | Chris Mazdzer | ![]() | 57.780 | 10 | 58.039 | 9 | 57.779 | 10 | 57.779 | 10 | 3:51.377 | +2.642 |
9 | 12 | Roman Repilov | ![]() | 57.594 | 8 | 58.679 | 16 | 57.714 | 9 | 57.647 | 8 | 3:51.634 | +2.899 |
10 | 8 | Semen Pavlichenko | ![]() | 57.786 | 11 | 58.115 | 10 | 57.955 | 13 | 57.793 | 11 | 3:51.649 | +2.914 |
11 | 24 | Leon Felderer | ![]() | 57.814 | 12 | 58.211 | 11 | 57.855 | 11 | 57.960 | 14 | 3:51.840 | +3.105 |
12 | 6 | Nico Gleirscher | ![]() | 59.110 | 27 | 58.351 | 14 | 57.370 | 3 | 57.452 | 5 | 3:52.283 | +3.548 |
13 | 21 | Tucker West | ![]() | 58.079 | 15 | 57.831 | 8 | 58.534 | 21 | 57.916 | 13 | 3:52.360 | +3.625 |
14 | 16 | Aleksandr Gorbatcevich | ![]() | 58.139 | 16 | 58.339 | 13 | 58.080 | 14 | 58.043 | 15 | 3:52.601 | +3.866 |
15 | 11 | David Gleirscher | ![]() | 57.407 | 6 | 58.240 | 12 | 58.908 | 26 | 58.617 | 20 | 3:53.172 | +4.437 |
16 | 22 | Alexander Ferlazzo | ![]() | 58.216 | 19 | 58.994 | 24 | 58.122 | 16 | 57.887 | 12 | 3:53.219 | +4.484 |
17 | 14 | Reid Watts | ![]() | 58.049 | 14 | 59.071 | 25 | 58.108 | 15 | 58.065 | 16 | 3:53.293 | +4.558 |
18 | 23 | Artūrs Dārznieks | ![]() | 58.166 | 17 | 59.370 | 28 | 57.932 | 12 | 58.241 | 17 | 3:53.709 | +4.974 |
19 | 19 | Jonathan Gustafson | ![]() | 57.845 | 13 | 59.330 | 27 | 58.496 | 20 | 58.275 | 18 | 3:53.946 | +5.211 |
20 | 34 | Svante Kohala | ![]() | 58.517 | 21 | 58.779 | 20 | 58.368 | 18 | 58.333 | 19 | 3:53.997 | +5.262 |
21 | 15 | Jozef Ninis | ![]() | 58.205 | 18 | 58.764 | 19 | 58.856 | 23 | Did not advance | 2:55.825 | N/A | |
22 | 20 | Anton Dukach | ![]() | 58.873 | 25 | 58.726 | 18 | 58.408 | 19 | 2:56.007 | |||
23 | 26 | Rupert Staudinger | ![]() | 58.731 | 22 | 58.960 | 22 | 58.622 | 22 | 2:56.313 | |||
24 | 25 | Fan Duoyao | ![]() | 58.848 | 23 | 58.883 | 21 | 58.895 | 25 | 2:56.626 | |||
25 | 35 | Mateusz Sochowicz | ![]() | 58.863 | 24 | 59.196 | 26 | 58.867 | 24 | 2:56.926 | |||
26 | 32 | Marián Skupek | ![]() | 58.956 | 26 | 58.976 | 23 | 59.051 | 27 | 2:56.983 | |||
27 | 13 | Andriy Mandziy | ![]() | 1:01.082 | 32 | 58.706 | 17 | 58.346 | 17 | 2:58.134 | |||
28 | 33 | Pavel Angelov | ![]() | 59.555 | 29 | 59.753 | 29 | 59.545 | 29 | 2:58.853 | |||
29 | 17 | Valentin Creţu | ![]() | 58.349 | 20 | 58.362 | 15 | 1:02.223 | 34 | 2:58.934 | |||
30 | 30 | Michael Lejsek | ![]() | 59.542 | 28 | 59.945 | 31 | 1:00.080 | 32 | 2:59.567 | |||
31 | 27 | Saba Kumaritashvili | ![]() | 1:00.211 | 30 | 1:00.146 | 32 | 1:00.036 | 31 | 3:00.393 | |||
32 | 28 | Seiya Kobayashi | ![]() | 1:00.856 | 31 | 1:00.919 | 33 | 59.859 | 30 | 3:01.634 | |||
33 | 29 | Lim Nam-kyu | ![]() | 1:02.438 | 34 | 59.794 | 30 | 59.538 | 28 | 3:01.770 | |||
34 | 31 | Mirza Nikolajev | ![]() | 1:01.667 | 33 | 1:02.507 | 34 | 1:01.175 | 33 | 3:05.349 | |||
9 | Kevin Fischnaller | ![]() | Did not start |
Wolfgang Kindl is an Austrian world champion luger who has competed since 2007.
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.
The Czech Republic competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, from 4 to 20 February 2022.
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The following is about the qualification rules and the quota allocation for the luge at the 2022 Winter Olympics.
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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 women's monobob competition in bobsleigh at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 13 February and 14 February, at the Xiaohaituo Bobsleigh and Luge Track in Yanqing District of Beijing. This was the inaugural monobob competition at the Olympics. Kaillie Humphries of the United States won the event. She was the 2018 two-woman bobsleigh champion, but at that time she represented Canada. Elana Meyers Taylor, also of the United States, won the silver medal, and Christine de Bruin of Canada bronze, her first Olympic medal.
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 and became thereby the first ever triple Olympic champion in women's luge. This is 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. The event was won by Natalie Geisenberger, Johannes Ludwig, Tobias Wendl / Tobias Arlt. All these athletes previously won gold in their corresponding events. In particular, for Geisenberger this was the sixth gold Olympic medal, more than any other luger 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.
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