Luge at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Doubles

The doubles competition in luge at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 9 February, at the Xiaohaituo Bobsleigh and Luge Track in Yanqing District.[1] Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt of Germany, the 2014 and 2018 champions, won the event again. The 2018 bronze medalists, Toni Eggert and Sascha Benecken, won the silver medal. Thomas Steu and Lorenz Koller of Austria won the bronze, their first medal.

Luge doubles
at the XXIV Olympic Winter Games
Luge pictogram
VenueXiaohaituo Bobsleigh and Luge Track
Date9 February
Competitors34 from 14 nations
Teams17
Winning time1:56.554
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Tobias Wendl
Tobias Arlt
 Germany
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Toni Eggert
Sascha Benecken
 Germany
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Thomas Steu
Lorenz Koller
 Austria
← 2018
2026 →

The 2018 silver medalists, Peter Penz and Georg Fischler, retired from competitions. Eggert and Benneken were leading the 2021–22 Luge World Cup before the Olympics, with Wendl and Arlt second. The two pairs were considered to be the prime gold contenders.[2] Andris Šics and Juris Šics, the bronze medalists of the 2014 Olympics, were consistent though the 2021/2022 season and were standing third in the World Cup before the Olympics. In the race, they finished fifth.

Qualification

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The qualification is based on the cumulative points of the Olympic Season from 1 July 2021 to January 10, 2022. A total of 36 (18 pairs) quota spots are available to athletes to compete at the games. Each NOC can enter a maximum of three athletes.

In the doubles, all nations with a pair in the top 25 qualified one slot. If there were remaining spots left, the second best sled of each nation in the top 28 was awarded an additional 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 saw athletes qualify based on their top four results during the World Cup season, (as opposed to the previous all seven results counting).[3]

On January 19, 2022, the International Luge Federation announced the list of qualified athletes.[4]

Summary

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Number of sleds Athletes total Nation
2 16   Germany
  Latvia
  Austria
  ROC
1 20   Italy
  Poland
  Canada
  United States
  South Korea
  Slovakia
  Ukraine
  Romania
  Czech Republic
  China[a]
18 36
  1. ^ China's best entry does not rank in the top 25 so would qualify as host.

Results

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The second qualified sled from Austria did not start.

Rank Bib Athlete Country Run 1 Rank Run 2 Rank Total[5] Behind
  5 Tobias Wendl
Tobias Arlt
  Germany 58.255 TR 1 58.299 1 1:56.554
  2 Toni Eggert
Sascha Benecken
  Germany 58.300 2 58.353 2 1:56.653 +0.099
  11 Thomas Steu
Lorenz Koller
  Austria 58.426 3 58.639 3 1:57.065 +0.511
4 3 Mārtiņš Bots
Roberts Plūme
  Latvia 58.628 5 58.791 5 1:57.419 +0.865
5 1 Andris Šics
Juris Šics
  Latvia 58.703 6 58.734 4 1:57.437 +0.883
6 4 Emanuel Rieder
Simon Kainzwaldner
  Italy 58.602 4 58.995 7 1:57.597 +1.043
7 10 Tristan Walker
Justin Snith
  Canada 58.895 7 59.023 8 1:57.918 +1.364
8 8 Alexander Denisyev
Vladislav Antonov
  ROC 59.040 9 58.953 6 1:57.993 +1.439
9 7 Wojciech Chmielewski
Jakub Kowalewski
  Poland 58.992 8 59.073 9 1:58.065 +1.511
10 6 Andrei Bogdanov
Yuri Prokhorov
  ROC 59.376 11 59.132 11 1:58.508 +1.954
11 15 Zack DiGregorio
Sean Hollander
  United States 59.389 12 59.126 10 1:58.515 +1.961
12 12 Park Jin-yong
Cho Jung-myung
  South Korea 59.361 10 59.366 12 1:58.727 +2.173
13 9 Tomáš Vaverčák
Matej Zmij
  Slovakia 1:00.138 15 59.704 13 1:59.842 +3.288
14 13 Vasile Gîtlan
Darius Şerban
  Romania 59.694 13 1:00.243 16 1:59.937 +3.383
15 14 Ihor Stakhiv
Andrii Lysetskyi
  Ukraine 59.983 14 1:00.080 15 2:00.063 +3.509
16 17 Filip Vejdělek
Zdeněk Pěkný
  Czech Republic 1:00.248 16 59.869 14 2:00.117 +3.563
17 16 Huang Yebo
Peng Junyue
  China 1:00.732 17 1:00.840 17 2:01.572 +5.018

References

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  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. ^ "Qualification Systems for XXIV Olympic Winter Games, Beijing 2022" (PDF). International Luge Federation. 16 December 2021. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  4. ^ "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.
  5. ^ Final results