Luge at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Men's singles

The men's luge at the 2018 Winter Olympics was held between 10 and 11 February 2018 at the Alpensia Sliding Centre near Pyeongchang, South Korea.^[1]

Men's singles at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Alpensia Sliding Centre near Pyeongchang, South Korea
Dates	10–11 February 2018
Competitors	40 from 21 nations
Winning time	3:10.702
Medalists
David Gleirscher  Austria Chris Mazdzer  United States Johannes Ludwig  Germany
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The event was won by David Gleirscher, who became the first Austrian to win men's luge since 1968. Chris Mazdzer won the silver medal, whereas Johannes Ludwig won the bronze. For all of them, this was the first Olympic medal, and the Mazdzer's medal is the first ever medal for the United States in men's singles luge. This is the first time since 1988 than none of the medalists in men's luge had a medal of previous Olympics. The favorite and the defending Olympic champion, Felix Loch, was leading the field after three runs, but in the last run made a mistake which cost him a medal.

Qualifying athletes

The field included the 2010 and the 2014 Olympic champion Felix Loch, who is also the 2017–18 Luge World Cup winner, the 2016–17 Luge World Cup winner Roman Repilov, and Wolfgang Kindl who finished second in the 2017–18 Luge World Cup. None of them won a medal.

•  Alexander Ferlazzo (AUS)
•  David Gleirscher (AUT)
•  Reinhard Egger (AUT)
•  Wolfgang Kindl (AUT)
•  Pavel Angelov (BUL)
•  Mitchel Malyk (CAN)
•  Reid Watts (CAN)
•  Samuel Edney (CAN)
•  Ondřej Hyman (CZE)
•  Adam Rosen (GBR)
•  Rupert Staudinger (GBR)
•  Giorgi Sogoiani (GEO)
•  Andi Langenhan (GER)
•  Felix Loch (GER)
•  Johannes Ludwig (GER)
•  Shiva Keshavan (IND)
•  Dominik Fischnaller (ITA)
•  Emanuel Rieder (ITA)
•  Kevin Fischnaller (ITA)
•  Nikita Kopyrenko (KAZ)
•  Lim Nam-kyu (KOR)
•  Arturs Dārznieks (LAT)
•  Inārs Kivlenieks (LAT)
•  Kristers Aparjods (LAT)
•  Roman Repilov (OAR)
•  Semen Pavlichenko (OAR)
•  Stepan Fedorov (OAR)
•  Maciej Kurowski (POL)
•  Mateusz Sochowicz (POL)
•  Andrei Turea (ROU)
•  Valentin Crețu (ROU)
•  Tilen Sirše (SLO)
•  Jakub Šimoňák (SVK)
•  Jozef Ninis (SVK)
•  Lien Te-an (TPE)
•  Andriy Mandziy (UKR)
•  Anton Dukach (UKR)
•  Chris Mazdzer (USA)
•  Taylor Morris (USA)
•  Tucker West (USA)

Competition schedule

All times are (UTC+9).

Date	Time	Event
10 February	19:10	Run 1
10 February		Run 2
11 February	18:50	Run 3
11 February		Run 4

Results

Four runs, split over two days, were used to determine the winner.^[2][3]

Rank	Bib	Athlete	Country	Run 1	Rank	Run 2	Rank	Run 3	Rank	Run 4	Rank	Total	Behind
	11	David Gleirscher	Austria	47.652	1	47.835	7	47.584	4	47.631	4	3:10.702	—
	13	Chris Mazdzer	United States	47.800	5	47.717	2	47.534	1	47.677	7	3:10.728	+0.026
	3	Johannes Ludwig	Germany	47.764	3	47.940	14	47.625	6	47.603	3	3:10.932	+0.230
4	4	Dominik Fischnaller	Italy	47.930	10	47.967	16	47.562	3	47.475	1	3:10.934	+0.232
5	5	Felix Loch	Germany	47.674	2	47.625	1	47.560	2	48.109	19	3:10.968	+0.266
6	19	Samuel Edney	Canada	47.862	9	47.755	4	47.759	10	47.645	6	3:11.021	+0.319
7	14	Kevin Fischnaller	Italy	47.853	8	47.793	5	47.596	5	47.812	8	3:11.054	+0.352
8	6	Roman Repilov	Olympic Athletes from Russia	47.776	4	47.740	3	47.948	15	47.644	5	3:11.108	+0.406
9	2	Wolfgang Kindl	Austria	47.955	11	47.858	9	47.799	12	47.521	2	3:11.133	+0.431
10	10	Andi Langenhan	Germany	48.083	18	47.850	8	47.630	7	47.870	13	3:11.433	+0.731
11	8	Kristers Aparjods	Latvia	47.822	6	47.834	6	47.858	13	47.942	17	3:11.456	+0.754
12	24	Reid Watts	Canada	47.960	12	47.895	10	47.787	11	47.848	11	3:11.490	+0.788
13	22	Stepan Fedorov	Olympic Athletes from Russia	48.035	13	47.936	13	47.755	9	47.882	14	3:11.608	+0.906
14	1	Semen Pavlichenko	Olympic Athletes from Russia	48.337	24	47.923	12	47.716	8	47.883	15	3:11.859	+1.157
15	7	Reinhard Egger	Austria	48.221	20	47.903	11	47.963	17	47.840	10	3:11.927	+1.225
16	25	Mitchel Malyk	Canada	48.075	17	48.050	18	47.952	16	47.869	12	3:11.946	+1.244
17	20	Emanuel Rieder	Italy	48.040	14	48.047	17	47.972	18	48.082	18	3:12.141	+1.439
18	23	Taylor Morris	United States	48.072	15	48.793	32	47.858	13	47.824	9	3:12.547	+1.845
19	26	Maciej Kurowski	Poland	48.103	19	48.467	24	48.158	22	47.885	16	3:12.613	+1.911
20	17	Inārs Kivlenieks	Latvia	48.274	21	48.370	22	48.066	20	48.112	20	3:12.822	+2.120
21	16	Ondřej Hyman	Czech Republic	48.324	23	48.276	20	48.313	25	did not advance		2:24.913	N/A
22	31	Adam Rosen	Great Britain	48.477	25	48.410	23	48.280	23			2:25.167
23	35	Anton Dukach	Ukraine	48.888	27	48.307	21	48.303	24			2:25.498
24	21	Arturs Dārznieks	Latvia	48.305	22	48.671	29	48.602	28			2:25.578
25	12	Jozef Ninis	Slovakia	47.833	7	50.014	37	48.095	21			2:25.942
26	9	Tucker West	United States	48.484	26	47.942	15	49.593	37			2:26.019
27	15	Mateusz Sochowicz	Poland	49.047	29	48.203	19	48.930	31			2:26.180
28	27	Alexander Ferlazzo	Australia	48.073	16	48.587	27	49.351	36			2:26.191
29	18	Valentin Crețu	Romania	49.030	28	49.085	33	48.424	26			2:26.539
30	29	Lim Nam-kyu	South Korea	49.461	31	48.591	28	48.620	29			2:26.672
31	39	Andrei Turea	Romania	49.482	32	48.489	26	49.314	35			2:27.285
32	36	Giorgi Sogoiani	Georgia	49.300	30	49.151	34	49.008	33			2:27.459
33	34	Rupert Staudinger	Great Britain	49.626	33	49.259	35	48.957	32			2:27.842
34	37	Shiva Keshavan	India	50.578	36	48.710	31	48.900	30			2:28.188
35	33	Jakub Šimoňák	Slovakia	51.724	38	48.690	30	48.522	27			2:28.936
36	40	Nikita Kopyrenko	Kazakhstan	50.147	35	50.327	38	49.244	34			2:29.718
37	28	Pavel Angelov	Bulgaria	51.569	37	49.449	36	50.094	39			2:31.112
38	38	Lien Te-an	Chinese Taipei	52.121	39	51.472	39	50.545	40			2:34.138
39	30	Tilen Sirše	Slovenia	49.887	34	58.776	40	49.646	38			2:38.309
40	32	Andriy Mandziy	Ukraine	1:02.935	40	48.473	25	47.981	19			2:39.389