Luge at the 2018 Winter Olympics

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Luge at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Alpensia Sliding Centre
Dates	10–15 February
No. of events	4 (2 men, 1 women, 1 mixed)
Competitors	110 from 24 nations
← 2014 2022 →

Luge at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Qualification
Singles	men	women
Doubles	doubles
Relay			mixed
v t e

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

Contents

 [hide] 

• 1Qualification
• 2Competition schedule
• 3Medal summary
  • 3.1Medal table
  • 3.2Events
• 4Participating nations
• 5References

Qualification[edit]

Main article: Luge at the 2018 Winter Olympics – 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[edit]

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

All times are (UTC+9).

Date	Time	Event
10 February	19:10	Men’s singles runs 1 and 2
11 February	18:50	Men’s singles runs 3 and 4
12 February	19:50	Women’s singles runs 1 and 2
13 February	19:30	Women’s singles runs 3 and 4
14 February	20:20	Doubles runs 1 and 2
15 February	21:30	Team relay

Medal summary[edit]

Medal table[edit]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany (GER)	3	1	2	6
2	Austria (AUT)	1	1	1	3
3	Canada (CAN)	0	1	1	2
4	United States (USA)	0	1	0	1
Total		4	4	4	12

Events[edit]

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

Participating nations[edit]

A total of 110 athletes from 24 nations (including the IOC’s designation of Olympic Athletes from Russia) were scheduled to participate.^[7][8] The number of athletes for each nation are shown in parentheses.

•  Argentina (1)
•  Australia (1)
•  Austria (10)
•  Bulgaria (1)
•  Canada (8)
•  Croatia (1)
•  Czech Republic (6)
•  Georgia (1)
•  Germany (10)
•  Great Britain (2)
•  India (1)
•  Italy (9)
•  Kazakhstan (1)
•  Latvia (10)
•  Olympic Athletes from Russia (8)
•  Poland (6)
•  Romania (5)
•  Slovakia (5)
•  Slovenia (1)
•  South Korea (5)
•  Switzerland (1)
•  Chinese Taipei (1)
•  Ukraine (6)
•  United States (10)

References