Luge at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Men's singles

Men's singles at the XVIII Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Spiral
Dates	8–9 February
Competitors	34 from 18 nations
Winning time	3:18.436
Medalists
Georg Hackl  Germany Armin Zöggeler  Italy Jens Müller  Germany

The men's singles luge competition at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano was held on 8 and 9 February, at Spiral.

Summary

The event was won by Georg Hackl, who became the first luger to win the gold medal in 3 successive Winter Olympics after winning the event in Albertville and Lillehammer. Armin Zöggeler of Italy took silver and Jens Müller - the bronze medal. Markus Prock, the silver medalist from Lillehammer, finished outside medal position in 4th.

Event schedule

All times are (UTC+9).

Date	Time	Event
8 February	14:00	Run 1
8 February		Run 2
9 February	14:00	Run 3
9 February		Run 4

Results

Rank	Bib	Athlete	Country	Run 1	Rank	Run 2	Rank	Run 3	Rank	Run 4	Rank	Total	Deficit
	3	Georg Hackl	Germany	49.619	1	49.573	1	49.614	1	49.630	1	3:18.436	—
	8	Armin Zöggeler	Italy	49.715	2	49.690	2	49.737	3	49.797	3	3:18.939	+0.503
	11	Jens Müller	Germany	49.954	4	49.700	3	49.729	2	49.710	2	3:19.093	+0.657
4	4	Markus Prock	Austria	49.861	3	49.732	4	49.863	4	50.200	11	3:19.656	+1.220
5	9	Markus Kleinheinz	Austria	50.016	5	49.779	5	49.918	8	50.011	9	3:19.724	+1.288
6	1	Wendel Suckow	United States	50.069	6	49.871	7	49.908	6	49.880	5	3:19.728	+1.292
7	10	Gerhard Gleirscher	Austria	50.161	9	49.816	6	49.911	7	49.897	7	3:19.785	+1.349
8	7	Reinhold Rainer	Italy	50.105	8	50.008	9	49.897	5	49.936	8	3:19.946	+1.510
9	12	Adam Heidt	United States	50.401	13	49.899	8	49.971	9	49.827	4	3:20.098	+1.662
10	5	Norbert Huber	Italy	50.100	7	50.129	11	50.026	10	49.883	6	3:20.138	+1.702
11	6	Mikael Holm	Sweden	50.324	11	50.197	14	50.146	13	50.131	10	3:20.798	+2.362
12	2	Karsten Albert	Germany	50.353	12	50.172	13	50.080	11	50.499	17	3:21.104	+2.668
13	20	Larry Dolan	United States	50.558	15	50.163	12	50.140	12	50.267	12	3:21.128	+2.692
14	34	Mārtiņš Rubenis	Latvia	50.758	22	50.491	19	50.603	16	50.300	13	3:22.152	+3.716
15	15	Clay Ives	Canada	50.632	17	50.348	16	50.858	21	50.437	16	3:22.275	+3.839
16	13	Shigeaki Ushijima	Japan	50.747	20	50.405	17	50.716	19	50.435	15	3:22.303	+3.867
17	21	Guntis Rēķis	Latvia	50.676	18	50.296	15	50.545	15	50.798	22	3:22.315	+3.879
18	17	Tyler Seitz	Canada	50.689	19	50.948	23	50.400	14	50.405	14	3:22.442	+4.006
19	18	Bengt Walden	Sweden	50.750	21	50.479	18	50.722	20	50.601	18	3:22.552	+4.116
20	19	Aleksandr Zubkov	Russia	50.488	14	50.944	22	50.650	17	50.619	19	3:22.701	+4.265
21	31	Anders Söderberg	Sweden	50.878	23	50.696	21	50.708	18	50.747	21	3:23.029	+4.593
22	14	Reto Gilly	Switzerland	50.594	16	50.646	20	51.485	25	50.627	20	3:23.352	+4.916
23	34	Ismar Biogradlić	Bosnia and Herzegovina	51.252	25	51.170	25	51.384	24	51.363	24	3:25.169	+6.733
24	29	Spyros Pinas	Greece	51.628	28	51.123	24	51.335	22	51.294	23	3:25.380	+6.944
25	30	Sandris Berzinš	Latvia	51.220	24	51.370	26	51.341	23	51.460	25	3:25.391	+6.955
26	32	Ion Cristian Stanciu	Romania	51.608	27	51.386	27	51.927	27	51.602	26	3:26.523	+8.087
27	33	Patrick Singleton	Bermuda	51.434	26	51.579	28	51.839	26	52.243	28	3:27.095	+8.659
28	25	Shiva Keshavan	India	52.315	29	52.127	29	52.043	28	51.900	27	3:28.385	+9.949
29	23	Lee Gi-ro	South Korea	54.299	32	52.875	30	53.472	30	54.075	29	3:34.721	+16.285
30	28	Hsieh Hsiang-chun	Chinese Taipei	54.192	31	53.093	31	53.325	29	54.159	30	3:34.769	+16.333
31	22	Gang Gwang-bae	South Korea	53.492	30	53.829	32	53.685	31	54.952	31	3:35.958	+17.522
32	26	Lee Yong	South Korea	54.842	33	54.838	33	54.731	32	55.996	32	3:40.407	+21.971
-	16	Albert Demchenko	Russia	50.224	10	50.011	10	50.118	-	DQ	-	-	N/A
-	27	Andrus Paul	Estonia	DQ	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	N/A