Luge at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Doubles

Doubles
at the XVIII Olympic Winter Games
VenueSpiral
Dates13 February
Competitors34 from 11 nations
Winning time1:41.105
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Germany
Stefan Krauße, Jan Behrendt
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  United States
Chris Thorpe, Gordy Sheer
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  United States
Mark Grimmette, Brian Martin
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The Doubles luge competition at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano was held on 13 February, at Spiral.[1][2]

Results

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Rank[1] Athletes Country Run 1 Run 2 Total
1st place, gold medalist(s) Stefan Krauße
Jan Behrendt
 Germany 50.592 50.513 1:41.105
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Chris Thorpe
Gordy Sheer
 United States 50.634 50.493 1:41.127
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Mark Grimmette
Brian Martin
 United States 50.716 50.501 1:41.217
4 Tobias Schiegl
Markus Schiegl
 Austria 50.846 50.575 1:41.421
5 Kurt Brugger
Wilfried Huber
 Italy 50.897 50.871 1:41.768
6 Gerhard Plankensteiner
Oswald Haselrieder
 Italy 51.084 50.833 1:41.917
7 Ihor Urbanskiy
Andriy Mukhin
 Ukraine 51.262 50.706 1:41.968
8 Steffen Skel
Steffen Wöller
 Germany 51.408 50.816 1:42.224
9 Danil Chaban
Viktor Kneyb
 Russia 51.370 51.023 1:42.393
10 Albert Demchenko
Semyon Kolobayev
 Russia 51.515 51.041 1:42.556
11 Oleh Avdieiev
Danylo Panchenko
 Ukraine 51.413 51.275 1:42.688
12 Anders Söderberg
Bengt Walden
 Sweden 51.725 51.137 1:42.862
13 Roberts Suharevs
Dairis Leksis
 Latvia 51.281 51.970 1:43.251
14 Atsushi Sasaki
Kei Takahashi
 Japan 51.541 51.835 1:43.376
15 Piotr Orslowski
Robert Mieszała
 Poland 52.062 51.445 1:43.507
16 Ion Cristian Stanciu
Liviu Cepoi
 Romania 52.289 52.986 1:45.275
17 Juris Vovčoks
Māris Lēģeris
 Latvia 53.969 52.586 1:46.555

References

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  1. ^ a b "Nagano 1998 Official Report - Volume 3" (PDF). Nagano Olympics Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 1998. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 February 2008. Retrieved 30 January 2013.
  2. ^ "Luge at the 1998 Nagano Winter Games: Men's Doubles". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 8 April 2020.