Luge at the Winter Olympics

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Luge at the Winter Olympics
Governing body	FIL
Events	3 (men: 1; women: 1; mixed: 1)
Games
1924 • 1928 • 1932 • 1936 • 1948 • 1952 1956 • 1960 • 1964 • 1968 • 1972 • 1976 1980 • 1984 • 1988 • 1992 • 1994 • 1998 2002 • 2006
Medalists

Luge was introduced to the Winter Olympic Games in 1964, with both men's and women's events and a doubles event. Doubles is technically a mixed event, but is almost always competed by a team of two men. German lugers (competing under the IOC country codes of EUA, GDR, FRG and GER at different times since 1964) have dominated the competition, winning 65 medals in 36 events.

Events

List of Olympic medalists

Men's singles

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1964 Innsbruck	Thomas Köhler (EUA)	Klaus Bonsack (EUA)	Hans Plenk (EUA)
1968 Grenoble	Manfred Schmid (AUT)	Thomas Köhler (GDR)	Klaus Bonsack (GDR)
1972 Sapporo	Wolfgang Scheidel (GDR)	Harald Ehrig (GDR)	Wolfram Fiedler (GDR)
1976 Innsbruck	Dettlef Günther (GDR)	Josef Fendt (FRG)	Hans Rinn (GDR)
1980 Lake Placid	Bernhard Glass (GDR)	Paul Hildgartner (ITA)	Anton Winkler (FRG)
1984 Sarajevo	Paul Hildgartner (ITA)	Sergey Danilin (URS)	Valery Dudin (URS)
1988 Calgary	Jens Müller (GDR)	Georg Hackl (FRG)	Yuri Kharchenko (URS)
1992 Albertville	Georg Hackl (GER)	Markus Prock (AUT)	Markus Schmidt (AUT)
1994 Lillehammer	Georg Hackl (GER)	Markus Prock (AUT)	Armin Zöggeler (ITA)
1998 Nagano	Georg Hackl (GER)	Armin Zöggeler (ITA)	Jens Müller (GER)
2002 Salt Lake City	Armin Zöggeler (ITA)	Georg Hackl (GER)	Markus Prock (AUT)
2006 Turin	Armin Zöggeler (ITA)	Albert Demtschenko (RUS)	Mārtiņš Rubenis (LAT)
2010 Vancouver

Doubles

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1964 Innsbruck	Josef Feistmantl,Manfred Stengl (AUT)	Reinhold Senn,Helmut Thaler (AUT)	Walter Aussendorfer,Sigisfredo Mair (ITA)
1968 Grenoble	Klaus Bonsack,Thomas Köhler (GDR)	Manfred Schmid,Ewald Walch (AUT)	Wolfgang Winkler,Fritz Nachmann (FRG)
1972 Sapporo	Horst Hörnlein,Reinhard Bredow (GDR)  Paul Hildgartner,Walter Plaikner (ITA)	none awarded	Klaus Bonsack,Wolfram Fiedler (GDR)
1976 Innsbruck	Hans Rinn,Norbert Hahn (GDR)	Hans Brandner,Balthasar Schwarm (FRG)	Rudolf Schmid,Franz Schachner (AUT)
1980 Lake Placid	Hans Rinn,Norbert Hahn (GDR)	Peter Gschnitzer,Karl Brunner (ITA)	Georg Fluckinger,Karl Schrott (AUT)
1984 Sarajevo	Hans Stangassinger,Franz Wembacher (FRG)	Yevgeny Belousov,Aleksandr Belyakov (URS)	Jörg Hoffmann,Jochen Pietzsch (GDR)
1988 Calgary	Jörg Hoffmann,Jochen Pietzsch (GDR)	Stefan Krausse,Jan Behrendt (GDR)	Thomas Schwab,Wolfgang Staudinger (FRG)
1992 Albertville	Stefan Krausse,Jan Behrendt (GER)	Yves Mankel,Thomas Rudolph (GER)	Hansjörg Raffl,Norbert Huber (ITA)
1994 Lillehammer	Kurt Brugger,Wilfried Huber (ITA)	Hansjörg Raffl,Norbert Huber (ITA)	Stefan Krausse,Jan Behrendt (GER)
1998 Nagano	Stefan Krausse,Jan Behrendt (GER)	Chris Thorpe,Gordon Sheer (USA)	Mark Grimmette,Brian Martin (USA)
2002 Salt Lake City	Patric-Fritz Leitner,Alexander Resch (GER)	Mark Grimmette,Brian Martin (USA)	Chris Thorpe,Clay Ives (USA)
2006 Turin	Andreas Linger,Wolfgang Linger (AUT)	André Florschütz,Torsten Wustlich (GER)	Gerhard Plankensteiner,Oswald Haselrieder (ITA)
2010 Vancouver

Women's singles

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1964 Innsbruck	Ortrun Enderlein (EUA)	Ilse Geisler (EUA)	Helene Thurner (AUT)
1968 Grenoble	Erica Lechner (ITA)	Christina Schmuck (FRG)	Angelika Dünhaupt (FRG)
1972 Sapporo	Anna-Maria Müller (GDR)	Ute Rührold (GDR)	Margit Schumann (GDR)
1976 Innsbruck	Margit Schumann (GDR)	Ute Rührold (GDR)	Elisabeth Demleitner (FRG)
1980 Lake Placid	Vera Zozula (URS)	Melitta Sollmann (GDR)	Ingrida Amantova (URS)
1984 Sarajevo	Steffi Martin (GDR)	Bettina Schmidt (GDR)	Ute Weiss (GDR)
1988 Calgary	Steffi Walter (GDR)	Ute Oberhoffner (GDR)	Cerstin Schmidt (GDR)
1992 Albertville	Doris Neuner (AUT)	Angelika Neuner (AUT)	Susi Erdmann (GER)
1994 Lillehammer	Gerda Weissensteiner (ITA)	Susi Erdmann (GER)	Andrea Tagwerker (AUT)
1998 Nagano	Silke Kraushaar (GER)	Barbara Niedernhuber (GER)	Angelika Neuner (AUT)
2002 Salt Lake City	Sylke Otto (GER)	Barbara Niedernhuber (GER)	Silke Kraushaar (GER)
2006 Turin	Sylke Otto (GER)	Silke Kraushaar (GER)	Tatjana Hüfner (GER)
2010 Vancouver

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany (GDR)	13	8	8	29
2	Germany (GER)	9	7	5	21
3	Italy (ITA)	7	4	4	15
4	Austria (AUT)	4	5	7	16
5	Germany (EUA)	2	2	1	5
6	West Germany (FRG)	1	4	5	10
7	Soviet Union (URS)	1	2	3	6
8	United States (USA)	0	2	2	4
9	Russia (RUS)	0	1	0	1
10	Latvia (LAT)	0	0	1	1

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