Luge at the 1984 Winter Olympics

Luge at the XIV Olympic Winter Games

Venue	Sarajevo Olympic Bobsleigh and Luge Track
Dates	9-12 February
Competitors	81 from 17 nations

Luge at the 1984 Winter Olympics consisted of three events at Sarajevo Olympic Bobsleigh and Luge Track. The competition took place between February 9 and February 12, 1984.^[1]

Medal summary

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany	1	1	2	4
2	West Germany	1	0	0	1
2	Italy	1	0	0	1
4	Soviet Union	0	2	1	3
	Total	3	3	3	9

East Germany led the medal table with four medals, one gold.

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men's singles	Paul Hildgartner Italy	3:04.549	Sergey Danilin Soviet Union	3:04.962	Valery Dudin Soviet Union	3:05.012
Women's singles	Steffi Walter-Martin East Germany	2:46.570	Bettina Schmidt East Germany	2:46.873	Ute Oberhoffner-Weiß East Germany	2:47.248
Doubles	West Germany (FRG) Hans Stanggassinger Franz Wembacher	1:23.620	Soviet Union (URS) Yevgeny Belousov Aleksandr Belyakov	1:23.660	East Germany (GDR) Jörg Hoffmann Jochen Pietzsch	1:23.887

Seventeen nations participated in Luge at the Sarajevo Games. Puerto Rico and Yugoslavia made their Olympic luge debuts.

1 2 3 4 "Sarajevo 1984 Official Report" (PDF). Organising Committee of the XlVth Winter Olympic Games 1984 at Sarajevo. LA84 Foundation. 1984. Retrieved January 20, 2014.

Luge at the Winter Olympics

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List of medalists List of venues

Events at the 1984 Winter Olympics (Sarajevo)

Alpine skiing Biathlon Bobsleigh Cross‑country skiing Disabled skiing (demonstration) Figure skating Ice hockey Luge Nordic combined Ski jumping Speed skating

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