Luge at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Women's singles

The women's luge at the 2014 Winter Olympics was held on 10–11 February 2014 at the Sliding Center Sanki in Rzhanaya Polyana, Russia.[1]

Women's singles
at the XXII Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for luge
VenueSliding Center Sanki
Dates10–11 February 2014
Competitors31 from 16 nations
Winning time3:19.768
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Natalie Geisenberger  Germany
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Tatjana Hüfner  Germany
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Erin Hamlin  United States
← 2010
2018 →

Qualifying athletes edit

The top 28, with each nation allowed a maximum of 3, after five of five races.[2] Czech Republic and South Korea receive the team relay allocations to complete a team. Since the men's singles competition did not use its last quota, a spot also goes to Kazakhstan (the next best ranked nation without representation).

Competition schedule edit

All times are (UTC+4).

Date Time Event
10 February 18:45 Run 1
10 February 20:20 Run 2
11 February 18:30 Run 3
11 February 20:10 Run 4

Results edit

The four runs were split over two days.[3]

Rank Bib Athlete Country Run 1 Rank Run 2 Rank Run 3 Rank Run 4 Rank Total Behind
  2 Natalie Geisenberger   Germany 49.891 1 49.923 1 49.765 1 50.189 1 3:19.768
  9 Tatjana Hüfner   Germany 50.393 3 50.187 2 50.048 2 50.279 2 3:20.907 +1.139
  11 Erin Hamlin   United States 50.356 2 50.276 3 50.165 3 50.348 3 3:21.145 +1.377
4 10 Alex Gough   Canada 50.464 5 50.402 5 50.286 4 50.426 5 3:21.578 +1.810
5 12 Kimberley McRae   Canada 50.465 6 50.454 6 50.356 5 50.620 11 3:21.895 +2.127
6 7 Anke Wischnewski   Germany 50.490 7 50.476 9 50.462 7 50.532 7 3:21.960 +2.192
7 4 Tatiana Ivanova   Russia 50.457 4 50.492 10 50.450 6 50.607 9 3:22.006 +2.238
8 8 Natalia Khoreva   Russia 50.500 8 50.348 4 50.599 9 50.620 11 3:22.067 +2.299
9 5 Martina Kocher   Switzerland 50.560 9 50.454 6 50.593 8 50.559 8 3:22.166 +2.398
10 3 Kate Hansen   United States 50.794 10 50.581 11 50.793 13 50.499 6 3:22.667 +2.889
11 1 Ekaterina Baturina   Russia 51.263 21 50.457 8 50.629 10 50.382 4 3:22.731 +2.963
12 21 Elīza Tīruma   Latvia 50.926 11 50.651 12 50.758 12 50.736 13 3:23.071 +3.303
13 22 Arianne Jones   Canada 50.993 13 50.837 15 50.745 11 50.608 10 3:23.183 +3.415
14 6 Sandra Gasparini   Italy 51.032 14 50.803 14 50.959 14 50.962 15 3:23.756 +3.988
15 25 Summer Britcher   United States 51.222 19 50.930 16 51.082 16 50.909 14 3:24.143 +4.375
16 19 Natalia Wojtusciszyn   Poland 51.138 16 51.168 22 51.141 19 51.199 18 3:24.646 +4.878
17 18 Miriam Kastlunger   Austria 51.622 24 50.795 13 51.139 18 51.109 16 3:24.665 +4.897
18 20 Ulla Zirne   Latvia 51.125 15 51.159 21 51.054 15 51.347 21 3:24.685 +4.917
19 17 Andrea Vötter   Italy 50.937 12 51.592 27 51.420 20 51.290 20 3:25.239 +5.291
20 13 Nina Reithmayer   Austria 51.225 20 51.143 20 51.614 22 51.174 17 3:25.156 +5.388
21 23 Ewa Kuls   Poland 51.362 22 51.031 18 51.424 21 51.550 22 3:25.367 +5.599
22 14 Sandra Robatscher   Italy 51.589 23 50.981 17 51.678 23 51.258 19 3:25.506 +5.738
23 24 Birgit Platzer   Austria 51.201 17 51.518 25 51.760 24 52.097 28 3:26.576 +6.808
24 26 Vendula Kotenová   Czech Republic 51.760 25 51.492 24 51.856 26 51.567 24 3:26.675 +6.907
25 16 Viera Gburova   Slovakia 51.928 27 51.422 23 51.782 25 51.565 23 3:26.697 +6.929
26 30 Olena Stetskiv   Ukraine 52.064 28 51.553 26 51.991 28 51.889 26 3:27.497 +7.729
27 31 Morgane Bonnefoy   France 51.820 26 51.641 28 51.948 27 52.183 30 3:27.592 +7.824
28 28 Elizaveta Axenova   Kazakhstan 52.068 29 51.836 30 52.340 30 51.841 25 3:28.085 +8.317
29 27 Sung Eun-ryung   South Korea 52.173 30 51.960 31 52.486 31 52.124 29 3:28.743 +8.975
30 29 Raluca Strămăturaru   Romania 52.862 31 51.821 29 52.238 29 52.083 27 3:29.004 +9.236
31 15 Olena Shkhumova   Ukraine 51.211 18 51.092 19 51.128 17 1:01:416 31 3:34.847 +15.079

References edit

  1. ^ "Competition Schedule". SOCOG. Archived from the original on 20 March 2014. Retrieved 21 December 2013.
  2. ^ "International Luge Federation - Int. Rennrodelverband".
  3. ^ Final Results