Luge at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Doubles

Doubles
at the XXII Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for luge
VenueSliding Center Sanki
Dates12 February 2014
Competitors38 from 12 nations
Winning time1:39.455
Medalists
   Germany
   Austria
   Latvia
Luge at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Individual   men   women
Doubles   doubles
Relay   mixed

The doubles luge at the 2014 Winter Olympics was held on 12 February 2014 at the Sliding Center Sanki in Rzhanaya Polyana, Russia.[1]

Qualifying athletes

The top 18, with each nation allowed a maximum of 2, after five of five races. Romania and South Korea receive the team relay allocations to complete a team. 20 sleds qualified to compete, but only 19 competed as the Romanian's sled broke during training which meant they could not take part in the competition.[2]

Results

Run 1 was started at 18:15 and Run 2 at 19:45.[3]

RankBibAthlete CountryRun 1 Rank Run 2 Rank TotalBehind
1st, gold medalist(s) 4 Tobias Wendl
Tobias Arlt
Germany 49.373 1 49.560 1 1:38.933
2nd, silver medalist(s) 2 Andreas Linger
Wolfgang Linger
Austria 49.685 2 49.770 2 1:39.455 +0.522
3rd, bronze medalist(s) 9 Andris Šics
Juris Šics
Latvia 49.880 5 49.910 3 1:39.790 +0.857
4 1 Tristan Walker
Justin Snith
Canada 49.857 4 49.983 6 1:39.840 +0.907
5 12 Alexandr Denisyev
Vladislav Antonov
Russia 49.936 6 50.013 7 1:39.949 +1.016
6 10 Christian Oberstolz
Patrick Gruber
Italy 49.976 7 50.043 8 1:40.019 +1.086
7 7 Ludwig Rieder
Patrick Rastner
Italy 50.064 8 49.975 5 1:40.039 +1.106
8 8 Toni Eggert
Sascha Benecken
Germany 50.274 10 49.944 4 1:40.218 +1.285
9 3 Vladislav Yuzhakov
Vladimir Makhnutin
Russia 50.068 9 50.269 10 1:40.337 +1.404
10 18 Oskars Gudramovičs
Pēteris Kalniņš
Latvia 50.388 12 50.074 9 1:40.462 +1.529
11 6 Christian Niccum
Jayson Terdiman
United States 50.354 11 50.591 13 1:40.945 +2.012
12 13 Marián Zemaník
Jozef Petrulák
Slovakia 50.548 13 50.409 12 1:40.957 +2.024
13 5 Lukáš Brož
Antonín Brož
Czech Republic 50.665 15 50.387 11 1:41.052 +2.119
14 16 Matthew Mortensen
Preston Griffall
United States 50.637 14 51.066 14 1:41.703 +2.770
15 14 Patryk Poreba
Karol Mikrut
Poland 51.010 17 51.170 15 1:42.180 +3.247
16 15 Marek Solčanský
Karol Stuchlák
Slovakia 50.904 16 51.481 18 1:42.385 +3.452
17 19 Oleksandr Obolonchyk
Roman Zakharkiv
Ukraine 51.795 19 51.233 16 1:43.028 +4.095
18 17 Park Jin-yong
Cho Jung-myung
South Korea 51.643 18 51.475 17 1:43.118 +4.185
19 11 Peter Penz
Georg Fischler
Austria 49.793 3 54.252 19 1:44.045 +5.112

References

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