1998 Winter Olympics / Luge

Luge at the 1998 Winter Olympics
information
venue	Nagano
Competition venue	Spiral
Nations	24
Athletes	93 (64 , 29 )
date	8-13 February 1998
decisions	3
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At the XVIII. At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano , three luge competitions were held. The venue was the Spiral bobsleigh and toboggan run in the Asakawa district.

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country				total
1	Germany	3	1	1	5
2	United States	-	1	1	2
1	Italy	-	1	-	1
3	Austria	-	-	1	1

Medalist

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
Single seater men	Georg Hackl	Armin Zöggeler	Jens Müller
Single seater women	Silke Kraushaar	Barbara Niedernhuber	Angelika Neuner
Two-seater	Stefan Krauße , Jan Behrendt	Chris Thorpe , Gordy Sheer	Mark Grimmette , Brian Martin

Results

(all runtimes in seconds, total times in minutes)

Single seater men

space	country	athlete	1st run	2nd run	3rd run	4th run	total
1	GER	Georg Hackl	49.619	49.573	49.614	49.630	3: 18.436
2	ITA	Armin Zöggeler	49.715	49.690	49.737	49.797	3: 18.939
3	GER	Jens Müller	49,954	49,700	49.729	49.710	3: 19.093
4th	AUT	Markus Prock	49.861	49.732	49.863	50,200	3: 19.656
5	AUT	Markus Kleinheinz	50.016	49.779	49.918	50.011	3: 19.724
6th	United States	Wendel Suckow	50.069	49.871	49.908	49.880	3: 19.728
7th	AUT	Gerhard Gleirscher	50.161	49.816	49.911	49.897	3: 19.785
8th	ITA	Reinhold Rainer	50.105	50.008	49.897	49.936	3: 19.946
9	United States	Adam Heidt	50.401	49.899	49.971	49.827	3: 20.098
10	ITA	Norbert Huber	50,100	50.129	50.026	49.883	3: 20.138
12	GER	Karsten Albert	50.353	50.172	50.080	50.499	3: 21.104
22nd	SUI	Reto Gilly	50.594	50.646	51,485	50.627	3: 23.352

Runs 1 and 2: February 8, 1998 (2:00 p.m. and 3:40 p.m.) Runs
3 and 4: February 9, 1998 (2:00 p.m. and 3:45 p.m.)

34 participants from 18 countries, 32 of them in the rating. Disqualified u. a .: Albert Demtschenko (RUS).

Single seater women

space	country	sportswoman	1st run	2nd run	3rd run	4th run	total
1	GER	Silke Kraushaar	51.197	51.178	50.787	50.617	3: 23.779
2	GER	Barbara Niedernhuber	51.216	51.103	50.837	50.625	3: 23.781
3	AUT	Angelika Neuner	51.417	51.286	50.945	50.605	3: 24.253
4th	GER	Susi Erdmann	51.475	51,348	50.895	50.731	3: 24.449
5	AUT	Andrea Tagwerker	51,518	51,335	50.990	50.648	3: 24.491
6th	United States	Erin Warren	51.644	51,461	51,364	50.859	3: 25.328
7th	United States	Cammy Myler	51.795	51.654	51.219	50.807	3: 25.475
8th	United States	Bethany Calcaterra-McMahon	51.696	51.651	51.296	50.915	3: 25.558
9	ITA	Gerda Weissensteiner	51.744	51.998	51.415	50,956	3: 26.113
10	AUT	Sonja Manzenreiter	51.892	51.828	51,369	51.183	3: 26.272
26th	ITA	Doris Preindl	52.178	52.107	51.638	55.373	3: 31.296

1st and 2nd run: February 10, 1998 (2:00 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.)
3rd and 4th run: February 11, 1998 (2:00 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.)

29 participants from 15 countries, all in the ranking.

Two-seater

space	country	athlete	1st run	2nd run	total
1	GER	Stefan Krauße , Jan Behrendt	50.592	50.513	1: 41.105
2	United States	Chris Thorpe , Gordy Sheer	50.634	50.493	1: 41.127
3	United States	Mark Grimmette , Brian Martin	50.716	50.501	1: 41.217
4th	AUT	Tobias Schiegl , Markus Schiegl	50.846	50.575	1: 41.421
5	ITA	Kurt Brugger , Wilfried Huber	50.897	50.891	1: 41.768
6th	ITA	Gerhard Plankensteiner , Oswald Haselrieder	51.084	50.833	1: 41.917
7th	UKR	Ihor Urbanski , Andrij Muchin	51.262	50.706	1: 41.968
8th	GER	Steffen Skel , Steffen Wöller	51,408	50.816	1: 42.224
9	RUS	Danil Tschaban , Wiktor Kneib	51,370	51.023	1: 42.393
10	RUS	Albert Demchenko , Semyon Kolobayev	51.515	51.041	1: 42.556

Date: February 13, 1998, 2 p.m. (1st run), 3:10 p.m. (2nd run)

17 teams from 11 countries, all in the ranking.

Web links

• Luge at the 1998 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official report of the 1998 Winter Olympics (PDF; 24.4 MB)