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

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

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]
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
  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]
details
  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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