Olympic Winter Games 2006 / Luge

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Luge at the
2006 Winter Olympics
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information
venue ItalyItaly Cesana Torinese
Competition venue Cesana Pariol
Nations 24
Athletes 108 (78 Mars symbol (male), 30 Venus symbol (female))
date 11-15 February 2006
decisions 3
← Salt Lake City 2002

At the XX. During the 2006 Winter Olympics , three luge competitions were held. The Cesana Pariol railway is located near the village of Cesana Torinese , 97 kilometers west of Turin . It was 1435 meters long, had 19 curves and overcame a difference in altitude of 114 meters; top speeds of up to 130 km / h were achieved. The spectator capacity along the route was 7,000 (including 3,624 seats).

Balance sheet

Medal table

space country gold silver bronze total
1 GermanyGermany Germany 1 2 1 4th
2 ItalyItaly Italy 1 - 1 2
3 AustriaAustria Austria 1 - - 1
4th RussiaRussia Russia - 1 - 1
5 LatviaLatvia Latvia - - 1 1

Medalist

competitor gold silver bronze
Single seater men ItalyItaly Armin Zöggeler RussiaRussia Albert Demchenko LatviaLatvia Mārtiņš Rubenis
Single seater women GermanyGermany Sylke Otto GermanyGermany Silke Kraushaar GermanyGermany Tatjana Huefner
Two-seater AustriaAustria Andreas Linger , Wolfgang Linger GermanyGermany André Florschütz , Torsten Wustlich ItalyItaly Gerhard Plankensteiner , Oswald Haselrieder

Results

Single seater men

space country athlete Time (min)
1 ItalyItaly ITA Armin Zöggeler 3: 26.088
2 RussiaRussia RUS Albert Demchenko 3: 26.198
3 LatviaLatvia LAT Mārtiņš Rubenis 3: 26.445
4th United StatesUnited States United States Tony Benshoof 3: 26.598
5 GermanyGermany DEU David Möller 3: 26.711
6th GermanyGermany DEU Jan Eichhorn 3: 26.743
7th GermanyGermany DEU Georg Hackl 3: 26.919
8th ItalyItaly ITA Reinhold Rainer 3: 27.002
9 AustriaAustria AUT Markus Kleinheinz 3: 27.587
10 ItalyItaly ITA Wilfried Huber 3: 27.675

1st and 2nd run: February 11, 2006 (4:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.)
3rd and 4th run: February 12, 2006 (4:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.)

36 participants from 19 countries, 35 of them in the evaluation.

Single seater women

space country sportswoman Time (min)
1 GermanyGermany DEU Sylke Otto 3: 07.979
2 GermanyGermany DEU Silke Kraushaar 3: 08.115
3 GermanyGermany DEU Tatjana Huefner 3: 08.460
4th United StatesUnited States United States Courtney Zablocki 3: 08.852
5 AustriaAustria AUT Veronika Halder 3: 09.087
6th UkraineUkraine UKR Lilia Ludan 3: 09.275
7th LatviaLatvia LAT Anna Orlova 3: 09.483
8th AustriaAustria AUT Nina Reithmayer 3: 09.573
9 SwitzerlandSwitzerland SUI Martina Kocher 3: 09.591
10 CanadaCanada CAN Regan Listener 3: 09.643

1st and 2nd run: February 13, 2006 (4:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m.)
3rd and 4th run: February 14, 2006 (4:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m.)

30 participants from 15 countries, 24 of them in the evaluation.

Two-seater

space country athlete Time (min)
1 AustriaAustria AUT Andreas Linger , Wolfgang Linger 1: 34.497
2 GermanyGermany DEU André Florschütz , Torsten Wustlich 1: 34.807
3 ItalyItaly ITA Gerhard Plankensteiner , Oswald Haselrieder 1: 34.930
4th AustriaAustria AUT Tobias Schiegl , Markus Schiegl 1: 34.951
5 ItalyItaly ITA Christian Oberstolz , Patrick Gruber 1: 34.956
6th GermanyGermany DEU Patric Leitner , Alexander Resch 1: 34.960
7th LatviaLatvia LAT Andris Šics , Juris Šics 1: 35.114
8th United StatesUnited States United States Preston Griffall , Dan Joye 1: 35.410
9 CanadaCanada CAN Chris Moffat , Mike Moffat 1: 35.541
10 CanadaCanada CAN Grant Albrecht , Eric Pothier 1: 35.561

Date: February 15, 2006, 4:00 p.m. (1st run), 5:20 p.m. (2nd run)

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