Women’s Luge Start List (with FIL Rankings)

From Beijing, CHN

(February 6, 2022) – The women’s luge event is the second luge race of the 2022 Olympic sliding sport program with 35 women 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
Natalie Geisenberger GER 1 3
Madeleine Egle AUT 2 1
Anna Berreiter GER 3 4
Elina Vitola LAT 4 12
Julia Taubitz GER 5 2
Tatyana Ivanova ROC 6 17
Ekaterina Katnikova ROC 7 10
Andrea Vötter ITA 8 7
Eliza Tiruma LAT 9 5
Lisa Schulte AUT 10 8
Viktoriia Demchenko ROC 11 6
Hannah Prock AUT 12 9
Nina Zöggeler ITA 13 15
Emily Sweeney USA 14 19
Trinity Ellis CAN 15 22
Raluca Stramaturaru ROU 16 25
Makena Hodgson CAN 17 28
Natalie Maag SUI 18 18
Verna Hofer ITA 19 14
Olena Stetskiv UKR 20 26
Katarina Simonakova SVK 21 30
Klaudia Domaradzka POL 22 34
Summer Britcher USA 23 13
Ashley Farquharson USA 24 16
Yuliana Tunytska UKR 25 31
Aileen Frisch KOR 26 33
Elsa Desmond IRL 27 54
Kendija Aparjode LAT 28 11
Natalie Corless CAN 29 36
Tove Kohala SWE 30 37
Anna Cezikova CZE 31 40
Peixuan Wang CHN 32 41
Sin-Rong Lin TPE 33 46
Veronica Ravenna ARG 34 45
Doina Descalui MDA 35 50