Luge at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Women's singles

Luge women's singles
at the XXIV Olympic Winter Games
Luge pictogram
VenueXiaohaituo Bobsleigh and Luge Track
Date7, 8 February
Competitors35 from 20 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Natalie Geisenberger  Germany
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Anna Berreiter  Germany
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Tatiana Ivanova  ROC
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Singlesmenwomen
Doublesopen
Relaymixed

The women's singles competition in luge at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 7 February (heats 1 and 2) and 8 February (heats 3 and 4), at the Xiaohaituo Bobsleigh and Luge Track in Yanqing District.[1] The defending champion Natalie Geisenberger of Germany won the event and became thereby the first ever triple Olympic champion in women's luge. This is her fifth Olympic gold medal. Her compatriot Anna Berreiter won the silver medal, and Tatiana Ivanova, representing the Russian Olympic Committee, the bronze. This was the first Olympic medal for Berreiter and first individual medal for Ivanova, who already has the silver for the 2014 team relay.

In the 2021–22 Luge World Cup, Geisenberger was third, though she won the last race of the season before the Olympics. Julia Taubitz won the World Cup, with Madeleine Egle finishing second. The silver medalist at the 2018 Olympics, Dajana Eitberger, missed a season due to childbirth; she then returned to competitions, but finished outside of the top-10 in the World Cup and did not qualify for the Olympics. The 2018 bronze medalist, Alex Gough, retired from competitions.[2]

Taubitz won the first run, setting the track record, but crashed in the second run, dropping out of the medal contention. Egle made a mistake in the first run, and after two runs was only seventh. This left Geisenberger in lead after two runs, with Anna Berreiter second and Tatiana Ivanova third.[3] In the third run, Geisenberger set the new track record. Whereas Egle managed to fight back to the fourth position, the last run did not change the medal distribution.

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 women's singles, all nations with an athlete in the top 40 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 21  Germany
 Austria
 United States
 ROC
 Latvia
 Italy
 Canada
2 2  Ukraine
1 12  Switzerland
 Romania
 South Korea
 Slovakia
 Sweden
 China
 Argentina
 Poland[a]
 Czech Republic[a]
 Chinese Taipei[b]
 Netherlands[b]
 Moldova[b]
 Ireland[b]
35 35
  1. ^ a b quota allocated to participate in the team relay.
  2. ^ a b c d allocation according to rule D3.1 for sleds outside of the top 40.

Results

Rank Bib Athlete Country Run 1 Rank Run 2 Rank Run 3 Rank Run 4 Rank Total[6] Behind
1st place, gold medalist(s) 1 Natalie Geisenberger  Germany 58.402 2 58.423 1 58.226 TR 1 58.403 2 3:53.454 0.000
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3 Anna Berreiter  Germany 58.525 4 58.508 3 58.348 2 58.566 4 3:53.947 +0.493
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 6 Tatiana Ivanova  ROC 58.733 5 58.683 4 58.461 3 58.630 5 3:54.507 +1.053
4 2 Madeleine Egle  Austria 59.342 17 58.493 2 58.542 5 58.432 3 3:54.809 +1.355
5 12 Hannah Prock  Austria 58.762 6 58.732 5 58.532 4 58.798 9 3:54.824 +1.370
6 10 Lisa Schulte  Austria 58.523 3 59.074 12 58.646 6 58.642 6 3:54.885 +1.431
7 5 Julia Taubitz  Germany 58.345 TR 1 1:00.075 26 58.655 7 58.358 1 3:55.433 +1.979
8 9 Elīza Tīruma  Latvia 58.956 8 58.849 6 58.865 11 58.771 8 3:55.441 +1.987
9 18 Natalie Maag  Switzerland 59.018 11 59.117 13 58.913 14 58.892 10 3:55.940 +2.486
10 8 Andrea Vötter  Italy 59.145 14 59.045 10 58.852 10 58.935 11 3:55.977 +2.523
11 28 Kendija Aparjode  Latvia 59.107 13 59.020 7 58.928 15 59.084 12 3:56.139 +2.685
12 24 Ashley Farquharson  United States 59.972 26 59.024 8 58.768 8 58.643 7 3:56.407 +2.953
13 19 Verena Hofer  Italy 58.960 9 59.037 9 58.961 16 59.584 16 3:56.542 +3.088
14 15 Trinity Ellis  Canada 59.219 16 59.053 11 58.888 13 59.704 17 3:56.864 +3.410
15 13 Nina Zöggeler  Italy 59.464 18 59.160 16 59.085 19 59.275 14 3:56.984 +3.530
16 29 Natalie Corless  Canada 59.193 15 59.316 17 59.176 21 59.570 15 3:57.255 +3.801
17 17 Makena Hodgson  Canada 59.505 19 59.477 18 59.286 22 59.268 13 3:57.536 +4.082
18 4 Elīna Ieva Vītola  Latvia 59.025 12 59.140 14 59.029 17 1:00.957 18 3:58.151 +4.697
19 26 Aileen Frisch  South Korea 59.776 23 59.642 20 59.055 18 1:01.811 19 4:00.284 +6.830
20 30 Tove Kohala  Sweden 59.533 20 59.776 21 59.333 23 1:02.431 20 4:01.073 +7.619
21 25 Yulianna Tunytska  Ukraine 59.690 22 59.844 23 59.571 24 Did not advance 2:59.105 N/A
22 20 Olena Stetskiv  Ukraine 59.663 21 59.586 19 59.963 27 2:59.212
23 23 Summer Britcher  United States 1:00.986 29 59.156 15 59.152 20 2:59.294
24 34 Verónica María Ravenna  Argentina 59.811 24 59.780 22 59.719 25 2:59.310
25 21 Katarína Šimoňáková  Slovakia 1:00.124 27 59.851 24 59.761 26 2:59.736
26 14 Emily Sweeney  United States 58.971 10 1:02.439 32 58.882 12 3:00.292
27 22 Klaudia Domaradzka  Poland 59.871 25 59.892 25 1:01.313 31 3:01.076
28 11 Victoria Demchenko  ROC 58.869 7 1:03.466 33 58.838 9 3:01.173
29 32 Wang Peixuan  China 1:00.986 29 1:00.391 28 1:00.025 28 3:01.402
30 31 Anna Čežíková  Czech Republic 1:00.392 28 1:01.169 30 1:00.101 29 3:01.662
31 33 Lin Sin-rong  Chinese Taipei 1:01.550 32 1:01.057 29 1:01.004 30 3:03.611
32 35 Doina Descalui  Moldova 1:01.928 34 1:02.192 31 1:02.174 32 3:06.294
33 27 Elsa Desmond  Ireland 1:01.608 33 1:03.857 34 1:02.254 33 3:07.719
16 Raluca Strămăturaru  Romania 1:01:357 31 1:00.305 27 Did not finish
7 Ekaterina Katnikova  ROC Did not finish

References

  1. ^ Minji Seo (2021-06-16). "Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games Competition Schedule Version 9" (PDF). Retrieved 2021-12-24.
  2. ^ Reynolds, Tim (13 January 2022). "Luge preview: A long, winding road took US to Beijing Games". ABC news.
  3. ^ Reynolds, Tim (7 February 2022). "Germany's Geisenberger, once again, leads Olympic women's luge event". CBC.
  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