Luge at the 2006 Winter Olympics

Luge at the XX Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for luge
Venue	Cesana Pariol
Dates	February 11–15
Competitors	108 from 24 nations

The Luge competition at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games was held at Cesana Pariol in Cesana, Italy. Three events were staged, taking place from February 11 to February 15. These were the first games where a qualifying system was used to determine the enterants into the games.

Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany (GER)	1	2	1	4
2	22x20px Italy (ITA)	1	0	1	2
3	Austria (AUT)	1	0	0	1
4	Russia (RUS)	0	1	0	1
5	Latvia (LAT)	0	0	1	1

Events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles	Armin Zöggeler 23x15px Italy	Albert Demtschenko  Russia	Mārtiņš Rubenis  Latvia
Women's singles	Sylke Otto  Germany	Silke Kraushaar  Germany	Tatjana Hüfner  Germany
Doubles	Austria (AUT) Andreas Linger Wolfgang Linger	Germany (GER) André Florschütz Torsten Wustlich	22x20px Italy (ITA) Gerhard Plankensteiner Oswald Haselrieder

Participating NOCs

•  Argentina (1)
•  Australia (1)
•  Austria (10)
•  Bulgaria (1)
•  Canada (10)
•  Czech Republic (4)
•  Germany (10)
•  Great Britain (2)
•  India (1)
• 23x15px Italy (9)
•  Japan (5)
• 23x15px South Korea (1)

•  Latvia (8)
•  Moldova (1)
•  Poland (3)
•  Romania (4)
•  Russia (10)
•  Slovenia (1)
•  Switzerland (2)
•  Slovakia (6)
•  Chinese Taipei (1)
•  Ukraine (6)
•  United States (10)
• 23x15px Venezuela (1)

References

• Luge at the 2006 Winter Olympics