Luge at the Winter Olympics

Luge is a winter sport featured at the Winter Olympic Games where a competitor or two-person team rides a flat sled while lying supine (face up) and feet first.

The sport is usually contested on a specially designed ice track that allows gravity to increase the sled's speed.

Doubles is technically considered an open event since 1994, but only men have competed in it.

[1][2][3] German lugers (competing under the IOC country codes of EUA, GDR, FRG and GER at different times since 1964) have dominated the competition, winning 87 medals of 153 possible.

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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).
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Armin Zöggeler is the only athlete to have won one medal in a single individual event in six Olympics (furthermore consecutive).