The women's singles competition in luge at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 7 February (heats 1 and 2) and 8 February (heats 3 and 4), at the Xiaohaituo Bobsleigh and Luge Track in Yanqing District. The defending champion Natalie Geisenberger of Germany won the event, becoming the first ever triple Olympic champion in women's luge. This was her fifth Olympic gold medal. Her compatriot Anna Berreiter won the silver medal, and Tatiana Ivanova, representing the Russian Olympic Committee, the bronze. This was the first Olympic medal for Berreiter and first individual medal for Ivanova, who already has the silver for the 2014 team relay.
In the 2021–22 Luge World Cup, Geisenberger was third, though she won the last race of the season before the Olympics. Julia Taubitz won the World Cup, with Madeleine Egle finishing second. The silver medalist at the 2018 Olympics, Dajana Eitberger, missed a season due to childbirth; she then returned to competitions, but finished outside of the top-10 in the World Cup and did not qualify for the Olympics. The 2018 bronze medalist, Alex Gough, retired from competitions.
Taubitz won the first run, setting the track record, but crashed in the second run, dropping out of the medal contention. Egle made a mistake in the first run, and after two runs was only seventh. This left Geisenberger in lead after two runs, with Anna Berreiter second and Tatiana Ivanova third. In the third run, Geisenberger set the new track record. Whereas Egle managed to fight back to the fourth position, the last run did not change the medal distribution.
Qualification
The qualification is based on the cumulative points of the Olympic Season from 1 July 2021 to January 10, 2022. A total of 35 quota spots are available to athletes to compete at the games. Each NOC can enter a maximum of three athletes.
In the women's singles, all nations with an athlete in the top 40 qualified one slot. If there were remaining spots left, the second best athlete of each nation in the top 32 was awarded an additional quota, with the third best being awarded a quota if there were any remaining spots.
On December 17, 2021, the International Luge Federation announced that the qualification system was changed. The qualification system was changed due to training runs being cancelled at the first World Cup, and equipment not being delivered to the following World Cups. The new system will see athletes qualify based on their top four results during the World Cup season, (as opposed to the previous all seven results counting).
On January 19, 2022 the International Luge Federation announced the list of qualified athletes.
Summary Number of sleds Athletes totalNation32122112 35 35
Results Rank Bib Athlete Country Run 1 Rank Run 2 Rank Run 3 Rank Run 4 Rank TotalFinal results Behind 1 Natalie Geisenberger 58.402 2 58.423 1 58.226 TR 1 58.403 2 3:53.454 0.000 3 Anna Berreiter 58.525 4 58.508 3 58.348 2 58.566 4 3:53.947 +0.493 6 Tatiana Ivanova 58.733 5 58.683 4 58.461 3 58.630 5 3:54.507 +1.053 4 2 Madeleine Egle 59.342 17 58.493 2 58.542 5 58.432 3 3:54.809 +1.355 5 12 Hannah Prock 58.762 6 58.732 5 58.532 4 58.798 9 3:54.824 +1.370 6 10 Lisa Schulte 58.523 3 59.074 12 58.646 6 58.642 6 3:54.885 +1.431 7 5 Julia Taubitz 58.345 TR 1 26 58.655 7 58.358 1 3:55.433 +1.979 8 9 Elīza Tīruma 58.956 8 58.849 6 58.865 11 58.771 8 3:55.441 +1.987 9 18 Natalie Maag 59.018 11 59.117 13 58.913 14 58.892 10 3:55.940 +2.486 10 8 Andrea Vötter 59.145 14 59.045 10 58.852 10 58.935 11 3:55.977 +2.523 11 28 Kendija Aparjode 59.107 13 59.020 7 58.928 15 59.084 12 3:56.139 +2.685 12 24 Ashley Farquharson 59.972 26 59.024 8 58.768 8 58.643 7 3:56.407 +2.953 13 19 Verena Hofer 58.960 9 59.037 9 58.961 16 59.584 16 3:56.542 +3.088 14 15 Trinity Ellis 59.219 16 59.053 11 58.888 13 59.704 17 3:56.864 +3.410 15 13 Nina Zöggeler 59.464 18 59.160 16 59.085 19 59.275 14 3:56.984 +3.530 16 29 Natalie Corless 59.193 15 59.316 17 59.176 21 59.570 15 3:57.255 +3.801 17 17 Makena Hodgson 59.505 19 59.477 18 59.286 22 59.268 13 3:57.536 +4.082 18 4 Elīna Ieva Vītola 59.025 12 59.140 14 59.029 17 1:00.957 18 3:58.151 +4.697 19 26 Aileen Frisch 59.776 23 59.642 20 59.055 18 1:01.811 19 4:00.284 +6.830 20 30 Tove Kohala 59.533 20 59.776 21 59.333 23 1:02.431 20 4:01.073 +7.619 21 25 Yulianna Tunytska 59.690 22 59.844 23 59.571 24 2:59.105 22 20 Olena Stetskiv 59.663 21 59.586 19 59.963 27 2:59.212 23 23 Summer Britcher 29 59.156 15 59.152 20 2:59.294 24 34 Verónica María Ravenna 59.811 24 59.780 22 59.719 25 2:59.310 25 21 Katarína Šimoňáková 27 59.851 24 59.761 26 2:59.736 26 14 Emily Sweeney 58.971 10 32 58.882 12 3:00.292 27 22 Klaudia Domaradzka 59.871 25 59.892 25 31 3:01.076 28 11 Victoria Demchenko 58.869 7 33 58.838 9 3:01.173 29 32 Wang Peixuan 29 28 28 3:01.402 30 31 Anna Čežíková 28 30 29 3:01.662 31 33 Lin Sin-Rong 32 29 30 3:03.611 32 35 Doina Descalui 34 31 32 3:06.294 33 27 Elsa Desmond 33 34 33 3:07.719 16 Raluca Strămăturaru 31 27 7 Ekaterina Katnikova
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