Luge at the 2018 Winter Olympics

Luge
at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games
Venue Alpensia Sliding Centre
Dates 10–15 February
No. of events 4 (2 men, 1 women, 1 mixed)
Competitors 110 from 24 nations

Luge at the 2018 Winter Olympics was held at the Alpensia Sliding Centre near Pyeongchang, South Korea. A total of four luge events were held, between 10 and 15 February 2018.

Qualification

A maximum of 110 athletes were allowed to compete at the Games. Countries were assigned quotas using the world rankings of results from 1 November 2017 to 31 December 2017.[1]

Competition schedule

The following was the competition schedule for all four events.[2]

All times are (UTC+9).

DateTimeEvent
10 February19:10Men's singles runs 1 and 2
11 February18:50Men's singles runs 3 and 4
12 February19:50Women's singles runs 1 and 2
13 February19:30Women's singles runs 3 and 4
14 February20:20Doubles runs 1 and 2
15 February21:30Team relay

Medal summary

Medal table

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Germany (GER)3126
2 Austria (AUT)1113
3 Canada (CAN)0112
4 United States (USA)0101
Totals (4 nations)44412

Events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's singles[3]
 David Gleirscher
 Austria		 3:10.702 Chris Mazdzer
 United States		 3:10.728 Johannes Ludwig
 Germany		 3:10.932
Women's singles[4]
 Natalie Geisenberger
 Germany		 3:05.232 Dajana Eitberger
 Germany		 3:05.599 Alex Gough
 Canada		 3:05.644
Doubles[5]
 Tobias Wendl
Tobias Arlt
 Germany		1:31.697 Peter Penz
Georg Fischler
 Austria		1:31.785 Toni Eggert
Sascha Benecken
 Germany		1:31.987
Team relay[6]
  Germany (GER)
Natalie Geisenberger
Johannes Ludwig
Tobias Wendl
Tobias Arlt		2:24.517  Canada (CAN)
Alex Gough
Samuel Edney
Tristan Walker
Justin Snith		2:24.872  Austria (AUT)
Madeleine Egle
David Gleirscher
Peter Penz
Georg Fischler		2:24.988

Participating nations

A total of 110 athletes from 24 nations (including the IOC's designation of Olympic Athletes from Russia) were scheduled to participate.[7][8] The number of athletes for each nation are shown in parentheses.

References

  1. ↑ "Qualification Systems for XXIII Olympic Winter Games, PyeongChang 2018" (PDF). International Luge Federation. Retrieved 13 November 2017.
  2. ↑ "Schedule". POCOG. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
  3. ↑ Men's singles results
  4. ↑ Women's singles results
  5. ↑ Doubles results
  6. ↑ Team relay results
  7. ↑ "Ranking list" (PDF). fil-luge.org. Retrieved February 13, 2017.
  8. ↑ https://www.pyeongchang2018.com/en/game-time/results/OWG2018/resOWG2018/pdf/OWG2018/LUG/OWG2018_LUG_C32A_LUG-------------------------------.pdf
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