The men's singles luge competition at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano was held on 8 and 9 February, at Spiral.
Summary The event was won by Georg Hackl, who became the first luger to win the gold medal in 3 successive Winter Olympics after winning the event in Albertville and Lillehammer. Armin Zöggeler of Italy took silver and Jens Müller - the bronze medal. Markus Prock, the silver medalist from Lillehammer, finished outside medal position in 4th.
Event schedule All times are (UTC+9). DateTimeEvent8 February14:00Run 1 8 FebruaryRun 2 9 February14:00Run 3 9 FebruaryRun 4
Results
Rank Bib Athlete Country Run 1 Rank Run 2 Rank Run 3 Rank Run 4 Rank TotalDeficit 3 Georg Hackl 49.619 1 49.573 1 49.614 1 49.630 1 3:18.436— 8 Armin Zöggeler 49.715 2 49.690 2 49.737 3 49.797 3 3:18.939 +0.503 11 Jens Müller 49.954 4 49.700 3 49.729 2 49.710 2 3:19.093 +0.657 4 4 Markus Prock 49.861 3 49.732 4 49.863 4 50.200 11 3:19.656 +1.220 5 9 Markus Kleinheinz 50.016 5 49.779 5 49.918 8 50.011 9 3:19.724 +1.288 6 1 Wendel Suckow 50.069 6 49.871 7 49.908 6 49.880 5 3:19.728 +1.292 7 10 Gerhard Gleirscher 50.161 9 49.816 6 49.911 7 49.897 7 3:19.785 +1.349 8 7 Reinhold Rainer 50.105 8 50.008 9 49.897 5 49.936 8 3:19.946 +1.510 9 12 Adam Heidt 50.401 13 49.899 8 49.971 9 49.827 4 3:20.098 +1.662 10 5 Norbert Huber 50.100 7 50.129 11 50.026 10 49.883 6 3:20.138 +1.702 11 6 Mikael Holm 50.324 11 50.197 14 50.146 13 50.131 10 3:20.798 +2.362 12 2 Karsten Albert 50.353 12 50.172 13 50.080 11 50.499 17 3:21.104 +2.668 13 20 Larry Dolan 50.558 15 50.163 12 50.140 12 50.267 12 3:21.128 +2.692 14 34 Mārtiņš Rubenis 50.758 22 50.491 19 50.603 16 50.300 13 3:22.152 +3.716 15 15 Clay Ives 50.632 17 50.348 16 50.858 21 50.437 16 3:22.275 +3.839 16 13 Shigeaki Ushijima 50.747 20 50.405 17 50.716 19 50.435 15 3:22.303 +3.867 17 21 Guntis Rēķis 50.676 18 50.296 15 50.545 15 50.798 22 3:22.315 +3.879 18 17 Tyler Seitz 50.689 19 50.948 23 50.400 14 50.405 14 3:22.442 +4.006 19 18 Bengt Walden 50.750 21 50.479 18 50.722 20 50.601 18 3:22.552 +4.116 20 19 Aleksandr Zubkov 50.488 14 50.944 22 50.650 17 50.619 19 3:22.701 +4.265 21 31 Anders Söderberg 50.878 23 50.696 21 50.708 18 50.747 21 3:23.029 +4.593 22 14 Reto Gilly 50.594 16 50.646 20 51.485 25 50.627 20 3:23.352 +4.916 23 34 Ismar Biogradlić 51.252 25 51.170 25 51.384 24 51.363 24 3:25.169 +6.733 24 29 Spyros Pinas 51.628 28 51.123 24 51.335 22 51.294 23 3:25.380 +6.944 25 30 Sandris Berzinš 51.220 24 51.370 26 51.341 23 51.460 25 3:25.391 +6.955 26 32 Ion Cristian Stanciu 51.608 27 51.386 27 51.927 27 51.602 26 3:26.523 +8.087 27 33 Patrick Singleton 51.434 26 51.579 28 51.839 26 52.243 28 3:27.095 +8.659 28 25 Shiva Keshavan 52.315 29 52.127 29 52.043 28 51.900 27 3:28.385 +9.949 29 23 Lee Gi-ro 54.299 32 52.875 30 53.472 30 54.075 29 3:34.721 +16.285 30 28 Hsieh Hsiang-chun 54.192 31 53.093 31 53.325 29 54.159 30 3:34.769 +16.333 31 22 Gang Gwang-bae 53.492 30 53.829 32 53.685 31 54.952 31 3:35.958 +17.522 32 26 Lee Yong 54.842 33 54.838 33 54.731 32 55.996 32 3:40.407 +21.971 - 16 Albert Demchenko 50.224 10 50.011 10 50.118 - DQ - -N/A - 27 Andrus Paul DQ - - - - - - - -N/A
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