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Luge at the 1994 Winter Olympics – Doubles

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Doubles
at the XVII Olympic Winter Games
VenueLillehammer Olympic Bobsleigh and Luge Track
Dates18 February
Competitors40 from 15 nations
Winning time1:36.720
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Italy
Kurt Brugger, Wilfried Huber
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Italy
Hansjörg Raffl, Norbert Huber
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Germany
Stefan Krauße, Jan Behrendt
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The Doubles luge competition at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer was held on 18 February, at Lillehammer Olympic Bobsleigh and Luge Track.[1] Prior to these Games, the International Luge Federation changed the doubles from a men's event to an open event, allowing men and women to race together. However, no women competed in this event during these Games.[2][3]

Results

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Rank[1] Bib Athletes Country Run 1 Run 2 Total
1st place, gold medalist(s) 11 Kurt Brugger
Wilfried Huber
 Italy 48.348 48.372 1:36.720
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 9 Hansjörg Raffl
Norbert Huber
 Italy 48.274 48.495 1:36.769
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 5 Stefan Krauße
Jan Behrendt
 Germany 48.364 48.581 1:36.945
4 17 Mark Grimmette
Jonathan Edwards
 United States 48.617 48.672 1:37.289
5 1 Chris Thorpe
Gordy Sheer
 United States 48.571 48.725 1:37.296
6 8 Ioan Apostol
Liviu Cepoi
 Romania 48.647 48.676 1:37.323
7 7 Albert Demchenko
Aleksey Zelensky
 Russia 48.655 48.882 1:37.537
8 20 Bob Gasper
Clay Ives
 Canada 48.728 48.963 1:37.691
8 4 Ihor Urbanskiy
Andriy Mukhin
 Ukraine 48.899 48.792 1:37.691
10 6 Tobias Schiegl
Markus Schiegl
 Austria 48.802 48.893 1:37.695
11 3 Aivis Švāns
Roberts Suharevs
 Latvia 48.949 48.918 1:37.867
12 16 Juris Vovčoks
Dairis Leksis
 Latvia 49.014 49.201 1:38.215
13 18 Hans Kohala
Carl-Johan Lindqvist
 Sweden 48.970 49.268 1:38.238
14 10 Steffen Skel
Steffen Wöller
 Germany 49.217 49.091 1:38.308
15 19 Anatoly Bobkov
Gennady Belyakov
 Russia 49.296 49.384 1:38.680
16 12 Leszek Szarejko
Adrian Przechewka
 Poland 49.104 49.800 1:38.904
17 14 Levan Tibilov
Kakha Vakhtangishvili
 Georgia 49.880 49.504 1:39.384
18 13 Atsushi Sasaki
Yuji Sasaki
 Japan 50.782 49.342 1:40.124
19 15 Ilko Karacholov
Ivan Karacholov
 Bulgaria 50.936 50.827 1:41.763
- 2 Harald Rolfsen
Lars-Marius Waldal
 Norway DQ - -

References

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  1. ^ a b "Lillehammer 1994 Official Report - Volume 3" (PDF). Lillehammer Olympic Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 1994. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 December 2010. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
  2. ^ "Women & the Winter Olympics". topendsports.com. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
  3. ^ "Luge at the 1994 Lillehammer Winter Games: Men's Doubles". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 7 April 2020.