| Girls' singles at the II Winter Youth Olympic Games | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Lillehammer Olympic Bobsleigh and Luge Track | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 15 February | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 22 from 20 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 1:35.309 | ||||||||||||
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| Luge at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics | |||
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| Singles | boys | girls | |
| Doubles | open | ||
| Relay | mixed | ||
The girls' singles luge at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics took place on 15 February at the Lillehammer Olympic Bobsleigh and Luge Track. [1]
| Rank | Bib | Athlete | Country | Run 1 | Rank 1 | Run 2 | Rank 2 | Total | Behind |
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 | 14 | Brooke Apshkrum |  Canada | 53.165 | 2 | 52.861 | 1 | 1:46.026 | – |
 | 3 | Jessica Tiebel |  Germany | 53.106 | 1 | 52.991 | 2 | 1:46.097 | +0.071 |
 | 2 | Madeleine Egle |  Austria | 53.165 | 2 | 53.102 | 4 | 1:46.267 | +0.241 |
| 4 | 6 | Tatyana Tsvetova |  Russia | 53.324 | 5 | 53.282 | 5 | 1:46.606 | +0.580 |
| 5 | 7 | Olesya Mikhaylenko | Russia | 53.315 | 4 | 53.299 | 6 | 1:46.614 | +0.588 |
| 6 | 12 | Vilde Tangnes |  Norway | 53.545 | 7 | 53.339 | 7 | 1:46.884 | +0.858 |
| 7 | 18 | Verónica María Ravenna |  Argentina | 53.511 | 6 | 53.405 | 8 | 1:46.916 | +0.890 |
| 8 | 1 | Tina Müller | Germany | 53.851 | 11 | 53.091 | 3 | 1:46.942 | +0.916 |
| 9 | 9 | Anda Upīte |  Latvia | 53.821 | 10 | 53.601 | 9 | 1:47.422 | +1.396 |
| 10 | 22 | Olena Smaha |  Ukraine | 53.780 | 9 | 53.712 | 10 | 1:47.492 | +1.466 |
| 11 | 5 | Marion Oberhofer |  Italy | 53.724 | 8 | 53.830 | 12 | 1:47.554 | +1.528 |
| 12 | 10 | Mihaela Manolescu |  Romania | 53.950 | 13 | 53.777 | 11 | 1:47.727 | +1.701 |
| 13 | 17 | Michaela Maršíková |  Czech Republic | 53.899 | 12 | 53.894 | 13 | 1:47.793 | +1.767 |
| 14 | 18 | Katarína Šimoňáková |  Slovakia | 54.127 | 14 | 54.072 | 15 | 1:48.199 | +2.173 |
| 15 | 16 | Nadia Chodorek |  Poland | 54.262 | 15 | 54.405 | 16 | 1:48.667 | +2.641 |
| 16 | 11 | Emili Yordanova |  Bulgaria | 55.190 | 17 | 55.200 | 17 | 1:50.390 | +4.364 |
| 17 | 21 | Margot Boch |  France | 57.674 | 20 | 53.913 | 13 | 1:51.587 | +5.561 |
| 18 | 13 | Anastassiya Bogacheva |  Kazakhstan | 55.953 | 18 | 55.685 | 18 | 1:51.638 | +5.612 |
| 19 | 15 | Tove Kohala |  Sweden | 54.945 | 16 | 57.326 | 20 | 1:52.271 | +6.245 |
| 20 | 20 | Beth Slade |  Australia | 56.488 | 19 | 57.008 | 19 | 1:53.496 | +7.470 |
| 21 | 19 | Göksu Özkaya |  Turkey | 58.244 | 21 | 57.921 | 21 | 1:56.165 | +10.139 |
| 4 | Ashley Farquharson |  United States | DNF | ||||||
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Youth Olympic champions in Luge – girls' singles | |
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