Olympic Winter Games 2006 / Luge - singles (men)

Men's sledding singles 2006 Winter Olympics
winner	Armin Zöggeler
Competitions
Single seater	Men	Women
Two-seater	Men

Men's singles in luge at the 2006 Winter Olympics .

The men's single-seater luge competition consisted of four runs. The venue was the Cesana Pariol bobsleigh and toboggan run in Cesana Torinese . The first two runs took place on February 11, 2006 at 4:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m., the third and fourth runs on February 12, 2006 at 4:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. At the start were 36 participants from 19 countries, of which 35 were included in the ranking.

Olympic champion was the Italian Armin Zoeggeler , ahead of the Russian Albert Demtschenko and the Latvian Mārtiņš Rubenis . The Rubenis bronze medal was also the first Olympic medal for Latvia.

Title holder

Olympic champion	Armin Zöggeler ( Italy )	2: 57.941 min	Salt Lake City 2002
World Champion	Armin Zöggeler ( Italy )	1: 30.617 min	Park City 2005

Result

(Running times in seconds, total time in minutes)

space	country	athlete	1st run	2nd run	3rd run	4th run	total
1	ITA	Armin Zöggeler	51.718	51.414	51,430	51.526	3: 26.088
2	RUS	Albert Demchenko	51.747	51,543	51,396	51.512	3: 26.198
3	LAT	Mārtiņš Rubenis	51.913	51.497	51,561	51,474	3: 26.445
4th	United States	Tony Benshoof	51.907	51.458	51.674	51.559	3: 26.598
5	GER	David Möller	52.085	51,533	51.655	51,438	3: 26.711
6th	GER	Jan Eichhorn	52.103	51,469	51.656	51.515	3: 26.743
7th	GER	Georg Hackl	51.856	51,583	51,806	51.674	3: 26.919
8th	ITA	Reinhold Rainer	51.926	51.696	51.647	51.733	3: 27.002
9	AUT	Markus Kleinheinz	52.140	51.767	51.841	51.839	3: 27.587
10	ITA	Wilfried Huber	52.095	51.748	51.848	51.984	3: 27.675
11	RUS	Viktor Kneib	52.050	52.150	51.981	51.884	3: 28.065
12	AUT	Rainer Margreiter	52.200	51.880	52.234	51,800	3: 28.114
13	AUT	Daniel Pfister	52.317	52.103	52.058	51.882	3: 28.360
14th	CAN	Jeff Christie	52.382	52.027	52.013	51.939	3: 28.361
15th	CHE	Stefan Höhener	52.459	51.989	52.124	52.212	3: 28.784
16	GBR	Adam Rosen	52.610	52.130	52.093	52.150	3: 28.983
17th	LAT	Kaspars Dumpis	52,432	52,063	52.391	52,402	3: 29.288
18th	United States	Jonathan Myles	52,579	52.267	52.230	52.332	3: 29.408
19th	CAN	Samuel Edney	52.663	52.523	52,360	52.311	3: 29.857
20th	JPN	Takahisa Oguchi	52.795	52,449	52.498	52.366	3: 30.108
21st	LAT	Guntis Rēķis	52.769	52.338	52,307	52.742	3: 30.156
22nd	SVK	Jozef Ninis	52.769	52.517	52.525	52.386	3: 30.197
23	United States	Christian Niccum	53.669	52.675	52,306	52.539	3: 31.189
24	RUS	Kiril Serikov	54.164	52.468	52.473	52.790	3: 31.895
25th	IND	Shiva Keshavan	53.729	52.972	52.696	52.540	3: 31.937
26th	SLO	Domen Pociecha	53.141	53.073	53.039	53,072	3: 32.325
27	CZE	Jakub Hyman	53.262	53.667	52.964	52.930	3: 32.823
28	TPE	Ma Chih-hung	53.939	53,605	53.977	53.620	3: 35.141
29	COR	Kim Min-kyu	53.748	54.961	53.528	53,344	3: 35.581
30th	MDA	Bogdan Macovei	55.681	55.101	54.005	53,599	3: 38.386
31	BUL	Peter Iliew	54,806	55.189	55.761	53.927	3: 39.683
32	VEN	Werner Hoeger	56.754	55,411	56.256	55.169	3: 43.590
33	SVK	Jaroslav Slavik	52.786	52.066	73.877	52.156	3: 50.885
34	JPN	Shigeaki Ushijima	53,306	89.310	52.414	52.318	4: 07.348
35	GBR	Mark Hatton	52.790	52.720	94.895	52.494	4: 12.899
	CAN	Ian Cockerline	52.290	52.107	52.255	DNF	DNF

Web links

• Luge at the Olympic Games 2006 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Official results (PDF; 6.0 MB)