From Beijing, CHN
(February 4, 2022) – Men’s luge will kick off the 2022 Olympic sliding sport program with 35 men set to take the ice for the first run of the competition.
The four-heat format for the race is as follows:
Run 1 – Athletes go from start order 1-35
Run 2 – The athletes go from the first run start order 12-1, 24-13, then 35-25
Run 3 – The field goes from first to last
Run 4 – The top 20 go in reverse order
Here is the start list for the competition, with FIL Rankings based off of the nine two-heat World Cup races. Sprint rankings are omitted as it was not used in Olympic qualifying.
Name | Nation | Bib | FIL Rank |
Wolfgang Kindl | AUT | 1 | 2 |
Felix Loch | GER | 2 | 3 |
Kristers Aparjods | LAT | 3 | 4 |
Johannes Ludwig | GER | 4 | 1 |
Max Langenhan | GER | 5 | 5 |
Nico Gleirscher | AUT | 6 | 8 |
Gints Berzins | LAT | 7 | 12 |
Semen Pavlichenko | ROC | 8 | 9 |
Kevin Fischnaller | ITA | 9 | 14 |
Dominik Fischnaller | ITA | 10 | 7 |
David Gleirscher | AUT | 11 | 10 |
Roman Repilov | ROC | 12 | 6 |
Andriy Mandziy | UKR | 13 | 28 |
Reid Watts | CAN | 14 | 26 |
Jozef Ninis | SVK | 15 | 25 |
Aleksandr Gorbatcevich | ROC | 16 | 13 |
Valentin Cretu | ROU | 17 | 29 |
Chris Mazdzer | USA | 18 | 22 |
Jonathan Gustafson | USA | 19 | 19 |
Anton Dukach | UKR | 20 | 24 |
Tucker West | USA | 21 | 23 |
Alexander Ferlazzo | AUS | 22 | 30 |
Arturs Darznieks | LAT | 23 | 18 |
Leon Felderer | ITA | 24 | 16 |
Duoyao Fan | CHN | 25 | 46 |
Rupert Staudinger | GBR | 26 | 39 |
Saba Kumaritashvili | GEO | 27 | 47 |
Seiya Kobayashi | JPN | 28 | 52 |
Namkyu Lim | KOR | 29 | 56 |
Michael Lejsek | CZE | 30 | 39 |
Mirza Nikolajev | BIH | 31 | 45 |
Marian Skupek | SVK | 32 | 33 |
Pavel Angelov | BUL | 33 | 42 |
Svante Kohala | SWE | 34 | 34 |
Mateusz Sochowicz | POL | 35 | 48 |