Luge at the 1984 Winter Olympics

Luge at the 1984 Winter Olympics consisted of three events at Sarajevo Olympic Bobsleigh and Luge Track. The competition took place between 9 and 12 February 1984.[1][2]

Luge at the XIV Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Sarajevo Olympic Bobsleigh and Luge Track
Dates	9–12 February
Competitors	81 from 17 nations

Medal summary

Medal table

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

East Germany led the medal table with four medals, one gold.[1]

Events

Event[1]	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men's singles	Paul Hildgartner  Italy	3:04.258	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

Participating NOCs

Seventeen nations participated in Luge at the Sarajevo Games. Puerto Rico and Yugoslavia made their Olympic luge debuts.[1]

Austria (7)  Canada (2)  West Germany (8)  Great Britain (4)  East Germany (10)  Italy (9)  Japan (5)  Liechtenstein (1)  Norway (2)

Puerto Rico (1)  Romania (3)  Sweden (2)  Czechoslovakia (3)  Chinese Taipei (3)  Soviet Union (10)  United States (9)  Yugoslavia (3)

References

1. "Sarajevo 1984 Official Report" (PDF). Organising Committee of the XlVth Winter Olympic Games 1984 at Sarajevo. LA84 Foundation. 1984. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
2. "Luge at the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 6 April 2020.