Luge
at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games
Luge pictogram at the 2018 Winter Olympics
VenueAlpensia Sliding Centre
Dates10–15 February
No. of events4 (2 men, 1 women, 1 mixed)
Competitors110 from 24 nations

Luge at the 2018 Winter Olympics was held at the Alpensia Sliding Centre near Pyeongchang, South Korea. A total of four luge events were held, between 10 and 15 February 2018.

Qualification

A maximum of 110 athletes were allowed to compete at the Games. Countries were assigned quotas using the world rankings of results from 1 November 2017 to 31 December 2017.[1]

Competition schedule

The following was the competition schedule for all four events.[2]

All times are (UTC+9).

DateTimeEvent
10 February19:10Men's singles runs 1 and 2
11 February18:50Men's singles runs 3 and 4
12 February19:50Women's singles runs 1 and 2
13 February19:30Women's singles runs 3 and 4
14 February20:20Doubles runs 1 and 2
15 February21:30Team relay

Medal summary

Medal table

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Germany3126
2 Austria1113
3 Canada0112
4 United States0101
Totals (4 entries)44412

Events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's singles[3]
David Gleirscher
 Austria
3:10.702 Chris Mazdzer
 United States
3:10.728 Johannes Ludwig
 Germany
3:10.932
Women's singles[4]
Natalie Geisenberger
 Germany
3:05.232 Dajana Eitberger
 Germany
3:05.599 Alex Gough
 Canada
3:05.644
Doubles[5]
 Germany
Tobias Wendl
Tobias Arlt
1:31.697  Austria
Peter Penz
Georg Fischler
1:31.785  Germany
Toni Eggert
Sascha Benecken
1:31.987
Team relay[6]
 Germany
Natalie Geisenberger
Johannes Ludwig
Tobias Wendl
Tobias Arlt
2:24.517  Canada
Alex Gough
Samuel Edney
Tristan Walker
Justin Snith
2:24.872  Austria
Madeleine Egle
David Gleirscher
Peter Penz
Georg Fischler
2:24.988

Participating nations

A total of 110 athletes from 24 nations (including the IOC's designation of Olympic Athletes from Russia) were scheduled to participate.[7][8]

References

  1. "Qualification Systems for XXIII Olympic Winter Games, PyeongChang 2018" (PDF). International Luge Federation. Retrieved 13 November 2017.
  2. "Schedule". POCOG. Archived from the original on 5 November 2017. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
  3. Men's singles results
  4. Women's singles results
  5. Doubles results
  6. Team relay results
  7. "Ranking list" (PDF). fil-luge.org. Retrieved 13 February 2017.
  8. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 February 2018. Retrieved 20 February 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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