From Salzburg, AUT
(January 19, 2022) – The International Luge Federation has released the starters named for the 2022 Olympic Winter Games in Beijing. A total of 106 athletes from 26 nations across the three disciplines will compete. Below is the list of athletes, sorted by nation and discipline.
Argentina
Women’s Luge: Veronica Ravenna
Australia
Men’s Luge: Alex Ferlazzo
Austria
Men’s Luge: David Gleirscher, Nico Gleirscher, Wolfgang Kindl
Women’s Luge: Madeleine Egle, Hannah Prock, Lisa Schulte
Doubles Luge: Yannick Muller & Armin Frauscher, Thomas Steu & Lorenz Koller
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Men’s Luge: Mirza Nikolajev
Bulgaria
Men’s Luge: Pavel Angelov
Canada
Men’s Luge: Reid Watts
Women’s Luge: Natalie Corless, Trinity Ellis, Makena Hodgson
Doubles Luge: Tristan Walker & Justin Snith
China
Men’s Luge: Duoyao Fan
Women’s Luge: Peixuan Wang
Doubles Luge: Yebo Huang & Junyue Peng
Czech Republic
Men’s Luge: Michael Lejsek
Women’s Luge: Anna Cezikova
Doubles Luge: Filip Vejdelek & Zdenek Pekny
Georgia
Men’s Luge: Saba Kumaritashvili
Great Britain
Men’s Luge: Rupert Staudinger
Germany
Men’s Luge: Max Langenhan, Felix Loch, Johannes Ludwig
Women’s Luge: Anna Berreiter, Natalie Geisenberger, Julia Taubitz
Doubles Luge: Toni Eggert & Sascha Benecken, Tobias Wendl & Tobias Arlt
Ireland
Women’s Luge: Elsa Desmond
Italy
Men’s Luge: Leon Felderer, Dominik Fischnaller, Kevin Fischnaller
Women’s Luge: Verena Hofer, Andrea Vötter, Nina Zöggeler
Double’s Luge: Emanuel Rieder & Simon Kainzwaldner
Japan
Men’s Luge: Seiya Kobayashi
Latvia
Men’s Luge: Kristers Aparjods, Gints Berzins, Arturs Darznieks
Women’s Luge: Kendija Aparjode, Eliza Tiruma, Elina Vitola
Doubles Luge: Martins Bots & Roberts Plume, Andris Sics & Juris Sics
Moldova
Women’s Luge: Doina Descalui
Poland
Men’s Luge: Mateusz Sochowicz
Women’s Luge: Klaudia Domradzka
Doubles Luge: Wojciech Chmielewski & Jakub Kowalewski
Romania
Men’s Luge: Valentin Crteu
Women’s Luge: Raluca Stramaturaru
Doubles Luge: Vasile Gitlan & Darius Serban
Russian Olympic Committee
Men’s Luge: Aleksandr Gorbatsevich, Semen Pavlichenko, Roman Repilov
Women’s Luge: Viktoriia Demchenko, Tatyana Ivanova, Ekaterina Katnikova
Doubles Luge: Andrei Bogdanov & Iurii Prokhorov, Aleksandr Denisev & Vladislav Antonov
Slovakia
Men’s Luge: Jozef Ninis, Marian Skupek
Women’s Luge: Katarina Simonakova
Doubles Luge: Tomas Vavercak & Matej Zmij
South Korea
Men’s Luge: Namkyu Lim
Women’s Luge: Aileen Frisch
Doubles Luge: Jinyong Park & Jung Myung Cho
Sweden
Men’s Luge: Svante Kohala
Women’s Luge: Tove Kohala
Switzerland
Women’s Luge: Natalie Maag
Taiwan
Women’s Luge: Sin-Rong Lin
Ukraine
Men’s Luge: Anton Dukach, Andriy Mandziy
Women’s Luge: Olena Stetskiv, Yulianna Tunytska
Double’s Luge: Ihor Stakhiv & Andrii Lysetskyi
United States of America
Men’s Luge: Jonathan Gustafson, Chris Mazdzer, Tucker West
Women’s Luge: Summer Britcher, Ashley Farquharson, Emily Sweeney
Doubles Luge: Zachary Di Gregorio & Sean Hollander
