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 |