Luge at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Doubles

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Luge doubles
at the XXIV Olympic Winter Games
Luge pictogram.svg
Luge pictogram
Venue Xiaohaituo Bobsleigh and Luge Track
Date9 February
Competitors34 from 14 nations
Teams17
Winning time1:56.554
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Tobias Wendl
Tobias Arlt
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
Silver medal icon.svg Toni Eggert
Sascha Benecken
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
Bronze medal icon.svg Thomas Steu
Lorenz Koller
Flag of Austria.svg  Austria
  2018
2026  

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. [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 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.

Qualification

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]

Summary

Number of sledsAthletes totalNation
216Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia
Flag of Austria.svg  Austria
Russian Olympic Committee flag.png  ROC
120Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
Flag of Poland.svg  Poland
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea
Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia
Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine
Flag of Romania.svg  Romania
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China [lower-alpha 1]
1836
  1. China's best entry does not rank in the top 25 so would qualify as host.

Results

The second qualified sled from Austria did not start.

RankBibAthleteCountryRun 1RankRun 2RankTotal [5] Behind
Gold medal icon.svg5 Tobias Wendl
Tobias Arlt
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 58.255 TR158.29911:56.554
Silver medal icon.svg2 Toni Eggert
Sascha Benecken
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 58.300258.35321:56.653+0.099
Bronze medal icon.svg11 Thomas Steu
Lorenz Koller
Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 58.426358.63931:57.065+0.511
43 Mārtiņš Bots
Roberts Plūme
Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 58.628558.79151:57.419+0.865
51 Andris Šics
Juris Šics
Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 58.703658.73441:57.437+0.883
64 Emanuel Rieder
Simon Kainzwaldner
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 58.602458.99571:57.597+1.043
710 Tristan Walker
Justin Snith
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 58.895759.02381:57.918+1.364
88 Alexander Denisyev
Vladislav Antonov
Russian Olympic Committee flag.png  ROC 59.040958.95361:57.993+1.439
97 Wojciech Chmielewski
Jakub Kowalewski
Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 58.992859.07391:58.065+1.511
106 Andrei Bogdanov
Yuri Prokhorov
Russian Olympic Committee flag.png  ROC 59.3761159.132111:58.508+1.954
1115 Zack DiGregorio
Sean Hollander
Flag of the United States.svg  United States 59.3891259.126101:58.515+1.961
1212 Park Jin-yong
Cho Jung-myung
Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea 59.3611059.366121:58.727+2.173
139 Tomáš Vaverčák
Matej Zmij
Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia 1:00.1381559.704131:59.842+3.288
1413 Vasile Gîtlan
Darius Şerban
Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 59.694131:00.243161:59.937+3.383
1514 Ihor Stakhiv
Andrii Lysetskyi
Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 59.983141:00.080152:00.063+3.509
1617 Filip Vejdělek
Zdeněk Pěkný
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 1:00.2481659.869142:00.117+3.563
1716 Huang Yebo
Peng Junyue
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 1:00.732171:00.840172:01.572+5.018

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References

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  2. Reynolds, Tim (13 January 2022). "Luge preview: A long, winding road took US to Beijing Games". ABC news.
  3. "Qualification Systems for XXIV Olympic Winter Games, Beijing 2022" (PDF). International Luge Federation. 16 December 2021. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
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  5. Final results