The mixed doubles of Luge 2022 during the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 9 February 2022 in the Yanqing National Sliding Centre. With 17 pairs competing, the event was won by Tobias Arlt and Tobias Wendl from Germany, with Sascha Benecken and Toni Eggert from Germany taking the silver medal and Lorenz Koller and Thomas Steu from Austria taking bronze.
Format[]
The competition exists out of two runs. The team with the lowest aggregate time of the two runs is the winner of the event.
Preview[]
Seventeen pairs qualified for the event with very strong German and Latvian teams. Sascha Benecken and Toni Eggert were the leaders of the World Cup standings while Tobias Arlt and Tobias Wendl were the defending Olympic champions. Andris Sics and Juris Sics had also won multiple races throughout the season, just like Lorenz Koller and Thomas Steu, while Andrei Bogdanov and Iurii Prokhorov took first place in their home event. Another big pair was Simon Kainzwaldner and Emanuel Rieder, hoping for big chances for the medals.
Darius-Lucian Serban was the youngest competitor in the open doubles, as the only athlete yet to turn 20 years old. Zdenek Pekny, the entire American pair of Zachary Di Gregorio and Sean Hollander, and home representative Peng Junyue followed as the competitors born after 1 January 2000. The Latvian brothers Juris Sics and Andris Sics were the veterans in the field, as the oldest two competitors, as well as the only two athletes in the field who would make their fifth Olympic appearance. The Canadian pair of Justin Snith and Tristan Walker competed for the fourth time, while four pairs competed for the third time. Four out of six medalists of 2018 returned to the competition, including four-time gold medalists Tobias Arlt and Tobias Wendl, with Andris Sics and Juris Sics having won bronze in 2014 in the doubles event and the team relay, and silver in the doubles event in 2010. Vladislav Antonov and Alexander Denisyev won silver in the team relay in 2014, a feat achieved by Justin Snith and Tristan Walker in 2018.
Current Records[]
Record | Date | Nat. | Name | Time |
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TR | 20 November 2021 | Sascha Benecken | 58.793 | |
Toni Eggert |
Summary[]
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Results[]
Tobias Arlt and Tobias Wendl won their fifth Olympic gold medal in luge, following the achievement by their teammate Natalie Geisenberger, and becoming the lugers with the most Olympic gold medals. Toni Eggert and Sascha Benecken improved on their 2018 result and took their second Olympic medals in their third Olympic appearances, while Lorenz Koller and Thomas Steu took their first Olympic medals after finishing just behind the podium at their Olympic debuts in 2018. Martins Bots and Roberts Plume took a surprise fourth place at their first Olympic appearance, ahead of their countrymen Andris Sics and Juris Sics, while Olympic debutant Simon Kainzwaldner and 2014 and 2018 singles luger Emanuel Rieder completed the top 6. Justin Snith and Tristan Walker finished on seventh place after finishing fourth and fifth in 2014 and 2018.
Result | Athletes | Nationality | Time | |
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Tobias Arlt | Tobias Wendl | Germany | 1:56.554 | |
Sascha Benecken | Toni Eggert | Germany | 1:56.653 | |
Lorenz Koller | Thomas Steu | Austria | 1:57.065 | |
4 | Martins Bots | Roberts Plume | Latvia | 1:57.419 |
5 | Andris Sics | Juris Sics | Latvia | 1:57.437 |
6 | Simon Kainzwaldner | Emanuel Rieder | Italy | 1:57.597 |
7 | Justin Snith | Tristan Walker | Canada | 1:57.918 |
8 | Vladislav Antonov | Aleksandr Denisyev | ROC | 1:57.993 |
9 | Wojciech Chmielewski | Jakub Kowalewski | Poland | 1:58.065 |
10 | Andrei Bogdanov | Iurii Prokhorov | ROC | 1:58.508 |
11 | Zachary Di Gregorio | Sean Hollander | United States | 1:58.515 |
12 | Cho Jung Myung | Park Jin-yong | South Korea | 1:58.727 |
13 | Tomas Vavercak | Matej Zmij | Slovakia | 1:59.842 |
14 | Marian Gitlan | Darius-Lucian Serban | Romania | 1:59.937 |
15 | Andrii Lysetskyi | Ihor Stakhiv | Ukraine | 2:00.063 |
16 | Zdenek Pekny | Filip Vejdelek | Czech Republic | 2:00.117 |
17 | Huang Yebo | Peng Junyue | China | 2:01.572 |
2022 Winter Olympic Games | |
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Luge 2022 | |
ā 2018 | 2026 |
Singles | |
Men | Women |
Mixed | |
Doubles | Team relay |