List of Olympic medalists in luge

Luge is one of the eight Olympic sports currently contested at the Winter Olympic Games.^[1] It has been a constant presence in the Olympic program since its introduction at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria,^[2] in the form of three events: men's singles, women's singles, and doubles.^[a] A mixed team relay event was contested for the first time at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.^[4]

German luger Natalie Geisenberger is the overall medal leader in the sport, having collected a total of seven medals (six gold and one bronze) across the single and relay events. The most successful men are Tobias Arlt and Tobias Wendl who have won six gold medals together in the doubles and relay events. Italian Armin Zöggeler has won the most medals in the singles event with six total (two gold, one silver, and three bronze), during the six Winter Games in which he competed (1994–2014). German luger Georg Hackl was the first Olympian to receive a medal in five consecutive Olympics, from 1988 to 2002, including three consecutive gold medals.

Ortrun Enderlein, representing the United Team of Germany, was the first woman to win the singles event in 1964. She was on the verge of defending her title at the 1968 Grenoble Games, having the best overall time after all the runs, but was disqualified together with fellow countrywomen Anna-Maria Müller (2nd) and Angela Knösel (4th) when it was discovered that the runners in their sleds had been illegally heated before the runs.^[5] Müller made up for this by taking the gold medal at the following Games, in Sapporo, Japan.

In 1972, two gold medals were awarded to an East German (Horst Hörnlein and Reinhard Bredow) and an Italian pair (Paul Hildgartner and Walter Plaikner), who finished with exactly the same time. To prevent similar situations in future Olympics, the Fédération Internationale de Luge de Course introduced timing equipment that measured accurately to one thousandth of a second, to replace the old equipment that measured in hundredths of a second.^[6]

As of the 2022 Winter Olympics, 156 medals (53 gold, 51 silver, and 52 bronze, with two golds in the 1972 doubles event) have been awarded, representing 12 National Olympic Committees (NOC). German lugers—representing the United Team of Germany (1964), West Germany (1968–1988), East Germany (1968–1988), and Germany (1992–2018)—have dominated this sport, collecting a total of 81 medals. There were seven occasions when a single NOC filled the podium with its athletes and in all of them they were German. After 2018, Germany is the current medal-leading NOC in the sport with 37 medals (18 gold, 10 silver, and 9 bronze), followed by East Germany's 29 medals.

Athletes that have won at least two medals are listed below. Medalists are sorted first by the total number of medals, then successively by the number of gold, silver and bronze medals. If a tie is still verified, medalists are ordered chronologically by their first medal.

These are events in which athletes from one NOC won all three medals.

• ^* In addition to sweeping the podium, the country also had the fourth-place finisher.

• FIL World Luge Championships
• FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships

Medalists

• "Luge". Olympic.org. International Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on August 21, 2020. Retrieved August 20, 2020.

Citations

• International Luge Federation Archived 2011-02-19 at the Wayback Machine