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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.

Athlete 1 Athlete 2 Nationality
Lorenz Koller Thomas Steu Austria
Justin Snith Tristan Walker Canada
Huang Yebo Peng Junyue China
Zdenek Pekny Filip Vejdelek Czech Republic
Sascha Benecken Toni Eggert Germany
Tobias Arlt Tobias Wendl Germany
Simon Kainzwaldner Emanuel Rieder Italy
Andris Sics Juris Sics Latvia
Martins Bots Roberts Plume Latvia
Wojciech Chmielewski Jakub Kowalewski Poland
Andrei Bogdanov Iurii Prokhorov ROC
Vladislav Antonov Aleksandr Denisyev ROC
Marian Gitlan Darius-Lucian Serban Romania
Tomas Vavercak Matej Zmij Slovakia
Cho Jung Myung Park Jin-yong South Korea
Andrii Lysetskyi Ihor Stakhiv Ukraine
Zachary Di Gregorio Sean Hollander United States

Current Records[]

Record Date Nat. Name Time
TR 20 November 2021 Germany Sascha Benecken 58.793
Toni Eggert

Summary[]

Run 1[]

Run 1 Results
Rank Nat. Athletes Time
1 Germany Tobias Arlt Tobias Wendl 58.255
2 Germany Sascha Benecken Toni Eggert 58.300
3 Austria Lorenz Koller Thomas Steu 58.426
4 Italy Simon Kainzwaldner Emanuel Rieder 58.602
5 Latvia Martins Bots Roberts Plume 58.628
6 Latvia Andris Sics Juris Sics 58.703
7 Canada Justin Snith Tristan Walker 58.895
8 Poland Wojciech Chmielewski Jakub Kowalewski 58.992
9 ROC Vladislav Antonov Aleksandr Denisyev 59.040
10 South Korea Cho Jung Myung Park Jin-yong 59.361
11 ROC Andrei Bogdanov Iurii Prokhorov 59.376
12 United States Zachary Di Gregorio Sean Hollander 59.389
13 Romania Marian Gitlan Darius-Lucian Serban 59.694
14 Ukraine Andrii Lysetskyi Ihor Stakhiv 59.983
15 Slovakia Tomas Vavercak Matej Zmij 1:00.138
16 Czech Republic Zdenek Pekny Filip Vejdelek 1:00.248
17 China Huang Yebo Peng Junyue 1:00.732

Run 2[]

Run 2 Results
Rank Nat. Athletes Time
1 Germany Tobias Arlt Tobias Wendl 58.299
2 Germany Sascha Benecken Toni Eggert 58.353
3 Austria Lorenz Koller Thomas Steu 58.639
4 Latvia Andris Sics Juris Sics 58.734
5 Latvia Martins Bots Roberts Plume 58.791
6 ROC Vladislav Antonov Aleksandr Denisyev 58.953
7 Italy Simon Kainzwaldner Emanuel Rieder 58.995
8 Canada Justin Snith Tristan Walker 59.023
9 Poland Wojciech Chmielewski Jakub Kowalewski 59.073
10 United States Zachary Di Gregorio Sean Hollander 59.126
11 ROC Andrei Bogdanov Iurii Prokhorov 59.132
12 South Korea Cho Jung Myung Park Jin-yong 59.366
13 Slovakia Tomas Vavercak Matej Zmij 59.704
14 Czech Republic Zdenek Pekny Filip Vejdelek 59.869
15 Ukraine Andrii Lysetskyi Ihor Stakhiv 1:00.080
16 Romania Marian Gitlan Darius-Lucian Serban 1:00.243
17 China Huang Yebo Peng Junyue 1:00.840

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
Gold Tobias Arlt Tobias Wendl Germany 1:56.554
Silver Sascha Benecken Toni Eggert Germany 1:56.653
Bronze 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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