Luge at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics

Luge at the I Winter Youth Olympic Games
Venue	Olympic Sliding Centre Innsbruck
Dates	15–17 January
Competitors	70 from 21 nations

Luge at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics took place at the Olympic Sliding Centre Innsbruck venue in Innsbruck, Austria.[1]

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Austria)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany	1	3	1	5
2	Austria*	1	0	1	2
	United States	1	0	1	2
4	Italy	1	0	0	1
5	Latvia	0	1	1	2
Totals (5 entries)		4	4	4	12

Events

Events	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Boys' singles[2] details	Christian Paffe  Germany	Riks Rozītis  Latvia	Toni Gräfe  Germany
Girls' singles[3] details	Miriam Kastlunger  Austria	Saskia Langer  Germany	Ulla Zirne  Latvia
Doubles[4] details	Florian Gruber Simon Kainzwaldner  Italy	Tim Brendl Florian Funk  Germany	Ty Andersen Pat Edmunds  United States
Mixed team relay[5] details	United States (USA) Summer Britcher Tucker West Ty Andersen Pat Edmunds	Germany (GER) Saskia Langer Christian Paffe Tim Brendl Florian Funk	Austria (AUT) Miriam Kastlunger Armin Frauscher Thomas Steu Lorenz Koller

Qualification system

The rankings from the 2010–11 and 2011–12 Junior Luge world cup were used to qualify entries. The maximum total for an NOC is six athletes (2 boys, 2 girls and one doubles), with a maximum total of 20 athletes in the singles and 15 in the doubles. If the host nation has not qualified, the last quota spot is awarded to Austria. If an event does not have enough qualifiers, the quota spots left over will be allocated to the other events equally. A nation can enter the team event if it has qualified an athlete in each event. If spots are reallocated, first priority will be given to nations that have not qualified an athlete yet.[6]

Boys' singles

Boy's standings

Event	Vacancies	Qualified
Luge World Cups (2010-11/2011-12)	18	Latvia  Canada  Canada  Austria  Austria  Germany  Russia  Russia  United States  Ukraine  Germany  Slovakia  Italy  Italy  Slovakia  Latvia  Ukraine  Slovakia  United States  Australia
Reallocated	7	Poland  Bulgaria  Chinese Taipei  New Zealand  Romania  Bosnia and Herzegovina  Switzerland
TOTAL	25

Boys' doubles

Doubles standings

Event	Vacancies	Qualified
Luge World Cups (2010-11/2011-12)	15	Russia  Ukraine  Latvia  Germany  Slovakia  Romania  Kazakhstan  Austria  United States  Poland  Italy
TOTAL	11

• Only 11 countries were eligible for quota spots through the rankings.

Girls' singles

Event	Vacancies	Qualified
Luge World Cups (2010-11/2011–12)	20	Latvia  United States  Russia  Austria  Austria  Italy  Italy  Germany  Russia  Ukraine  Czech Republic  Canada  Ukraine  Slovakia  United States  Norway  Norway  Romania  Croatia  Kazakhstan
Reallocated	4	Romania  Poland  Croatia  Slovakia
Total	24

Qualification summary

NOC	Boys	Girls	Doubles	Team relay	Total
Australia	1				1
Austria	2	2	1	X	6
Bosnia and Herzegovina	1				1
Bulgaria	1				1
Canada	2	1			3
Croatia		2			2
Czech Republic		1			1
Germany	2	1	1	X	5
Italy	1	2	1	X	5
Kazakhstan	1	1	1	X	4
Latvia	2	1	1	X	5
Norway		2			2
New Zealand	1				1
Poland	1	1	1	X	4
Romania	1	2	1	X	5
Russia	2	2	1	X	6
Slovakia	1	2	1	X	5
Switzerland	1				1
Chinese Taipei	1				1
Ukraine	2	2	1	X	6
United States	2	2	1	X	6
Total athletes	25	24	22	40	70
Total NOCs	18	15	11	11	21

References

1. QUALIFICATION SYSTEM - 1STWINTER YOUTH OLYMPIC GAMES IN 2012
2. Boys' singles results
3. Girls' singles results
4. Doubles results
5. Mixed team relay results
6. YOUTH OLYMPIC GAMES