Luge at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Men's singles

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.

Luge men's singles at the XXIV Olympic Winter Games
Luge pictogram
Venue	Xiaohaituo Bobsleigh and Luge Track
Date	5, 6 February
Competitors	34 from 21 nations
Medalists
Johannes Ludwig  Germany Wolfgang Kindl  Austria Dominik Fischnaller  Italy
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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

Main article: Luge at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Qualification

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

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

Rank	Bib	Athlete	Country	Run 1	Rank	Run 2	Rank	Run 3	Rank	Run 4	Rank	Total^[6]	Behind
	4	Johannes Ludwig	Germany	57.063 TR	1	57.438	2	57.043 TR	1	57.191	1	3:48.735
	1	Wolfgang Kindl	Austria	57.110	2	57.430	1	57.117	2	57.238	2	3:48.895	+0.160
	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

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