The men's singles luge competition at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck was held from 4 to 7 February, at Olympic Sliding Centre Innsbruck.

Silver medalist Josef Fendt served as President of the International Luge Federation (FIL) from 1994 to 2020.

Results Rank Athlete Country Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Total Dettlef Günther 52.381 52.107 51.418 51.782 3:27.688 Josef Fendt 52.694 51.933 51.749 51.820 3:28.196 Hans Rinn 52.916 51.968 51.690 52.000 3:28.574 4 Hans-Heinrich Winckler 52.848 52.328 52.069 52.209 3:29.454 5 Manfred Schmid 52.973 52.073 52.113 52.352 3:29.511 6 Anton Winkler 52.755 52.194 52.219 52.352 3:29.520 7 Reinhold Sulzbacher 53.137 52.491 52.204 52.566 3:30.398 8 Dainis Bremze 52.984 52.567 52.364 52.661 3:30.576 9 Rudolf Schmid 52.933 53.806 52.361 52.319 3:31.419 10 Vladimir Shitov 53.485 53.025 52.927 53.133 3:32.570 11 Karl Brunner 53.916 53.228 53.023 53.021 3:33.188 12 Jan Kasielski 53.969 53.551 53.115 53.554 3:34.189 13 Aigars Krikis 54.243 53.415 53.273 53.764 3:34.695 14 Stanislav Ptáčník 54.450 53.810 53.207 53.371 3:34.838 15 Stefan Kjernholm 54.382 53.495 53.502 53.611 3:34.990 16 Mirosław Więckowski 54.739 53.782 53.113 53.586 3:35.220 17 Michael Gårdebäck 54.662 53.887 53.701 53.898 3:36.148 18 Jindřich Zeman 54.377 53.974 53.748 54.068 3:36.167 19 Andrzej Piekoszewski 54.474 54.166 53.502 54.117 3:36.259 20 Morten Nordeide Johansen 54.460 53.899 54.155 54.365 3:36.879 21 Nils Vinberg 54.916 54.494 54.640 54.429 3:38.479 22 Christian Strøm 55.125 54.603 54.347 54.717 3:38.792 23 Vladimír Resl 54.109 59.068 53.418 53.640 3:40.235 24 Hidetoshi Sato 55.699 55.142 54.906 55.184 3:40.931 25 Richard Cavanaugh 56.186 55.669 54.572 54.930 3:41.357 26 James Murray 56.269 55.554 55.142 55.187 3:42.152 27 Kazuaki Ichikawa 56.252 55.502 55.400 55.288 3:42.442 28 Terry O'Brien 56.366 55.647 55.172 55.351 3:42.536 29 Michel de Carvalho 56.340 55.412 55.277 55.636 3:42.665 30 Jeremy Palmer-Tomkinson 57.056 54.881 54.959 55.828 3:42.724 31 Larry Arbuthnot 56.691 55.380 55.085 55.628 3:42.784 32 Max Beck 56.748 55.388 55.614 57.032 3:44.782 33 Richard Liversedge 56.721 55.997 55.989 56.132 3:44.839 34 Shieh Wei-cheng 56.256 56.213 56.914 55.817 3:45.200 35 Michael Shragge 57.950 55.812 56.656 55.828 3:46.246 36 Bjørn Dyrdahl 04.969 54.185 53.911 53.979 3:47.044 37 Peter Gschnitzer 54.051 53.812 53.357 27.540 4:08.760 38 Huang Liu-chong 55.405 42.821 49.520 54.900 5:22.646 - Stefan Hölzlwimmer 52.766 52.226 52.036 DNF - - Paul Hildgartner 54.300 53.400 53.800 DNF - - Wolfgang Schädler 56.858 56.185 55.755 DNF - - Rainer Gassner DNF - - - - - Denis Michaud DQ - - - -

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