List of Olympic medalists in luge

Luge is one of the seven Olympic sports currently contested at the Winter Olympic Games.^[1] It has been a constant presence in the Olympic program since its introduction at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria,^[2] in the form of three events: men's singles, women's singles, and doubles.^[a] A mixed team relay event was contested for the first time at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.^[4]

History

Italian luger Armin Zöggeler is the overall medal leader in the sport, having collected a total of six medals (two gold, one silver, and three bronze) in the men's singles, during the six Winter Games in which he competed (1994–2014). As of 2021, he is the only Olympian to receive six medals in the same event. German luger Georg Hackl was the first Olympian to receive a medal in five consecutive Olympics, from 1988 to 2002, including three consecutive gold medals.

In the women's event, Germany's Silke Kraushaar leads the medal count with three, one of each color. Steffi Martin and Sylke Otto—at 36, the oldest female individual gold medalist at the Winter Games^[5]—are the only lugers with two gold medals in their career. Ortrun Enderlein, representing the United Team of Germany, was the first woman to win the singles event in 1964. She was on the verge of defending her title at the 1968 Grenoble Games, having the best overall time after all the runs, but was disqualified together with fellow countrywomen Anna-Maria Müller (2nd) and Angela Knösel (4th) when it was discovered that the runners in their sleds had been illegally heated before the runs.^[6] Müller made up for this by taking the gold medal at the following Games, in Sapporo, Japan.

The most successful pair in the history of the Olympic doubles event was Stefan Krauße and Jan Behrendt, who represented East Germany in 1988 and the reunified German Olympic team from 1992 to 1998, winning four medals: two golds, one silver, and one bronze. East Germany's Hans Rinn and Norbert Hahn, and Austrian brothers Andreas and Wolfgang Linger, are the other pairs to have won two times, both of them in consecutive Olympics. In 1972, two gold medals were awarded to an East German (Horst Hörnlein and Reinhard Bredow) and an Italian pair (Paul Hildgartner and Walter Plaikner), who finished with exactly the same time. To prevent similar situations in future Olympics, the Fédération Internationale de Luge de Course introduced timing equipment that measured accurately to one thousandth of a second, to replace the old equipment that measured in hundredths of a second.^[7]

As of the 2018 Winter Olympics, 141 medals (48 gold, 46 silver, and 47 bronze, with two golds in the 1972 doubles event) have been awarded, representing 11 National Olympic Committees (NOC). German lugers—representing the United Team of Germany (1964), West Germany (1968–1988), East Germany (1968–1988), and Germany (1992–2018)—have dominated this sport, collecting a total of 81 medals. There were seven occasions when a single NOC filled the podium with its athletes and in all of them they were German. After 2018, Germany is the current medal-leading NOC in the sport with 37 medals (18 gold, 10 silver, and 9 bronze), followed by East Germany's 29 medals.

Medalists

Men's singles

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1964 Innsbruck details	Thomas Köhler United Team of Germany	Klaus Bonsack United Team of Germany	Hans Plenk United Team of Germany
1968 Grenoble details	Manfred Schmid Austria	Thomas Köhler East Germany	Klaus Bonsack East Germany
1972 Sapporo details	Wolfgang Scheidel East Germany	Harald Ehrig East Germany	Wolfram Fiedler East Germany
1976 Innsbruck details	Dettlef Günther East Germany	Josef Fendt West Germany	Hans Rinn East Germany
1980 Lake Placid details	Bernhard Glass East Germany	Paul Hildgartner Italy	Anton Winkler West Germany
1984 Sarajevo details	Paul Hildgartner Italy	Sergey Danilin Soviet Union	Valery Dudin Soviet Union
1988 Calgary details	Jens Müller East Germany	Georg Hackl West Germany	Yuri Kharchenko Soviet Union
1992 Albertville details	Georg Hackl Germany	Markus Prock Austria	Markus Schmidt Austria
1994 Lillehammer details	Georg Hackl Germany	Markus Prock Austria	Armin Zöggeler Italy
1998 Nagano details	Georg Hackl Germany	Armin Zöggeler Italy	Jens Müller Germany
2002 Salt Lake City details	Armin Zöggeler Italy	Georg Hackl Germany	Markus Prock Austria
2006 Turin details	Armin Zöggeler Italy	Albert Demchenko Russia	Mārtiņš Rubenis Latvia
2010 Vancouver details	Felix Loch Germany	David Möller Germany	Armin Zöggeler Italy
2014 Sochi details	Felix Loch Germany	Albert Demchenko Russia	Armin Zöggeler Italy
2018 Pyeongchang details	David Gleirscher Austria	Chris Mazdzer United States	Johannes Ludwig Germany
2022 Beijing details	Johannes Ludwig Germany	Wolfgang Kindl Austria	Dominik Fischnaller Italy

Medals:

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany (GER)	6	2	2	10
2	East Germany (GDR)	4	2	3	9
3	Italy (ITA)	3	2	4	9
4	Austria (AUT)	2	3	2	7
5	United Team of Germany (EUA)	1	1	1	3
6	West Germany (FRG)	0	2	1	3
6	Russia (RUS)	0	2	0	2
7	Soviet Union (URS)	0	1	2	3
8	United States (USA)	0	1	0	1
9	Latvia (LAT)	0	0	1	1
Total	10 nations	16	16	16	48

Women's singles

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1964 Innsbruck details	Ortrun Enderlein United Team of Germany	Ilse Geisler United Team of Germany	Helene Thurner Austria
1968 Grenoble details	Erica Lechner Italy	Christina Schmuck West Germany	Angelika Dünhaupt West Germany
1972 Sapporo details	Anna-Maria Müller East Germany	Ute Rührold East Germany	Margit Schumann East Germany
1976 Innsbruck details	Margit Schumann East Germany	Ute Rührold East Germany	Elisabeth Demleitner West Germany
1980 Lake Placid details	Vera Zozulya Soviet Union	Melitta Sollmann East Germany	Ingrīda Amantova Soviet Union
1984 Sarajevo details	Steffi Martin East Germany	Bettina Schmidt East Germany	Ute Weiss East Germany
1988 Calgary details	Steffi Walter East Germany	Ute Oberhoffner East Germany	Cerstin Schmidt East Germany
1992 Albertville details	Doris Neuner Austria	Angelika Neuner Austria	Susi Erdmann Germany
1994 Lillehammer details	Gerda Weissensteiner Italy	Susi Erdmann Germany	Andrea Tagwerker Austria
1998 Nagano details	Silke Kraushaar Germany	Barbara Niedernhuber Germany	Angelika Neuner Austria
2002 Salt Lake City details	Sylke Otto Germany	Barbara Niedernhuber Germany	Silke Kraushaar Germany
2006 Turin details	Sylke Otto Germany	Silke Kraushaar Germany	Tatjana Hüfner Germany
2010 Vancouver details	Tatjana Hüfner Germany	Nina Reithmayer Austria	Natalie Geisenberger Germany
2014 Sochi details	Natalie Geisenberger Germany	Tatjana Hüfner Germany	Erin Hamlin United States
2018 Pyeongchang details	Natalie Geisenberger Germany	Dajana Eitberger Germany	Alex Gough Canada
2022 Beijing details	Natalie Geisenberger Germany	Anna Berreiter Germany	Tatiana Ivanova ROC

Medals:

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany	7	7	4	18
2	East Germany	4	5	3	12
3	Italy	2	0	0	2
4	Austria	1	2	3	6
5	Germany	1	1	0	2
6	Soviet Union	1	0	1	1
7	West Germany	0	1	2	2
8	Canada	0	0	1	1
	ROC	0	0	1	1
	United States	0	0	1	1
Total	10 nations	16	16	16	48

Men’s doubles

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1964 Innsbruck details	Josef Feistmantl and Manfred Stengl (AUT)	Reinhold Senn and Helmut Thaler (AUT)	Walter Aussendorfer and Sigisfredo Mair (ITA)
1968 Grenoble details	Klaus Bonsack and Thomas Köhler (GDR)	Manfred Schmid and Ewald Walch (AUT)	Wolfgang Winkler and Fritz Nachmann (FRG)
1972 Sapporo details	Horst Hörnlein and Reinhard Bredow (GDR) Paul Hildgartner and Walter Plaikner (ITA)	None awarded	Klaus Bonsack and Wolfram Fiedler (GDR)
1976 Innsbruck details	Hans Rinn and Norbert Hahn (GDR)	Hans Brandner and Balthasar Schwarm (FRG)	Rudolf Schmid and Franz Schachner (AUT)
1980 Lake Placid details	Hans Rinn and Norbert Hahn (GDR)	Peter Gschnitzer and Karl Brunner (ITA)	Georg Fluckinger and Karl Schrott (AUT)
1984 Sarajevo details	Hans Stangassinger and Franz Wembacher (FRG)	Yevgeny Belousov and Aleksandr Belyakov (URS)	Jörg Hoffmann and Jochen Pietzsch (GDR)
1988 Calgary details	Jörg Hoffmann and Jochen Pietzsch (GDR)	Stefan Krauße and Jan Behrendt (GDR)	Thomas Schwab and Wolfgang Staudinger (FRG)
1992 Albertville details	Stefan Krauße and Jan Behrendt (GER)	Yves Mankel and Thomas Rudolph (GER)	Hansjörg Raffl and Norbert Huber (ITA)
1994 Lillehammer details	Kurt Brugger and Wilfried Huber (ITA)	Hansjörg Raffl and Norbert Huber (ITA)	Stefan Krauße and Jan Behrendt (GER)
1998 Nagano details	Stefan Krauße and Jan Behrendt (GER)	Chris Thorpe and Gordon Sheer (USA)	Mark Grimmette and Brian Martin (USA)
2002 Salt Lake City details	Patric Leitner and Alexander Resch (GER)	Mark Grimmette and Brian Martin (USA)	Chris Thorpe and Clay Ives (USA)
2006 Turin details	Andreas Linger and Wolfgang Linger (AUT)	André Florschütz and Torsten Wustlich (GER)	Gerhard Plankensteiner and Oswald Haselrieder (ITA)
2010 Vancouver details	Andreas Linger and Wolfgang Linger (AUT)	Andris Šics and Juris Šics (LAT)	Patric Leitner and Alexander Resch (GER)
2014 Sochi details	Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt (GER)	Andreas Linger and Wolfgang Linger (AUT)	Andris Šics and Juris Šics (LAT)
2018 Pyeongchang details	Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt (GER)	Peter Penz and Georg Fischler (AUT)	Sascha Benecken and Toni Eggert (GER)
2022 Beijing details	Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt (GER)	Sascha Benecken and Toni Eggert (GER)	Thomas Steu and Lorenz Koller (AUT)

Medals:

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany (GER)	6	3	3	12
2	East Germany (GDR)	5	1	2	8
3	Austria (AUT)	3	4	3	10
4	Italy (ITA)	2	2	3	7
5	West Germany (FRG)	1	1	2	4
6	United States (USA)	0	2	2	4
7	Latvia (LAT)	0	1	1	2
8	Soviet Union (URS)	0	1	0	1
Total	8 nations	17	15	16	48

Team relay

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2014 Sochi details	Germany (GER) Natalie Geisenberger Felix Loch Tobias Wendl Tobias Arlt	Russia (RUS) Tatiana Ivanova Albert Demchenko Alexander Denisyev Vladislav Antonov	Latvia (LAT) Elīza Tīruma Mārtiņš Rubenis Andris Šics Juris Šics
2018 Pyeongchang details	Germany (GER) Natalie Geisenberger Johannes Ludwig Tobias Wendl Tobias Arlt	Canada (CAN) Alex Gough Samuel Edney Tristan Walker Justin Snith	Austria (AUT) Madeleine Egle David Gleirscher Peter Penz Georg Fischler
2022 Beijing details	Germany (GER) Natalie Geisenberger Johannes Ludwig Tobias Wendl Tobias Arlt	Austria (AUT) Madeleine Egle Wolfgang Kindl Thomas Steu Lorenz Koller	Latvia (LAT) Elīza Tīruma Kristers Aparjods Mārtiņš Bots Roberts Plūme

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Medals
1	Germany (GER)	3	0	0	3
2	Austria (AUT)	0	1	1	2
3	Canada (CAN)	0	1	0	1
3	Russia (RUS)	0	1	0	1
5	Latvia (LAT)	0	0	2	2
Total	5 nations	3	3	3	9

Statistics

Medal leaders

Athletes that have won at least two medals are listed below. Medalists are sorted first by the total number of medals, then successively by the number of gold, silver and bronze medals. If a tie is still verified, medalists are ordered chronologically by their first medal.

Men

Athlete	NOC	Olympics	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Tobias Arlt	Germany (GER)	2014-2022	6	0	0	6
Tobias Wendl	Germany (GER)	2014-2022	6	0	0	6
Armin Zöggeler	Italy (ITA)	1994–2014	2	1	3	6
Georg Hackl	West Germany (FRG) Germany (GER)	1988–2002	3	2	0	5
Johannes Ludwig	Germany (GER)	2018–2022	3	0	1	4
Stefan Krauße	East Germany (GDR) Germany (GER)	1988–1998	2	1	1	4
Jan Behrendt	East Germany (GDR) Germany (GER)	1988–1998	2	1	1	4
Klaus Bonsack	United Team of Germany (EUA)	1964–1972	1	1	2	4
Felix Loch	Germany (GER)	2010–2014	3	0	0	3
Thomas Köhler	United Team of Germany (EUA)	1964–1968	2	1	0	3
Paul Hildgartner	Italy (ITA)	1972–1984	2	1	0	3
Andreas Linger	Austria (AUT)	2006–2014	2	1	0	3
Wolfgang Linger	Austria (AUT)	2006–2014	2	1	0	3
Albert Demchenko	Russia (RUS)	2006–2014	0	3	0	3
Markus Prock	Austria (AUT)	1992–2002	0	2	1	3
Andris Šics	Latvia (LAT)	2010–2014	0	1	2	3
Juris Šics	Latvia (LAT)	2010–2014	0	1	2	3
Hans Rinn	East Germany (GDR)	1976–1980	2	0	0	2
Norbert Hahn	East Germany (GDR)	1976–1980	2	0	0	2
Jörg Hoffmann	East Germany (GDR)	1984–1988	1	0	1	2
Jochen Pietzsch	East Germany (GDR)	1984–1988	1	0	1	2
Jens Müller	East Germany (GDR) Germany (GER)	1988–1998	1	0	1	2
Patric Leitner	Germany (GER)	2002–2010	1	0	1	2
Alexander Resch	Germany (GER)	2002–2010	1	0	1	2
David Gleirscher	Austria (AUT)	2018	1	0	1	2
Hansjörg Raffl	Italy (ITA)	1992–1994	0	1	1	2
Norbert Huber	Italy (ITA)	1992–1994	0	1	1	2
Chris Thorpe	United States (USA)	1998–2002	0	1	1	2
Mark Grimmette	United States (USA)	1998–2002	0	1	1	2
Brian Martin	United States (USA)	1998–2002	0	1	1	2
Peter Penz	Austria (AUT)	2018	0	1	1	2
Georg Fischler	Austria (AUT)	2018	0	1	1	2
Mārtiņš Rubenis	Latvia (LAT)	2006-2014	0	0	2	2

Women

Athlete	NOC	Olympics	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Natalie Geisenberger	Germany (GER)	2010–2022	6	0	1	7
Silke Kraushaar	Germany (GER)	1998–2006	1	1	1	3
Tatjana Hüfner	Germany (GER)	2006–2014	1	1	1	3
Steffi Martin	East Germany (GDR)	1984–1988	2	0	0	2
Sylke Otto	Germany (GER)	2002–2006	2	0	0	2
Margit Schumann	East Germany (GDR)	1972–1976	1	0	1	2
Ute Rührold	East Germany (GDR)	1972–1976	0	2	0	2
Barbara Niedernhuber	Germany (GER)	1998–2002	0	2	0	2
Susi Erdmann	Germany (GER)	1992–1994	0	1	1	2
Angelika Neuner	Austria (AUT)	1992–1998	0	1	1	2
Alex Gough	Canada (CAN)	2018	0	1	1	2

Medals per year

×

NOC did not exist

#

Number of medals won by the NOC

–

NOC did not win any medals

NOC	64	68	72	76	80	84	88	92	94	98	02	06	10	14	18	Total
Austria (AUT)	3	2	–	1	1	–	–	4	2	1	1	1	2	1	3	22
Canada (CAN)	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	2	2
United Team of Germany (EUA)	5	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	5
East Germany (GDR)	×	3	8	5	3	4	6	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	29
West Germany (FRG)	×	3	–	3	1	1	2	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	10
Germany (GER)	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	4	3	5	5	4	5	5	6	37
Italy (ITA)	1	1	1	–	2	1	–	1	4	1	1	2	1	1	–	17
Latvia (LAT)	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	–	–	–	–	1	1	2	–	4
Russia (RUS)	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	–	–	–	1	–	2	×	3
Soviet Union (URS)	–	–	–	–	2	3	1	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	6
United States (USA)	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	2	2	–	–	1	1	5

Medal sweep events

These are events in which athletes from one NOC won all three medals.

Games	Event	NOC	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1964 Innsbruck	Men's Singles	United Team of Germany (EUA)	Thomas Köhler	Klaus-Michael Bonsack	Hans Plenk
1972 Sapporo	Men's Singles *	East Germany (GDR)	Wolfgang Scheidel	Harald Ehrig	Wolfram Fiedler
1972 Sapporo	Women's Singles		Anna-Maria Müller	Ute Rührold	Margit Schumann
1984 Sarajevo	Women's Singles		Steffi Walter-Martin	Bettina Schmidt	Ute Oberhoffner-Weiß
1988 Calgary	Women's Singles		Steffi Walter-Martin	Ute Oberhoffner-Weiß	Cerstin Schmidt
2002 Salt Lake City	Women's Singles	Germany (GER)	Sylke Otto	Barbara Niedernhuber	Silke Kraushaar
2006 Turin	Women's Singles	Germany (GER)	Sylke Otto	Silke Kraushaar	Tatjana Hüfner

^* In addition to sweeping the podium, the country also had the fourth-place finisher.

Notes

^ Technically, the doubles event is considered a mixed event, open for male, female and mixed duos, but since its debut it has been traditionally entered only by male pairs.^[3]

References

Medalists

"Luge". Olympic.org. International Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on August 21, 2020. Retrieved August 20, 2020.

Citations

^ "Luge Equipment and History". Olympic.org. International Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 8 January 2010. Retrieved 1 April 2010.
^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Luge at the 1964 Innsbruck Winter Games". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 1 April 2010.
^ "International Luge Federation". Olympic.org. International Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 8 April 2010. Retrieved 1 April 2010.
^ "Luge: About discipline". sochi2014.com. Organizing Committee of the XXII Olympic Winter Games and XI Paralympic Winter Games of 2014 in Sochi. Archived from the original on 12 February 2014. Retrieved 9 February 2014.
^ "Records and medals at the Olympic Winter Games" (PDF). Olympic.org. International Olympic Committee. October 2009. Archived (PDF) from the original on 25 April 2011. Retrieved 1 April 2010.
^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Luge at the 1968 Grenoble Winter Games". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 2 April 2010.
^ "Preview: Doubles luge". Canadian Luge Association. 16 February 2010. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 10 April 2010.

External links

International Luge Federation Archived 2011-02-19 at the Wayback Machine

[4] Technically, the doubles event is considered a mixed event, open for male, female and mixed duos, but since its debut it has been traditionally entered only by male pairs.^[3]

[history-1] "Luge Equipment and History". Olympic.org. International Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 8 January 2010. Retrieved 1 April 2010.

[2] Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Luge at the 1964 Innsbruck Winter Games". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 1 April 2010.

[doubles-3] "International Luge Federation". Olympic.org. International Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 8 April 2010. Retrieved 1 April 2010.

[5] "Luge: About discipline". sochi2014.com. Organizing Committee of the XXII Olympic Winter Games and XI Paralympic Winter Games of 2014 in Sochi. Archived from the original on 12 February 2014. Retrieved 9 February 2014.

[records-6] "Records and medals at the Olympic Winter Games" (PDF). Olympic.org. International Olympic Committee. October 2009. Archived (PDF) from the original on 25 April 2011. Retrieved 1 April 2010.

[1968_dq-7] Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Luge at the 1968 Grenoble Winter Games". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 2 April 2010.

[8] "Preview: Doubles luge". Canadian Luge Association. 16 February 2010. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 10 April 2010.

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