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Natalie Geisenberger of Germany is the most successful Olympic luger, having won six gold medals and a bronze attained in four consecutive Olympics (three golds and a bronze in singles, and 3 golds in team relay). Armin Zöggeler is the only athlete to have won one medal in a single individual event in six Olympics (furthermore consecutive).
German luger Georg Hackl was the first Olympian to receive a medal in five consecutive Olympics, from 1988 to 2002, including three consecutive gold medals. In the women's event, Germany's Silke Kraushaar leads the medal count with three, one of each color.
Armin Zöggeler is an Italian luger, and is the first—and so far the only—athlete to have won a medal in six consecutive Olympics. German lugers Felix Loch (center) and David Möller (left) occupied the first and second places, respectively, of the men's singles at the 2010 Winter Olympics.
It was luge's first fatality since 10 December 1975, when Italian luger Luigi Craffonara had been killed. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] Kumaritashvili became the fourth athlete to die during preparations for a Winter Olympics, after British luger Kazimierz Kay-Skrzypecki and Australian skier Ross Milne (both 1964 Innsbruck ), and Swiss speed skier Nicolas ...
Luge at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held at the Xiaohaituo Bobsleigh and Luge Track which is one of the Yanqing cluster venues between 5 and 10 February 2022. [1]A total of 106 quota spots were distributed to the sport of luge, a decline of four from the 2018 Winter Olympics. [2]
Shiva Keshavan (born 25 August 1981) is a six-time Olympian and the first Indian representative to compete in luge at the Winter Olympic Games.He set a new Asian speed record at 134.3 km/h (83.5 mph) after beating the previous record of 131.9 km/h (82.0 mph) and won a gold medal in the 2011 Asian Luge Cup at Nagano in Japan.
Kumaritashvili died at the age of 21 on Feb. 12, 2010, in a training crash hours before the start of the opening ceremony of the Vancouver Games.
Kumaritashvili is the first Olympic athlete to die at the Winter Olympics in training since 1992 [12] and the first luger to die in a practice event at the Winter Olympics since Kazimierz Kay-Skrzypeski of Great Britain was killed at the luge track used for the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck. [13]