2014 Olympics – Men’s Luge

February 9, 2014 ken Luge News, News 0

From Sochi, Russia

After the first heat of men’s luge, there was some question as to who would be able to take gold.  By the time the fourth heat was over and done with, there was absolutely no question who ruled men’s luge: Felix Loch.  The German dominated three of the four heats in Sochi, finishing with not only the track record, but a gold medal by just under a half of a second over Albert Demchenko.  The Russian couldn’t hold his first-heat lead, slipping back on subsequent runs.

Scoring a medal in his sixth consecutive games in luge, Armin Zöggeler becomes the first man to win a medal in six games in the same event.  The Italian never contended for a gold, and despite slowly inching slower to a silver, Zöggeler could never get out of third and a bronze medal.  Russian Semen Pavlichenko and German Andi Langenhan took fourth and fifth.

Chris Mazdzer led the way for the Americans, finishing 13th in Russia.  Mazdzer was consistent, but dropped out of the top ten as those around him found speed where he could not.  Teammates Tucker West and Aidan Kelly finished 22nd and 24th, respectively.  Kelly slowly picked up from a rough first run to make his way to 24th, while West had a bumpy start to drop from 20th to 22nd in the final heat.

The Canadians also saw a mixed bag of results.  Samuel Edney led the way for Canada with an 11th place finish.  His countrymen Michael Malyk and John Fennell finished 26th and 27th.

Results:

Pos Name Nation Draw Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Total
1 Felix Loch GER 10 52.185 51.964 51.613 51.764 3:27.526
2 Albert Demchenko RUS 7 52.170 52.273 51.707 51.852 3:28.002
3 Armin Zöggeler ITA 9 52.506 52.387 51.910 51.994 3:28.797
4 Andi Langenhan GER 12 52.707 52.480 52.073 52.095 3:29.355
5 Semen Pavlichenko RUS 8 52.660 52.593 51.928 52.255 3:29.436
6 Dominik Fischnaller ITA 1 52.729 52.540 52.007 52.203 3:29.479
7 Aleksander Peretyagin RUS 16 52.675 52.590 52.069 52.161 3:29.495
8 Reinhard Egger AUT 3 52.564 52.630 52.152 52.160 3:29.506
9 Wolfgang Kindl AUT 2 52.586 52.714 52.145 52.218 3:29.663
10 Martins Rubenis LAT 6 52.775 52.560 52.229 52.133 3:29.697
11 Samuel Edney CAN 11 52.783 52.546 52.268 52.180 3:29.777
12 Gregory Carigiet SUI 14 52.775 52.579 52.274 52.167 3:29.795
13 Chris Mazdzer USA 4 52.744 52.643 52.369 52.198 3:29.954
14 David Möller GER 5 52.781 52.865 52.312 52.281 3:30.239
15 Daniel Pfister AUT 18 52.925 52.802 52.306 52.243 3:30.276
16 Inars Kivlenieks LAT 19 52.872 52.927 52.347 52.379 3:30.525
17 Thor Haug Noerbech NOR 15 53.014 52.859 52.345 52.347 3:30.565
18 Toennes Rolfsen NOR 22 53.043 52.938 52.463 52.466 3:30.910
19 Emanuel Rieder ITA 23 52.981 52.875 52.578 52.511 3:30.945
20 Jozef Ninis SVK 13 53.143 52.932 52.492 52.564 3:31.131
21 Kristaps Maurins LAT 17 53.144 52.923 52.518 52.630 3:31.215
22 Tucker West USA 25 53.142 52.966 52.413 52.696 3:31.217
23 Maciej Kurowski POL 24 53.234 52.988 52.637 52.538 3:31.397
24 Aidan Kelly USA 27 53.275 53.192 52.756 52.576 3:31.799
25 Ondrej Hyman CZE 20 53.222 53.145 52.783 52.708 3:31.858
26 Mitchel Malyk CAN 33 53.367 53.401 52.756 52.633 3:32.157
27 John Fennell CAN 32 53.350 53.561 52.879 52.926 3:32.716
28 Andriy Kis UKR 28 53.533 53.358 53.046 52.859 3:32.796
29 Valentin Cretu ROU 35 53.562 53.279 52.902 53.142 3:32.885
30 Hidenari Kanayama JPN 31 53.626 53.663 53.220 53.074 3:33.583
31 Andriy Mandziy UKR 36 53.653 53.660 53.227 53.062 3:33.602
32 Bruno Banani TGA 30 53.656 53.637 53.162 53.221 3:33.676
33 Alexander Ferlazzo AUS 26 53.528 53.686 53.323 53.507 3:34.044
34 Jo Alexander Koppang NOR 21 53.028 52.894 57.080 52.790 3:35.792
35 Donghyeon Kim KOR 37 54.207 54.603 53.795 53.780 3:36.385
36 Bogdan Macovei MDA 29 54.591 54.271 53.925 53.779 3:36.566
37 Shiva Keshavan IOP 38 53.905 55.203 54.706 53.335 3:37.149
38 Stanislav Benyov BUL 34 55.040 55.006 54.558 54.476 3:39.080
39 Te-An Lein TPE 39 62.961 55.315 55.287 54.528 3:48.091