Luge at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Women's singles

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Luge women's singles
at the XXIV Olympic Winter Games
Luge pictogram.svg
Luge pictogram
Venue Xiaohaituo Bobsleigh and Luge Track
Date7, 8 February
Competitors35 from 20 nations
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Natalie Geisenberger Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
Silver medal icon.svg Anna Berreiter Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
Bronze medal icon.svg Tatiana Ivanova Olympic flag.svg  ROC
  2018
2026  

The women's singles competition in luge at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 7 February (heats 1 and 2) and 8 February (heats 3 and 4), at the Xiaohaituo Bobsleigh and Luge Track in Yanqing District. [1] 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.

In the 2021–22 Luge World Cup, Geisenberger was third, though she won the last race of the season before the Olympics. Julia Taubitz won the World Cup, with Madeleine Egle finishing second. The silver medalist at the 2018 Olympics, Dajana Eitberger, missed a season due to childbirth; she then returned to competitions, but finished outside of the top-10 in the World Cup and did not qualify for the Olympics. The 2018 bronze medalist, Alex Gough, retired from competitions. [2]

Taubitz won the first run, setting the track record, but crashed in the second run, dropping out of the medal contention. Egle made a mistake in the first run, and after two runs was only seventh. This left Geisenberger in lead after two runs, with Anna Berreiter second and Tatiana Ivanova third. [3] In the third run, Geisenberger set the new track record. Whereas Egle managed to fight back to the fourth position, the last run did not change the medal distribution.

Qualification

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 women's singles, all nations with an athlete in the top 40 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]

Summary

Number of sledsAthletes totalNation
321Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
Flag of Austria.svg  Austria
Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Olympic flag.svg  ROC
Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
22Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine
112Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland
Flag of Romania.svg  Romania
Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea
Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia
Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China
Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina
Flag of Poland.svg  Poland [lower-alpha 1]
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic [lower-alpha 1]
Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg  Chinese Taipei [lower-alpha 2]
Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands [lower-alpha 2]
Flag of Moldova.svg  Moldova [lower-alpha 2]
Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland [lower-alpha 2]
3535
  1. 1 2 quota allocated to participate in the team relay.
  2. 1 2 3 4 allocation according to rule D3.1 for sleds outside of the top 40.

Results

RankBibAthleteCountryRun 1RankRun 2RankRun 3RankRun 4RankTotal [6] Behind
Gold medal icon.svg1 Natalie Geisenberger Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 58.402258.423158.226 TR158.40323:53.4540.000
Silver medal icon.svg3 Anna Berreiter Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 58.525458.508358.348258.56643:53.947+0.493
Bronze medal icon.svg6 Tatiana Ivanova Olympic flag.svg  ROC 58.733558.683458.461358.63053:54.507+1.053
42 Madeleine Egle Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 59.3421758.493258.542558.43233:54.809+1.355
512 Hannah Prock Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 58.762658.732558.532458.79893:54.824+1.370
610 Lisa Schulte Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 58.523359.0741258.646658.64263:54.885+1.431
75 Julia Taubitz Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 58.345 TR11:00.0752658.655758.35813:55.433+1.979
89 Elīza Tīruma Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 58.956858.849658.8651158.77183:55.441+1.987
918 Natalie Maag Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland 59.0181159.1171358.9131458.892103:55.940+2.486
108 Andrea Vötter Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 59.1451459.0451058.8521058.935113:55.977+2.523
1128 Kendija Aparjode Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 59.1071359.020758.9281559.084123:56.139+2.685
1224 Ashley Farquharson Flag of the United States.svg  United States 59.9722659.024858.768858.64373:56.407+2.953
1319 Verena Hofer Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 58.960959.037958.9611659.584163:56.542+3.088
1415 Trinity Ellis Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 59.2191659.0531158.8881359.704173:56.864+3.410
1513 Nina Zöggeler Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 59.4641859.1601659.0851959.275143:56.984+3.530
1629 Natalie Corless Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 59.1931559.3161759.1762159.570153:57.255+3.801
1717 Makena Hodgson Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 59.5051959.4771859.2862259.268133:57.536+4.082
184 Elīna Ieva Vītola Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 59.0251259.1401459.029171:00.957183:58.151+4.697
1926 Aileen Frisch Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea 59.7762359.6422059.055181:01.811194:00.284+6.830
2030 Tove Kohala Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 59.5332059.7762159.333231:02.431204:01.073+7.619
2125 Yulianna Tunytska Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 59.6902259.8442359.57124Did not advance2:59.105N/A
2220 Olena Stetskiv Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 59.6632159.5861959.963272:59.212
2323 Summer Britcher Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:00.9862959.1561559.152202:59.294
2434 Verónica María Ravenna Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina 59.8112459.7802259.719252:59.310
2521 Katarína Šimoňáková Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia 1:00.1242759.8512459.761262:59.736
2614 Emily Sweeney Flag of the United States.svg  United States 58.971101:02.4393258.882123:00.292
2722 Klaudia Domaradzka Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 59.8712559.892251:01.313313:01.076
2811 Victoria Demchenko Olympic flag.svg  ROC 58.86971:03.4663358.83893:01.173
2932 Wang Peixuan Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 1:00.986291:00.391281:00.025283:01.402
3031 Anna Čežíková Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 1:00.392281:01.169301:00.101293:01.662
3133 Lin Sin-rong Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg  Chinese Taipei 1:01.550321:01.057291:01.004303:03.611
3235 Doina Descalui Flag of Moldova.svg  Moldova 1:01.928341:02.192311:02.174323:06.294
3327 Elsa Desmond Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland 1:01.608331:03.857341:02.254333:07.719
16 Raluca Strămăturaru Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 1:01:357311:00.30527Did not finish
7 Ekaterina Katnikova Olympic flag.svg  ROC Did not finish

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