2022 Winter Olympics/Luge - Singles (Men)

sport	luge
discipline	single seater
gender	Men
subscriber	35 athletes from 21 countries
competition venue	Yanqing National Sliding Center
competition phase	February 5-6, 2022
winning time	3:48.735 mins
medal winner Johannes Ludwig ( GER ) Wolfgang Kindl ( AUT ) Dominik Fischnaller ( ITA )
← 2018 2026 →

Luge competitions at the 2022 Winter Olympics
qualification
single seater	Men	women
double seater	Open minded
series	Mixed

The men's luge singles event at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on February 5 (Rounds 1 and 2) and February 6 (Rounds 3 and 4) at the Yanqing National Sliding Center .

Johannes Ludwig from Germany became Olympic champion . Silver went to Wolfgang Kindl from Austria and bronze went to Dominik Fischnaller from Italy.

course of the race

Ludwig was able to demonstrate his strength in the first run. The German improved the start record of the Russian Semyon Pavlitschenko to 2.455 seconds and also set a track record with a time of 57.063 seconds. After the second run, Ludwig remained in the lead with a lead of 0.039 seconds over Kindl. On the second day, the later Olympic champion was able to improve on his track record from the previous day and thus increase his lead over the second-placed Austrian. With 0.113 seconds behind Wolfgang Kindl, Ludwig went into the last round and was able to successfully defend it.

Italy's Kevin Fischnaller was unable to compete due to a COVID-19 infection. The reigning Olympic champion David Gleirscher fell in the third run, but was able to get back on his sled.

New records

track record	John Ludwig	57.063s	run 1	February 5, 2022
	John Ludwig	57.043s	run 3	February 6, 2022
starting record	John Ludwig	2.455s	run 1	February 5, 2022

results

rank	#	athlete	nation	run 1		run 2		run 3		run 4		total
				time (s)	rank	time (s)	rank	time (s)	rank	time (s)	rank	time (min)	deficit(s)
1	4	John Ludwig	Germany	57,063TRs _	1	57,438	2	57.043 TR	1	57.191	1	3:48,735
2	1	Wolfgang Kindl	Austria	57.110	2	57,430	1	57,117	2	57,238	2	3:48,895	+0.160
3	10	Dominik Fischnaller	Italy	57,361	3	57,444	3	57,461	5	57,420	3	3:49,686	+0.951
4	2	Felix hole	Germany	57,383	5	57,500	4	57,510	7	57,485	6	3:49,878	+1.143
5	3	Kristers Apartjods	Latvia	57,364	4	57,597	6	57,399	4	57,693	9	3:50,053	+1.318
6	5	Max Langenhan	Germany	57,606	9	57,536	5	57,521	8th	57,429	4	3:50,092	+1.357
7	7	Gints Bērziņš	Latvia	57,414	7	57,709	7	57,480	6	57,570	7	3:50,173	+1.438
8th	18	Christopher Mazdazer	United States	57,780	10	58,039	9	57,779	10	57,779	10	3:51,377	+2,642
9	12	Roman Repilov	ROC	57,594	8th	58,679	16	57,714	9	57,647	8th	3:51,634	+2,899
10	8th	Semyon Pavlichenko	ROC	57,786	11	58.115	10	57,955	13	57,793	11	3:51,649	+2,914
11	24	Leon Felderer	Italy	57,814	12	58,211	11	57,855	11	57,960	14	3:51,840	+3.105
12	6	Nico Gleirscher	Austria	59.110	27	58,351	14	57,370	3	57,452	5	3:52,283	+3,548
13	21	Tucker West	United States	58,079	15	57,831	8th	58,534	21	57,916	13	3:52,360	+3,625
14	16	Alexander Gorbatsevich	ROC	58,139	16	58,339	13	58,080	14	58,043	15	3:52,601	+3,866
15	11	David Gleirscher	Austria	57,407	6	58,240	12	58.908	26	58,617	20	3:53,172	+4,437
16	22	Alexander Ferlazzo	Australia	58.216	19	58,994	24	58.122	16	57,887	12	3:53,219	+4,484
17	14	ReidWatts	Canada	58,049	14	59,071	25	58.108	15	58,065	16	3:53,293	+4,558
18	23	Artūrs Dārznieks	Latvia	58.166	17	59,370	28	57,932	12	58,241	17	3:53,709	+4,974
19	19	Jonathan Gustafson	United States	57,845	13	59,330	27	58,496	20	58.275	18	3:53,946	+5,211
20	34	Svante Kohala	Sweden	58,517	21	58,779	20	58,368	18	58,333	19	3:53,997	+5,262
21	15	Jozef Ninis	Slovakia	58.205	18	58,764	19	58,856	23	eliminated		2:55,825
22	20	Anton Dukatsch	Ukraine	58,873	25	58,726	18	58.408	19			2:56,007
23	26	Rupert Staudinger	Great Britain	58,731	22	58,960	22	58,622	22			2:56,313
24	25	Fan Duoyao	China	58,848	23	58,883	21	58,895	25			2:56,626
25	35	Mateusz Sochowicz	Poland	58,863	24	59.196	26	58,867	24			2:56,926
26	32	Marian Skupek	Slovakia	58,956	26	58,976	23	59,051	27			2:56,983
27	13	Andriy Mandsiy	Ukraine	61,082	32	58,706	17	58,346	17			2:58,134
28	33	Pavel Angelov	Bulgaria	59,555	29	59,753	29	59,545	29			2:58,853
29	17	Valentin Cretu	Romania	58,349	20	58,362	15	62,233	34			2:58,934
30	30	Michael Lejsek	Czech Republic	59,542	28	59,945	31	60,080	32			2:59,567
31	27	Saba Kumaritashvili	Georgia	60,211	30	60.146	32	60,036	31			3:00.393
32	28	Seiya Kobayashi	Japan	60,856	31	60,919	33	59,859	30			3:01,634
33	29	Lim Nam-kyu	South Korea	62,438	34	59,794	30	59,538	28			3:01,770
34	31	Mirza Nikolayev	Bosnia and Herzegovina	61,667	33	62,507	34	61.175	33			3:05,349
	9	Kevin Fischnaller	Italy	DNS

web links

• Results on the 2022 Winter Olympics website