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Doubles
at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games
VenueAlpensia Sliding Centre near Pyeongchang, South Korea
Dates14 February
Competitors40 from 13 nations
Winning time1:31.697
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Tobias Wendl
Tobias Arlt		  Germany
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Peter Penz
Georg Fischler		  Austria
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Toni Eggert
Sascha Benecken		  Germany
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Luge at the
2018 Winter Olympics
Qualification
Singlesmenwomen
Doublesopen
Relaymixed

The doubles luge at the 2018 Winter Olympics was held on 14 February 2018 at the Alpensia Sliding Centre near Pyeongchang, South Korea.[1] Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt, the defending champions, repeated their 2014 success and won gold medals. Peter Penz and Georg Fischler became second, and Toni Eggert third Sascha Benecken. Wendl and Arlt were also first in both runs, Penz and Fischler second in both runs, and Eggert and Benecken third in both runs. For Penz, Fischler, Eggert, and Benecken these were their first Olympic medals. The 2014 bronze medalists, Andris Šics and Juris Šics, were ninth in the first run and fourth in the second run, which was only sufficient for the fifth place overall.

Qualifying athletes

Competition schedule

All times are (UTC+9).

Date Time Event
14 February 20:20 Run 1
14 February 21:30 Run 2

Results

Two runs were used to determine the winner.[2]

Rank Bib Athlete Country Run 1 Rank Run 2 Rank Total Behind
1st place, gold medalist(s) 3 Tobias Wendl
Tobias Arlt 		 Germany 45.820 1 45.877 1 1:31.697 –
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 5 Peter Penz
Georg Fischler 		 Austria 45.891 2 45.894 2 1:31.785 +0.088
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 4 Toni Eggert
Sascha Benecken 		 Germany 45.931 3 46.056 3 1:31.987 +0.290
4 12 Thomas Steu
Lorenz Koller 		 Austria 46.172 5 46.112 5 1:32.284 +0.587
5 9 Tristan Walker
Justin Snith 		 Canada 46.134 4 46.235 6 1:32.369 +0.672
6 2 Andris Šics
Juris Šics 		 Latvia 46.336 9 46.106 4 1:32.442 +0.745
7 11 Ivan Nagler
Fabian Malleier 		 Italy 46.320 8 46.243 7 1:32.563 +0.866
8 16 Justin Krewson
Andrew Sherk 		 United States 46.310 7 46.342 10 1:32.652 +0.955
9 18 Park Jin-yong
Cho Jung-myung 		 South Korea 46.396 10 46.276 8 1:32.672 +0.975
10 8 Matthew Mortensen
Jayson Terdiman 		 United States 46.244 6 46.443 13 1:32.687 +0.990
11 1 Alexander Denisyev
Vladislav Antonov 		 Olympic Athletes from Russia 46.437 11 46.344 11 1:32.781 +1.084
12 7 Wojciech Chmielewski
Jakub Kowalewski 		 Poland 46.609 13 46.478 14 1:33.087 +1.390
13 14 Lukáš Brož
Antonín Brož 		 Czech Republic 46.570 12 46.582 16 1:33.152 +1.455
14 6 Oskars Gudramovičs
Pēteris Kalniņš 		 Latvia 46.890 17 46.317 9 1:33.207 +1.510
15 10 Ludwig Rieder
Patrick Rastner 		 Italy 46.709 14 46.567 15 1:33.276 +1.579
16 15 Andrei Bogdanov
Andrei Medvedev 		 Olympic Athletes from Russia 47.106 19 46.402 12 1:33.508 +1.811
17 19 Marek Solčanský
Karol Stuchlák 		 Slovakia 46.780 15 46.811 17 1:33.591 +1.894
18 20 Matěj Kvíčala
Jaromír Kudera 		 Czech Republic 46.818 16 46.910 18 1:33.728 +2.031
19 13 Cosmin Atodiresei
Ștefan Musei 		 Romania 47.101 18 47.171 19 1:34.272 +2.575
20 17 Oleksandr Obolonchyk
Roman Zakharkiv 		 Ukraine 48.316 20 47.401 20 1:35.717 +4.020

References

  1. ^ "Venues". www.pyeongchang2018.com/. Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Organizing Committee for the 2018 Winter Olympics. Archived from the original on 17 February 2018. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
  2. ^ Final results
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luge_at_the_2018_Winter_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Doubles