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Luge at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Men's singles

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Luge men's singles
at the XXIV Olympic Winter Games
Luge pictogram
VenueXiaohaituo Bobsleigh and Luge Track
Date5, 6 February
Competitors34 from 21 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Johannes Ludwig  Germany
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Wolfgang Kindl  Austria
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Dominik Fischnaller  Italy
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2026 →

The men's singles competition in luge at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 5 February (heats 1 and 2) and 6 February (heats 3 and 4), at the Xiaohaituo Bobsleigh and Luge Track in Yanqing District.[1] Johannes Ludwig of Germany won the event. For him this was the first individual Olympic gold medal. Wolfgang Kindl of Austria won the silver, and Dominik Fischnaller of Italy bronze. For Kindl and Fischnaller, these were their first Olympic medals.

The defending champion was David Gleirscher, who was standing in the 10th position at the 2021–22 Luge World Cup before the Olympics and qualified for the competition.[2] Chris Mazdzer, the 2018 silver medalist, qualified as well. Johannes Ludwig, the 2018 bronze medalist, was leading the 2021–22 Luge World Cup before the Olympics and considered the top favorite.[3] Wolfgang Kindl was the second in the World Cup, and the 2010 and 2014 Olympic champion Felix Loch was the third.

Ludwig won three runs out of four, in two of them setting the track record. Kindl won the second run and was second in the other three. Fischnaller was third in three runs.

Qualification

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The qualification is based on the cumulative points of the Olympic Season from 1 July 2021 to January 10, 2022. A total of 35 quota spots are available to athletes to compete at the games. Each NOC can enter a maximum of three athletes.

In the men's singles, all nations with an athlete in the top 50 qualified one slot. If there were remaining spots left, the second best athlete of each nation in the top 32 was awarded an additional quota, with the third best being awarded a quota if there were any remaining spots.

On December 17, 2021, the International Luge Federation announced that the qualification system was changed. The qualification system was changed due to training runs being cancelled at the first World Cup, and equipment not being delivered to the following World Cups. The new system will see athletes qualify based on their top four results during the World Cup season, (as opposed to the previous all seven results counting).[4]

On January 19, 2022 the International Luge Federation announced the list of qualified athletes.[5]

Summary

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Number of sleds Athletes total Nation
3 18  Germany
 Austria
 ROC
 Latvia
 Italy
 United States
2 4  Slovakia
 Ukraine
1 13  Canada
 Romania
 Australia
 Sweden
 Poland
 Great Britain
 Bulgaria
 China
 Czech Republic
 Bosnia and Herzegovina
 Georgia
 Japan
 South Korea[a]
35 35
  1. ^ quota allocated to participate in the team relay.

Results

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Rank Bib Athlete Country Run 1 Rank Run 2 Rank Run 3 Rank Run 4 Rank Total[6] Behind
1st place, gold medalist(s) 4 Johannes Ludwig  Germany 57.063 TR 1 57.438 2 57.043 TR 1 57.191 1 3:48.735
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 1 Wolfgang Kindl  Austria 57.110 2 57.430 1 57.117 2 57.238 2 3:48.895 +0.160
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 10 Dominik Fischnaller  Italy 57.361 3 57.444 3 57.461 5 57.420 3 3:49.686 +0.951
4 2 Felix Loch  Germany 57.383 5 57.500 4 57.510 7 57.485 6 3:49.878 +1.143
5 3 Kristers Aparjods  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 8 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
8 18 Chris Mazdzer  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 8 58.679 16 57.714 9 57.647 8 3:51.634 +2.899
10 8 Semen 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 8 58.534 21 57.916 13 3:52.360 +3.625
14 16 Aleksandr Gorbatcevich  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 Reid Watts  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 Did not advance 2:55.825 N/A
22 20 Anton Dukach  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 Marián Skupek  Slovakia 58.956 26 58.976 23 59.051 27 2:56.983
27 13 Andriy Mandziy  Ukraine 1:01.082 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 Creţu  Romania 58.349 20 58.362 15 1:02.223 34 2:58.934
30 30 Michael Lejsek  Czech Republic 59.542 28 59.945 31 1:00.080 32 2:59.567
31 27 Saba Kumaritashvili  Georgia 1:00.211 30 1:00.146 32 1:00.036 31 3:00.393
32 28 Seiya Kobayashi  Japan 1:00.856 31 1:00.919 33 59.859 30 3:01.634
33 29 Lim Nam-kyu  South Korea 1:02.438 34 59.794 30 59.538 28 3:01.770
34 31 Mirza Nikolajev  Bosnia and Herzegovina 1:01.667 33 1:02.507 34 1:01.175 33 3:05.349
9 Kevin Fischnaller  Italy Did not start

References

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  1. ^ Minji Seo (2021-06-16). "Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games Competition Schedule Version 9" (PDF). Retrieved 2021-12-24.
  2. ^ "Olympic luge champion David Gleirscher buys the ticket for Beijing". The Observatorial. 22 December 2021.
  3. ^ Reynolds, Tim (13 January 2022). "Luge preview: A long, winding road took US to Beijing Games". ABC news.
  4. ^ "Qualification Systems for XXIV Olympic Winter Games, Beijing 2022" (PDF). International Luge Federation. 16 December 2021. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  5. ^ "XXIV Olympic Winter Games 2022 in Beijing - Quota places luge" (PDF). www.fil-luge.org/. International Luge Federation. 19 January 2022. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
  6. ^ Final results