Men’s Luge Olympic Start List with FIL Ranking

From Beijing, CHN

(February 4, 2022) – Men’s luge will kick off the 2022 Olympic sliding sport program with 35 men set to take the ice for the first run of the competition.

The four-heat format for the race is as follows:
Run 1 – Athletes go from start order 1-35
Run 2 – The athletes go from the first run start order 12-1, 24-13, then 35-25
Run 3 – The field goes from first to last
Run 4 – The top 20 go in reverse order

Here is the start list for the competition, with FIL Rankings based off of the nine two-heat World Cup races. Sprint rankings are omitted as it was not used in Olympic qualifying.

Name Nation Bib FIL Rank
Wolfgang Kindl AUT 1 2
Felix Loch GER 2 3
Kristers Aparjods LAT 3 4
Johannes Ludwig GER 4 1
Max Langenhan GER 5 5
Nico Gleirscher AUT 6 8
Gints Berzins LAT 7 12
Semen Pavlichenko ROC 8 9
Kevin Fischnaller ITA 9 14
Dominik Fischnaller ITA 10 7
David Gleirscher AUT 11 10
Roman Repilov ROC 12 6
Andriy Mandziy UKR 13 28
Reid Watts CAN 14 26
Jozef Ninis SVK 15 25
Aleksandr Gorbatcevich ROC 16 13
Valentin Cretu ROU 17 29
Chris Mazdzer USA 18 22
Jonathan Gustafson USA 19 19
Anton Dukach UKR 20 24
Tucker West USA 21 23
Alexander Ferlazzo AUS 22 30
Arturs Darznieks LAT 23 18
Leon Felderer ITA 24 16
Duoyao Fan CHN 25 46
Rupert Staudinger GBR 26 39
Saba Kumaritashvili GEO 27 47
Seiya Kobayashi JPN 28 52
Namkyu Lim KOR 29 56
Michael Lejsek CZE 30 39
Mirza Nikolajev BIH 31 45
Marian Skupek SVK 32 33
Pavel Angelov BUL 33 42
Svante Kohala SWE 34 34
Mateusz Sochowicz POL 35 48