Olympic Winter Games 2018 / Luge

Luge at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games
information
venue	Pyeongchang
Competition venue	Olympic Sliding Center
Nations	24
Athletes	110 (80 , 30 )
date	10-15 February 2018
decisions	4th
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At the XXIII. During the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , four luge competitions were held. The venue was the Olympic Sliding Center , where the bobsleigh and skeleton competitions also took place. This facility offered space for 7,000 spectators and had run lengths of 1.2 to almost 1.4 km. With three gold medals and a total of six podium finishes, the German athletes were the most successful nation.

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country				total
1	Germany	3	1	2	6th
2	Austria	1	1	1	3
3	Canada	-	1	1	2
4th	United States	-	1	-	1

Medalist

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
Single seater men	David Gleirscher	Christopher Mazdzer	Johannes Ludwig
Single seater women	Natalie Geisenberger	Dajana Eitberger	Alex Gough
Two-seater	Tobias Wendl , Tobias Arlt	Peter Penz , Georg Fischler	Toni Eggert , Sascha Benecken
Team relay	Natalie Geisenberger , Johannes Ludwig , Tobias Wendl , Tobias Arlt	Alex Gough , Samuel Edney , Justin Snith , Tristan Walker	Madeleine Egle , David Gleirscher , Peter Penz , Georg Fischler

Quota places

The quota places were awarded in the Luge World Cup . A maximum of three men and women in single-seaters and two toboggan doubles could qualify per national association. The national NOKs decided on the occupation of the quota places. The starting field was limited to 40 places for single-seaters for men, 30 for single-seaters for women and 20 double-seaters. If the relay had also qualified, this also meant that possibly non-qualified starting places of nations were converted to quota ranks, although the athletic performance was lacking.

In addition, the host South Korea was entitled to at least one quota place in each of the races, even if this was not achieved in terms of athletics, as in the luge doubles. The quota places were finally allocated after the World Cup race in Lake Placid . The following owners of the other previously unqualified places were able to move up to places that were not used by national associations. In order to prevent incidents such as the death of Georgian luge driver Nodar Kumaritashvili in 2010, all potential tobogganists had to prove a certain number of high-class races or a certain number of training races on the Pyeongchang bobsleigh and toboggan run and thus their technical suitability.

On January 30, 2018, the composition of the field in the two single-seater categories was announced.

• * - Starting place reached via the qualified team relay
• ** - starting place reached via a fixed starting place as host
• # - unoccupied starting place
• ## - Quota place reached, which could not be filled due to the doping bans of Russian athletes
• italic - not qualified, possible successor

space	Odds places singles men	Nominees	Quota places singles women	Nominees	Quota places for two-seater	Nominees
1	Germany	Felix Hole	Germany	Natalie Geisenberger	Germany	Toni Eggert & Sascha Benecken
2	Olympic athletes from Russia	Semyon Pavlichenko	Germany	Dajana Eitberger	Austria	Peter Penz & Georg Fischler
3	Austria	Wolfgang Kindl	Canada	Alex Gough	Germany	Tobias Wendl & Tobias Arlt
4th	Olympic athletes from Russia	Roman Repilow	Germany	Tatjana Huefner	Italy	Ludwig Rieder & Patrick Rastner
5	Germany	Johannes Ludwig	Canada	Kimberley McRae	Latvia	Andris Šics & Juris Šics
6th	Germany	Andi Langenhan	United States	Erin Hamlin	United States	Matt Mortensen & Jayson Terdiman
7th	Olympic athletes from Russia	Stepan Fyodorov	United States	Summer Britcher	Canada	Tristan Walker & Justin Snith
8th	Italy	Dominik Fischnaller	Olympic athletes from Russia	Ekaterina Baturina	Italy	Ivan Nagler & Fabian Malleier
9	Italy	Kevin Fischnaller	United States	Emily Sweeney	Olympic athletes from Russia	Alexander Denisjew & Wladislaw Antonow
10	United States	Tucker West	Italy	Sandra Robatscher	Austria	Thomas Steu & Lorenz Koller
11	Austria	Reinhard Egger	Austria	Birgit Platzer	Olympic athletes from Russia	Andrei Bogdanov & Andrei Medvedev
12	Austria	David Gleirscher	Romania	Raluca Strămăturaru	United States	Justin Krewson & Andrew Sherk
13	Latvia	Inārs Kivlenieks	Olympic athletes from Russia	##	Poland	Wojciech Jerzy Chmielewski & Jakub Kowalewski
14th	Canada	Mitchel Malyk	Olympic athletes from Russia	##	Latvia	Oskars Gudramovičs & Pēteris Kalniņš
15th	United States	Christopher Mazdzer	Latvia	Elīza Cauce	Czech Republic	Antonín Brož & Lukáš Brož
16	Canada	Samuel Edney	Austria	Madeleine Egle	Slovakia	Marek Solčanský & Karol Stuchlák
17th	United States	Taylor Cloy Morris	Italy	Andrea Voetter	Czech Republic	Matěj Kvíčala & Jaromír Kudera
18th	Latvia	Kristers Aparjods	Latvia	Ulla Zirne	Slovakia
19th	Latvia	Artūrs Dārznieks	Austria	Hannah Prock	South Korea **	Park Jin-yong & Cho Jung-myung
20th	Italy	Emanuel Rieder	Switzerland	Martina Kocher	Ukraine *	Oleksandr Obolontschyk & Roman Sacharkiw
21st	Slovakia	Jozef Ninis	Canada	Brooke Apshkrum	Romania *	Vasile Marian Gitlan & Flavius ​​Ion Craciun
22nd	Czech Republic	Ondřej Hyman	Poland	Ewa Kuls	Poland
23	Poland	Maciej Kurowski	Poland	Natalia Wojtusciszyn	United Kingdom
24	Romania	Valentin Crețu	Switzerland	#	Kazakhstan
25th	Canada	Reid Watts	South Korea	Aileen Frisch	Ukraine
26th	Australia	Alexander Michael Ferlazzo	Latvia	Kendija Aparjode
27	Poland	Mateusz Paweł Sochowicz	South Korea	Sung Eun-ryung
28	Ukraine	Andrij Mandsij	Ukraine	Olena Shchumova
29	Slovakia	Jakub Šimoňák	Czech Republic *	Tereza Nosková
30th	Ukraine	Anton Dukatsch	Ukraine	Olena Stetskiv
31	India	Shiva Keshavan	Slovakia *	Katarína Šimoňáková
32	Romania	Theodor Turea	Romania
33	United Kingdom	Adam Rosen	Croatia	Daria Obratov
34	Bulgaria	Pavel Angelow	South Korea
35	Slovenia	Tilen Sirše	Kazakhstan
36	United Kingdom	Rupert Staudinger	France
37	Chinese Taipei	Lien Te-an	United Kingdom
38	Slovenia	#	Ukraine
39	Georgia	Giorgi Sogoiani	Argentina	Verónica María Ravenna
40	South Korea	Lim Nam-kyu	Croatia
41	France		Sweden
42	South Korea		Turkey
43	South Korea		Chinese Taipei
44	United Kingdom		Turkey
45	Kazakhstan	Nikita Kopyrenko	Kazakhstan
46	Moldova
47	Czech Republic
48	Sweden
49	Portugal
50	Ukraine
51	Kazakhstan
52	Turkey
53	Argentina

Results

Single seater men

→ Main article : 2018 Winter Olympics / Luge - singles (men)

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	AUT	David Gleirscher	3: 10.702
2	United States	Christopher Mazdzer	3: 10.728
3	GER	Johannes Ludwig	3: 10.932
4th	ITA	Dominik Fischnaller	3: 10.934
5	GER	Felix Hole	3: 10.968
6th	CAN	Samuel Edney	3: 11.021
7th	ITA	Kevin Fischnaller	3: 11.054
8th	OAR	Roman Repilow	3: 11.108
9	AUT	Wolfgang Kindl	3: 11.133
10	GER	Andi Langenhan	3: 11.433

Runs 1 and 2: February 10, 2018, 7:10 p.m.
Run 3 and 4: February 11, 2018, 6:50 p.m.

40 participants from 21 countries, all in the ranking.

Olympic Champion 2014 : Felix Loch World Champion 2017 : Wolfgang Kindl

Single seater women

→ Main article : 2018 Winter Olympics / Luge - singles (women)

space	country	sportswoman	Time (min)
1	GER	Natalie Geisenberger	3: 05.232
2	GER	Dajana Eitberger	3: 05.599
3	CAN	Alex Gough	3: 05.644
4th	GER	Tatjana Huefner	3: 05.713
5	CAN	Kimberley McRae	3: 05.878
6th	United States	Erin Hamlin	3: 05.912
7th	ROU	Raluca Strămăturaru	3: 06.288
8th	COR	Aileen Frisch	3.06,400
9	AUT	Madeleine Egle	3: 06,609
10	ITA	Andrea Voetter	3: 06.859

Runs 1 and 2: February 12, 2018, 7:50 p.m. Runs
3 and 4: February 13, 2018, 7:30 p.m.

30 participants from 16 countries, 28 of them in the evaluation.

Olympic champion 2014 : Natalie Geisenberger World champion 2017 : Tatjana Hüfner

Two-seater

→ Main article : 2018 Winter Olympics / Luge - two-seater

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	GER	Tobias Wendl , Tobias Arlt	1: 31.697
2	AUT	Peter Penz , Georg Fischler	1: 31.785
3	GER	Toni Eggert , Sascha Benecken	1: 31.987
4th	AUT	Thomas Steu , Lorenz Koller	1: 32.284
5	CAN	Justin Snith , Tristan Walker	1: 32.369
6th	LAT	Andris Šics , Juris Šics	1: 32.442
7th	ITA	Ivan Nagler , Fabian Malleier	1: 32.563
8th	United States	Justin Krewson , Andrew Sherk	1: 32.652
9	COR	Jin-yong Park , Cho Jung-myung	1: 32.672
10	United States	Jayson Terdiman , Matt Mortensen	1: 32.687

Date: February 14, 2018, 8:20 p.m.

20 teams from 13 countries, all in the ranking.

Olympic champions 2014 : Tobias Wendl , Tobias Arlt World champions 2017 : Toni Eggert , Sascha Benecken

Team relay

→ Main article : 2018 Winter Olympics / Luge - Team Relay

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	GER	Natalie Geisenberger , Johannes Ludwig , Tobias Wendl / Tobias Arlt	2: 24.517
2	CAN	Alex Gough , Samuel Edney , Justin Snith / Tristan Walker	2: 24.872
3	AUT	Madeleine Egle , David Gleirscher , Peter Penz / Georg Fischler	2: 24.988
4th	United States	Summer Britcher , Christopher Mazdzer , Justin Krewson / Andrew Sherk	2: 25.091
5	ITA	Andrea Vötter , Dominik Fischnaller , Ivan Nagler / Fabian Malleier	2: 25.093
6th	LAT	Ulla Zirne , Kristers Aparjods , Andris Šics / Juris Šics	2: 25.315
7th	OAR	Yekaterina Baturina , Roman Repilow , Alexander Denissjew / Wladislaw Antonow	2: 25.349
8th	POLE	Ewa Kuls , Maciej Kurowski , Wojciech Chmielewski / Jakub Kowalewski	2: 26.413
9	COR	Aileen Frisch , Lim Nam-kyu , Jin-yong / Cho Jung-myung Park	2: 26.543
10	ROME	Raluca Strămăturaru , Theodor Turea , Cosmin Atodiresei / Stefan Musei	2: 26.844

Date: February 15, 2018, 9:35 p.m.

13 teams, all in the ranking.

Olympic champions 2014 : Natalie Geisenberger , Felix Loch , Tobias Wendl , Tobias Arlt World champions 2017 : Tatjana Hüfner , Johannes Ludwig , Toni Eggert , Sascha Benecken

Web links

• Olympic Winter Games 2018 on the FIL website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Olympic Sliding Center. Retrieved January 16, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Allocation of quota places (English)